John & Este Scheve’s 1937 Ford V-8 60 Tudor featured in the

August Issue of Collectible Automobile Magazine

By Este Scheve

It all started when we got emails from a few fellow Northern Illinois Regional Group members telling us that a magazine was looking for Ford vehicles with V-8 60HP engines that they could photograph.  As it turns out, there was a posting on the forum of the Early Ford V-8 Club of America web site and they didn’t know if we had seen it or not. We hadn’t. But, there was always the suspicion --- what’s the catch? 

We emailed the contact information and found it was from Collectible Automobile, a national magazine published bi-monthly from Morton Grove, Illinois. The person at the magazine informed us that they were planning on doing a history of the Ford V-8 60 in their August magazine and would like to send out a photographer to meet with us and take pictures of our car.  In our initial email, we sent a photo of our car and details about it.  It wasn’t long before we heard from the photographer who made arrangements with us to come to our house to take pictures.  John had the car out of its trailer home, and was washing and shining it for days in preparation for this opportunity.  John drove the car a few blocks away to some nice background and the fun began.  

The photographer has done work for this magazine for over 40 years and also does calendar and magazine shoots for other motor vehicle publications.   He loves cars and was so complimentary to us and our car (greasing the wheel).  But he did tell us of experiences where the car owner demanded money to have their car in the magazine (the photo shoot was cancelled) or demanded that their vehicle be on the front cover of the magazine or nothing (it was nothing).  All in all, he took over 200 pictures of the car with me always asking if he has run out of film yet! 

About a week after the event, we got an envelope in the mail with some beautiful 5”x7” pictures of our car that were the favorites of the photographer along with a thumb drive of the pictures he submitted to the magazine.  When John signed the release, we were asked not to post any of the pictures to Facebook or even to any of our friends until after the magazine was published.  In June we got a copy of the magazine from the publisher which was our signal that the magazine was out to the public.  It was really exciting to see our car in this magazine, especially with our car being part of the features on the back cover.  All in all, it was an interesting experience.