[Healeys] Healey custodian

[BJ8 Healeys]

Someone came up to me at a car show several years ago and said he had bought
a BJ8 new in 1965, and sold it in 1972.  He still had all of the original
sales and other documentation and 40-year old photographs of the car and
wanted to pass the stuff on to the current owner if he could locate them.
Fortunately, I knew who the current owner was because he had contributed the
details about the car to the registry.  Therefore, it was a simple matter to
connect the former and current owner and let them take it from there.

 

The original owner of my car (who hadn't seen it since 1969, when he sold it
to enter the Air Force) was very excited when I met him in Alabama in 1994
and gave him the keys for a while.  

 

Maybe someone in the future will want to contact you for similar reasons;
but if no one knows who or where you are, how will they do that?

 

Steve Byers

HBJ8L/36666

BJ8 Registry

Havelock, NC  USA

 

From: Awgertoo at aol.com [mailto:Awgertoo at aol.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2008 1:14 PM
To: sbyers at ec.rr.com; healeys at autox.team.net
Subject: Re: [Healeys] Healey custodian

 

Here is another aspect of being a "custodian":  

 

Several years back I got in touch with the widow of the first owner of my
100 and arranged to meet her and take her for a ride.  She hadn't seen the
car in about 30 years and was, to say the least, moved by the experience as
was I.  This event developed into an article that appeared in the
February/March 2001 issue of Gary Anderson's "British Car" magazine--there
was one picture of the lady in the driver's seat taken in 1956 and another
replicating the same pose 45 years later.  

 

Best--Michael Oritt