[Healeys] people noticing our cars

[BJ8 Healeys]

One of the advantages of a registry is that it provides the best chance of
anyone ever finding a car they once owned, or learning who owned their car
before them.  The registries provide the only place where the continuous
ownership history of a car can be documented and preserved for the benefit
of future owners.
I would like everyone to be aware that the BJ8 registry actively solicits
information from owners about what they know of the previous ownership
history of their car -- either from documentation or from their memory.
Owner's personal knowledge is the best source now for such information, and
unless they allow it to be documented, it is likely to be lost when their
time with the car is through.  None of us get to keep them forever, or take
them with us.  We are only caretakers for later owners.

Steve Byers
HBJ8L/36666
BJ8 Registry
Havelock, NC  USA

-----Original Message-----
From: healeys-bounces at autox.team.net [mailto:healeys-bounces at autox.team.net]
On Behalf Of dwflagg at juno.com
Sent: Saturday, October 09, 2010 10:45 AM
To: healeys at autox.team.net
Subject: Re: [Healeys] people noticing our cars

Years ago I purchased a Phase one BJ8. After a year or so I realized that
I was, at heart, a 100 person 
and advertised the car for sale.  Research had discovered that it had
been delivered to Paris (engine 
had a different displacement) and eventually came to the states. This
fact was mentioned in the ad. 
I then received a call about the car. She said her, then boy friend, had
a similar car delivered to 
Paris when he was in the Air Force (?). Cindy and her, now husband, John
Vrugtman came by to 
look at the car. He remembered the engine number and when he saw the
modified 
console, realized he had found his car that he sold 20 years earlier. The
irony is that had I not 
bought the car he would never had seen it again. Even though John and I
were both members of 
T.A.C.H. , we didn't know each other. It can happen.