Full Size Buick Registry

Rob, for hosting costs - www.doteasy.com

This is who I use for all my sites...I have 5 of them.

For the info entry, I am using a form that allows the registrant to select what options the car came with, and to enter info like VIN, cowl tag, dealer number, personal info, etc etc etc and it will be emailed to me so I can record it into my database. OR you could make your own database and have hte info automatically droppoed into that database - I believe Marco does this with his site.

 

John,

It's too much work for me to set something that big up...but I've been wanting to start the Centurion registry for a long time, so I finally bit the bullet and did it.

There is no plan currently in place to merge any of the registries in the near future, although that can always change. The only problem is finding someone to master all that stuff. It's going to be a chore just with the Centurion registry. Mainly because I have so much information that will be entered with each car.

There could possibly a site in the future that acts as a sort of directory to these different registries....

Well, now that I mention it, I've got a specific section in my parts directory that lists the different registries -

Here it is about halfway down the page:

http://www.buickpartsdirectory.com/misc.htm

I haven't updated that yet to list my Centurion registry, but I will hopefully soon.

 

WOah! THanks John....it made my computer go crazy. I fixed it now. I see Paolo got a real domain name -

http://www.72electra.com/

Rob, Whatcha mean by adding the boattail registry in, and where?

 

ohhhhhhhh I gotcha...I;ll do that now, but I don't forget.

 

Rob are you including all 71-73 Boattails??

 

done..

 

Paolo, by all means you're welcome to the 71-76 Electra:beer

Ok, for all of you who are interested in taking on aa registry of your own, how much and what information are you planning to collect?


Off the top of my head, this is what I am collecting for each Centurion (providing the owner has the information)

- Personal Info (Name, address, phone, email)
- VIN
- Cowl Tag info (body number, trim package, paint codes, date codes)
- Option codes (power windows, cruise, etc.)
- Mileage
- Date of record (time of registering)
- Condition of Vehicle
- Any special comments such as brief history on the car

The form I have created/altered from Marco's Stage1 registry was the most time consuming project of the whole deal to get it started. - here is the direct link to it.

http://www.buickcenturion.com/submit/submit.htm

As you can see, I have not added the mileage or date of record entry points yet, but they will be there shortly. There are always some things to tweak as something like this is introduced.

From time of inception, to its current state, my registry has taken probably 40 hours of my time....and that's just getting it started. I had 4 submissions come through last night, and each one takes considerable time to enter into the database, and then to creat a page that people can view via the website. Each page takes an average of 20 minutes to throw together....that's if I don't have to look up every option code in the book. The time is doubled or tripled if pictures and stories are included, because 90% of the time, I have to resize the pictures and load them. I'm more than happy to do it though! You really have to have a passion for this stuff to make it worth your while....otherwise, you're going to be kicking yourself.

This is why I ask whomever wants to start a registry "what information are you planning on collecting?"

 

Thank you Mark....it's a TON of work, but I enjoy the outcome:beer