It’s that time of the year that I post a pledge drive for this website and other Vintage Ferrari Content. Your ongoing support keeps me growing this community of Vintage Ferrari fans, professional mechanics, owners, and hobbyists. Believe it or not, even though I’ve been creating Vintage Ferrari Content for decades, I still make very little actual money from all this work! Don’t get me wrong, I benefit in so many other ways that monetizing all this media was never a priority. I’ve managed to build a new career working on Vintage Ferraris, document how to repair and maintain Ferraris, share the experience of Vintage Ferrari ownership, and create a community of like minded Vintage Ferrari Enthusiasts. I am proud of what I have done, despite the thousands of hours of unpaid work!

I’m sure you all know and see the media landscape is changing. When this blog was created over 25 years ago, the term “blog” hadn’t even been popularized! Today, we have so much more access to media with content being pushed directly to our phones. I’ve been watching the traffic to this website decline through the years as people are more and more distracted with content accessible through their mobile devices. Fewer and fewer people visit websites, or click bookmarks on their Internet browsers. In order for me to reach the changing access to content, I started creating videos and content for social media, but continue to post to the blog. I really enjoy making videos, and found them to be another creative outlet for all the Vintage Ferrari Content I experience on a daily basis, but feel there is a permanence to the content I post and control on my website. It’s been a challenge to commit time to all these projects, while still juggling family life and commitments!

As technology continues to evolve, we’re seeing more AI generated content flood the internet. Their content creation comes from data it gathers from the Internet, and I have even seen traffic grow on my website again, not from actual people, but “AI bots” gathering 25 years of Vintage Ferrari Content to repackage and present as its own in web searches. It’s pretty frustrating seeing this use for the benefit of AI without credit, while they profit from this data. As this technology continues to advance, we’ll see more and more data being used to create content without much control because I’ve always made my website free.

Vintage Ferrari content has always been a niche subject, and I continue to create it because I genuinely enjoy doing it. Your support helps me navigate this world of the Internet knowing you value my work, and appreciate a place where real content is being created by a real person, and I thank you !

I’d be curious about your thoughts on where you enjoy seeing Vintage Ferrari Content. Do you still enjoy the blog? Do you see the weekly videos I post to YouTube, or do you only click on them when I post links on this blog? The data seems to show very little clicking to the videos, but I’d love to hear it from the people who visit this site. I sometimes feel like I’m creating a late night radio show broadcasting into the ether not knowing how many people are actually hearing me. I know from the traffic that is not necessarily true, but I would love to hear from you directly about your thoughts on where you consume your Ferrari media, and what you like to see. Send me an email.