Digital Garage

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.

What works today

What is a concept

  • No accounts, vehicle records or photo uploads exist.
  • The two cars below were invented for this page. Nobody owns them.
  • Nothing on this page is saved anywhere. The only thing you can send us is feedback.

Everything below is an illustration.

Illustrative example — not a real record

A 1967 Beetle, shown as a representative image. It is not the invented car on this record.
Representative image — not this car · Image rights unverified

1967 Beetle

Zenith Blue (L639) • Sedan • 1500cc

Restoration Progress65%

Journal

Three entries, invented. No dates, because none of this happened.

  1. First entry

    Engine out.

    It came out easier than it went in. The tin underneath was worse than the photographs suggested.

  2. Second entry

    Rebuild kit ordered.

    Pistons and cylinders. The paperwork went in the folder, which is the entire point of the folder.

  3. Third entry

    Pans assessed.

    Better than feared. Heater channels, and nothing else.

Tasks

Three things left to do, invented. Nothing to tick.

  • Get the heater channels in.
  • Find a pair of tail light lenses.
  • Decide about the paint.

Photos

No photographs exist. These are placeholders, and they are labelled as such.

No photograph — placeholder
No photograph — placeholder
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Specs

Year
1967
Model
Beetle Sedan
Engine
1500cc
Colour
Zenith Blue (L639)
Status
Restoration
Restoration progress
65%

Is a record like this worth keeping?

Envisioned

  • One page per car, with the work in the order it happened.
  • Photographs kept beside the job they belong to.
  • Parts and paint linked to the reference pages, not retyped by hand.
  • A record that survives the sale, if the seller wants it to.
  • VWX will not authenticate a vehicle, and will not share anyone's contact details without their consent.

Tell us what you think

  • Would you keep the record of your car here?
  • What would you want to hand to the next owner?
  • What would make you close the tab?

Explore the ecosystem

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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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.
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