Car Graphic Magazine, May 1968 Ferrari Cover

Car Graphic was founded in Tokyo in 1962 by Shotaro Kobayashi and grew into Japan's leading monthly car magazine. This is issue 76, published on 1 May 1968, and its cover lines read like a digest of that spring's motoring: the Geneva show, the Tasman Series, the All Japan Fuji 300 km race and the build-up to the Japanese Grand Prix. The 1968 Tasman Series, raced in New Zealand and Australia, went to Jim Clark in a Lotus 49T. It was his third Tasman title and the last championship he won before his death at Hockenheim on 7 April 1968.

The cover is a Ferrari cockpit photographed close: a wood-rimmed three-spoke wheel with the yellow prancing-horse boss, set against a wood-veneered dashboard of Veglia instruments, the speedometer reading to 300 km/h. The pink masthead pairs CAR with the title in Japanese script, with the month number 5 printed large beside it, and the small print gives the issue as No. 76, May 1968. The copy shows its age honestly, with a toned cover, rubbed edges and wear along the spine, as expected of a well-read magazine of almost sixty years. The text is in Japanese.