This DeLorean: Is this deal worth it?

SPAM !!!

Why is this Guy asking questions about his own car?

If you read the ad, you can call a Guy called Warren , & the poster is also called Warren!!

BTW Warren, you don`t need a professional to `undust`? the car.....just a hosepipe !!! Oh, & a tap with water .

I think it is quite expensive. I have one in perfect condition that I'm looking for $20K.

Reuven

I would give the car a very, very carefull inspection before considering a bid on it. The person posting the acution obviously knows little about the car.

------------ Alex

The seller could have at least taken it outdoors and hosed it down.

Use a good escrow service too.

Friend of mine bought an '85 Jaguar on Ebay. The care was in PA, he's in RI. The guy drove the car up.

Outside it looked beautiful but the guy was at least honest, the exhaust system fell off on the way up. And on opening the hood we could tell the car had been fairly well used and wasn't quite what the seller had advertised.

No problem - he comes up here quite often anyhow. So my friend gave the car back, rescinded the escrow and everyone was happy. Well, maybe not the seller.

snipped-for-privacy@Lieu.org (Let_do_The_No) realised it was 5 May 2004 21:40:59

-0700 and decided it was time to write:

American poser's car, built by a coke dealer, with lots of British subsidies, in Northern Ireleand, famous only for being a low-quality, hard-to-sell dog that won't rust and starred in a series of forgettable movies as a time-machine.

Avoid like the plague, especially when the seller has no valid reason to not clean it before the sale and seemingly has to advertise it in four newsgroups by posing as a potential buyer to arouse interest in the auction.

I dunno - some of us make the Back to the Future link, some of us don't. However, the care does have collectible value based on a few facts.

The first is that DeLorean bucked Detroit and built his car, his way. Second is the all stainless steel body. Manufacturers could do this to cars but the problem is getting paint to adhere. Someone figured out how to do this with a type of clear coat that tinted the bright silver to the desired color. It looked very cool at the time.

And gull wing door - don't see much of those anymore.

Granted, the cars are only at their 23rd year, but in about 10-15 years it'll be a bona fide collectible. I just can't see paying $10K for it.

According to him, you need a professional to do that otherwise you risk damaging the stainless steel. Completely clueless seller. I would stay away for that reason alone.

-------------- Alex

Strange, quick exposure to water damages stainless steel?

I'm confused. :-P

I think you're supposed to be :)

Perhaps it's 'special' white dust.

J.

Tony P. realised it was Thu, 06 May 2004 20:34:33 GMT and decided it was time to write:

If he'd built a good, truly revolutionary car, I could have respect for that. But he didn't. He built a compromise, and a bad one at that.

Popular misconception. It's a glassfibre body (on a mild steel chassis) with a stainless steel skin. It would have been a better car without the extra weight of that useless skin.

Painting stainless steel hasn't been a problem since the 1950's.

The bare, brushed stainless steel looked cool - that's why Delorean didn't paint it.

Very badly implemented on the Delorean, with gas struts that were much too weak to be much good on the overweight doors.

Gee, now why would that be?

In about 10-15 years time, it'll still only appeal to shallow posers who don't have the faintest idea about what makes a good sports car.

I just can't see paying anything for it.

And it saved the cost and aggravation of building a paint shop and getting good quality out of it. The stainless steel itself was a response to the poor surface finish from the molding process used: ERM, or Elastic Reservoir Molding, as I recall.

Oh, I dunno. I wouldn't mind having one to go with my Bricklin...

Geoff

Well, if you've got you don't want.. .I'll gladly take one off your hands :-)

Deloreans are one of the coolest cars ever made. I love 'em.

Howard Rose realised it was Sat, 08 May

Cool in the way an Edsel or Excalibur may be cool to some people.

I loathe them. Bad idea - badly executed.

Agreed. Even Saint Chapman struggled to get it to handle. Give an egomaniac drug dealer a few million pounds of taxpayers money to set up in Ireland and that's what you get. If it wasn't for "Back to the Future" this automotive abortion would have been consigned to the dustbin of history.

Geoff MacK

Delorean wanted a car that didn't rust. I wasn't aware of the stainless being a response, rather, one of the few aspects of the car that wasn't compromised on.

Richard

In message , Geoff Mackenzie writes

Why didn't it handle? I used to have an Alpine-Renault GTA with the V6 at the rear and it handled superbly, as did the later Alpine A610.