This is a small portion of the more than 1,000 magazine and web features that I have produced since 1990. My byline has appeared in the US in Motor Trend, Car and Driver, Road & Track, Road & Track Specials (Ferrari), Cars and Parts, Chevy Enthusiast (as Editor), Musclecar Enthusiast, Mustang Enthusiast, Pontiac Enthusiast, Corvette Enthusiast, Mopar Enthusiast, Muscle Car Review, Truck Trend, Mustang Monthly, Car Audio and Electronics (as Editor) and many other publications. In the UK my work has appeared in Octane, Classic and Sports Car, Thoroughbred and Classic Car, Total 911, Total 911 Specials (premium bookazine), Mercedes Enthusiast, Classic Mercedes, Jaguar World, Classic American, Practical Caravan and Discover Touring. My work has also appeared in European publications in France, Germany, Italy, Romania and Russia. I have also contributed to InCar Entertainment in Australia since 1998.
If you are an editor or publisher and would like to license any of these features, please contact me at richtruesdell@gmail.com. I have the high-res images available for download on a password-protected server. To review my images on my public server, visit automotivetraveler.fotki.com. Reach out to me with editorial inquiries at richtruesdell@gmail.com.
Album by Richard Truesdell. Photos by Richard Truesdell. 1 - 432 of 432 Total. 3177 Visits.
enlarge 10.92MB, 456x528 1 Cannonball Daytona MedRes.pdf My very first book contribution, dating back to 1990 when I produced (words and photography) a feature on the Cannonball Ferrari Daytona right after it had been repurchased by its original owner, Kirk F. White (who I maintained contact with over the decades until his passing in 2020). This is the car driven by Dan Gurney and Brock Yates. Probably more than anything it shows how far both my writing and photography has come over the last 25 years.
enlarge 1.22MB, 1152x1536 3 USA Maximum Drive issue 3 $27mil for a Ferrari.pdf Text by Richard Truesdell, photo courtesy of RM Auctions
enlarge 1.90MB, 1191x842 4 11-2014 Retroviseur 1964 Mercedes-Benz 230SL pininfarina Coupe.pdf This one-off Mercedes-Benz 230 SL by Pininfarina will be making a return appearance to Pebble Beach for 2021. I will be reshooting this car in late April/early May 2021. This will be for a German publication so I will be updating the text with more information Designer Tom Tjaarda has passed in 2017 since I produced the feature back in 2014.
enlarge 584KB, 595x842 5 UK The Italian Job 1964 Mercedes-Benz 230SL PF coupe.pdf
enlarge 8.98MB, 2587x3375 6 The Italian Job V4.pdf
enlarge 141KB, 1314x783 7 USA Maximum Drive Cars As Investments.pdf
enlarge 4.52MB, 1280x834 8 USA Automotive Traveler McQueen's Machine.pdf
enlarge 1,000KB, 1296x783 9 USA Motor Trend Classic 1967 Jaguar Bertone Pirana Coupe.pdf
enlarge 2.36MB, 1191x842 10 UK Jaguar World 1967 Jaguar Bertone Pirana Coupe.pdf
enlarge 978KB, 1296x783 11 USA Fall 2013 Motor Trend Classic To Catch an Alpine
enlarge 202KB, 1314x783 12 USA Maximum Drive 2014 Alfa Romeo 4C.pdf
enlarge 10.37MB, 1152x1536 13 UK 1964 Porsche 901 Don Murray Total 911 issue 106.pdf
enlarge 2.67MB, 1536x2048 14 UK Total 911 Bruce Meyer 1979 Le Mans winning Porsche 935
enlarge 1.26MB, 595x842 128 UK Classic Amereican 6-2015 Continental Man.pdf
enlarge 21.13MB, 516x711 129 1998 Jeep Jeepster concept for Truck Trend.pdf This is the first of more than a dozen features I've produced since 1998 on Chrysler's concept vehicles. It was my idea to bring together with the 1998 Jeep Jeepster concept, two of the vehicles that inspired it, a Willys Jeepser and an AMC Jeep Commando.
