[DML] Re: Night-illuminated speedo face (and the rest of the cluster)

[WINGD2@xxxx]

In a message dated 3/31/00 8:52:58 PM Central Standard Time, 
davep@xxxx writes:

<< Suggestions, opinions? Anyone want to take on the project? I'd buy it, I 
just can't afford the R&D ;)

- Dave >>

Dave, you said it, but many people seem to forget it when it comes time to 
purchase that "newest - latest - biggest - badest - fastest " whatever it is 
that someone has just developed. It costs money to do R&D stuff, sometimes 
BIG money. Just ask Stephen Wynne or Rob Grady. And unfortunately with the 
Delorean, there is a very limited market in which to try and recoup that R&D 
investment. 
Many "new" items are developed out of necessity, because the original parts 
are no longer available. Either reproductions are made or upgraded parts are 
produced, but normally for a market that already exists ( someone has to be 
buying this stuff if the existing supply is all gone ). A lot of the other 
stuff is upgrade/changes or performance enhancement type products which are 
developed because someone wants to be faster or louder or lower or whatever 
..... just different. This is the stuff which really has no immediate market, 
and many times when it's developed it's not really developed for a market as 
such but for a specific person who just "has to have it". These are the 
people who I really enjoy, and we seem to see a lot of them within the 
Delorean community. They are willing to achieve an end result without trying 
to justify the expense to achieve it. All that matters is the end result.

I guess it all comes down to, you just have to decide if you want it bad 
enough !! I say Go for it !!! You'll be happy when you achieve the end 
result.

Marty