I personally believe this would set a potentially very time consuming precedent for the mods to deal with. Others of us keep offline registries of certain bikes such as the '37 RMS and '37/8 Super Streamline tank bikes. I think there could be a separate forum section titled "Registry" where a spreadsheet for each bike desiring a registry could be stored. Mandatory fields would include serial number and description. The description for each would have required entries such as color, year, original, restored, etc... depending on the bicycle. For instance I know there is a registry for white 1959 Corvettes. Color would not be an entry in this case. For Bluebirds a year and color would be necessary. The real trouble comes in here when someone posts something bogus or questionable and the mods have to get involved in "registry maintenance" . It also depends on the format limitations of the forum software of what could actually be done. Would criteria have to be set in order to establish a registry? What about someone that wants to start a registry for '62 Schwinn Typhoons? The Phantom registry would be large!
I know the current situation is not ideal but it seems to be serving the purpose. I say don't open the 'registry' can of worms. V/r Shawn