HERO's Recommended Links
These are the links that we have discovered if there are any that you feel should be here please mail us
These are the links that we have discovered if there are any that you feel should be here please mail us
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Webzines, Magazines and Data Sources for Classic Cars & Rallying | General Rallying | Instruction on Rallying and Navigation | Maps | 4x4 Sites | Oddities |
- The Great Race - long distance regularity across America for pre-1951 all vehicles plus 1951 through 1959 sports and race cars, $275,000 purse, run for 2 weeks each June
- Historic Rally Car Register - the organisation to join if you want to do shorter UK historic rallies, perhaps before tackling longer HERO events. Most HERO officials are active HRCR members.
- Liège-Rome-Liège - one of the best Continental classic rallies, recalling what was probably the greatest and toughest of the famous events of the 1950s and 1960s
- Mille Miglia - official site (in Italian) for one of the world's great occasions for classic car buffs, held each May
- Rallye des Alpes - Swiss event with strong links to the HRCR, recalling the great Alpine Rallies of the past
- Targa Rusticana - good site of Oxford University Motor Drivers' Club, organisers of the UK's premier weekend historic road rally, the demanding Targa Rusticana (early September)
- Targa Tasmania - one of the world's great events for classic cars, held in late April/early May each year
- Tulpenrallye - excellent site (in English) on one of Europe's top classic rallies, Holland's Tulip Rally , held each April
- Trans World Events - organisers of London - Sydney 2004, and other long distance high speed special stage events for suitably modified classic cars
- Vintage Sports-Car Club - the UK's, and perhaps the world's, biggest club for owners of pre-war cars, with an annual programme of over 40 rallies, trials, race meetings, hillclimbs, sprints and driving tests.
- Historic Photographs - This new web site features part of a collection of photographs taken by Peter Robinson during the late Sixties and early Seventies.
INTERNATIONAL & NATIONAL BODIES
- FIA - Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile - official site of the world governing body for motor sport. Links to ASNs (national motor sport federations affiliated to FIA) around the world
- FIVA - Federation Internationale des Vehicules Anciens
- Motor Sports Association - the official site of UK's official governing body for motor sport of all kinds. Also see
- MSA Events - official site for the event organising arm of the MSA
- Royal Scottish Automobile Club - information and links for all kinds of motor sport in Scotland
WEBZINES, MAGAZINES AND DATA SOURCES FOR CLASSIC CARS AND RALLYING
- Classic Car Net - UK classic cars site
- Classic Driver - excellent German-based webzine giving Europe-wide coverage of information for the classic car enthusiast - recommended
- Classic Motors Magazine - good UK webzine with details on events, autosales and much more
- Buy Classic Car - as the title suggests, good resource for buying and selling, also club and other information
- Motorsport.com - US webzine with rallying pages and links to rally sites
- Rally America! - as it says, mainly American rallying, and a good introduction to this
- Sandmans Motorsport Page - excellent American motorsport pages with lots on rallying
- UK Motorsport - John Upham's well known British motor sport site with links all around with world
- British Rally Championship, - the official British Championship site - Results, regulations & news
- RaceDates - a comprehensive listing of all motorsport events taking place!
INSTRUCTION ON RALLYING AND NAVIGATION
- Don Barrow Navigation Equipment
- Hart MC Road Rally Training Course by John Upham and others - very good home tuition navigation course
- How to Survive Regularity Sections - a few tips from Andy Gibson (see also the page on Regularity Sections in the HERO club section)
- UK Historic Rallying by Andy Gibson - an excllent introduction to the historic road rally scene
- Table-Top Rallying - a good site on navigation without the car (and driver!), for the truly obsessed, complete with a Championship to enter!
- Ordnance Survey - the home site of Britain's official mapmakers - gives a useful catalogue of their products but not much else - does give latest edition numbers of Landranger maps
- Michelin computerised Internet Route Planner, Maps and Guides - site includes catalogue of Michelin's excellent maps, and guides, and a unique (but not free) service for giving computerised route map and printout of instructions
- DeLorme Maps of USA - catalogue of best US map producer: range of state atlases, and superb and inexpensive CD-ROMs giving detailed road and street maps of the entire USA (available in Britain).
- Multimap - online mapping and local information
- Streetmap - online mapping
- Licence plates - American site with information on licence plates from all over the world
- Nationality plates - a comprehensive list ofvehicle nationality letters (GB, F, D, etc)
This page will be continually updated and added, link requests may be sent to webmaster@hero.org.uk