This is so obvious, it's amazing we haven't got around to it before. That's lethargy and a lack of imagination for you.
But something has stirred here at PH Towers, and it's not Garlick's 3rd cup of tea of the morning. Nope, it's our latest big idea and, just like Dave 'the kid' Cameron's big society, it's only going to work if you get involved.
Well not all of you obviously, because with 3.5 million (plus) 'unique users' visiting PistonHeads every month we'd be a bit pushed to cope between tea breaks. (You'll be pleased to hear we're cracking through those Sunday Service biccies.)
Instead the soon-to-be-inaugurated PH Carpool is inviting applications for membership from PHers who a) have got something in the garage that fellow PHers would love to read about, and b) who want to share the joys and/or woes of ownership with the rest of us.
It's easy to participate. You send an e-mail to carpool@pistonheads.com, with your car described in the subject line as 'Make/Model/Year' (e.g. Vauxhall/Nova 1.2/1991 - carefully choosing the other car in your garage, obviously) and a sentence or two of text describing your pride and joy.
The idea is that we accumulate a pool of PHers into which we can dip our editorial quill, and from which will flow a plentiful spring of homepage articles ranging from one-off profiles to serialised running reports - a bit like the PH Fleet Update articles we do already. The best bit? If we like what you're offering, we might even write your story for you...
So there you have it - the all-new PH Carpool. One small step for an ordinary motoring website, and a great big leap in the dark for us. If only all Wednesday mornings could be this exciting!
What is a candidate for the PH Carpool?
Interesting, fast, thirsty, and prestigious 'proper' machinery, mainly. Or to put it another way - hyper cars, super cars, sports cars, GT cars, racing cars, luxury cars, track cars, and even some of those TVR cars.
Oh, and we'd like to see some classics, and perhaps a novelty or two. Come to think of it, if you've got a 'bike, boat or 'plane that's out of the ordinary we might not rule you out, either. This is the PH Carpool after all, so do you really have to ask?
N.B. Vauxhall Novas will be instantly rejected, unless yours happened to win the Lombard RAC, or something...