by William Eric McFadden

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Table of Contents
Links to sites not related to automobiles or motorsports can be found in my Bookmarks.

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"Without a real car, I'm only half a man" — Jim Douglas, The Love Bug

"Bond's car was his only personal hobby. One of the last of the 4 1/2-litre Bentleys with the supercharger by Amherst Villiers, he had bought it almost new in 1933 and had kept it in careful storage through the war. It was still serviced every year and, in London, a former Bentley mechanic, who worked in a garage near Bond's Chelsea flat, tended it with jealous care. Bond drove it hard and well and with an almost sensual pleasure. It was a battleship-grey convertible coupé, which really did convert, and it was capable of touring at ninety with thirty miles an hour in reserve." — Casino Royale by Ian Fleming, 1953

Tire Manufacturers and Retailers (return to top)

Yokohama
Bridgestone USA
Michelin (new URL)
Pirelli — includes the Pirelli Calendar

The Tire Rack

Honda (return to top)

Majestic Honda — "The Internet's #1 Honda Automotive Parts Store" (new URL)
Purehonda.com
Manchester Honda — discount parts
College Hills Honda — with Honda Fit accessories

Dreamshop — official Honda/Acura parts and accessories

AllDataDiy.com — "Leading Source of Online Automotive Diagnostic & Repair Information"

FitFreak — "Unofficial Honda Fit Forums"

Honda Motorsports / blog.hpd.honda.com:

Lighting (return to top)

Daniel Stern Lighting

XENON Depot

Susquehanna MotorSports: halogen bulbs & driving lights
Desert Rat Truck Centers

Parts (return to top)

RockAuto.com — "All the Parts Your Car Will Ever Need"

Stillen.com performance parts from Steve Millen

Rally (return to top)

"...it was accepted as one of the virtues that a man would only be a man if he can drive a car really fast." — Rauno Aaltonen

World Rally Championship (WRC) official site with video and photos

American Rally Association (ARA) — stage rally in the USA

National Auto Sport Association Rally Sport (NASA) — stage rally in the USA

Subaru: Launch Control | Rally Rundown | Motorsports on YouTube

Rebelle Rally: website | YouTube channel

DirtFish — "All rallying. One Source"
eWRC rally database

East African Safari Classic Rally Youtube channel

Dakar Youtube channel
Red Bull Rally YouTube channel | Dakar | Cross Country Rallies World Cup

Budapest-Bamako — "The World's Last Great Adventure"

Central Ohio Rally Club (CORC); TSD rally in central Ohio

SCCA Road Rally
Detroit Region SCCA - Press on Regardless (POR)
Watch for NE Ohio SCCA Johnny Appleseed Rally in the Fall

Pro Rally & Vintage Rally by Tim Winker

VHS Rallies YouTube channel — "Sideways. Saved."

Rally Racing News

Alfa Rally Computers
TerraTrip — computers, intercoms, and cockpit lights
Timewise

Jack Christensen at Timewise repairs other makes of rally odos and computers. Estimated repair cost for a Zeron 800 TSD is $50 (minimum) to $300, with typical prices in the $75-$150 range. Mr. Christensen maintains a stock of replacement components including the CPU, but there is no schematic or block diagram available. (2005-02-11)

Rally Odometer/Clock Manuals at Rally Racing News, including Zeron 800

Pacenotes at Wikipedia

RoadRallyHandbook.com, with free-download Handbook and printable TSD Rally Tables

Susquehanna Motorsports: lights, computers, etc...
Rally.build: "growing motorsports by offering quality products, fabrication services, and event support"

Special Stage — "A forum community dedicated to North American rally car owners and enthusiasts"

Safari 911, etc. (return to top)

Expedition Portal: Porsche 911 Dakar
911 Dakar: Special Porsche 911 Begins its Journey of Exploration

Petrolicious.com: Porsche 997-2 Safari
Petrolicious.com: How One Man Tracked Down Two East African Safari Rally Porsche 911s

Tuthill 911 Safari | Rally Testing 2021 (video) | Tuthill Porsche on the East African Safari (video) | The Tuthill Porsche Safari Film (video)

