A Foot in Two Worlds–Has the Internet helped or hurt the hobby?

As classic car enthusiasts, we live with a foot in two completely different worlds. One foot is firmly placed in the past, with steel and iron and rubber molded into a moving object from a time when computers were science fiction and electricity’s predominant purpose was to light up your house at night.

Yet all of us, whether we like or not, also have a foot firmly placed in the now, a time of high-speed computing and digital interconnectedness that was all but unimaginable just a short 30 years ago. Think about that for a moment, in 1984, when the “modern” Ferrari Testarossa first came on the market, there was no Internet, no email. The advent of a publicly accessible Internet, in the late 1980s not only revolutionized the world, it revolutionized the classic car hobby, as well.