If your car's service history lives in your head and a shoebox of receipts, we need to talk. Building Chassis Book. 🔧

Quick question for anyone restoring a classic: how are you actually tracking what's been done to your car? Notes app? A notebook that's somewhere in the garage? Spreadsheet you forgot about? Building something for exactly this — more soon.

Building Chassis Book — a restoration log for the one classic car you actually care about. Service history, parts sourcing, progress tracking, all in one place. No more "was the timing belt done last year or the year before?" Dropping soon. Who else is running one project car right now?

A fresh paint job photographs well. A binder of receipts sells the car.

After enough garage visits, the pattern is boring and consistent. Buyers of a 60s/70s car do not pay extra for “I think the timing belt was done around 2019.” They pay for:

1. Service history with miles on it

Date, mileage, the work, who turned the wrench. A belt, a fuel pump, plugs — written down the day it happened, not reconstructed from memory at sale time.

2. Parts provenance

What you fitted, where it came from, what you paid. NOS vs reproduction vs used-good is the difference between a story and a claim. Keep the invoice. Write the part number.

3. A restoration timeline that is honest

Stages, status, gaps. “Body off, 14 months, waiting on glass” is more useful than a highlight reel. The next owner is buying the unfinished chapters too.

Most weekend restorers already did the work. They just did it on napkins, texts, and a pile in the glovebox. The car’s story should stay with the car.

That’s the whole job of a log. Not motivation. Record-keeping.