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Is one of your hobbies rebuilding and restoring classic cars?  There are many of us that love to do this.   Taking an older car, tearing it down, cleaning it up, fixing rust and then rebuilding it from the ground up.  This is a hobby a lot of us have.  We spend a lot of money in the process.  Sometimes that is the reason we may not go as elaborate as we may like to.   You can always make your money back plus some if you sell the car but part of the reason a lot of us restore cars is to keep them.   Is there a way to recoup some of that money while your building your dream car?

At our website, Fotometry.com, we are all about creating extra income from your hobbies.  Restoring classic cars is one hobby that a lot of people have and just seem to sink a ton of money into.  It would be nice to get some extra benefit in the form of extra income along with the feeling of restoring a car from junk to punk

Well, one way I’ll touch on here is the way that a lot of us monetize things.   We blog about it.  Now before you say “I can’t make one of them there websites”, give me a minute.   There of tons of folks out there who would love to see what other people are doing when they restore their cars.  It can give them ideas about restoring their own.   They can also see what you had to go through to restore that classic car back to showroom condition.

You can create a blog at no cost to you at wordpress.com or blogger.com (my preference).  So all of this so far has cost you nothing except for your car.  It’s very easy to create a blog and keep it updated. 

When you start into tearing apart your car, takes photos of every steps of the process.   Everyday, hop onto your blog and write down what you did that day to the car.   Include any photos you have taken.  You may find that people will follow your daily updates.  As you tear appart and start the rebuild, document your whole process.   If you’re taking the engine apart, tell the blog.   You don’t have to be as detailed as telling every bolt you turned.  Just let people know what went well, what didn’t and how it turned out so far.

Now that you’re blogging daily about your restoration, where’s the extra income?  Well your not going to make a fortune off of this but there is a few things you can do.   The first thing is google adsense.   If you don’t know what that is, google will pay you to host advertisements on your site or blog and if someone clicks on one of them, you make some money.  The amount per click varies from a couple of cents to dollars but the more people that read your blog and click on ads, the more you make.

To add adsense to your blog, blogger is about the easiest and just takes a few clicks and it’s done if you have an adsense account already.  If not, it takes a few minutes to set one up.    Once your blog gets popular and you have lots of reader, you could make a bit of money off of it.

Another way to make some extra money if you restore a lot of cars is take photos of each one and make a calendar on cafepress.  It won’t cost you anything and you get money everytime one is sold.

You can also put your restored car on tshirts, mousepads, clocks and a lot more.  You can then lso take all of that infomation and photos you blogged and put them into a book for no cost at Cafepress and sell your “how to restore a 68 Cacaro”.   You make the profit, Cafepress does the selling.

You may want to promote those items for even more sales and I’ll get into that in future Articles.

Happy restoring.