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MarkH
United Kingdom
149 Posts |
 Posted - 26/11/2015 : 08:23:22
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Can an authority on this subject let me know how many J2s there are on the register at this point in time, total number, and by country if possible. This is merely a point of interest on my part.
Thank you.
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MG Maverick
United Kingdom
1045 Posts |
Posted - 26/11/2015 : 09:12:51
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Just for your interest, J4129 ( or most of it ) is still in Cyprus and has not been added to MMM register records.
Chris ( J2353 ) & ( J4129 )
Brighton, East Sussex & Paphos, Cyprus. |
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Colin Butchers
United Kingdom
1487 Posts |
Posted - 26/11/2015 : 10:32:57
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Mark, If you purchase a copy of the current Register from our Librarian, you can spend a happy hour or three counting the J2s listed in it (with their applicable countries.) There are masses of the little beasts - about 10 pages with something like 70 to a page. With Christmas coming up, you could add it to your list of gifts to be bought by your nearest and dearest.
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MarkH
United Kingdom
149 Posts |
Posted - 26/11/2015 : 10:34:38
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Thank you Colin for the suggestion. However, at this point I am really asking for someone with access to the database to give me a number.
Bed time reading comes later.
Thanks!
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JMH
United Kingdom
923 Posts |
Posted - 26/11/2015 : 17:14:47
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Not that straight forward Mark. The current number on the register is not the same as the number that still exist (in some form or another.....possibly/perhaps.... Some were purged a few years back) If is a simple number from the current register, our registrar can give you the number.
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MarkH
United Kingdom
149 Posts |
Posted - 26/11/2015 : 17:20:21
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Thank you Jeremy. I was interested in the number registered, but fully realise that there are other J2s out there as yet to be discovered, and even if already discovered, yet to be registered.
If Nick Feakes or any of the hardworking volunteers have ready access to this information, it would be appreciated.
Kind regards,
Mark
(Custodian of registered J2 4307)
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DickMorbey
United Kingdom
3687 Posts |
Posted - 27/11/2015 : 11:51:08
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Chris, is there sufficient of J4129 to enable you to apply to have it included on the Regsiter? If so, please don't hold back! http://www.triple-mregister.org/registerlogin.asp is the link!
Dick Morbey
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MG Maverick
United Kingdom
1045 Posts |
Posted - 27/11/2015 : 17:18:35
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Hi Dick, There are most of J4129 parts, all in very poor condition. The wooden bodywork is rotten, delaminated and dismantled, but complete as far as I can tell, The engine block has a huge split, gearbox, rear axle are just solid lumps of rust, both are split, either from the accident or from the rusted internals. The parts are in Michael Birds lockup for the moment, as I have not yet had my garage built in Cyprus ( only got my deeds this year ), will move them once I have this built.Its obvious that MB did not know about the heritage of J4129, when he bought the two J2s in 1961, Angela told me that one was a parts donor and one was running. Its only my research that identified J4129 as ill fated Dudley Cottinghams competition car as the donor. I intend to rebuild as best I can using original items, already Rich Hardy has identified that one of the panels from J4129 had bonnet strap fitting holes ( on this forum ). The Harrow Car Club is also looking to its members for any archived information...and hopefully a photograph to give me an idea of what J4129 may have looked like. Its a long term project and I want to get it right, if only in the memory of D.H.Cottingham. RIP. Looking at the parts I have, the accident must have caused some extensive damage, the windscreen is twisted and shattered .Once I have organised myself I will go for registration...J4129 has been ' lost ' for too long. 
Chris ( J2353 ) & ( J4129 )
Brighton, East Sussex & Paphos, Cyprus. |
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MaGic_GV
United Kingdom
868 Posts |
Posted - 27/11/2015 : 22:42:09
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The bare details of Chris's car are recorded, but of course no number yet until it becomes closer to a complete vehicle.
There are 978 J2s recorded as surviving, 851 actually on the Register.
Triple M Registrar
Regards,
Graham
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MarkH
United Kingdom
149 Posts |
Posted - 28/11/2015 : 16:16:14
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Thanks Graham…incredible that nearly half of those built have lived to tell the tale!
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JMH
United Kingdom
923 Posts |
Posted - 28/11/2015 : 18:41:19
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Sort of.......Lots have been little more than chassis & axles at some stage (at least one spent time as a farmers gate). Lucky ones bust their engines & "slept" in one piece for decades. Those that have be runners all their lives are rare indeed. That's what makes each individual cars' history fascinating - warts, F**d engines & all.
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Christian Cottes
France
114 Posts |
Posted - 29/11/2015 : 18:41:27
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There are 978 J2s recorded as surviving, 851 actually on the Register.
This is an amazing survival rate indeed for a pre-war car. And how many of these little marvels still hit the road, at least once a year ? 
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MarkH
United Kingdom
149 Posts |
Posted - 30/11/2015 : 05:02:12
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Christian, by any chance will you be driving to the Le Mans Classic in your J2 next July? If so, see you there.
Mark
J 4307
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Christian Cottes
France
114 Posts |
Posted - 30/11/2015 : 08:08:52
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Mark,
I sent you an email. |
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KR200
United Kingdom
54 Posts |
Posted - 01/12/2015 : 15:05:29
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978 left?
That is a spectacular survival rate. Just shows how much affection these pre war quasi competition cars were/are revered.
I adore my J2. There are many attractive attributes of these machines. But I think the top of the tree for me is the J2's perfectly proportioned styling.
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mgtommm
USA
509 Posts |
Posted - 01/12/2015 : 16:21:22
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The survival rate is very good indeed, considering it was an inexpensive car that had to survive the war years in damp garages or worse. The farmers gate is best story yet! So much better than concrete rebar.
So out of those 978 we know survived, can we come up with a decent guess how many are solid, road worthy cars? My own J3436 is currently being rebuilt back to its original black/green/green and we have 5 other J2's in similar state in the shop.
So there are six being restored to road worthy cars right here, plus we have completed six - so there are six good road cars. 50%
If we could get enough sampling we could extrapolate to get an approximate number of J2's on the road. 20%? 50%? 70%? I can account for 6 in process and 6 finished.
Anxious for mine to be part of that finished number....
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