01 For families
A first car is a family decision that every other site pretends is a solo one. Here, your new driver gets their own seat on your account, and every car on the site carries two hearts - one for them, one for you. Nobody messages a stranger until both hearts agree. That is the whole product. Everything else on this page is in service of it.
Two hearts on every car
Every car on the site - in the list and on its own page - carries two hearts. The left one is your kid's. The right one is yours. Each heart takes a tap and a few words, and whatever one of you does, the other sees. Here is Wally, sixteen, and his dad Ward, going through it on one car.
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Wally · kid
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Ward · parent
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Every car starts with two empty hearts: one is the kid's, one is the parent's.
02
Wally · kid
“please dad, it is a Porsche”
Ward · parent
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He taps his heart and writes why. It turns orange and the car lands on Ward's Waiting list. The seller hears nothing.
03
Wally · kid
“please dad, it is a Porsche”
Ward · parent
“Fine. One drive.”
He taps his heart. Both turn green - a match - and only now does Contact the seller appear, for either of them.
04
Wally · kid
“please dad, it is a Porsche”
Ward · parent
“That is four times what we said.”
He taps twice, writes the reason, and it sits under his heart where Wally reads it. No argument, no seller.
The words are the point. Each heart carries a line from whoever tapped it, and the other one reads it: Ward sees why it was a please, Wally sees why it was a no. It stays on the car for as long as the car is up - a record of the conversation, not a swipe. And until both hearts are green, the seller does not know either of you exist.
Why the hearts exist
Every other site hands a teenager a stranger's phone number and calls it a marketplace. Here, a seller does not learn your kid exists until you have said yes to that car.
Nothing reaches the seller before you
Your kid can heart every car on the site. Not one seller sees a name, a number, or a message until your heart is green too.
No phone numbers change hands
A seller's email and number are never printed on a car. When your kid writes to a seller, it goes out in both your names, the reply comes to you, and you get a copy of every word.
A rule, not a promise
The block is on our server, not in the button. A kid who signs out, opens another browser, or finds the address of the form still gets the same answer: ask first.
And when it is time to go and see the car: house rule two. Bring a parent. Sellers behave better, and so does the deal.
What the family plan does
You and your new driver, each signed in as yourselves. They see every car. They cannot talk to a seller until you have said yes to that car.
The cars you have both said yes to, on one page. Send it to the group chat, stick it on the fridge, drive to all of them on Saturday.
Each heart carries a line from whoever tapped it. "It is a manual." "Too far." It is the reason, kept, and it beats a text at eleven at night.
Ask about a car and the answer is saved for your whole household. Your kid sees what you asked. You see what they asked.
Automatic, under your budget, near you, clean title - set once by the parent, and the new driver only ever sees cars that fit.
Approve, pass, or block a car outright. A blocked car simply disappears from your kid’s side - no argument on the site, just gone.
Family pass
$35 / 90 days
Your kid picks. You approve. Only then does anyone talk to the seller.
Free during our first season
The independent read
Every car gets a short, plain read written from the listing and its photos: what looks right, what is missing, whether the price fits the miles, and whether it would buy this one for a first car. It is allowed to say no. The seller does not write it, cannot edit it, cannot pay to soften it, and does not see it first.
Ask AI
Ask it anything about a car. It answers only from that listing - never a guess about what cars like it are usually like - and anything it cannot answer goes straight to the seller as a real question. Every answer is saved for your whole household.
Every other car site’s AI has one job: match you to a sale, because the dealer pays it. Ours is paid by nobody, which is the only reason it can say not this one.
Part 02
For sellers
You own a car. A family near you is looking for exactly that one.
2 cars at a time, 60 days each, and we never take a cut of the sale. A guided shot list, the VIN decoded for you, and a person reads it before any buyer sees it - so the buyers who turn up are the ones the listing deserves.
How to list
Start with the VIN
It fills in the year, make and model from the government vehicle database, so the details are right and buyers trust them.
Take the photos we ask for
A guided shot list, not "upload some pictures": the odometer, the tyres, the engine bay, and any dent or rust. Photographs of the flaws sell cars.
Film two videos
One of the car, and one of it starting from cold with the hood up. The cold start is the one buyers ask for - a car driven to the meeting has already hidden how it starts.
Say what you know
Owners, accidents, service records, whether it has been smoked in. The questions every buyer asks anyway.
Send it in
A person reads it, usually within a few hours. If something is missing we email you and say exactly what.
A badge on the photo
$15 / one off
The one thing a seller can buy. Pick the claim that fits - Classic, Rare find, Fan favorite, Speed demon, Unique, Mint condition - and a person checks the car against the word before it goes on. We are not selling the word; we are selling what it means, and we refuse it when it does not fit.
Free during our first season
Part 03
For garages
The car both hearts agreed on still needs a lift under it.
Every car page lists the ambassador garages near the car - not near you, near the car - with a pre-purchase inspection rate they offer only to our buyers. You book it, they put it on a lift, and an inspected car carries a mark that cannot be bought.
Who we are · Birmingham, Alabama
This started at our kitchen table: one of us had a brand-new licence and a phone full of listings from strangers; the other had spent twenty-five years watching what happens when good people hand money to people they have never met. Down here a first car gets decided on a Saturday, in a driveway, with the hood up and the family standing around it. We built the site that works the way that Saturday works.
The son
Richard Frankowski, III. Still in high school, raised right, which around here means he says yes ma’am to the sellers and reads every listing himself before it goes up. Runs this from his phone between classes, and knows more about a GT-R than is strictly healthy. The idea was his. So was the insistence that the kid gets to pick.
The father
Richard S. Frankowski. Birmingham lawyer, and a man who has spent his career on one side of one argument: ordinary people against the people who took their money. He is the reason there is a real office address at the bottom of every page, the reason we will never hold yours, and the reason we suggest meeting a seller somewhere with witnesses.
The house rules
If you are the parent: we know. If you are the kid: so does he.
Y’all come see us.
