Grand Tourers Register
Posted: Sat Jan 22, 2022 23:15
Prompted by the very complete registry data I was given from my cars PO, covering in detail the Celebration and Run Out models, I've been drawing together a register (by Registration numbers) of any Grand Tourers I've seen photographs of in the last couple of months.
There's a few cars where I have Chassis and Engine serial numbers as well (many dealers put this info in their ads), but for now, Reg numbers form the back bone of the data. Using MOT / tax checkers, in the longer term ( just need the time - Not yet DVLA checked in table below) it will be possible to build quite a bit of detail about whats on the road and whats gone MIA. There's very little ownership detail, although I have included a column where forum names can be included. I suspect anything more detailed than this treads on the toes of the data protection police
Headline numbers of logged cars:
I'm aware there are other data bases out there, but whether they are up to date I'd have no idea. If anyone has access to data, historic or up to date, I'd love to get it consolidated. Drop me a PM if you can assist or join me in managing this register.
If your cars appeared in a photo on this site or TLF in the last couple of years, there's a good chance I've included your registration already, but would love to hear from you via PM or email with Chassis numbers and anything else interesting or relevant about your car. Alternatively, if you're planning on attending the Resto show, bring your details along and we can add them at the show.
Don't just think about your daily runner. If you have or have had a donor car, recording that on the register will +allow it to show as "scrapped". Fortunately, Lotus wrote the chassis number on many trim parts, so even without a reg number, I can enter it in the register in it's correct place.
Finally, I don't want this to be a one way information flow. I'm sure many of us would like to know where our cars sit in the order of running cars ref MY. The known oldest, newest, reddist, highest / lowest mileage Etc.
Whether we share openly the whole spread sheet can be debated, but I plan to attend the Resto show for at least one of the days and will bring the sheet and a laptop along for viewing. I'm sure we can arrange this access for the whole show.
So over to you. Any information gratefully received.
Tony
There's a few cars where I have Chassis and Engine serial numbers as well (many dealers put this info in their ads), but for now, Reg numbers form the back bone of the data. Using MOT / tax checkers, in the longer term ( just need the time - Not yet DVLA checked in table below) it will be possible to build quite a bit of detail about whats on the road and whats gone MIA. There's very little ownership detail, although I have included a column where forum names can be included. I suspect anything more detailed than this treads on the toes of the data protection police
Headline numbers of logged cars:
I'm aware there are other data bases out there, but whether they are up to date I'd have no idea. If anyone has access to data, historic or up to date, I'd love to get it consolidated. Drop me a PM if you can assist or join me in managing this register.
If your cars appeared in a photo on this site or TLF in the last couple of years, there's a good chance I've included your registration already, but would love to hear from you via PM or email with Chassis numbers and anything else interesting or relevant about your car. Alternatively, if you're planning on attending the Resto show, bring your details along and we can add them at the show.
Don't just think about your daily runner. If you have or have had a donor car, recording that on the register will +allow it to show as "scrapped". Fortunately, Lotus wrote the chassis number on many trim parts, so even without a reg number, I can enter it in the register in it's correct place.
Finally, I don't want this to be a one way information flow. I'm sure many of us would like to know where our cars sit in the order of running cars ref MY. The known oldest, newest, reddist, highest / lowest mileage Etc.
Whether we share openly the whole spread sheet can be debated, but I plan to attend the Resto show for at least one of the days and will bring the sheet and a laptop along for viewing. I'm sure we can arrange this access for the whole show.
So over to you. Any information gratefully received.
Tony
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