Fifty-one years ago, on 15 May, 1962, at a well-publicized preview at the Waldorf Astoria, Chrysler introduced its revolutionary Ghia-bodied Turbine Car. Dubbed the Bronze Blowtorch, it was heralded by its maker and many experts as the Car of the Future. Chrysler Turbine Car fan Richard Truesdell looks back to see where it took a wrong turn and is now considered an asterisk in automotive history.

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Armed with a plan, a digital camera, and a tripod, Automotive Traveler's Richard Truesdell walks you through the step-by-step process for photographing your vehicle to catch an editor's eye.

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The greatest week of my life... Richard Truesdell, Le Mans, and the story behind this issue's cover story.

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It's an editor's nightmare. You've got the perfect photo for a magazine cover. The issue arrives... and you discover that an editor at another publication had the same great idea.

Monthly print magazines are completed 30 to 60 days before they appear in your mailbox or on the local newsstand. For editors Patricia Letakis of Florida Travel + Life and Nina Willdorf of Budget Travel, their publications' current covers show that great ideas have many parents.

Both covers feature a brown-haired guy behind the wheel with a blond companion in the passenger seat of a MINI convertible on a coastal road. (The MINIs represent two different generations, but only a car geek would notice that.) I assume we're looking at the Atlantic Ocean off to the left on the Florida Travel + Life cover, while the scene on Budget Travel sure looks like California to me.

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