Automotive Web Links

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The following lists some of our favorite automotive resources on the web.

Autoshop101: Automotive Training and Resource Site For Automotive Electronics This site offers tutorials, online tests, and numerous technical articles. Instructor Support contains materials designed to be used in classrooms. Many of these resources are geared toward candidates for certification by the National Institute for Automotive Service Excellence (ASE), the association that certifies auto mechanics. Extensive categorized links. Maintained by a professor of automotive technology.

Enjoythedrive.com is the consumer Web site from SEMA, the Specialty Equipment Market Association. SEMA members offer all kinds of custom auto accessories to make any vehicle more fun, more stylish, more comfortable and convenient, more high-tech and safer, too.

Goodguys Rod & Custom Association The Goodguys Rod & Custom Association promotes and produces some of the world’s most dynamic automotive events. Founded by lifelong hot rodder Gary Meadors in 1983, Goodguys events feature thousands of candy colored hot rods and custom cars sprawled throughout venues such as lush fairgrounds, super speedways and large outdoor stadiums. The cars, the vendor exhibits, the live entertainment and colorful people create a festive atmosphere charged with electricity.

National Street Rod Association Photo Gallery "One of the fastest growing groups of enthusiasts interested in the older cars are street rodders; the owners and builders of street rods. A street rod is the most practical type of old car. By definition a street rod is: An automobile of 1948 or earlier manufacture which has undergone some type of modernization, to include any of the following; engine, transmission, interior refinements, and any other modifications the builder desires. A street rod is to be driven to events under its own power and is to be used as a safe, non-racing vehicle for total family enjoyment." — from the NSRA web site.

Petersen Automotive Museum "Covering four floors, this Los Angeles museum's exhibits and lifelike dioramas feature more than 150 rare and classic cars, trucks, and motorcycles." The site provides a calendar of events, images of posters advertising their exhibits, and photographs from current and past exhibits of race cars, classic cars, vintage motorcycles, concept cars, celebrity and movie cars, and auto design and technology.