Last Updated: September 2026
🏁 COOL CAR GUY FAQ
This is the page where I answer the stuff you might be wondering about CoolCarGuy.com, Parking Spots, Garages, StoryDrive™, Video Spotlight, the Affiliate Program and using the site.
For the boring legal stuff, the current Terms, policies and applicable product descriptions control.
🧭 WHAT IS COOLCARGUY.COM?
CoolCarGuy.com is my Island around cool cars.
I use it to publish cars, stories, opinions, videos, road trips, automotive businesses, builders, dealers, collectors, events and other things I think genuinely belong somewhere around cool cars.
It is not just a classified site.
Cars for sale can live here, but so can the people, businesses, videos, history, experiences and ridiculous stories surrounding them.
The individual full-page pieces inside CoolCarGuy.com are called Parking Spots.
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🅿️ WHAT IS A PARKING SPOT?
A Parking Spot is a full-page multimedia page inside CoolCarGuy.com.
It looks a little like a classified ad because I wanted it to be ridiculously easy to use.
But it is really a container for content around cool cars.
Depending on what you are parking, it can currently include:
- Up to 25 photographs
- Up to 30,000 visible characters
- Up to two supported embedded videos
- Vehicle, business, product, event or story details
- Pricing, mileage, specifications or offer information when relevant
- Contact information
- Website and social links
- A product, service, offer or call to action
- A public view counter
- Its own dedicated page and shareable URL
The Parking Spot is the container.
You decide what belongs inside it—as long as it is truthful, you have the right to publish it, and it genuinely belongs somewhere around cool cars.
💵 HOW MUCH DOES A PARKING SPOT COST?
One standard Parking Spot costs $7 one time.
- No subscription
- No scheduled renewal charge
- No scheduled expiration
- No CoolCarGuy.com commission when your vehicle sells
If you have something else worth parking later, create another $7 Parking Spot.
Seven bucks. One page. Your call.
🏁 HOW DO I CREATE A PARKING SPOT?
- Create or access your CoolCarGuy.com account.
- Select the $7 Parking Spot package.
- Choose the category that actually fits what you are creating.
- Add your photographs, writing, details, videos, links and contact information.
- Complete the purchase and publishing process.
- Grab the URL and start sharing it.
- Come back and update the page when something changes.
Standard Parking Spots publish immediately. They are not individually pre-approved before going live.
That does not mean anything goes.
Be truthful. Use material you have the right to use. Keep it related to cool cars.
If it fits, park it.
Standard Parking Spots publish immediately, but everything still has to be truthful, lawful and genuinely connected to cool cars. Content that is clearly off-topic, misleading, broken or violates the Terms may be moved to Draft or removed.
Want the button-by-button version?
🚘 WHAT CAN I FEATURE?
- A cool car for sale
- A vehicle you want to showcase
- A restoration, custom build or project
- A collector, builder, dealer, broker, creator or enthusiast
- An automotive business, product or service
- A race, auction, car show, event or road trip
- A video, review, opinion or comparison
- A car you spotted and thought was interesting
- A strange automotive story somebody else might enjoy
- Something else I did not think of
You do not have to be selling a vehicle.
It just has to genuinely belong somewhere around cool cars.
🕶️ WHAT COUNTS AS A COOL CAR?
People have asked me that for more than twenty years.
My answer has always been:
“Whatever is cool to you.”
A Subaru WRX and a Porsche 911 are very different kinds of cool.
That is kind of the point.
Cool can come from design, performance, history, rarity, craftsmanship, personality, emotion, nostalgia, attitude or the story around the vehicle.
“Whatever is cool to you” does not mean every random vehicle automatically belongs here.
Give me a reason it belongs on the Island.
🚙 WHAT IF MY VEHICLE DOES NOT FIT COOLCARGUY.COM?
That does not mean there is anything wrong with your car.
It may simply fit better on CarsFreak.com.
CoolCarGuy.com is the more selective Island. Cars Freak makes room for the much broader automotive world—daily drivers, family vehicles, work trucks, ordinary inventory, parts, services, creators, events and just about everything else legitimately connected to cars.
🛠 CAN I CREATE A PARKING SPOT ABOUT A CAR I DO NOT OWN?
Yes—if what you are doing is legitimate editorial, commentary, review, documentary or storytelling content.
You do not have to own every car you talk about.
I don’t. 😂
But do not pretend somebody else’s car is yours.
Do not advertise it for sale without authority.
Do not impersonate the owner, publish private information improperly or copy photographs, writing or other material you do not have the right to use.
Talk about the car. Do not pretend to own the car.
📸 HOW MANY PHOTOGRAPHS CAN I ADD?
You may currently add up to 25 photographs to one Parking Spot.
Use photographs that help explain what you parked.
And use photographs you have the right to publish.
A picture being on the Internet does not magically make it yours. 😂
✍️ HOW MUCH CAN I WRITE?
A standard Parking Spot can currently contain up to 30,000 visible characters.
You do not have to use all of them.
Sometimes a car needs a few paragraphs and great photographs.
