btw, you can go all the way back to Issue 1! That's over 100 years of magazines. Hooray for Google, sometimes I don't mind that they are taking over the world. http://books.google.com/books?id=bc8DAAAAMBAJ&source=gbs_summary_s&cad=0#all_issues_anchor
Also, that ring is on the proper finger for a popular driver-to-driver gesture...just in case in has to be given at night.