Good automotive references

[kruleworld]

in the never ending quest to find detailed photos of real cars to refer to when modeling, i stumbled across this photo site that has lots of pictures of heaps of cars. I have no affiliation, i'm just hoovering all the good ones.

http://tenwheel.com/category/741-trucks_cars__trucks_/index.html

please post some of your favorite sites to help out others.

Edited July 7, 2015 by kruleworld

[mike 51]

Old Car Brochures is an excellent source of pictures and specs for all American cars thru 1996.

[Belugawrx]

Great site thanks for sharing Walter

[om617]

Lot of cool rides there,thanks for sharing.

This one

http://tenwheel.com/view/41445-1963_pontiac_safari_wagon___well_sorted__full_air_ride__crowd_pleaser__turn_key.html

[Snake45]

I have a pretty good dead tree reference library of stuff I'm interested in, but usually these days my go-to reference is google-image. Images of what I'm looking for are often linked to good text on that subject, too.

Edited July 7, 2015 by Snake45

[Sixx]

Cool site...are all those cars for sale???

[Longbox55]

Old Car Brochures is an excellent source of pictures and specs for all American cars thru 1996.

http://www.oldcarmanualproject.com/

http://www.sweptlinetruck.com/

http://www.xframechevy.com/

[Relic_Models]

Looks like it could be a great reference; thanks for the link, Walter.

[chunkypeanutbutter]

http://www.imcdb.org is good for when you want to identify movie cars.

Edited July 7, 2015 by chunkypeanutbutter

[mike 51]

http://www.oldcarmanualproject.com/

http://www.sweptlinetruck.com/

http://www.xframechevy.com/

Thanks for fixing mine.....

[Longbox55]

No problem, Mike. I was pretty sure that was the site you meant. I use pretty regular myself.

[Longbox55]

Here's a good one for paint color chips. Particularly GM. http://historicalcolorlibrary.axaltacs.com/hcl/servlet/com.dpc.hcl.search.HclSearchServlet?Operation=102&carRegion=1&carType=GM

In addition to the regular colors, it also has interior color chips, plus mid year and seasonal colors not mentioned on other sites/sources.

[unclescott58]

http://www.oldcarmanualproject.com/

http://www.sweptlinetruck.com/

http://www.xframechevy.com/

www.oldcarmanualproject.com is still one of the best. Can answer a lot of questions there. I just like to go there a browse through old car brochures and day dream.

Scott

[Skip]

Interesting site, looks like they have a bit of everything on there. I bookmarked it for future reference.

My normal reference for the stuff that I tend to build is the "Little Pages", digest sized versions of Rod & Custom, Car Craft, etc.. I have a pretty extensive collection of Little Pages plus Hot Rod, Rod & Custom, Car Craft and others in the larger Magazine Format. While I don't always remember where an article or car I'm looking for is at, I can usually find it within an hour or so. I like those because when you're looking for "Period Correct" you are certain that it is, versus someone's recollection of what stuff was like.

[Snake45]

Showroom literature is cool--I have a BUNCH of it that I picked up out of actual showrooms between 1967 and 1972, and I refer to it often. But it's not a particularly good reference source in many cases. You have to remember that most of that stuff was prepared far in advance (in the spring/summer of the previous year) and doesn't have late introduction/midyear options, colors, powertrain combos, even whole models. Most of the Pontiac stuff in those days was illustrated, not photographed (albeit beautifully). And it wasn't unknown for photos to be altered. For example, if you look closely at the '69 Chevelle brochure, you can see where '68 Chevelle trim and nameplates have been retouched out and the '69 items added.

As I said, very cool old stuff, though.