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Hello, Healeyphiles
The BJ8 Registry reached a significant milestone today, with the addition of the 4,428th individual BJ8 to the record. This represents exactly 25% of the total original production of 17,712. This doesn't mean that all 4,428 cars survive and are on the road, since 23 of them are recorded as scrapped, and no attempt has been made to keep up with the condition of each car beyond existing or not existing. However, it also does not mean that that's all there are to record and document. The registry has been growing recently at about 20 cars per month. At that rate, we should reach 30% in only 3-1/2 more years, or faster with a little more help.
This milestone could not have been reached without the help of many of you who believe in the value to the current and future Healey community of documenting as many cars as possible, while the information is still available. My deepest thanks to those of you who collected and fed information to me, to those who allowed me access to their sales and other records, and to those who shared their personal databases with me. Special thanks go to Basil, who most graciously volunteered to create an on-line form, where interested owners could input the data requested on their BJ8. Since he created this form, I have received input from well over 100 individual BJ8 owners.
The data in the registry is not just an idle collection of trivial information, but is intended primarily to be available as a resource for all BJ8 owners who have occasion to use it. It also provides a source of statistics, comparisons and information among cars that can allow us some insights into both the original production and the way the cars are configured and distributed today. The registry is the ONLY central location where the ownership history of the cars can be recorded and preserved for the benefit of current and future owners.
For those who might wonder about the value of this effort, here are some of the ways the registry has been helpful to owners recently:
1. To help an original owner make contact with the current owner of a car so that he could transfer the original documentation (Bill of Sale, window sticker, Passport to Service, etc.) and photographs of the car from 1965 to the current owner. A similar coordination was made in another case to assist in the transfer of old photographs from an earlier owner to the current one.
2. To reunite the original driver’s handbook for HBJ8/36671 (now in Australia) with the car it belonged to. The original handbook for HBJ8L/34530 has been received by the registry and will be delivered to the current owner when the car is found.
3. The body number plate 3222 BJ8 80833 was found in a repair shop in Canada, and the registry data was used to identify the car (and current owner) it belongs to.
4. The original VIN and body number plates for HBJ8L/29270 have been received. Information indicates this car is somewhere in Europe. The plates will be forwarded to the current owner when the car is located.
5. A vendor was identified who had a quantity of New Original Stock (NOS) FS and FP series keys to fit specific BJ8 lock cylinders. The registry data was used to identify cars using those key numbers so that the keys could be made available to the owners of those cars who were interested.
6. To assist current non-U.S. owners of BJ8s to trace the history of their cars in the USA or get in touch with previous U.S. owners (this has occurred 27 times).
7. To help re-identify cars that have lost their original VIN plates. In one case, the VIN plates had been exchanged between a car in Virginia and one now in Sweden.
8. To identify a car registered with an incorrect VIN number (two cars registered in Tennessee with identical VINs). This knowledge was passed on to both owners. Without the registry, this would never have come to light unless some legal confusion arose at a later date [possibly an innocent owner being charged with a traffic ticket].
9. To correct a listing of ranges of body numbers assigned to each “batch number” that had been compiled from production data. The actual batch and body numbers as recorded from firewall tags show that production records sometimes vary from what the cars actually show.
If there is any BJ8 owner who participates or monitors the traffic at the British Car Forum, and who has not contributed the information requested on their car, I hope you will consider doing so. Not every BJ8 owner will benefit from the registry, but the value of the registry is directly dependent on the number of cars it can capture, and the details of each it can record.
Thanks, and Happy Healeying!
Steve Byers
HBJ8L/36666 (BJ8Healeys)
Havelock, NC USA
The BJ8 Registry reached a significant milestone today, with the addition of the 4,428th individual BJ8 to the record. This represents exactly 25% of the total original production of 17,712. This doesn't mean that all 4,428 cars survive and are on the road, since 23 of them are recorded as scrapped, and no attempt has been made to keep up with the condition of each car beyond existing or not existing. However, it also does not mean that that's all there are to record and document. The registry has been growing recently at about 20 cars per month. At that rate, we should reach 30% in only 3-1/2 more years, or faster with a little more help.
This milestone could not have been reached without the help of many of you who believe in the value to the current and future Healey community of documenting as many cars as possible, while the information is still available. My deepest thanks to those of you who collected and fed information to me, to those who allowed me access to their sales and other records, and to those who shared their personal databases with me. Special thanks go to Basil, who most graciously volunteered to create an on-line form, where interested owners could input the data requested on their BJ8. Since he created this form, I have received input from well over 100 individual BJ8 owners.
The data in the registry is not just an idle collection of trivial information, but is intended primarily to be available as a resource for all BJ8 owners who have occasion to use it. It also provides a source of statistics, comparisons and information among cars that can allow us some insights into both the original production and the way the cars are configured and distributed today. The registry is the ONLY central location where the ownership history of the cars can be recorded and preserved for the benefit of current and future owners.
For those who might wonder about the value of this effort, here are some of the ways the registry has been helpful to owners recently:
1. To help an original owner make contact with the current owner of a car so that he could transfer the original documentation (Bill of Sale, window sticker, Passport to Service, etc.) and photographs of the car from 1965 to the current owner. A similar coordination was made in another case to assist in the transfer of old photographs from an earlier owner to the current one.
2. To reunite the original driver’s handbook for HBJ8/36671 (now in Australia) with the car it belonged to. The original handbook for HBJ8L/34530 has been received by the registry and will be delivered to the current owner when the car is found.
3. The body number plate 3222 BJ8 80833 was found in a repair shop in Canada, and the registry data was used to identify the car (and current owner) it belongs to.
4. The original VIN and body number plates for HBJ8L/29270 have been received. Information indicates this car is somewhere in Europe. The plates will be forwarded to the current owner when the car is located.
5. A vendor was identified who had a quantity of New Original Stock (NOS) FS and FP series keys to fit specific BJ8 lock cylinders. The registry data was used to identify cars using those key numbers so that the keys could be made available to the owners of those cars who were interested.
6. To assist current non-U.S. owners of BJ8s to trace the history of their cars in the USA or get in touch with previous U.S. owners (this has occurred 27 times).
7. To help re-identify cars that have lost their original VIN plates. In one case, the VIN plates had been exchanged between a car in Virginia and one now in Sweden.
8. To identify a car registered with an incorrect VIN number (two cars registered in Tennessee with identical VINs). This knowledge was passed on to both owners. Without the registry, this would never have come to light unless some legal confusion arose at a later date [possibly an innocent owner being charged with a traffic ticket].
9. To correct a listing of ranges of body numbers assigned to each “batch number” that had been compiled from production data. The actual batch and body numbers as recorded from firewall tags show that production records sometimes vary from what the cars actually show.
If there is any BJ8 owner who participates or monitors the traffic at the British Car Forum, and who has not contributed the information requested on their car, I hope you will consider doing so. Not every BJ8 owner will benefit from the registry, but the value of the registry is directly dependent on the number of cars it can capture, and the details of each it can record.
Thanks, and Happy Healeying!
Steve Byers
HBJ8L/36666 (BJ8Healeys)
Havelock, NC USA