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Way back when, like, in the post-war era, there were these little auto diaries you kept in your glove box. They were about the size of a Field Notes notebook and had places to enter and keep track of stuff like oil changes (mileage, brand, quarts used) gas consumption (mileage, filling station, gallons pumped) suspension grease joint replenishment etc. etc.
They were handy little helpers that a certain kind of gearhead (like my dad and his brothers) were in love with.
Well AUTOsist is a digital version of that.
Peachy Keen
Many, many moons ago, my dad bought a mid fifties Willys two-door coupe, three-tone blue exterior, two-tone blue interior and a continental kit from the son of the original owner. It was down in some dairy farm in rural Oregon (Prineville" Madras" Something like that). Well, the thing had been parked in a barn, driven to church on Sundays most of its life, and was in pristine condition. When we went down to check it out on a sunny spring Saturday, the owner – late-50s, bib overalls, 6 foot 9 maybe, weighed about 113 pounds soaking wet – said “here’s all th’maintenance records,” and set down a fistful of these notebooks for the car. My dad just beamed when he saw that. This car was a peach (as he would say). That kind of attention to mechanical detail could only mean it was in great shape. The notebooks were full with literally everything mechanically done...