For the Delorean Fans

[caspergotaz28]

I was on the interstate outside of Houston and saw a Delorean actually being driven. I had my cam in my pocket and shot a few seconds of video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6lX3pPKcmU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbZXOOH-Znc

[AZRockRunner]

thats not the real delorian, its missing the FLUX CAPACITOR!!!!!!!!!!!
DAMN FAKES ANYWAYZZZZZ!!!!!

:wstupid:

[gregg75]

I saw it too! Hwy 59 inside the loop. When this baby hits 88 mph, your'e gonna see some serious.......

[HaleYes]

I was on the interstate outside of Houston and saw a Delorean actually being driven. I had my cam in my pocket and shot a few seconds of video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6lX3pPKcmU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbZXOOH-Znc

You ought to get your jollies here (http://www.dmctalk.com/)if you got excited just seeing one.

[IXNAYXJ]

Okay...? These aren't really that rare. But don't take my word for it:

http://www.neatorama.com/images/2005-12/delorean.jpg

-----Matt-----

[xDUMPTRUCKx]

i swear i just saw one day before yesterday.

[RTicUL8]

dig....dig....dig....found it! :thumbup:






http://home.comcast.net/~mypcwrench/DSCN7557.JPG

[ChiXJeff]

10 years ago, there was a shop near where 59 meets the Sam Houston that worked on nothing but DeLoreans. At least a dozen parked outside every day.

[RTicUL8]

I took the picture above at the Gilmore auto museum in Hickory Corners, MI.

I noticed that after I took the picture that the front clip on the Delorean was plastic and not stainless.
I wonder if they all came that way?
Anyone know?

[KarlVP]

When I lived in Newport News, Virginia. My neighbor had a de-loread. His liscence plate was BAKNTYM.

[casm]

I noticed that after I took the picture that the front clip on the Delorean was plastic and not stainless.
I wonder if they all came that way?
Anyone know?

It's been a few months since I've seen one up close, but I believe that both the front and rear clips were plastic. There's one I occasionally see around here near where we're going for lunch today; if it's there, I'll check it out.

[casm]

Typical: on the day I'm actually looking for it, there's no sign of it :D If I see it around, I'll verify that they were in fact plastic - I'm pretty sure that they were, but...

[87manche]

I saw one parked at the TGI Fridays last month.

[motorcityxj]

I took the picture above at the Gilmore auto museum in Hickory Corners, MI.

I noticed that after I took the picture that the front clip on the Delorean was plastic and not stainless.
I wonder if they all came that way?
Anyone know?

99% sure they are, i see them pretty often here in detroit suburbs, lots of automotive enthusiasts and auto execs with a fleet of rides etc. I see them ALLOT in the summer.

If they dont all have the plastic front clip darn near most of them do, maybe an early in the model run swap to save money. Stamping stainless i learned is not easy. One of my customers his old man made the family fortune in figureing out how to stamp stainless kitchen sinks. Before him no one could do it. So in my ignorant non stamping industry mind, it must not be cheap, and a sink seems way easier than all those bends and lines and headlight surrounds etc.

I been admirer of them since i was a wee kid when back to the future came out. I only wish they had a nicer engine in them, not sure how much of the value i would ruin by dropping in a LS1 .... but you can get deloreans pretty cheap.:guitar:

That lifted one is a disgrace.:bawl:

[Patriot4x4]

id pimp one if i could afford parts for it...

[freerider15]

Yes the front clip is plastic, I know since I have owned one. We had a 1982 Delorean with under 15,000 miles on it. Man was that car a blast to drive. No matter where you went, nothing but gawking and staring at it since most people have never seen one in real life. You would see people getting all giddy and wide eyes when you would open the gull wing doors.:D Would go to the gas station and people come out of the woodwork to look at it, sit in it, etc. I loved that car, though it was 4 years older than I am. Needless to say I miss the car, but it had to go since my father passed and it never got driven much. But I got some jeep money out if it, so it wasn't too bad. Still miss it though :cry:

[motorcityxj]

this thread has me searching the classifieds for one ... not that i am in the market for one ... the orginal DMC12 prototype is for sale on eabay.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ih=001&category=31830&sspagename=WDVW&viewitem=&item=110110511993&rd=1

9 bids its at $150,000 reserve not met. :smoker:

call me crazy but i would rather have this mint one with only 7,500 miles for the buyit now price of 28 grand. Mint baby.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ih=006&category=31830&sspagename=WDVW&viewitem=&item=160102943441&rd=1

[motorcityxj]

any one old enough to verify this from wikipidia

"The De Lorean Motor Company went bankrupt in late 1982 following John De Lorean's arrest in October of that year. He was later found not guilty, but it was too late for the DMC-12. Approximately 100 partially assembled DMC's on the production line were completed by Consolidated International (now known as Big Lots)."

Big lots the retailer? :laugh: to funny.

good read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Lorean_DMC-12

[alwaysready]

home of the delorean Mudder is out by me in chicago
http://www.godmudders.com/delorean.htm

[spcustoms]

hehe..
id pimp one if i could afford parts for it...
you must click this vid... 24K GOLD! plated
http://www.entermyworld.com/cat/rare/gold/movies/vin04301.rm

[spcustoms]

wow, a factory option?,
heres the original window sticker from 1981
http://www.entermyworld.com/cat/rare/gold/g04301i.jpg

[casm]

id pimp one if i could afford parts for it...

Mechanically they aren't too horrible on that front, at least not as far as the engines are concerned: it's the PRV (Peugeot-Renault-Volvo) 2.8-litre V6, which was used here in a number of vehicles. Gearboxes may be tricky, though. IIRC, the 5-speeds used whatever Renault put in the R30 saloon, which was never sold in the US. Can't remember what the automatics used off the top of my head, but I want to say they were either a Borg-Warner type 35 or TH300; it may possibly have been the same unit used by Renault in the R30 as well. I'd assume that much of the suspension would be interchangeable with the Lotus Esprit, since they share a lot of the same underpinnings.

[iluv83vettes]

there is a place right outside houston that builds them new. well i guess you could say builds cars to the same specs new. i don't know if the place is still around or not though

[motorcityxj]

there is a place right outside houston that builds them new. well i guess you could say builds cars to the same specs new. i don't know if the place is still around or not though

interesting

is it these guys?
http://www.delorean.com/

http://www.delorean.com/photojournal.asp

Daaaang look at the inventory of parts those guys have in the warehouse tour. Someone bought up ALL the totaled deloreans and factory parts, NOS etc http://www.delorean.com/warehouse_tour.asp#