[DML] Re: Interesting find inside door

["BRUCE BENSON" <delornut@xxxx>]

Nick,

When the frame for your car, vin# 1852, started its run down the frame line
a pair of doors would have started down the door trim line. Like wise at
some point the engine destined for vin # 1852 would begin its trip down the
motor line, being dressed for installation in the frame for vin # 1852.
There would have to have been a marriage point where the dressed frame with
it's engine and body installed met up with the doors. Your car is a fairly
early vin # so maybe some of the assembly process wasn't quite up to speed
and maybe the door came from a pre-built supply of doors or perhaps there
was a problem with one of your doors somewhere between the factory and the
Quality Assurance center that required a different door to be installed.
Actually the DeLorean assembly process was quite simple to schedule because
they were all alike. When you have many options and colors, getting the
right fender, door, seat, wheel, tire, engine and so on to meet the right
chassis at the marriage point is a bit more complicated than was the case
with the DeLorean.

Bruce Benson




>The paper I found in
> the door has a pen marking in blue on the photocopy showing that they did
the
> door lock adjustment for my car on April 29, 1981, which doesn't make
sense
> because the car wasn't built until June 1981. Could this be another
DeLorean
> Motor Company mystery to go along with the rest? Any ideas?
>
> Thanks,
> Nick
> VIN#1852