To make things easier for editors and PR representatives wishing to review just my travel-related features, rather than my entire archive of more than 1,000 magazine features produced since 1989, I've placed many of my automotive adventure travel features in a separate portfolio. If you have any questions about any of these features, don't hesitate to call me at 951/229-2989 or write me directly at richtruesdell@gmail.com.
Date(s): February 2, 2005. Album by Richard Truesdell. Photos by Richard Truesdell. 1 - 53 of 53 Total. 10285 Visits.
enlarge 1.25MB, 1191x794 1 Austria R&UV Ford GT Road Trip Fall 2023 This is the 12th major magazine feature I've published on my 2005 Dream Drive from London to Maranello and back in the then-new 2005 Ford GT. During this week I had the opportunity to the Ford GT at the Nurburgring and Le Mans. Some of the other features start with image 7.
This illustrates my ability to syndicate my own work into international markets outside North America. This story has been published in the US, UK, Austria (this placement in Rare & Unique Vehicles), the Netherlands, Germany, and Romania since 2006. With the trip's 20th anniversary coming up in 2025, I see opportunities after a rewrite, to start a new cycle of placements.
enlarge 6.83MB, 1152x1536 2 UK Italia! Sept. 2015 Alfa Romeo 105 Years of Italian Style I took advantage of a 2025 press trip to Turin for the media launch of the 2016 Alfa Romeo Giulia to spend an additional week going back to the province of Abruzzo in a two-seat Alfa Romeo 4C.
enlarge 2.35MB, 1292x842 3 USA Automotive Traveler Abruzzo Adventure Part 1
enlarge 2.50MB, 830x538 4 USA Automotive Traveler Issue 6 Abruzzo Part 2 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 5 USA Automotive Traveler Issue 9 Driving the Baltic Way 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 990KB, 1296x783 6 USA Motor Trend Classic Greetings from the Mother Road RT66
enlarge 4.47MB, 528x720 7 USA Four Wheeler Jeeping the Normandy Battlefield 06-02
enlarge 5.70MB, 528x720 8 USA Four Wheeler Jeeping the Battle of the Bulge 06-02
enlarge 572KB, 1257x807 9 UK Octane For the love of Ford 11-05 V2 Octane (UK) 7-page feature, for their November 2005 issue.
enlarge 1.71MB, 606x815 10 UK Octane Editorial page 11-05 Robert Coucher's editorial page from the November 2005 issue of Octane. Look closely at the listing of contributors, Sir Stirling Moss, Jay Leno and...Richard Truesdell? Can it be?
enlarge 554KB, 1247x841 11 ROM Supercar Ford GT Dodge Viper in Europe Supercar 09-05 Supercar (Romania) 8-page feature running in the October 2005 issue.
enlarge 3.65MB, 1247x841 12 ROM SupercarvFull Circle Ford GT in English 10-05 Supercar (Romania) 8-page feature with the original English language text dropped into the final layout.
enlarge 5.34MB, 1292x842 13 USA Automotive Traveler Dream Drive plus sidebars
enlarge 615KB, 842x1191 14 NL Carros Odyssey In Red 11-05 Carros (Netherlands) 7-page feature running in their November 2005 issue.
enlarge 2.27MB, 558x756 15 US Car Audio and Electronics Full Circle 12-05 Car Audio and Electronics (US) 5-page feature running in the December 2005 issue.
enlarge 3.04MB, 648x864 16 FR Automobiles Classique Grand Touring 11-05
enlarge 331KB, 1247x841 17 ROM Dodge Viper vs Ford GT Supercar 11-05
enlarge 1.55MB, 557x756 18 USA Corvette Enthusiast 2004 Corvette In Europe 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 62.06MB, 621x810 19 USA Automotive Traveler Collier Motors
enlarge 603KB, 576x774 20 USA Cars & Parts LA Googie Tour Cars and Parts
enlarge 2.87MB, 1125x756 21 US Musclecar Enthusiast Vanishing Point the Sequel
enlarge 540KB, 623x836 22 UK C&SC Challenger Vanishing Point film road trip
enlarge 1.87MB, 557x756 23 USA Mopar Enthusiast Dodge Challenger LA to Denver
enlarge 721KB, 1254x807 24 UK Octane Time for a Challenge 08-06
enlarge 7.16MB, 612x856 25 UK Classic American Shelby GT500s, Now and Then 11-06
enlarge 5.82MB, 588x837 26 UK Classic American Valid Concept Classic American 12-06
enlarge 812KB, 575x774 27 USA Muscle Car Enthusiast Dodge Challenger Concept 9-06
enlarge 721KB, 1254x807 28 UK Octane Time for a Challenge Octane 08-06
enlarge 629KB, 1152x756 29 USA Jeep Magazine Out In Africa
enlarge 3.15MB, 569x772 30 USA Truck Trend Africa Adventure
enlarge 1.43MB, 709x907 31 NL Auto Podium Porsche 911 In Utah
enlarge 4.45MB, 723x922 32 GER MMM Porsche In Utah
enlarge 394KB, 595x793 33 GER DaCabrio Texas BBQ
enlarge 2.45MB, 723x922 34 GER MMM Hitchcock Grand Cherokee
enlarge 1.11MB, 576x783 35 USA Truck Trend Hot BBB Hotter Truck
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enlarge 4.05MB, 582x771 39 US CA&E Corvette on RT 66 (1997) My first major automotive adventure travel feature, shot and written almost 20 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 40 GER MMM Roadtrip Route 66 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 41 UK Classic American Ramblin' on Route 66 part 1 Same material, as first of a two-part treatment in Classic American in the UK.
enlarge 621KB, 694x921 42 UK Classic American Ramblin' on Route 66 part Part two in Classic American.
enlarge 651KB, 695x921 43 UK Classic American Muscle Car Tour 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 44 GER MMM LA Muscle Car Tour
enlarge 2.71MB, 595x842 45 NL Carros Muscle Car Tour Het Automobile
enlarge 480KB, 557x756 46 US Musclecar Enthusiast Muscle Car Tour
enlarge 2.00MB, 1224x792 47 UK Classic American Colony Park Ocean Drive
enlarge 9.08MB, 561x828 48 UK Classic American Ocean Drive (Colony Park) 03-08
enlarge 10.92MB, 456x528 49 Italy Ferrarissima Cannonball Daytona 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. 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.
