| For decades we have seen the national auto shows, | | | | like-minded collectors or builders that may be |
| where the major manufacturers roll out their new | | | | interested in your specialty - whether old Corvettes |
| models and a few flashy "prototypes" that will never | | | | or sixties Alfa Romeos. There are current web sites |
| see an assembly line. Then there are the rod and | | | | for national and regional organizations as well as a |
| custom shows, populated thirty years ago by | | | | number of sites that specialize as classified |
| twenty- and thirty-somethings and filled these days | | | | advertising for scarce auto parts. |
| with middle aged and older auto enthusiasts who still | | | | A personal site, however, is going to give you a far |
| love classic American cars, both stock and in all the | | | | different type of interaction with your fellow wrench |
| different permutations of customization they have | | | | addicts. Instead of searching impersonal national |
| gone through over the years. | | | | websites for parts or people with similar interests, |
| And of course there's the Concourse D'Elegance | | | | you can use your site to bring them to you. Proper |
| crowd, oohing and aahing at priceless Ferraris from | | | | use of keywords and perhaps a classified ad or two |
| the fifties and sixties as well as the older exotics | | | | online will bring potential contacts to you personally, |
| such as Packards and, going even further back, | | | | and there they will find a site with photos of your |
| Hispano-Suizas and Auburns. | | | | car(s), your shop and a little history about your |
| For those who lived American Graffiti and those who | | | | involvement. |
| live for the foreign classics, if you're involved at all in | | | | You don't have to find contacts like that at shows or |
| building, maintaining or participating in the fellowship | | | | in pulp publications for parts and project cars. A |
| that has built around classics and exotics, you should | | | | properly designed site for a car enthusiast that |
| consider utilizing a website. | | | | elaborates on his area of interest and the history of |
| First of all, it's a great way to show off your car or | | | | his cars will give that person a potentially national |
| cars, whatever you've got in the garage that is | | | | social role in the company of his peers, just as the |
| carefully driven once a week and towed, gleaming, to | | | | kids are using MySpace to communicate. |
| car shows. Secondly, it's a communications device for | | | | |