Which magazine was released first, Fortune or Motor Trend?
Motor Trend Motor Trend is an American automobile magazine. It first appeared in September 1949, issued by Petersen Publishing Company in Los Angeles, and bearing the tagline "The Magazine for a Motoring World". Petersen Publishing was sold to British publisher EMAP in 1998, who sold the former Petersen magazines to Primedia in 2001. As of 2017, it is published by (formerly Source Interlink Media). It has a monthly circulation of over one million readers.
Venus Automobile The Venus Automobile is a one-piece fiberglass-bodied custom car produced in the early to mid-1950s in the United States. The prototype was mounted on a 1949 Ford chassis, and powered by a Ford flathead V8 motor with high-performance heads and intake manifold. The car's designer, Kenneth McLoad received a US Design Patent, number 177,499 in April 1956. The Venus also appeared on the cover of the May 1953 issue of "Motor Trend" Magazine. Fewer than ten of these car bodies were made, and only two are currently known to exist, both in Texas.