Registry summaries

For me, perhaps one of the most fascinating parts of the hobby is to hear/know about the specialty cars that make up the registries. I have some particular ponderings including:

  1. What was it like when the registries were forming? were there new additions every day/week/month?

  2. How many need additions have been added in 2011?

  3. Got any good stories about obscure finds

  4. Are some of the cars marked as “withheld” owned by celebrities that we’d recognize?

  5. what percentage of the cars on the registies are complete/running and how many are known to be “largely depreciatiated”

I could go on and on…and I’d really love to hear more. Perhaps this is not a topic for a thread but rather an article/newsletter update. I know this may sound like i’ve just given y’all an assignment, but I’d help with it if yous’d be willing to share your insight. Perhaps sometime when you’re fully caffeinated.