Hi Pieter and Richard,
maybe the times are gone, that we normaly went to a museum, to inform us, or to see something beautiful, even that we are buying books to read.
Maybe its now your turn, to inform as best as you could, about our beloved cars. I think, you both are doing a wonderful work, but you have to do many compromises, to your mostly young users, who wants to see lots of modern 'Supercars' and they like to be informed about the most expensive, the fastest...etc.
Sadly we could see, that most collectors, are now trying, to collect 'green bucks', faking cars, histories, working together with doubtful dealers and trying to get as much money as possible. It's seems to be part of the 'modern' world, were people are doing everything, against good education, to get richer, all in the 'Hedgefonds' way, that our big brother teached us. A few will earn, but most will loose.
You both have the chance now, were so many cars are coming up for sale, to make good fotos and stories about them, but its sad to see every time the same Ferraris at the meetings and seeing them on all the internet fotopages.
What about the rest, are they only worth one foto?
I told you Pieter, that I would dream about a virtual museum, where you could see every car, from any angle and hopefully with some good information, but not only supercars. Thinking about Alfa, I've never dreamed about a T 33, but the car that opened me the eyes and my mind about sportscars, was the Giulia Super. How much driving pleasure I had in a nimble Fiat 850, driving it in vacations. The strange thing is, that you can find mostly cars in internet, that are beautiful, but in real life they were cars horrible to drive. Most Ferraris and Lamborghinis are terrible to drive. For a long time I owned a Maserati Vignale Spider, what a elegant looking car, but my Alfa 1600 Giulia Spider, was a 10 times better to drive, the Maserati was only a good looking truck.
There are so many forgotten cars, that made history, hope that you will one day will remember them, or should I do something, to enter in competition with you, when I move back to Europe this year?
Regards
Jörg