[Healeys] people noticing our cars

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On Oct 9, 2010, at 8:11 AM, "BJ8 Healeys" <sbyers at ec.rr.com> wrote:

> 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.
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