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Old 12-31-2009, 03:26 AM   #1 (permalink)
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Car Styling Magazine issue 142 1/2

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My wife got me this for XMas, first published in July 2001 :



It uses a mixture of cartoony images mixed with real data from real cars :



Here's an example that shows the benefit of wheel covers :



And here's one that shows the benefit of (partial?!?) wheel skirts (*with* wheel covers?!?!?) :



164 pages of aero-fun-madness!!!!

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Old 12-31-2009, 05:12 AM   #2 (permalink)
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Car Styling mags are great fun... and MONDO expensive!!!

Got a whole stack of em but not that issue
Yeah, normally I only buy them for presents for my nephew because he wants to design cars (I carefully stare at them until wrapping them).

My wife got it here :

Automotive Aerodynamics/Special Volume 142 & 1/2

I am going to get another copy for my nephew's birthday. He loves the monster performance cars and the JDMs, so CRXs and aerodynamics are where we meet on most car stuff. I keep asking him to find the name of the guy that designed the "Edge" inspired last-gen Mercury Cougar. He just rolls his eyes and shakes his head.

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We demand more! Also, it's bilingual? That's interesting.
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Frank,are they cheaper than those three-foot-tall hermaphrodites ?
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We demand more! Also, it's bilingual? That's interesting.
Yes, every word in Car Styling is translated into sets of Japanese-English paragraphs. In the pictures I have attached, I cropped out the Japanese paragraph to save space.

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Do you have (access to) a flatbed scanner?
Yes, but I don't want to crack the binding. Sorry. I know you can scan without cracking the binding, but it's still hard to scan the inside pictures. Maybe if someone else ruins it, or it gets dog-eared, I'll do it. We'll see.

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Yes, but I don't want to crack the binding. Sorry. I know you can scan without cracking the binding, but it's still hard to scan the inside pictures. Maybe if someone else ruins it, or it gets dog-eared, I'll do it. We'll see.

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Bring it over to my house. 10 minutes after you put it in my hands, I guarentee the binding will be broken and pages will be falling out. Then take it home, scan it for everybody, keep a personal file, and everybody will be happy.

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