Fw: BJ8 owners

[mmasumot at mindspring.com]

For BJ8 owners an those interested.

What do you think???

Rosebud


----- Original Message -----
From: BJ8 Healeys
To: mmasumot at mindspring.com
Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2011 11:32 AM
Subject: RE: BJ8 owners


Hi, Bob -

I will respond to both your e-mails in this one, if you don't mind.  Sorry for
a slight delay, but I have been away on a business trip for the last three
weeks and I'm still getting reorganized.



Yes, I share info on the BJ8s in the registry - everything except for names
and contact information for the owners.  That is, of course, sensitive
information and I cannot release or publish that indiscriminately, as I'm sure
you recognize.  However, I will share previous/later owner information with
another legitimate owner of the same car (when they request it), since one of
the benefits of the registry is that it makes it possible for a later owner to
get in touch with an earlier owner, and vice versa, when desired, and for
later owners to know the history of their car.  There is no other place where
that information can be documented and preserved for their benefit except for
the registry.

I use the details collected for each car in the registry for comparisons and
statistical studies that help us learn more about how the cars were originally
manufactured, and how they are configured and distributed around the world
today.  I have published several articles in the various club magazines with
such information during the last 12 years.  Having a large amount of data
collected on a large amount of cars also allows me to help specific owners
with questions about their own cars.



I've been keeping the BJ8 registry as an official function of all three major
Austin-Healey clubs in the USA and Canada since 1998.  Before that, the only
USA registry was kept by the Austin-Healey Club of America.  I'm not sure
which club you are suggesting I share the registry info with.  I have no plans
to pass the registrar's duties on to anyone else anytime soon because I enjoy
doing it, and I enjoy making it helpful and useful to BJ8 owners.  But none of
us gets to live forever so there will come a time when I can no longer
continue with it, so the registry will be turned back over to the AHCA when
that time comes.  Why do you ask?



I saw your car at Lake Tahoe in '02, and I have you in the registry as the
owner of HBJ8L/33726.  I wrote to you on 17 March 2009 for additional details
of your car, but to my knowledge I did not receive a response.  There is a
standard set of details that I try to record for each car in the registry
(http://www.britishcarforum.com/bj8quest.html).  The more of this I can
collect, the better the statistics will be.  I also have no history on your
car, but would like to record what you know about it.



If you have further questions, just ask and I'll try to answer them.  Thanks
for contacting me.

Happy Healeying!

Steve Byers

HBJ8L/36666

BJ8 Registry

Havelock, NC



From: mmasumot at mindspring.com [mailto:mmasumot at mindspring.com]
Sent: Monday, February 21, 2011 9:37 PM
To: sbyers at ec.rr.com
Subject: BJ8 owners



Hi,



Have you shared the info on the BJ 8's?  What happens to this info?  I believe
you should share this with the club.  When you're done, what happens to all
the information at the end?



Bob Cole




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