Re: Actual Production Numbers (was: DeLoreans made)

["jtrealty@xxxx " <jtrealty@xxxx>]

As a manufacturer of automobiles DMC was required to isssue a 
certificate of origion for each car made unless built for testing, 
certification or prototyping. Also each car that was built was then 
financed to a bank for working capital so there should have been a 
large paper trail. I think also they would have to keep a tally for 
the D.O.T. and the E.P.A as far as automatics to manuals and how many 
to each state.There would also have been shipping documents and 
customs paperwork to follow each car.
David Teitelbaum
vin 10757


--- In dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxx, James Espey <james@xxxx> wrote:
> For years the commonly accepted number of DeLoreans made has been 
> 8583. The DOA uses this figure, but does not say what it is based
on 
> or where they got it. They break it down as follows:
> 
> 1981 - 6539
> 1982 - 1126
> 1983 - 918
> 
> Assuming that there were no VIN's skipped during the 1981
production 
> run (00500 - 07199), that would indicate that 6699 were built as 
1981 
> models. The assumption that no numbers were skipped, particularly 
> early in production is a a very large assumption.
> 
> However, one would think that there would be no reason to skips 
VIN's 
> in the 1982 model run (010000 - ?). The count of 1126 appears to 
have 
> come from a service bulletin showing the VIN range of 10000-11126.
A 
> quick check of the VIN chronology shows that there VINs as high as 
> 11784 for the 1982 model run.
> 
> Knut Grimsrud's statistical analysis of the DeLorean Owners 
Directory 
> data, in the form of the "DeLorean Production Chronology" indicates 
> that the exact number is somewhere in the low-9000's and can be 
found 
> here:
> 
> http://www.dmcnews.com/faq/n_chron.htm
> 
> Interestingly enough, a recent phone conversation I had with Barrie 
> Wills, the original DeLorean Motor Company Director of 
Manufacturing, 
> also recollected that the actual production was somewhere around 
9100.
> 
> Unless documentation/information surfaces from a former Belfast 
> employee or Consolidated in Ohio, the exact number will probably 
> never be known.
> 
> James Espey
> DeLorean Motor Company
> Houston, Texas
> 
> 281/568-9573
> 800/USA-DMC1
> http://www.delorean.com
> 
> >Is the exact number of DeLoreans made 8,583? More or less??
> >
> >John Feldman
> >VIN 4275
> 
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