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Car Conceptual Drawing Template

The conceptual drawing template is designed to assist you in creating your vision of your race car, sports car or off-road truck. It comes in both an editable Microsoft Visio 2007 (.vsd) document or a printable Adobe PDF version. The template contains standard A4 pages with:

  • Poseable/adjustable scale driver mannequin stencils in various seating positions
  • Basic to-scale components including:
    • 600 cc motorcycle engine and small-block american V8
    • Examples of Formula SAE wheels/tires
    • 13" through 19" wheels/tires
    • ATV wheels/tires
    • Kart wheels/tires
    • Trophy Truck wheel/tire
  • Scale graph paper drawing pages (Metric/Imperial) for hardcopy or Visio drawing.
  • Simple sample conceptual drawing
The PDF version can be printed and the components cut-out/glued if desired. It is also useful for quickly sketching up ideas.

Attention Teachers! This template make a great teaching resource for encouraging students to express their creativity and learn design. The "Conceptual Drawing Template" Visio file includes everything a student needs to create a drawing of their own car concept:

  • A graph paper page on which students can create their car design
  • Pages with driver mannequin shapes and car parts which students can cut-out and paste to their graph paper page.
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Car Component Worksheet

The component worksheet provides a list of common race car / road car components. It is used to manage the technical regulations, component brands/models and other information used in vehicle design and decision making.

It is available in both Excel 97-2003 (.xls) and Excel 2007 (.xlsx) formats, which are compatible with other freely available Microsoft Office-compatible suites such as LbreOffice or OpenOffice.
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Car Design Processes

The design processes are step-by-step guides to designing and constructing your own race car, sports car or off-road vehicle. There are four different processes, depending on the type of car you want to build and whether:

  1. It uses a donor vehicle or is built from scratch
  2. Is built to sanctioning body regulations or to your own vision
Donor Vehicle with Regulations
Donor Vehicle to Your Vision
Scratch-Built with Regulations
Scratch-Built to Your Vision


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Car Driver Stencils and Seating Positions

The poseable/adjustable scale driver stencils (or "mannequins") enable modeling of the driver profile in your car designs. Included are various car seating positions including:

  • Modern NASCAR
  • 1927 Bugatti Type 35
  • 1937 Mercedes W125
  • Modern F1
  • Sprint Kart
The stencils are available in various formats including Visio 2007 (.vsd), Visio 2007 Shape stencil (.vss), and Autocad (.dwg and .dxf formats).

Please note: These stencils are included in the Conceptual Drawing Template above as well.

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