Vintrak
The log
Essays on buying, owning, and keeping cars, from the people building Vintrak.
Subscribe with RSSIn defense of the car everyone warned you about
The old German flagships earned their reputations, then quietly outgrew them. Here is how to read one.
The great button comeback
For a decade the industry decided your car should behave like a phone. The car, and everyone driving it, disagreed.
Four miles
There is a Corvette for sale right now, and the thing I keep looking at is not the car.
What gets lost between owners
The car in question is a 1988 Porsche 944 Turbo. Guards red over black, M030 suspension, factory limited-slip. My friend Mike's father owned it from 1991 to 2009. He bought it from the original owner in Connecticut, who had taken delivery…
In Defense of the Thing I Can't Stand
There's an episode of Top Gear, Series 10 Episode 8, where Jeremy Clarkson and James May go looking for the first car that drives like a car.
What I Mean by "The OS for Your Garage"
I keep saying Vintrak is "the operating system for your garage." It's the line on the website, the line on every business card I'd hand out if I had business cards, the line I default to when someone asks what I'm building.
Why I Built Vintrak
There's a Porsche commercial from 2005 that I think about more than I should. A kid is sitting in class, staring out the window, and a 911 rolls past. That's it. That's all it takes. The moment the bell rings he's on his bike, riding…