enlarge 1.69MB, 1428x2048 130 Cover Story Nov '13 Mustang Monthly '67 Ford Mustang GTA.pdf
enlarge 433KB, 1314x783 131 USA Maximum Drive 1956 Ford Crown Victoria.pdf
enlarge 426KB, 1098x756 132 US 1967 Beaumont Cheetah Muscle Car Review.pdf
enlarge 347KB, 1098x756 133 1969 Chevrolet Chevelle SS396 300 Deluxe.pdf
enlarge 1.55MB, 557x756 134 USA 2004 Corvette In Europe Corvette Enthusiast.pdf Quite honestly, this is what I want to be doing more of, authomotive-focused road trips with a theme and purpose, that are a bit out of the box. Like many auto US enthusiasts I've long wondered what it would be like to let a new Corvette loose on the autobah so while attending the 2004 Geneva Motor Show for Motor Trend Online, I arranged a vehilcle loan with with GM's Corvette and cadillac importer, Kroymann's, in The Netherlands and drove it from Amsterdam to Geneva and back, picking up one speeding ticket along the way. On the Autobahn between Baden-Baden and Karlsruhe I was able to get this particular Corvette up yo an indicated 182 MPH (at night) legally on an unsrestricted section of the A6 Autobahn, later documenting it in daytime, at 180 MPH although Corvette Enthusiast magazine decided against using that particular photograph, using a shot of the speedometer indicating "ONLY" 170 MPH.
enlarge 447KB, 768x576 147 1964 Mercury Comet Auto Enthusiast #6.pdf
enlarge 424KB, 768x576 148 1970 Cougar Eliminator Auto Enthusiast #11.pdf
enlarge 1.97MB, 934x702 149 1968 Dodge Dart Hurst Recreation SS and AFX.pdf
enlarge 1.61MB, 1220x880 150 1958 Mercury Park Lane Auto Enthusiast Weekly.pdf
enlarge 668KB, 1070x806 151 1968 Ford Mustang California Special.pdf
enlarge 2.67MB, 558x756 152 Chevy Enthusiast 1967 Chevy Camaro Z28 with Courtney Day.pdf From this point to the end of the album, you will be able to review the wide scope of my work, some of it dating back to 1997 when I was editor of Car Audio and Electronics. This includes automotive adventure travel adventures like my 2004 Autobahn Adventure in Germany and Austria, my 2005 trip from London to Maranello and back in a Ford GT and a Dodge Viper, and my 2006 trip in a Dodge Challenger tracing the route of the cult classic movie, Vanishing Point. Most of the remaining features are automotive features that illustrate my writing capabilities as well as the scope of my photographic portfolio, much of it studio-based.
enlarge 3.83MB, 540x738 188 US Best of Both Worlds Mustang Enthusiast 06-06.pdf
enlarge 1.08MB, 575x774 189 USA Musclecar Enthusiast - June 2007 OPGI Chevelle.pdf
enlarge 4.62MB, 598x809 190 GER Time Machines 1968 Charger Street Car andBike Fall 2006.pdf
enlarge 964KB, 557x756 191 onetrickpony.pdf
enlarge 491KB, 557x756 192 US Musclecar Enthusiast 1970 AMC Trans Am Javelin.pdf 4-page companion feature of the 1970 AMC Javelin Trans Am, a 1 of 100 car.
enlarge 8.26MB, 576x763 248 AUS 2003 Alpine New MINI InCar Entertainment.pdf
enlarge 722KB, 609x793 249 GER JL Audio Austin Mini Auto HiFi.pdf
enlarge 564KB, 557x756 250 US Musclecar Enthusiast 1968 Mercury Cougar XR-7G.pdf 4-page feature on a 1968 Mercury Cougar XR-7G, featured in the May issue of Musclecar Enthusiast.
enlarge 979KB, 595x842 251 NL Auto Motor Klassiek1968 Mercury Cougar XR-7G.pdf Same subject, covered in Dutch, in Auto Motor Klassiek.
