More time in the car.
Less time under it.

I own a few cars. One of them is an '82 BMW that probably should be off the road — but I keep it going. I like driving it. And I've found that keeping an older car on the road is mostly a matter of staying on top of it: knowing what's been done, knowing what's coming up, and catching small things before they become reasons to call a tow truck.

That's the whole game with a classic. You're not trying to avoid all problems — you're trying to maximize the ratio of good drives to bad days. More time in the car. Less time under it. More fun. Less anxiety.

The problem is that the information you need to do that ends up scattered everywhere. A photo in your camera roll. A receipt in the glove box. An invoice buried in email. A text to your mechanic six months ago that you half-remember. It's not that car owners don't care — it's that there was never a good place to put it all.

Why Manila?

That's why I built Manila.

Manila is a free car maintenance log. You add your vehicles, log every service and repair, scan receipts straight into your records, set reminders for what's coming up, and share a complete service history with anyone who needs to see it — a mechanic, a buyer, a co-owner. It works on your phone, your laptop, anything with a browser. No app download required.

But the reason I built it isn't features. It's a philosophy I think about every time I take one of my cars out.

At the center of that is something I call baselining.

Manila is used by car owners in 15+ countries — daily drivers and project cars, classics and commuters, single-car households and small fleets. It's free. It always will be.

I'm based in Los Angeles. I sponsor 2002Fest and SoCal Vintage BMW. I think SoCal car culture — year-round driving, older cars that never rust, communities that show up every weekend — deserves its own thing. Manila is part of that.

Matt