Sometimes the story deserves the whole page.
Use what the subject needs.
🎥 CAN I INCLUDE VIDEOS?
Yes. A Parking Spot may currently contain up to two supported embedded videos.
That might be your own video, a walkaround, a road-trip video, a race, an interview, a dealer video or another relevant video that helps tell the story.
If it belongs to somebody else, use an authorized embed or another lawful way to include it.
The original uploader and video platform still control the hosted video, so an embed may stop displaying if the source is removed, restricted or changed.
🤖 CAN I USE AI TO HELP WRITE MY PARKING SPOT?
Absolutely.
Use AI to research a subject, organize rough notes, brainstorm an angle, improve a headline, structure a story or turn a pile of information into a first draft.
Then read the thing before you publish it. 😂
AI has an impressive ability to confidently make stuff up.
If it invents the mileage, price, horsepower, ownership history, warranty, business relationship or anything else that is wrong, fix it.
AI can help you build it. You are still responsible for whether it is true.
✏️ CAN I EDIT MY PARKING SPOT?
Yes.
Return to your account and update an active Parking Spot through the available editing system.
If the price changes, change it.
If you add a new video, add it.
If the build progresses, update the story.
If you discover a factual mistake, fix it.
The page can move with the subject.
🔄 WHAT HAPPENS WHEN MY CAR SELLS?
Update the Parking Spot so visitors know the car is no longer available.
You can mark it sold, explain what happened, turn the page into part of your automotive history or remove it when the page has finished doing its job.
A sold car can still have a pretty good story.
Just do not keep advertising it like it is still for sale.
🏠 WHAT IS MY GARAGE?
Your public CoolCarGuy.com profile functions as your Garage.
One Parking Spot might be all you ever want.
But if you keep creating them, they collect under your profile.
You do not need a dealership, an automotive business, a giant audience or even a car to sell before you can start building one.
Pick a part of the cool-car world you find interesting. Use AI if it helps. Start building worthwhile Parking Spots around it.
A collector might build around cars they own or have owned.
A builder might document projects.
A dealer or broker might feature distinctive vehicles.
A creator might organize videos, opinions and automotive stories.
A business might build around its work.
ONE PARKING SPOT IS A PAGE.
A GARAGE CAN BECOME A BUSINESS.
📬 HOW DO PEOPLE CONTACT ME?
Visitors may use the available CoolCarGuy.com messaging system or the contact information you provide inside your Parking Spot or Garage.
That might be your email address, website, social account, phone number or another contact method that makes sense.
Only publish contact information you are comfortable making public.
CoolCarGuy.com provides the publishing and advertising platform. It does not automatically become the buyer, seller, lender, inspector, transporter, escrow company or party to a vehicle transaction.
I may separately provide automotive brokerage services when that is specifically discussed and agreed upon, but creating a Parking Spot by itself does not make me your broker.
📣 DOES MY $7 PARKING SPOT INCLUDE PROMOTION?
The $7 purchase gives you the standard Parking Spot and its current publishing features.
It does not include a guaranteed promotional campaign or a guaranteed number of views.
You can move the URL around as much as you want.
Share it on X.
Put it on Facebook.
Put it in a YouTube or Rumble description.
Share it on LinkedIn.
Email it.
Text it.
Put it wherever it honestly belongs.
Social media can be the road sign. Your Parking Spot can be the destination.
StoryDrive™ and Video Spotlight are optional separate services if you want them.
⚡ WHAT IS STORYDRIVE™?
StoryDrive™ is an optional distribution service for one active CoolCarGuy.com Parking Spot that is eligible for StoryDrive™ promotion.
The Parking Spot publishes it.
StoryDrive™ moves it.
StoryDrive™ 1000 works to increase the selected Parking Spot’s public counter by 1,000 additional recorded views from its documented starting number.
StoryDrive™ 1000 currently costs $25 one time and allows up to 12 months for delivery.
The counter is just the counter.
It does not mean every recorded view was a different person, that everybody read every word, or that anybody bought anything.
If the full 1,000-view increase is not delivered within 12 months, the remaining undelivered views are made good at no additional charge.
If StoryDrive™ produces more than 1,000 additional recorded views?
Good. Keep the views. 😂
👉 READ THE COMPLETE STORYDRIVE™ DETAILS
🎬 WHAT IS VIDEO SPOTLIGHT?
Video Spotlight is an optional $49 one-time video-placement service for an active approved Parking Spot.
You provide one finished, approved 3–5 minute automotive video.
The approved video is published through:
- @TheCoolCarGuy on YouTube
- The Cool Car Guy on Rumble
Both placements link back to your active CoolCarGuy.com Parking Spot.
You supply the finished video. The $49 service does not include filming, scripting, editing, animation, narration or full video production unless something different is separately agreed upon.
It also does not guarantee video views, subscribers, inquiries, sales or income.
🎯 DOES COOLCARGUY.COM GUARANTEE RESULTS?
No.
A standard Parking Spot gives you a page, a URL and the current publishing features.
