Where do you go for research pics

[Greg Myers]

and remember this, that's what most of us said.

[Ace-Garageguy]

But remember... all of those great sources you guys have mentioned all show up in a google search.

Or Bing...

[Harry P.]

Or Bing...

I'm not a fan of Microsoft.

[rasafyff]

A website I use alot is carsonline.com

[martinfan5]

Google

[Tom Geiger]

Another vote for eBay Motors. Companies selling restored cars sometimes take 25-100 photos of every little detail. I used to spend Sunday morning just browsing with my coffee and saving off interesting photo sets. Search the cars available, if you don't find it check back in a week, the entire inventory has changed!

And two more thoughts... don't forget to search the eBay International sites, especially if you are looking for details on a foreign car. Or check countries where American cars are popular like Australia, Sweden, Netherlands and South Africa. You'd be amazed what you find. I swear that half of our collector cars are out of the USA at this point.

AND if you're looking for small details, check the eBay parts categories. You may find detail shots of that specific part.

1934 Ford firewall.

Plymouth Flathead six ignition wire guide piece.

[sjordan2]

Google isn't the end-all/be-all for search, though I find it to be go-to #1 by far. Many sites don't have code written properly to turn up or any real search engine optimization, lacking proper keywords or meta tags. For example, the Fantasy Junction link I posted above almost never shows up in search results (I search in Google Images); I searched 1967 Shelby Cobra for 8 pages without finding FJ (you'd have to put it in your search terms). Another one is Canepa Collector Cars. These are part of what is called "the invisible Web." So, it's good to bookmark some useful sites when you find them.

Edited May 3, 2014 by sjordan2

[Belugawrx]

I have one to add to the list - I always check RK Motors Charlotte for reference pics. They usually have extensive photo coverage of the cars they have for sale (usually with underside pics) , and they keep those pages up even after they sell the cars.

http://www.rkmotorscharlotte.com/

One of the best sites

Use it all the time along with google

[TFchronos]

I use Google, Yahoo and eBay motors mostly. Youtube can be helpful too.

[W-409]

Of course Google is the first. It finds basically everything, and it's much faster than if I started to scan through books. Another good sources are for sale ads, as especially many highly restored cars have tons of pics of all details there. For old Race Cars, mostly Stock or Super Stock cars I like to use books, as they have lots of great information too.

[Psychographic]

You have to try think about what the person who put the picture on the internet MIGHT have had in his mind when he posted it, and what possible keywords might be attached to the post. Sometimes to find the result you need, you have to think like an idiot.

Well as I've been told I'm an idiot plenty of times in my life, that should be pretty easy.