Overview
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Use: Media professionals demanding top-quality automotive content for their print products and/or Web sites. Professional artwork, editing.
What it is: Many of you asked if we could put our expertise to work to create a feature that covers not just classic cars, but those vehicles that have left an indelible mark on car culture. The Fine Lines series examines significant vehicle marques, their backgrounds and their contributions to the history of the automobile. All this, with real artwork.
Product specifications
- Mac and PC page layout with accompanying text and
art files for maximum work flexibility. - About 850 words: separate text file included.
- Layout is 8×21.5 inches (newspaper), but can be
reconfigured by your designer to fit most spaces. - PDF of layout included.
- High-resolution artwork suitable for print.
- Includes Photoshop layers file of main art.
- Multi-platform page layout opens with either Quark
Xpress or Adobe Indesign. - Fonts are not included, but we attempt to stay with
standard system fonts. If not, just change the fonts to
match your style.
Description
Officially, the five single-purpose competition machines didn’t exist and all General Motors’ divisions were supposedly adhering to a ban on racing originally agreed to by all North American manufacturers back in 1957.
Behind closed doors, however, GM, Ford and Chrysler conducted various “skunk works” operations that funneled money and engineering expertise to various private racing enterprises. In mid-1962, the first of what would become five special Corvettes, labeled the Grand Sport, began to take shape. Loosely based on the new-for-1963 Sting Ray coupe, each featured a tubular aluminum chassis, extra-thin fiberglass body panels and plexiglass windows.