Interesting internet-pages / resources featuring automobile or motorsports content

Hi Gordon - I activated "Shockwave Flash" in Waterfox (also available for Windows & portable) and now http://www.modbase.info/ is visible too.

In fact in the original Firefox it seems that Flashplayer cannot be activated anymore (???)

It asks to enable.........you click on that and it comes up......

To scroll down a bit would have been the solution

Thanks - it's the age for sure

https://www.psychoontyres.co.uk/

Take a look at this amazing cartoon about Le Mans-1955 big crash. It's a really amazing cartoon (made in France, I think, by Belgian filmmaker Quentin Baillieux !). It's very emotional and touching, and focus on Mercedes team.
It's about 15 minutes.

https://youtu.be/22I7yJiOu0s

Thank you Ney. Such a weird time of racing where nothing else seemed to matter to some, lives were cheap and emotions were for the unbrave.

R.I.P. to the 80 who died in 1955

http://www.matadorracing.space/

http://www.amcrc.com/penske.html

http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2015/01/penske-team-amc-matadors-in-nascar.html

U.S. Automobile and Transportation Magazine Covers

http://99wspeedshop.com.s3-website-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/index.html

http://www.foldermuseum.nl/

http://www.foldermuseum.nl/blfolders/austin/austinhealey1001953en12.html

http://www.foldermuseum.nl/blfolders/austin/austinhealey100six1958en8.html

http://www.foldermuseum.nl/blfolders/austin/austinhealy1963nl8.html

Magazine "Castrol Achievements":

https://primotipo.com/2020/02/04/oils-aint-oils/

Contributing both a resource and a request. Here's the former: a fun ongoing YouTube series about some of the weirder and more obscure cars ever made, from prototypes to race cars to production vehicles. There are almost 100 entries and some of them are hilariously bizarre, like "the Tyrrell P34 is tame in comparison" levels of strange.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLli-l3TTlwDOgxIGdDiBV5iSTkeWWtX7D

And now the request: does anyone have a good lead on history and results of Japanese touring and sports cars from the '60s and '70s? I've been going through some mods (Datsun 240Z, Nissan Skyline 'Hakosuka', Isuzu Bellett, Mazda RX-3, et al) that include replicas of real-world skins from Japanese racing series, and I want to put together a historical league, but I can't easily find info on what series, year, and class these cars ran in. (Not even racingsportscars has detailed info, which is frustrating.)

Very difficult respectively impossible to find anything concerning Japanese Touring Cars from that period

Yeah, it looks pretty bleak out there for that kind of material.........

Oh well. At least I'm still able to get basic info from my favorite unlikely source(s): websites that sell scale diecast model cars.

stupornaut wrote:

And now the request: does anyone have a good lead on history and results of Japanese touring and sports cars from the '60s and '70s? I've been going through some mods (Datsun 240Z, Nissan Skyline 'Hakosuka', Isuzu Bellett, Mazda RX-3, et al) that include replicas of real-world skins from Japanese racing series, and I want to put together a historical league, but I can't easily find info on what series, year, and class these cars ran in. (Not even racingsportscars has detailed info, which is frustrating.)

There's actually a really great French Toyota 2000GT website that has some info and quite a few pics from some of the Japanese sports car / touring car races for the years 1966 and 1967:

http://www.2000gt.net/Competition/Fuji/1967Fuji24.php


1000 km Fuji 1967

Racingsportscars.com only used to have very sparse results info on the subject but now at least the 1967 Suzuka 1000 km race is covered very well:

https://www.racingsportscars.com/race/Suzuka-1967-10-01-6040.html

I really dig the simple class divisions (P1, P2, S1, S2, T1, and T2) for that particular race and plan to use these for all my 1967 Japanese races.

https://www.progcovers.com/

https://www.progcovers.com/motor/oznztasman.html

jeannomiller wrote:

https://www.progcovers.com/

Yep, that's also a great resource when creating track loading screens for the game. Here's one I did when my game was all about 1966...

Women in motorsport from 1897 to the present day

http://speedqueens.blogspot.com/

jeannomiller wrote:

Magazine "Castrol Achievements":

https://primotipo.com/2020/02/04/oils-aint-oils/

coincidentally I have the 1968 castrol achievements booklet !

Castrol Achievements (... and others):

https://forums.autosport.com/topic/214410-fuel-oil-company-%E2%80%9Cachievement%E2%80%9D-booklets/

Gordon Murray Automotive T50:

https://gordonmurrayautomotive.com/en/#live

Looks interesting:

https://www.historicracing.com/index.cfm

Some interesting stories there.....

John Harvey

https://primotipo.com/2021/01/25/harves/

Jo Marquart - A lifelong passion for race car design

https://www.jomarquart.com/