Community

Concept

Community.

The best thing about these cars is the people who stop to look at them. The idea is somewhere to keep the conversation that happens in a car park: what you fixed, what has you beaten, and who is driving where. None of it exists yet. We would rather show you the shape of it than pretend it is busy.

What works today

What is a concept

  • No members, posts or messages exist.
  • The three people below were invented for this page. No real person appears anywhere on it.
  • There is nothing to join, follow or post to. The only thing you can send us is feedback.

Everything below is an illustration.

Four rooms, all of them empty. This is what would be in them.

The three people on this page.

They are invented, and their names say so. Each of them exists only to show the shape of a profile.

Illustrative example — not a real record

Sample Owner One

@sample-owner-beetle

An invented owner of the invented 1967 Beetle in the garage walkthrough.

See the profile walkthrough

Illustrative example — not a real record

Sample Owner Two

@sample-owner-westfalia

An invented owner of the invented 1971 Westfalia in the garage walkthrough.

See the profile walkthrough

Illustrative example — not a real record

Sample Owner Three

@sample-owner-reader

An invented reader, here to show what a profile with no car in it would look like.

See the profile walkthrough

Feed

Three invented posts. There is no box to write in, because there is nowhere for a post to go.

Illustrative example — not a real record

Sample Owner One

The pans are in. First time the car has stood on its own since I got it.

Illustrative example — not a real record

Sample Owner Two

Took the camper out for the weekend. Nothing broke, which is a first.

Illustrative example — not a real record

Sample Owner Three

I do not own one yet. I have read this whole site twice.

Journals

A journal is a garage record, opened to whoever wants to read it. The two below are the invented cars from the garage walkthrough.

The 1959 Single Cab build record

The real record this concept generalises. One car, one shop, written down as it happened.

Clubs

Three invented clubs, with no members, because there are none. A club would be run by the people in it, not by us.

Illustrative example — not a real record

The Sample Owners Club

A club invented for this page.

Illustrative example — not a real record

The Invented Bus Society

A club invented for this page.

Illustrative example — not a real record

The Fictional Ghia Register

A club invented for this page.

Events

Three invented gatherings. No date, no place, no organiser — a gathering would be listed by the people running it, with their consent.

Illustrative example — not a real record

A show in a field

Show

Illustrative example — not a real record

A drive that ends at a café

Drive

Illustrative example — not a real record

A weekend campout

Campout

What is missing here.

  • No counts, because there is nothing to count.
  • No box to post in, because there is nowhere for a post to go.
  • No Join and no Follow, because there are no members.

Envisioned

  • A question that gets answered with a page you can check for yourself.
  • Build journals that read in order, kept by whoever is doing the work.
  • Clubs with their own corner, rather than a borrowed one.
  • Gatherings listed by the people running them, and only with their consent.
  • VWX will not authenticate a vehicle, and will not share anyone's contact details without their consent.

Tell us what you think

  • Would you post here, or only read?
  • Which of the four would you use: the feed, the journals, the clubs or the gatherings?
  • What would bring you back a second time?

Explore the ecosystem

Concept

A Garage That Remembers.

Every car leaves a trail: receipts, photographs, a list of jobs nobody finished. Most of it lives in a shoebox. The garage is our idea for keeping it in one place — one page per car, the work in the order it happened, and the whole thing handed on with the keys.
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Concept

Where Is It Now?

You sold it. You watched it go. Somewhere out there it is either a barn find, a show car or a memory. The owner registry is our idea for closing that gap: past owners write down what they remember, present owners write down what they have, and the two find each other only if both agree.
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