Patrick Long Safari 911
Petrolicious.com: The Legends Behind Lufgekühlt Built A Perfect Porsche 911 Safari Machine

Expedition Portal: Porsche 911 Safari: The Keen Project
Road & Track: The Safari 911 is the Ultimate City Car
Car and Driver: These Lifted Porsche 911s are Perfect for an Off-Road Adventure
Car and Driver: Safari 911! Watch Leh Keen’s Porsche Splash and Slide
Motorauthority.com: First Drive: Keen Project Safari 911
Motorauthority.com: Interview: Lehman Keen, the man behind the Keen Project Safari 911
Petrolicious.com: Running into a Safari 911 Built by Leh Keen is the Absolute Best

Russell Built — "Outfitters for the ultimate in luxury, race inspired off-road Porsche 911s" + video

Kalmar RS — "Designed for adventure."
Kalmar RS-R — "An extreme machine with ultimate performance in mind."
Petrolicious.com: The Kalmar RS-R

Scott Birdsall / Resolute Motorsports Overland 911 (video)

Petrolicious: This Porsche 356 is Driven Against the Grain (video)
Praemio: Finding Yourself in a 356 (video)

Ben Combs: Porsche 944 Across Africa + Survival of the Quickest: Across Africa. In a Porsche. (book)

Expedition Portal: Overland Rallye Porsche 924 + website

Herbie's World Tour: website + article

Expedition Portal: El Burro the Overland Bug & video

Expedition Portal: The 1964 Valkswagen Bug That Could

Expedition Portal: Racing a Type One Beetle in the Baja 1000 & video
ProjectBaja.com — Class 11 Baja 1000 Beetle
Carfection: The Baja 1000 in a Bug, with Emme Hall parts 1 | 2 | 3 (videos)

Expedition Portal: Morgan Plus Four CX-T
Carfection: Morgan Plus Four CX-T Off-Road Review (video)
Top Gear: Morgan CX-T Review: Is this Dakar-inspired Plus Four rally car really worth £200k? (video)

Miscellaneous (return to top)

Nicole Johnson's Detour: Youtube channel
Throttle House: Youtube channels: Throttle House | Extra Throttle House
Sarah-n-Tuned: Sarah-n-Tuned | Give It the Beans
Ryan Douthit's Driving Sports TV: Youtube channel
Matt Farah's The Smoking Tire: Youtube channel
Gears and Gasoline: Youtube channel
Hagerty: YouTube channel (playlists: The Driver's Seat with Henry Catchpole | Revelations with Jason Cammisa)
Carfection: YouTube channel (Henry Catchpole playlist)
Petrolicious: website | Youtube channel — "quality, original videos and articles for classic car enthusiasts"
EVO: YouTube channel; JEK recommends the videos by Henry Catchpole (Playlists: 1 | 2 | 3)

Carsized.com

TireSize.com — calculate tire sizes
Tire-size speedometer-error calculator

EcoModder.com — Fuel Economy & Hypermiling

"We cannot afford to wait for a series of Katrinas or other natural disasters to take action. We are slow in acting on long term sustained solutions because of a failure of political/business leadership, and low level of public awareness. The idea of the Automotive X PRIZE is very powerful because it hits all roadblocks without pre-judging a solution. It is designed to encourage innovation and risk; it is designed to shake us out of the status quo; it is designed to raise public awareness of the issues; it helps open up possibilities without imposing a solution. Let the solution(s) emerge." — S.M. Shahed, Honeywell Turbo Technologies, past president of SAE International

Automotive X Prize

GreenCarCongress.com "Energy, Technologies, Issues and Policies for Sustainable Mobility"

Plasma Boy Racing — homemade fast EV cars (and OPB TV video)

The Bruce Weiner Microcar Museum

Edmund's Automobile Buyer's Guides
Autotrader.com


Disclaimer:
This is a collection of links that I have found useful or interesting, either professionally or personally. It is maintained for my own use, and is subject to change at any time. No claims are made to completeness, accuracy, or competence. No endorsement of any site, individual, product, or corporation is intended. With these caveats, anyone is welcome to browse these links or to use this page.
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