[Healeys] Previous owner of HBT7L/7554?

[gene stigen]

So, in my case my '67,HBJ8L/41329, which I bought from the original owner in
1979,who ordered it new while in England in the Navy. Would I be able to get
ownership records from Heritage records? I know he was a United Airline pilot&
lived Near Seattle, Redondo Beach I think. I'd really like to see if he's
still around.  cheers Geno

> From: sbyers at ec.rr.com
> To: healeys at autox.team.net
> Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2010 21:48:28 -0700
> Subject: Re: [Healeys] Previous owner of HBT7L/7554?
>
> The British Motor Industry Heritage Trust records and their Heritage
> certificates are generally useless for tracing the ownership history of a
> car.  From the evidence of 679 certificates in the BJ8 registry files, the
> only ones that identify (sometimes) the original dealer's name are the ones
> for UK Home market cars.  I have never seen a certificate for a car
> delivered to the USA that gives a dealer's name.  The city identified on
the
> certs is not necessarily the city where the car first sold new, but only
the
> Port of Entry.  From there, a car could have been trucked anywhere for its
> first sale.  My BJ8 was delivered to Charleston, South Carolina but sold
new
> in Raleigh, North Carolina -- another state and 300 miles away from
> Charleston.
> Certificates for cars that were "Personal Export Delivery" sometimes give
> the original owner's name.
>
> It's getting harder to trace the history of a car due to the mobility of
the
> population, combined with the fact that there is no central location for
> documenting and preserving the ownership history of a car except the
> registries.  Anyone who wants some future owner of his car to know he
> existed and had the pleasure of owning the car should enter the car into
the
> appropriate registry.
>
> Steve Byers
> HBJ8L/36666
> BJ8 Registry
> Havelock, NC  USA
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2010 10:45 AM
> To: akronzips at aol.com; healeys at autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: [Healeys] Previous owner of HBT7L/7554?
>
> In a message dated 4/1/10 10:41:58 AM, akronzips at aol.com writes:
>
>
> > Editor Gary:
> > Has any one suggested to him that he try
> >
> > www.heritage-motor-centre.co.uk
> >
> > They will give him the build date and the destination for the car dealer
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