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
“I don’t know how the car can stand up to that kind of serious abuse,” I would often say to myself.
The vehicle in question was a 1971 mustard-yellow Triumph TR6 sports car, which was a graduation present that my friend Gord bought for himself. Fresh out of University and a full-fledged architect, Gord had replaced his long-since rusted out TR3, the one with the tiny doors and ill-fitting side-curtain windows, for this latest creation from the British Leyland conglomerate.