The permanent record of your car’s build, kept with the car.
Free to keep the record, with no account and no password. Name the car and the first entry can go in today.
1980 Chevrolet Camaro
Drivetrain out, body up on stands.
Block decked and bored at the machine shop.
Subframe out for powder coat.
An example page, with example figures. The first Build Book being kept is a 1980 Chevrolet Camaro, 29 years in.
In the garage
You finish a job with dirty hands and reach for your phone. That photo is all Buildbook asks for — Photo, Receipt or Note, under fifteen seconds, with no form to fill in.
Receipts
Photograph an invoice and it comes back as vendor, date, price and part numbers, with nothing typed.
The document
The entries become the Build Book on their own: chapters by year, photos, hours, cost to date. What has paper behind it is marked Documented, what comes from memory is marked Recalled, and the Build Book says which is which.
At the sale
One link for the for-sale ad, a windshield code for the show, a Binder page that prints for the folder riding with the car. When the car sells you hand the Build Book over with it, and the next owner inherits documented provenance.
The pass
Keeping the record is free. A Vehicle Pass is $49, once, for one car — it makes that Build Book public, printable and transferable.
The first car
A 1980 Chevrolet Camaro, 29 years into its build, with most of the early paperwork long gone. It is the first Build Book being kept, and the reason an approximate date and an honest memory carry the same standing here as a receipt. There are no other owners yet. When there are, their cars will speak for themselves.
- Is this a subscription?
- No. Keeping the record is free, and a Vehicle Pass is one payment for one car, forever. A record that expires with a card was never permanent.
- My build started in the nineties. Is it too late?
- No. Start today with a photo of the car as it sits; Recover a build then reconstructs the earlier history from old photos, receipts, part information and what you remember. An entry takes an about-when — “Summer 1998”, “before I owned it” — and memory is labelled Recalled rather than dressed up as paper.
- What happens when I sell the car?
- You hand the Build Book over to the buyer with its provenance intact, and keep a read-only copy. The Build Book belongs to the car.
- Who can see my car?
- Nobody, until you share it. On a public Build Book, spend stays hidden unless you choose to show it.
Start with the car in your garage.
Name the car, then file one photograph. Keeping the record costs nothing, and the Vehicle Pass waits until you want the Build Book public.
Or write to buildbook@nanocorp.app.