GUIDES & RESOURCES
Cars and Vehicles
A quick guide containing links to selected websites, books, movies, magazines, online databases and other resources to help you find what you are looking for.
Websites
- Indiana Driver License Manual
- Indiana CDL Test Booklet
- Center for Auto Safety
- Founded by the Consumers Union and Ralph Nader.
- Insurance Institute for Highway Safety
- Crash test results, fatality facts, airbag statistics, state law facts.
- National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
- Crash test results, technical service bulletins, and consumer complaints.
- Federal Trade Commission - Buying a Used Car
- Department of Energy and the Environmental Protection Agency - The Fuel
- Economy Guide (for vehicles back to 1985).
- National Institute on Aging
- How does age affect driving?
- Cartalk
- A source for a large variety of topics relating to cars, this site also has a "recommended mechanics" section where you can enter your zipcode and find a local mechanic.
- Kelley Blue Book - Buying guide for automobiles.
- N.A.D.A. Car Price Guides - National Auto Dealers Association.
- Federal Aviation Regulations
- Aeronautical Information Manual (AIM)
- Official Guide to Basic Flight Information and ATC Procedures
- Aviation In Indiana
- An issue of The Indiana Historian - a magazine exploring Indiana history.
- Motorcycle Safety Foundation
- State laws, reports and much more.
- Highway Statistics Publications
- Regarding this link and the archives link below: The Highway Statistics Series consists of annual reports containing analyzed statistical data on motor fuel; motor vehicles; driver licensing; highway-user taxation; State and local government highway finance; highway mileage, and Federal aid for highways. This data is presented in tabular format as well as selected charts and has been published each year since 1945.
- Highway Statistics Archives
Library Materials
Online Databases
- ALLDATA Online
- An online automotive repair database, accessible in any IMCPL branch from our ONLINE DATABASES, that provides engine-specific diagnostic and repair procedures, electrical diagrams, maintenance schedules and tables, daily TSBs and recalls, and parts and labor for estimating. (No access outside the library.)
