I keep a journal ...

Image Unavailable, Please Login Being obsessive – compulsive, I have kept a journal for each of the few sports cars that I’ve had. I keep repair and maintenance notes in the journals, their main purpose of course, but also write down stories about the car, how the car drove, and so on. I keep one for the Dino, too. I used to write the journals longhand, but computers were already around when I acquired the Dino, so that journal is on a computer. All the others have migrated to computers too. I then print the journals.

They make good reading for me on a rainy day, and often there are things written there that I would have forgotten but for the journals.

Andres

 

Image Unavailable, Please Login The good thing about computers is that I can insert photos easily. That was not possible when I started my first journal 40 years ago.

Andres

 

The journal is a handy place to keep posts ,by F-Chatters telling me things about my car before I owned it, such as the one partly on the photo. .

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I used to write the journals longhand too, absostone. I first began to keep a journal (for my Lotus Elan) in 1978, and there were no computers then (except word-processing machines). I drew there too (badly). It's great you keep a journal for your GT4, too.

ANdres

 

Thank you, rbsloan11. The journals go back a long way and sometimes record things about a car even before I was able to acquire it, as on the Stratos. It is enjoyable for me to look back and remember. What I write down is often personal, or silly, so I wonder whether the journals should go with the cars when they move finally to new homes.

Andres

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