enlarge 215KB, 695x921 252 UK 1957 Rambler Rebel Classic American.pdf
enlarge 149KB, 576x756 253 US 1969 AMC SCRambler Musclecar Enthusiast.pdf
enlarge 3.25MB, 792x1224 303 Automotive Traveler Ferrari Panamerican 20000.pdf My one-week 2006 trip from Lima, Peru to Quito, Ecuador as part of Ferrari's epic Western Hemisphere 20,000-mile road trip in a pair of Ferrari 599s.
enlarge 1.25MB, 1191x794 304 12 13 THEME Ford 09 T (1).pdf
enlarge 5.34MB, 1292x842 305 USA Automotive Traveler Dream Drive plus sidebars.pdf My personal best week of my life, from London to Maranello and back in the then-new Ford GT and a Dodge Viper. This story appeared in more than a dozen publications around the world, most notably, Octane in the UK. Seven years later, in 2012, as my layout skills improved, I laid out the story as I would if I was a magazine art director for my own digital magazine, Automotive Traveler for its last issue which can be viewed here.
I would like to think this is the definitive version of this truly epic drive where I had the opportunity to drive the Nürburgring and Le Mans... just four days apart.
enlarge 572KB, 1257x807 306 UK For the love of Ford Octane 11-05 V2.pdf Octane (UK) 7-page feature, for their November 2005 issue.
enlarge 3.04MB, 648x864 307 FRANCE Grand Touring Automobiles Classique 11-05.pdf
enlarge 3.65MB, 1247x841 308 ROM Full Circle Ford GT in English Supercar 10-05.pdf Supercar (Romania) 8-page feature with the original English language text dropped into the final layout.
enlarge 615KB, 842x1191 309 NL Odyssey In Red Carros 11-05.pdf Carros (Netherlands) 7-page feature running in their November 2005 issue.
enlarge 2.27MB, 558x756 310 US Full Circle Car Audio and Electronics 12-05.pdf Car Audio and Electronics (US) 5-page feature running in the December 2005 issue.
enlarge 331KB, 1247x841 311 ROM Dodge Viper vs Ford GT Supercar 11-05.pdf
enlarge 990KB, 1296x783 312 MCLP-061200-RT66.pdf
enlarge 37.81MB, 621x810 313 Bullittude Layout V7.pdf Although a version of this story was published in 2018 in Mustang Monthly before the magazine ceased publication in 2019, I decided to do my own layout of the feature in a more extended format. Being a huge Steve McQueen fan, this was a labor of love. I'm still hope to see more versions of this story appear in magazines outside of North America.
enlarge 1.50MB, 1191x842 314 Discover Touring final version.pdf
enlarge 6.83MB, 1152x1536 315 Italia! September 2015 Alfa Romeo 105 Years of Italian Style.pdf
enlarge 2.00MB, 1224x792 316 AT Colony Park Ocean Drive.pdf
enlarge 4.52MB, 1280x834 317 USA Automotive Traveler McQueen's Machine.pdf
enlarge 2.50MB, 830x538 318 USA Automotive Traveler Issue 6 Abruzzo Part 2.pdf This was a trip from the fall of 2010 to Abruzzo. I wrote the text, provided the photographs, and laid out the feature for Automotive Traveler. The active, online version can be viewed at http://www.automotivetraveler.com/magazine/viewer.php?path=vol_2/iss_2&page=62
enlarge 2.01MB, 825x538 319 USA Automotive Traveler Issue 9 Driving the Baltic Way.pdf This was a trip from the fall of 2004 to the Baltic countries of Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia. I wrote the text, provided the photographs, and laid out the feature for Automotive Traveler. The active, online version can be viewed at http://www.automotivetraveler.com/magazine/viewer.php?path=vol_3/iss_3&page=30
enlarge 1.55MB, 557x756 320 USA 2004 Corvette In Europe Corvette Enthusiast.pdf Quite honestly, this is what I want to be doing more of, authomotive-focused road trips with a theme and purpose, that are a bit out of the box. Like many auto US enthusiasts I've long wondered what it would be like to let a new Corvette loose on the autobah so while attending the 2004 Geneva Motor Show for Motor Trend Online, I arranged a vehilcle loan with with GM's Corvette and cadillac importer, Kroymann's, in The Netherlands and drove it from Amsterdam to Geneva and back, picking up one speeding ticket along the way. On the Autobahn between Baden-Baden and Karlsruhe I was able to get this particular Corvette up yo an indicated 182 MPH (at night) legally on an unsrestricted section of the A6 Autobahn, later documenting it in daytime, at 180 MPH although Corvette Enthusiast magazine decided against using that particular photograph, using a shot of the speedometer indicating "ONLY" 170 MPH.
