"Keeper of the ’x’ Part"

I was talking to Dave briefly about this last night, but...

Having one or two people trying to keep stacks of parts around (me *cough*) is just too trying, and unrealistic to try and keep track of just WHAT you have (meaning that it's more or less useless to have them!).

My proposal:
Have many club members, store and sort out/inventory SMALL clusters of parts.  These would be freely available (to members only, in good standing) bits, sourced from stripped cars, or donated bits etc. The list of them (if realistic to maintain) could be stored on some sort of publicly accessible database. Then whoever is dolling out the part 'x' would go in and reduce the inventory on the bit by 1 when it was taken.  That part is just a 'maybe', but would make life easier for the keep of the "X" so they're not getting bugged with "do you have a 'widget'?".

Example:
"Bob" has a small amount of space in his garage, and would take on being the "keeper of external trim".  He only then keeps the exterior trim bits, and maybe side markers.  You need that little bit behind the door in round...  you know to go to Bob!

"Frank" has more room at his acreage, so he accepts being the "keeper of the body panels" (since they're obviously large!).

"Joe" has a warehouse, and is willing to be the "keeper of the engines and parts", since the floor there is a little dirty already anyhow.

And so on, and so on....


Anyhow, as you can see, this reduces the burden on any one person, and makes parts more readily available since you KNOW who has what!  There would be NO for sale parts, so if you've got that rare 88 coupe nose in perfect shape...  keep in your own carport. 


Thoughts?  Ideas?

Great idea, I'll see what I can put together for a "parts page" or something.