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January 21, 2005Spotting Exotic Cars, the Online Database
You love those new groovy sleek cars that might cost more than your house. But, as someone has noticed, most of the images of them are from showrooms and carefully-arranged photo shoots. If you're more interested in "candid" shots of...
Continue reading "Spotting Exotic Cars, the Online Database" » July 30, 2004Classic Cars At MotorCities
Interested in classic cars? Interested in classic car auctions? Okay, check out MotorCities at http://www.motorcities.com . There's a lot to see here. On the front page you'll find in an highlighted position links to classic car auctions, car news, and...
June 03, 2004The Old Car Manual Project
If you've got a rustbucket (or a very nice old car) you'll want to explore The Old Car Manual Project at http://www.tocmp.com/ , a collection of manuals, brochures, and even some advertisements for old cars. ("Old" in this case seems...
March 19, 2004A Museum Devoted to Microcars
No, not Mini Coopers. Even smaller. The The Bruce Weiner Microcar Museum contains examples of the mini cars that were built in Europe after WWII. The museum has a large collection of them, available for viewing at http://www.microcarmuseum.com/ . I...
February 06, 2004License Plates Around the World
One of the things that I love about the Internet is it can take a ubiquitous item and make it suddenly very interesting by building up a huge collection. Like, say, license plates. You can see a huge collection of...
August 18, 2003General Motors Creates Photo Source
General Motors has teamed up with Getty Images to make an image archive and photo store at http://www.gmphotostore.com . The site currently contains a thousand images. Though the site is primarily intended as a store, the photos are large enough...
December 04, 2002Cars of the World
Bewildered by a Bronto? Perplexed by a Prinzing? Autoindex -- http://www.autoindex.org/ -- provides information on auto companies from all over the world. The front page lists an alphabetical index and starts with the A companies, grouping them by Europe, North...
June 26, 2002Digital Archive for Auto Industry Planned
The University of Michigan-Dearborn has gotten a $220,00 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to create a Web site and online archive that studies the impact of the auto industry (and the auto itself) on American culture. The...
Continue reading "Digital Archive for Auto Industry Planned" » January 31, 2002All Volkswagen, All the Time
Love your VW? Check out http://www.allvw.com/, a searchable subject index of over 1200 sites related to all things VW. Categories include Clubs and Registries, Reference, and VW life and culture. There are lots of subcategories available. Annotation is variable --...
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