Early this year a thread was started by Gus Meyjes with the title "Owner's Photo compilation". It's to be found under this link:
http://www.racecar.co.uk/acoc/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=242 Some owners posted one or more pictures of their AC but what he really meant is to create some kind of database which would form a register.
Now this is something I have been thinking about for a long time too.
Not so strange since I'm a registrar myself for many years though not for any AC model.
A thread on this forum may not be the perfect place to create an online register. But what about what they have done for Jaguar XK models for instance? Look at xkdata.com and see what I mean. The website will tell more than a thousand words as they say. Thanks to Emmanuel who pointed us to this site.
Now I know there are registers for most AC models within the ACOC for years and they are highly valued. The point is these registers were mostly compiled during a time when there was no internet. Not all data in the registers can be put online just like that, certainly not without permission from the person who contributed the information. That in itself may be an almost impossible task.
However, it still would be very nice for all of us to see some of the fruits of all this labour, something that's not so easy with a traditionally kept register by one person.
What I mean is that complementing the ACOC registers there may be room for an online register. A register for any AC owner, not necessarily an ACOC member.
The privacy aspect is something any contributor should judge by himself. That's why he should be free to include as many or as little information as he likes, certainly information that has a privacy aspect to it. However, it can be done, it IS done already and I can't help feeling a bit envious when looking at the results.
Building a register takes a lot of time, you need to be patient.
Since I own an Ace Bristol first and foremost I'm interested in an Ace and Aceca database.
I'm looking for reactions and suggestions.
Who would be interested in this idea and more to the point who would be willing to register his Ace or Aceca this way? Without registrations there's no database!
Let's hear your viewpoint.
Jerry
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