[Healeys] In memoriam of Rich Chrysler - archiving ...

Robert Blair rnbmail at yahoo.com
Tue Jul 10 22:09:52 MDT 2012


Randy, Nice to know you have the ball.
This is probably priceless archive at this time.
Make sure it is backed up [again] on a hard disc outside your house at a
known/trusted venue - ditto every 6 months.

Robert N. Blair  Yellow 65BJ8  RNBmail at yahoo.com
 



--- On Sun, 7/8/12, AHCA 100 Registrar - Randy Hicks
<ahca100registrar at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: AHCA 100 Registrar - Randy Hicks <ahca100registrar at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Healeys] In memoriam of Rich Chrysler
> To: "John Harper" <ah at jharper.demon.co.uk>, "Healey List"
<healeys at autox.team.net>
> Date: Sunday, July 8, 2012, 4:33 AM
> To follow-up on John's comments, I'll
> add a little more perspective on the
> status of the AHCA 100 Registry..
>
> I have know of Rich's illness since mid May. Most of my
> correspondences with
> Rich revolved around the history, production, sequence and
> tracing the history
> of specific cars. Occasionally about mechanical issues but
> usually more
> registry issues. Regardless of my question, Rich always went
> that little bit
> extra in his explanations, lots of time tossing in as little
> humor.  :-)
>
> On May 10th I received an email from Rich asking if I would
> consider taking
> over the AHCA 100 Registrars position due to his illness. At
> that point Rich
> did not know if he had months or weeks but I agreed on the
> condition that Rich
> continue doing the Registry as long as he felt able. It was
> quite a shock and
> honor to be asked to take over this responsibility by Rich.
>
> On June 8th I received an email from Rich saying that he had
> sent me all the
> registry files and that "I am finding I dont have the
> stamina to respond to
> this stuff as it needs to be, so have fun with it."
>
> The AHCA 100 Registry that Rich & Lyn had put together
> is truly amazing. The
> excel spreadsheet is 52 columns wide (Chassis #, Engine #,
> Batch /Body #, Le
> Mans info, Build date, Key #, exterior color, interior
> colors and info on up
> to (in some cases) 5 previous owners) by approx. 3400 rows
> deep (Cars /
> remains of cars). I know that Rich had a lot of help from
> John Harper, Curt
> Arndt and Roger Moment and  others. I also hope to draw
> on these resources as
> well.
>
> From my perspective, the biggest tribute I can pay to Rich
> is to maintain and
> grow the AHCA 100 Registry as Rich had started. I will do
> that.
>
> In June I have added 56 new cars, updated over 400
> individual pieces of data
> and changed the format slightly to make it easier to sort by
> specific info.
> This just scratches the surface of what I'd like to do.
>
> So feel assured that Rich's work on the AHCA 100 Registry is
> active and will
> continue in Rich's honor.
>
> Randy
>
> Randy Hicks
> ahca100registrar at gmail.com
>
>
>
> On Jul 8, 2012, at 3:31 AM, John Harper wrote:
>
> > I would like to pay my own tribute to Rich Chrysler.
> >
> > I have not seen in the many e-mails sent recently any
> mention of all the
> work he put in as AHCA 100 Registrar.
> >
> > Rich and I worked hard to bring together all the 100
> registrations that we
> could find across the world and if it were not for Rich
> creating a database
> from many North American paper records we would not have
> achieved what we did.
> Rich was a great man to work with.
> >
> > Those who now access the register owe a great deal to
> Rich for what is now
> available.
> >
> > I have had conformation from the AHCA that they will
> continue to support
> what has gone on before and we will all be pleased to know
> that all the effort
> Rich and Lynn put into this Register will not be wasted and
> that the good work
> will continue
> >
> > I still cannot get used to the idea that Rich is no
> longer with us. I was
> last in touch with him a few months back but had no idea
> that he was so ill.
> >
> > John Harper - Austin-Healey Club UK 100 Register
> Secretary
> > --
> > John Harper
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