enlarge 300KB, 1259x850 338 GER Death Valley Boxster MMM .pdf
enlarge 4.05MB, 582x771 339 US CA&E Corvette on RT 66 (1997).pdf My first major automotive adventure travel feature, shot and written more than seven years ago, a Chicago to LA run in the then-new 1997 Corvette, produced while I was the editor of Car Audio and Electronics.
enlarge 1.32MB, 1290x922 340 GER MMM Roadtrip Route 66.pdf Same trip as in 1997 (see references in the text) but in 2004, in a 40-year old Rambler convertible bought sight unseen on eBay. This appeared in MMM, a German men's magazine.
enlarge 5.56MB, 554x829 341 UK Ramblin' on Route 66 part 1 Classic American.pdf Same material, as first of a two-part treatment in Classic American in the UK.
enlarge 621KB, 694x921 342 UK Ramblin' on Route 66 part 2 Classic American.pdf Part two in Classic American.
enlarge 651KB, 695x921 343 UK Muscle Car Tour Classic American.pdf I believe this to be the best example of what I provide my editors, a universal concept that translates well in any language. The story was commissioned by Musclecar Enthusiast in the fall of 2002 and it took a while to assemble four representative muscle cars (one from each manufacturer; AMC, Chrysler, Ford and GM) and plan a day-long tour of car culture spots frequented by "car guys" back in the sixties, when classic American muscle cars rules street and strip. I think it's amazing that Classic American's art director Tony Crowther perfectly captured exactly what I was trying to say with this material, working with the same images as the other art directors, each who brought their own perspective to the piece.
enlarge 978KB, 629x850 344 GER LA Muscle Car Tour-MMM.pdf
enlarge 2.71MB, 595x842 345 NL Muscle Car Tour Het Automobile.pdf
enlarge 480KB, 557x756 346 US Muscle Car Tour Musclecar Enthusiast 1.pdf
enlarge 503KB, 557x756 347 US Saleen Weekend Mustang Enthusiast Aug 04.pdf
enlarge 2.87MB, 1125x756 349 US Vanishing Point the Sequel Musclecar Enthusiast July 2008.pdf
enlarge 603KB, 576x774 350 LA Googie Tour Cars and Parts.pdf
enlarge 9.08MB, 561x828 351 UK Ocean Drive (Colony Park) - Classic American 03-08.pdf
enlarge 5.23MB, 612x792 352 USA Storming Europe with 1000 HP Winding Road 01-06.pdf
enlarge 3.15MB, 569x772 353 USA Africa Adventure Truck Trend.pdf
enlarge 629KB, 1152x756 354 USA Out In Africa Jeep Magazine.pdf
enlarge 4.05MB, 582x771 355 US CA&E Corvette on RT 66 (1997).pdf My first major automotive adventure travel feature, shot and written more than seven years ago, a Chicago to LA run in the then-new 1997 Corvette, produced while I was the editor of Car Audio and Electronics.
enlarge 1.32MB, 1290x922 356 GER MMM Roadtrip Route 66.pdf Same trip as in 1997 (see references in the text) but in 2004, in a 40-year old Rambler convertible bought sight unseen on eBay. This appeared in MMM, a German men's magazine.
enlarge 2.66MB, 534x750 357 USA New Jersey Musclecar Tour Musclecar Enthusiast 10-05.pdf
