This 1946 Fiat 1100 Spider by Frua was featured in the very first Crankshaft magazine…a hint of things to come.
Story by Pete Vack
All photos courtesy Crankshaft magazine unless otherwise noted
Richard Lentinello: No introduction needed
Like the editor and most of our readers, at an early age Richard Lentinello was captivated by Road & Track and other car magazines, which fed the passion for cars he still has today. He wrote“…my journey started over 50 years ago as a young teenager reading Car Craft and Super Stock. Then came Autoweek, Road & Track, Thoroughbred and Classic Cars, Automobile Quarterly and Supercar Classics, having spent hours immersed in their pages while sitting in our spacious 20 x 20 backyard in Brooklyn.” (Crankshaft #1)
But unlike his fellow travelers, Lentinello would become the editor-in-chief of nine car magazines, including Hemmings Motor News and Hemmings Classic Car, Special Interest Autos, Hemmings Muscle Machines and Hemmings Sports & Exotic Car.