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Resources for a historical roleplay campaign
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Very short collection of links to catalogs with actual cars and their specs dated from 1900 and up until our century.
   
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Category: Game Modes, Story or Lore
Languages: English
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Some Car Catalog Links
Just in case you want to recreate designs of real cars from 1900s or role play some specific car company from its first days, you will need resources with photos and technical specs.

To save you some time I decided to create this very short guide and share those I found:

1. Automobile Catalog[www.automobile-catalog.com]

Just type a specific year in a search form on the main page and you'll get some inspiration right away, along with technical details.




2. Super Cars Catalog[www.supercars.net]

Another great resource. Top menu allows to search by Brand, decade, model etc (e.g. Research Hub -> Cars By Decade). But my personal favourite is Lists -> Best By Year:




Please if you know similar resources leave them in comments.
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-KC- Krakenpots 11 Aug @ 6:51pm 
This is really helpfull, as the car bodies in-game don't tend to correspond to real-world contemporary cars, so sometimes, you end up making anachronistic design choices.
Another thing of note: because of the stat system in-game, it would be ludicrous to choose anything but swing-axle suspension in early-game, right? except most car manufacturers throughout that time and well into the 50s stuck to leaf springs!!!
This is the same all through the game: why choose Flat-head when T-head (then OHV) is better? why choose to build ANYTHING other than a phaeton early-game?
dan2063 23 Jul, 2022 @ 6:14pm 
https://www.ultimatespecs.com/
Fimez 3 Mar, 2022 @ 2:57pm 
This is actually very helpful, im always looking for obscure cars and unfortunately cars in the early 1900s seem to be hard to find naturally unless looking for the most successful ones.
gr-monaco 30 Apr, 2021 @ 8:39am 
There is another website that you can add to the guide: https://www.carfolio.com
gr-monaco 30 Apr, 2021 @ 8:17am 
The real MVP