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Some Success Stories

Here are some of the site's success stories, either finding the previous owners, tracing the current owners, discovering long lost cars or finding that a car had an important history. It is expressly forbidden to lift images from this website without prior consent from the website owner.
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  • 222NMB The database received the following email "Hi can you help please . I found you arcive photos of the Spridget meet when trying to trace a frogeye owned by my dad new in 1959 she is reg 222nmb . We would love to trace the car and have contacted the owners club but it seems the owner is not a member. My dad is not in the best of health now at 79 and we lost my mum earlier this year, his life partner, and he is lost. I know it would mean the world to him to see this car again as he bought it from the garage where he met my mum. They had to sell the car when mum fell pregnant with me ! I hope you can help". We are delighted to say that the original owner and the current owner are now in direct contact and are soon to be reunited. Another previous owner has contacted me to say "I had a great deal of fun in that car, I ran in the sand races at Harrison Drive in Cheshire with it, Almost sinking it in the incoming tide on one occasion, However a passing? JCB pulled me out, the engine was washed off with sea water but was able to start with a tow. when I used the car it lasted 2 weeks after this then the crank shaft broke in the middle, Another engine! They have also now been put in touch

    222NMB The database received the following email "Hi can you help please . I found you arcive photos of the Spridget meet when trying to trace a frogeye owned by my dad new in 1959 she is reg 222nmb . We would love to trace the car and have contacted the owners club but it seems the owner is not a member. My dad is not in the best of health now at 79 and we lost my mum earlier this year, his life partner, and he is lost. I know it would mean the world to him to see this car again as he bought it from the garage where he met my mum. They had to sell the car when mum fell pregnant with me ! I hope you can help". We are delighted to say that the original owner and the current owner are now in direct contact and are soon to be reunited. Another previous owner has contacted me to say "I had a great deal of fun in that car, I ran in the sand races at Harrison Drive in Cheshire with it, Almost sinking it in the incoming tide on one occasion, However a passing? JCB pulled me out, the engine was washed off with sea water but was able to start with a tow. when I used the car it lasted 2 weeks after this then the crank shaft broke in the middle, Another engine! They have also now been put in touch

  • 665JTN The database received the following emails. I owned 665 JTN from 1978 to 82, sold it to my Brother in Law, he then sold it. I seem to remember the next owner was from New Zealand. THE NEXT OWNER WRITES: 665 JTN was in my Garage in Newcastle for an enjoyable couple of years. ca 1984-86. From memory, we sold it to a chap around Manchester for GBP 2650, I've just dug out some photo's and found one of the guy taking possession of it. Graeme (NZ). 665JTN's TWO PREVIOUS OWNERS ARE NOW IN DIRECT CONTACT.

    665JTN The database received the following emails. I owned 665 JTN from 1978 to 82, sold it to my Brother in Law, he then sold it. I seem to remember the next owner was from New Zealand. THE NEXT OWNER WRITES: 665 JTN was in my Garage in Newcastle for an enjoyable couple of years. ca 1984-86. From memory, we sold it to a chap around Manchester for GBP 2650, I've just dug out some photo's and found one of the guy taking possession of it. Graeme (NZ). 665JTN's TWO PREVIOUS OWNERS ARE NOW IN DIRECT CONTACT.

  • 940BXU The databse was able to put the current owner and a previous owner in direct contact. The previous owner writes "This is me and my cousin in the car in about 1978/9 in my parents' drive in Keynsham. I bought it in 1976/77-ish for à £125 from Bob Rutherford (Tavern Motor Club) who worked with my Dad and my Mum paid the à £150pa insurance. As I remember it, the original bonnet was smashed by a lorry driver, then the bottom fell out and I got rid of it 1979/80-ish. The lorry driver was trying to move the car outside my office in St. Pauls in Bristol and it rolled down the hill and smashed the front of the bonnet. The police persuaded him to buy me a replacement bonnet (he got it from somewhere near Aston Villa FC ground in Birmingham.) The last time I saw it was in my mate Phil's back garden in Knowle, Bristol. I remember driving back with Phil from a party in Lindfield, nr Haywards Heath, with the alternator(dynamo?) stuck on with superglue as the bracket had sheered off. I'll see what I have in the box in the loft."