What you build on it—and what you do with it—is up to you.
A standard Parking Spot does not guarantee a particular number of views, leads, inquiries, buyers, customers, sales, rankings, commissions or income.
I use CoolCarGuy.com because I like having my own place to build, organize, find and share the things I create.
Seven bucks gives you a place to start.
💬 CAN PEOPLE LEAVE PUBLIC COMMENTS?
Public comments may not be enabled on individual Parking Spots.
That keeps the page focused on what was parked there instead of turning every Parking Spot into another social-media argument. 😂
Visitors can use the available messaging or contact options when they have a genuine question.
❤️ WHAT ARE FAVORITES?
Favorites allow registered users to save Parking Spots and return to them later.
See a car, story, business, video or event you want to come back to?
Favorite it.
🅿️ DO I HAVE TO BECOME AN AFFILIATE TO CREATE A PARKING SPOT?
No.
You can buy a Parking Spot, build your Garage and never become an affiliate.
The product and the Affiliate Program are two separate choices.
If you want to use the product, use it.
If you also want to get paid for helping me sell it, then the Affiliate Program may make sense.
🤝 DOES COOL CAR GUY HAVE AN AFFILIATE PROGRAM?
Yep.
The Cool Car Guy Affiliate Program is free to apply for. Approval is required.
You do not have to buy a Parking Spot, StoryDrive™, Video Spotlight or anything else just to become an affiliate.
I built the program because if you help me create paying customers for something I built, I think you should get paid for helping create that business.
The current commission structure on commissionable products is:
- 20% direct
- 15% first connected position
- 10% second connected position
- 5% third connected position
- 5% fourth connected position
Clicks do not create commissions.
Free registrations do not create commissions.
THE PRODUCT HAS TO SELL.
If somebody buys a Parking Spot through your affiliate link, you make 20%.
If they come back later and buy another commissionable product while they are still your customer in the affiliate system, you can get paid again.
If they become an affiliate, show somebody else, and that person buys, the connected positions can start paying too.
You do not have to build a Garage to be an affiliate.
But I think using the product gives you something a whole lot easier to show.
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👉 APPLY TO THE AFFILIATE PROGRAM
🔗 WHAT DO I GET AS AN APPROVED AFFILIATE?
You get an affiliate back office.
That’s where you can grab your affiliate links, create links to different places around CoolCarGuy.com, use available advertising materials and see what is working.
You do not need to know how to program tracking links.
THE SOFTWARE HANDLES THE TRACKING.
YOU HANDLE THE SHOWING.
And yes—somebody may have used an affiliate link to bring you to this page.
If you decide to buy a commissionable product through that affiliate relationship, the person who sent you can get paid.
That’s how simple this can be.
🧠 WILL YOU BUILD MY PARKING SPOT FOR ME?
No. The standard $7 Parking Spot is self-service.
I built the system. I use it myself. There are instructions around CoolCarGuy.com showing you how it works.
If you can fill out a form, upload photographs, paste in some writing and add a few links, you should be fine.
And today AI can help you research, organize, write and improve the content if you want it to.
You still have to make sure what you publish is true.
If it turns out not to be your thing, no problem.
Enjoy the cars. Read the stories. Search the Island.
I’ll still be here building cool stuff.
🚩 HOW DO I REPORT A PROBLEM OR SUSPICIOUS PARKING SPOT?
Email support@coolcarguy.com.
Include the page URL, Parking Spot title and a short explanation of the problem.
A report starts a review. It does not automatically mean something is wrong.
🧯 WHAT IF SOMETHING IS ACTUALLY BROKEN?
If you have a genuine account, order or technical problem, contact support@coolcarguy.com.
Include your account email address, order number when applicable, the page involved and enough information to explain what broke.
A screenshot usually helps.
Support is for things that are actually broken—not for building your Parking Spot for you. 😂
⚖️ WHERE CAN I FIND THE LEGAL POLICIES?
The current legal and operating policies are available through the Legal and policy links in the CoolCarGuy.com footer.
The current policy that applies to a particular account, product, order, Parking Spot or situation controls.
⭐ THE SIMPLE VERSION
I built CoolCarGuy.com around the world of cool cars.
I use it myself.
You can too.
You do not need a dealership.
You do not need an automotive business.
You do not need a giant audience.
Find something around cool cars worth talking about.
Use AI if it helps.
Build a Parking Spot.
A standard Parking Spot costs $7 one time.
No subscription.
No scheduled renewal charge.
No scheduled expiration.
BUILD THE PAGE.
GRAB THE URL.
START SHARING IT.
Keep doing that and you’re building a Garage.
Want StoryDrive™ later? Add it.
Have a finished video you want featured through The Cool Car Guy channels? Add Video Spotlight.
Want to become an affiliate?
It’s free to apply.
Somebody buys through your affiliate link?
You can get paid.
They come back and buy again?
You can get paid again.
Want to understand what happens when people start duplicating that?
That’s what the Income Engine is for.
And if all you ever want to do is look around and enjoy the cars and stories?
That’s fine too.