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    The untold, fascinating backstory of Four Wheeler’s February 1962 cover photo taken on Black Bear Road

    Dec 17, 2021 3 minutes
    –KEN BRUBAKER KEN.BRUBAKER@FOURWHEELER.COM
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    AILEEN MAXWELL, COURTESY OF THE AILEEN MAXWELL FAMILY, AND KEN BRUBAKER

    he summer day was cool and overcast when Aileen Maxwell climbed out of the late-’50s Jeep Station Wagon on Black Bear Road in Colorado. She pointed her Zeiss Ikon medium-format camera at the line of 4x4s slowly descending toward Telluride, framed the image in her camera’s viewfinder, and then released the camera’s shutter. The timeless, awe-inspiring image Aileen captured would soon become legendary in the 4WD world because it would be selected as the cover photo of the inaugural February 1962 issue of .

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