As of today, the BJ8 registry has a record of 7,193 cars worldwide (40.6% of
a total production of 17,712).
This does not mean that there are that many cars still surviving or that
there is a record of where all 7,193 of them are today. One goal of the BJ8
registry is to identify the current status of every one of the cars that
were manufactured -- i.e., surviving or not. Of the 7,193 cars, 52 are
definitely known to have been scrapped/destroyed/parted out, etc. Those are
much harder to identify now than those that do survive.
If there is any information available at all on a car that can be identified
to its VIN, I will enter it into the registry with that information. For
example, if I determine that engine A is in car B but is not original to it,
I can find out which car did originally own engine A and I will enter it
into the registry with all of its associated BMIHT information. The car may
turn up later, and I can then tell the owner where his original engine is
and also all of the BMIHT info, including some items that are not normally
included on the certificates. I will enter the location and current owner
as unknown until that can be determined. The registry currently shows 1007
cars with location UNKNOWN. For most of those, there is a record of at
least one owner in the past, but for some there is no ownership information
at all (yet).
Obviously, collecting and maintaining all of this information is time
consuming, and those of us who are involved in it would not do it if it were
not useful to do, or fun. It is fun for me, but primarily I enjoy making
the registry a useful resource and benefit to the Healey hobby in general,
and to BJ8 owners in particular. I enjoy being able to use actual registry
data and statistics to respond to specific questions on this list. However,
the registrars cannot personally account for all cars and their details that
are out there. We have to rely on individual owners to feed the information
to us. It is somewhat frustrating to know that there continue to be a few
owners even on this list who do not feel any need to help out the effort, or
curiosity enough to ask what benefit the registry has for anyone.
Fortunately, most do and are very forthcoming with the information desired.
Steve Byers
HBJ8L/36666
BJ8 Registry
Havelock, NC USA
-----Original Message-----
From: healeys-bounces@autox.team.net [mailto:healeys-bounces@autox.team.net]
On Behalf Of David Schweninger
Sent: Sunday, May 17, 2009 10:05 AM
To: Healey Mail List
Subject: [Healeys] Healey Registry
Hello All.
It would be interesting to know how many of which cars are in each
registry, as opposed to how many were Built.
Just Curious.
Dave and Daisy
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