The Collection
The first Collection is being assembled.
No Heritage Vehicle is published yet. A vehicle appears here only when its Heritage Record is ready to be read: everything we found, and everything we could not. You can take part from the beginning.
Take part from the beginning
What each Record contains
- IOriginWhere and how the vehicle began.
- IICustodiansKnown keepers, and the gaps between them. Private names stay private.
- IIIDiscoveryThe journey from the factory to today.
- IVDocumentsThe paper trail, scanned and filed.
- VRestorationWhat was done and why, or why nothing was.
- VIOriginalityWhat is original, restored, replaced or unknown.
- VIIConditionWhat was observed, the displayed odometer, title and registration.
- VIIIWorldThe period the vehicle lived through, kept apart from its own history.
A chapter appears only when something has been recorded for it.
How to read a Record
Every statement about a vehicle carries one of four marks. The mark describes the evidence, never the vehicle.
- Verified
- Matched to a source held in the Record. Not a certification.
- Context
- A sourced fact about the world the vehicle lived in, not about the vehicle.
- Inference
- A conclusion drawn from evidence, with the reasoning shown.
- Unknown
- Investigated. No reliable evidence was found, so the gap is kept.