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Decision intelligence for analog capital. Building the Bloomberg Terminal for collector cars. Private Alpha launching soon. Follow.

08/01/2026

The collector car world doesn’t always get it right.

The Porsche 928 spent decades living in the shadow of the 911.

Not long ago, I had the privilege of selling this incredibly original, low mileage 1979 Porsche 928.

Today, it’s part of Jerry Seinfeld’s collection.

Great cars have a way of finding the people who truly understand them.

That’s why we’re building The Gated Shifter. Not another marketplace, but a home for the analog collector car world, where provenance, originality, craftsmanship, and the stories behind the world’s greatest driver’s cars are preserved for the next generation.

Because the greatest collector cars aren’t just owned. They’re entrusted.

928 or 911?

Which would you choose and why? 👇

05/28/2026

Inbound. Getting her ready for Monterey car week and the 60 year Duetto celebration.

05/15/2026

1966 Alfa Romeo Duetto.

Just added this to my personal stable as part of The Gated Shifter.

David, our co-founding partner and Chief Technical & Heritage Advisor, will go through every inch of it mechanically and historically because with cars like this, details matter.

The Duetto was never about excess or numbers. It was about proportion, feel, sound, and taste.

A different era of Italian luxury before everything became digital, filtered, and disposable.

Some cars aren’t built to impress people.
They’re built to remind you how to slow down.

04/19/2026

Most people think they’re buying a great vintage Ferrari.

What they’re actually buying…is a story.

And sometimes it’s a really good one.

Same spec.
Same mileage.
Same presentation.

Looks perfect.

But underneath it? Completely different car.

That’s the part nobody really talks about.

In this market, everything is built around how the car shows.

Photos.
Descriptions.
Auction energy.

Very little of it is built around what’s actually going on mechanically.

And that’s where it gets expensive.

Not right away. Later.

You don’t feel it when you wire the money.
You feel it when something surfaces that was always there… you just couldn’t see it.

We’ve been around these cars long enough to watch this happen over and over.

Good buyers. Smart people. Still get caught.

Not because they made a bad decision.

Because they were making a decision with incomplete information.

That’s it. That’s the whole game.

So we built Gated Shifter around that gap.

Not to sell cars.
Not to hype deals.

Just to understand what’s actually there before money moves.

Because once you see that clearly, a lot of the market starts to look… different.

If you’re in this space, you already know the stakes.

The only real question is whether you’re buying what’s presented or what’s real.

04/08/2026

If it’s quiet, it’s probably not worth owning.

95 decibels.

That’s what my watch flagged today—
“10 minutes at this level can cause hearing loss.”

Good.

Because what you’re hearing isn’t noise.
It’s signal.

The modern luxury market has been sanitized.
Digitized.
Packaged for mass consumption and called “exclusivity.”

It’s not.

Real signal doesn’t scale.
It concentrates.

It lives in places most people can’t access—
and wouldn’t understand even if they could.

That sound behind me?
It’s mechanical truth.
Unfiltered. Immediate. Consequential.

No abstraction.
No algorithm.
No substitute.

You don’t find that in marketplaces optimized for attention.
You don’t access it through comment sections or public bidding wars.

You either know…
or you don’t.

That’s where the real market lives.

The Gated Shifter

Built on decades of mechanical authority.
Designed for those who don’t need noise to validate what they own.

We’ll be in Monterey.

If you hear the signal, you’ll find us.

02/13/2026

Consignment #017 just landed…and it’s a proper one.

1999 Ferrari F355. Real gated manual. Real driver’s car. Real placement…not just a post and pray.

The Gated Shifter is quickly becoming where analog Ferraris go when owners want the car handled right and placed right.

Three pedals. Metal gate. No substitutes.

Stay tuned…this one’s special.

gatedshifter.co

02/10/2026

Something special is about to land.

Not red. Not loud. Not expected.

A Ferrari F355 Spider…finished in rare Pozzi Blue is inbound under The Gated Shifter consignment program. F1 transmission with paddle shifters Open air. Analog soul. The kind of car that reminds you why driving used to feel different.

This is not just another listing. It’s another proof point of what happens when mechanical honesty, provenance discipline, and enthusiast custody come first.

We don’t chase volume. We curate moments.

More details soon. The gate is opening again.

02/09/2026

SOLD — RUST-FREE 1969 DATSUN ROADSTER 2000 🚨

Stored in an aircraft hangar for decades. True survivor. Just brought back to life.

This is the kind of find collectors talk about but rarely see — an original, zero-rust Roadster 2000 that spent decades preserved indoors and has now been carefully recommissioned and is running.

✅ 1969 Datsun Roadster 2000

✅ Original survivor condition

✅ Zero rust body & structure

✅ Long-term aircraft hangar storage

✅ Recently recommissioned & running

✅ Mechanical wake-up service by Ferrari / Lamborghini / Maserati & exotic specialist technician

✅ Ideal preservation or restoration candidate

📈 MARKET CONTEXT: A comparable Roadster 2000 is heading to a Broad Arrow auction with a published estimate of $75K–$90K — showing how strong the collector market has become for correct examples.

If you’ve been waiting for a clean platform instead of a rust project — this is the one to watch.

📸 Full photo set, cold start video, and walk-around inspection dropping next.

💬 Comment “ROADSTER” or DM for early access before public release.

02/04/2026

This is where the work actually begins.

Before the catalogue. Before the tent. Before the headline.

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Austin, TX
78748

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