    940BXU The databse was able to put the current owner and a previous owner in direct contact. The previous owner writes "This is me and my cousin in the car in about 1978/9 in my parents' drive in Keynsham. I bought it in 1976/77-ish for à £125 from Bob Rutherford (Tavern Motor Club) who worked with my Dad and my Mum paid the à £150pa insurance. As I remember it, the original bonnet was smashed by a lorry driver, then the bottom fell out and I got rid of it 1979/80-ish. The lorry driver was trying to move the car outside my office in St. Pauls in Bristol and it rolled down the hill and smashed the front of the bonnet. The police persuaded him to buy me a replacement bonnet (he got it from somewhere near Aston Villa FC ground in Birmingham.) The last time I saw it was in my mate Phil's back garden in Knowle, Bristol. I remember driving back with Phil from a party in Lindfield, nr Haywards Heath, with the alternator(dynamo?) stuck on with superglue as the bracket had sheered off. I'll see what I have in the box in the loft."

  • MRN919 The database was contacted by a previous owner (a motoring journalist) who writes: "I bought the car circa 1971 and then ran it for three years until someone in a Mini drove into the back of it, and it was written off, but then bought by myself, and then sold on for just £30 to someone living in Yorkshire. He also owned a Frogeye and we were both students in Newcastle-upon-Tyne at the time". The old owner Dave, and the new owner are now in touch with a view to putting an article together for the Classic motoring press.

    MRN919 The database was contacted by a previous owner (a motoring journalist) who writes: "I bought the car circa 1971 and then ran it for three years until someone in a Mini drove into the back of it, and it was written off, but then bought by myself, and then sold on for just £30 to someone living in Yorkshire. He also owned a Frogeye and we were both students in Newcastle-upon-Tyne at the time". The old owner Dave, and the new owner are now in touch with a view to putting an article together for the Classic motoring press.

  • UBX968 (seen here in red but now in BRG on the main photo database) The previous owner from 1972 and current owner now in direct contact swapping photographs and filling in the gaps in the car's history

    UBX968 (seen here in red but now in BRG on the main photo database) The previous owner from 1972 and current owner now in direct contact swapping photographs and filling in the gaps in the car's history

  • WXM924 The current owner was unaware of his car's previous Williams & Pritchard history, having been most probably used in 1962 by the company for Charlie William's Son. Original photos exist and the owner and the Williams & Pritchard Register are now in direct contact. Read about it here http://www.williamsandpritchardregister.co.uk/WXM924.htm

    WXM924 The current owner was unaware of his car's previous Williams & Pritchard history, having been most probably used in 1962 by the company for Charlie William's Son. Original photos exist and the owner and the Williams & Pritchard Register are now in direct contact. Read about it here http://www.williamsandpritchardregister.co.uk/WXM924.htm

  • 675BYC The current owner (who has owned it for over 20 years) and the original owner , who took this photo in 1962, are now in direct contact.

    675BYC The current owner (who has owned it for over 20 years) and the original owner , who took this photo in 1962, are now in direct contact.

  • PEE173 Three of this Sprite's previous owners are no in direct contact.

    PEE173 Three of this Sprite's previous owners are no in direct contact.

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    665JTN The database received the following emails. I owned 665 JTN from 1978 to 82, sold it to my Brother in Law, he then sold it. I seem to remember the next owner was from New Zealand. THE NEXT OWNER WRITES: 665 JTN was in my Garage in Newcastle for an enjoyable couple of years. ca 1984-86. From memory, we sold it to a chap around Manchester for GBP 2650, I've just dug out some photo's and found one of the guy taking possession of it. Graeme (NZ). 665JTN's TWO PREVIOUS OWNERS ARE NOW IN DIRECT CONTACT.
    940BXU The databse was able to put the current owner and a previous owner in direct contact. The previous owner writes "This is me and my cousin in the car in about 1978/9 in my parents' drive in Keynsham. I bought it in 1976/77-ish for à £125 from Bob Rutherford (Tavern Motor Club) who worked with my Dad and my Mum paid the à £150pa insurance. As I remember it, the original bonnet was smashed by a lorry driver, then the bottom fell out and I got rid of it 1979/80-ish. The lorry driver was trying to move the car outside my office in St. Pauls in Bristol and it rolled down the hill and smashed the front of the bonnet. The police persuaded him to buy me a replacement bonnet (he got it from somewhere near Aston Villa FC ground in Birmingham.) The last time I saw it was in my mate Phil's back garden in Knowle, Bristol. I remember driving back with Phil from a party in Lindfield, nr Haywards Heath, with the alternator(dynamo?) stuck on with superglue as the bracket had sheered off. I'll see what I have in the box in the loft."
    MRN919 The database was contacted by a previous owner (a motoring journalist) who writes: "I bought the car circa 1971 and then ran it for three years until someone in a Mini drove into the back of it, and it was written off, but then bought by myself, and then sold on for just £30 to someone living in Yorkshire. He also owned a Frogeye and we were both students in Newcastle-upon-Tyne at the time". The old owner Dave, and the new owner are now in touch with a view to putting an article together for the Classic motoring press.