The registry

Every car we know of

Seeded from the historical registry and added to by owners. A car stays here whoever owns it, so the record outlives any one owner.

About these numbers. They are not all the same kind of thing. Some are factory serials, some are the number on a builder's plaque, some were written down by an owner decades later. Twenty of the cars carried over from the historical registry have no usable number at all. The archive records what was recorded and does not guess at the rest, and it has never established a formula that turns one of these numbers into a build date.

All cars

Serial Marque & model Where Recorded as Status

Not in here?

Most of these cars were built one at a time in home garages and never appeared on any list. Add yours and it becomes part of the record.

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