[Healeys] A question

[Jerry Costanzo]

Tough question.  I guess my vote is to tell the new owners the limited 
knowledge of prior owners but also about the one comment of it being stolen. 
Most cars that are stolen, eventually show up somewhere, usually with a lot 
of damage to the car.   The exception is if someone stole the car with 
intent to ship it out of the country.     Back in 1993, I am not sure that 
someone would have valued a BJ8 enough to plan that far.
By the way, my car came from Canada and California DMV would not register 
the car till they did a check with the Canadian DMV to see if the car was 
stolen.    That process only took an extra week.
Jerry
BJ8

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From: "BJ8 Healeys" <sbyers at ec.rr.com>
Sent: Friday, May 14, 2010 11:49 AM
To: <healeys at autox.team.net>
Subject: [Healeys] A question

> Hello, Healeyphiles -
>
> I just received a completed questionnaire
> (http://www.britishcarforum.com/bj8quest.html) with the details of a BJ8 
> for
> the registry.  The owner (not in the USA) bought this car in 2007 and has 
> a
> record of 5 previous owners (all in the same country as the current 
> owner).
> This record takes the car back to 1990 and its arrival in the foreign
> country.  He asks if I have any previous history on this car during its 
> time
> in the USA.  The car left the USA in 1990.
>
> The only record I have of it is one from a foreign source in 2003 that 
> says
> the car was stolen from its owner's garage in 1993.  I do not have any
> contact information for that owner due to privacy concerns.
>
> Just thought I would pose this to the list as an interesting situation, 
> and
> see what the consensus is on how I should proceed.
>
> Thanks,
> Steve Byers
> HBJ8L/36666
> BJ8 Registry
> Havelock, NC
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