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The vehicle record

The finished object.

A silver coupe in side three-quarter view in daylight, against a dark hedge.

Eleven years, 214 events, $41,600 — readable in a parking lot.

One page answers what a stranger asks.

ProvoryVehicle profile/vehicles/1994-coupe
ProfileTimelineExpensesBuildShowroomNotes
A silver coupe photographed in side three-quarter view in daylight.
The 1994 coupe
1994 coupe · owned since 2013 · 195,100 mi
Active186 sourced events
214Documented events
$41,600Documented cost
4Build chapters
4Gaps open
Build chapters
Front suspension refresh31 events · complete
Cooling system18 events · 1 gap
Interior22 events · complete
Wheels and brakes27 events · 1 gap
Record completeness — 4 gaps open

A measure of the record, not the car.

Barn Find to Concours
  1. Barn Find
  2. Project
  3. Driver
  4. Show Car
  5. Concours
Driverdescribes the record, not the car

What moved it: 214 events, 186 sourced, 4 gaps open.

Five words for how complete the paperwork is — not the paint, not the value. It fills; it does not judge.
An open antique ledger with ruled columns, handwritten entries, and a pencil laid across the page.
camera obscura / Unsplash

It tells you the part arrived and never went on the car.

A white wire-grid tool wall with hammers, chisels and pliers hung in ordered rows.
Soc Nang Dong / Pexels
Open on the 1994 coupe — 4 of 9

Rear sway bar delivered Aug 2023, no installation recorded.

arrival without a fittingAdd the installation

Cooling system overhaul has a cost and no date role.

date role unsetSay which date this is

Two dampers shipped Feb 2024, neither marked as arrived.

shipment without an arrivalConfirm the arrival

No license plate or VIN on file. identity anchor — not recorded

optional, and it stays optionalAdd an identity anchor
A to-do list drawn from the record itself.

Eleven years in date order, each entry carrying its document.

The bushing job, as four dates rather than one
OrderedFeb 28, 2024The parts order, from the supplier’s confirmation.
ShippedMar 04, 2024The shipment notice. Two of two, both delivered.
InvoicedMar 14, 2024Invoice 4471, the date printed at the top of the page.
FittedMar 14, 2024The same day as the invoice, and still a separate role. Two dates matching is not the same as one date.
ProvoryTimeline/vehicles/1994-coupe/timeline
ProfileTimelineExpensesBuildShowroomNotes
Mar 14 2024InvoicedFittedSourced · invoice 4471

Front control-arm bushings

195,100 mi2 × part 4118-207-CBparts $312.00labor $568.00
Hilltop MotorsEdited Jun 2024 — mileage was 195,000
Mar 04 2024ShippedSourced · shipment notice

Bushing set arrived

part 4118-207-CB2 of 2
Feb 28 2024OrderedSourced · order 8842-A

Front suspension parts order

$312.00suspension refresh
Shop — not recorded
Aug 09 2023ShippedSourced · packing slip

Rear sway bar delivered

part 2210-118-SB$247.00
Installation — not recorded
Nov 16 2019ServicedSourced · invoice 2190

Radiator, hoses and water pump

171,400 miparts $410.00labor $520.00Hilltop Motors

The pump was original and I wasn’t opening the front of the engine twice.

Your note, Nov 2019
Spring 2016Serviced

Timing belt and tensioner

odometer not recordedno invoice

I did this in the spring before the Blue Ridge trip. I bought the kit at the swap meet.

Four dates, never flattened into one. A sourced fact and a recollection never share a style.

Four more ways to read the same record.

The same 214 events, sorted four other ways. Nothing here is a second copy of the record; each one is a view of it.

Showroom

private · 46 photographs
A silver coupe photographed from the side in daylight, behind a park railing.
A caliper and disc photographed close, off the car.An instrument cluster with chrome-bezeled dials and toggle switches.

The photographs you took at the time, captioned, in the order you want them seen. Reorder them, pick the featured one, remove any of them. None of it is public until you publish a card.

A black 1960s coupe in a wood-lined, lamp-lit private garage.
A Showroom is private until a card is published. Tristan Wilson / Pexels

Expenses

USD and EUR, kept apart
Service$18,240
Parts$14,960
Modification$6,100
Other$2,300
By your tags
Blue Ridge$4,410
Originals kept$1,680

What it cost, in the currencies you paid, by event type, category and tag. $41,600 and €1,180 are two totals, not one converted total.

Build

factory, then every departure
Engine2.5 L inline-sixcatalog, manufacturer press material
Output189 hpcatalog, manufacturer press material
Front suspensionrebuilt, Mar 2024your chapter, 31 documented events
Curb weightnot in catalogno source — the row stays empty rather than guessing

What left the factory, and every deliberate departure since.

Notes

private · 3 collections
CollectionWhy I did it

Bought the bushings twice. The first set was the soft rubber replacement and it was gone in two summers, so the second set is the firmer compound and that is what is on the car now.

The reasoning, in your words. No document contains that sentence.

Four minutes on a Sunday, and it tells you which four.

Two cars under fitted white covers in a bright, empty storage room.
Winter storage pauses a streak until April, reversibly. Adem Percem / Unsplash
ProvoryWeekly Pit Check/garage/pit-check
Drafts to review2
Quests open4
Estimated effortabout 4 minutes
Last pit checkSun, Mar 10
Start hereThe rear sway bar has no installation.
Skip this weekOpen the event
One recommendation, drawn from the gaps already on the record. It is a reading list, not a score to beat.

Weekly Wrench — 14 weeks

The record gets built by turning up, so turning up is what counts.

Companion

NamedKaiser

Kaiser, Lug or a plain toolbox, renameable to whatever you call it. It notices what you have not finished and says so once.

Unlocking

Timeline, Pins, Showroom and later surfaces open as the record grows. Day one is never forty empty fields. “Open everything now” turns off presentation unlocks; the evidence rules do not move.

Sunday WrenchGraphite, signal orange, warm shop light.
Night MeetDeep navy, cool proof blue, after-dark contrast.
HeritageRacing green, aged stock, restrained brass.
Track DayTechnical white, graphite, red timing marks.

Four ways for the record to look, and each one exports its own windshield sticker in both dies.

Everything in the record.

  • Vehicle profileIdentity, history, costs, build chapters, completeness.
  • Documentation scoreMeasuring the record and not the car.
  • Barn Find to Concours gradeFor how complete the paperwork is.
  • Record questsMissing installations, arrivals, dates, identity anchors.
  • Chronological timelineEvery documented event, in date order.
  • Distinct date rolesOrdered, shipped, invoiced, serviced, fitted.
  • Trust labelsKeeping a sourced fact, a draft and a recollection apart.
  • Revision historyWhat changed, and what it said before.
  • Parts and itemized costsPart numbers and costs held on the event.
  • Custom categories, tags and titlesYour categories, because your car is not a fleet car.
  • Installation attributionWho did it, on the event, permanently.
  • Private showroomCaptions, reordering, featured photo, removal.
  • ExpensesBy currency, event type, category and tag.
  • BuildFactory specifications plus your modification chapters.
  • Private rich-text notesCollections, sorting, undo, attachments, downloads.
  • Progression and personalizationPit Check, pins, unlocking and themes, as listed above.

Every record here started with one event.

This one started empty too. Add the car and the last thing that happened to it.