Re: Middle Eastern DeLoreans?

[James Espey <james@xxxx>]

The original DeLorean Motor Company shipped between 50 and 80 DeLoreans to
the Middle East (the exact number is uncertain, though there is some
documentation in the warehouse that talks about Canadian and the Middle
Eastern cars production figures). A supply of spare was also sent as well,
and at what time some were in Kuwait. These were destroyed, I am told, in
the Gulf War. No one seems to have any idea at this time what the VIN's were
on the cars that were sent there, though I seem to recall Chris Parnham
telling me at one time that one or more of the cars had made it's way to the
UK. And the last bit of 'urban myth', supposedly one of the Middle Eastern
DeLoreans was painted pink by the owner...anyone know anything about that?

James

> Message: 15
> Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2001 14:50:48 EDT
> From: RJRavalli@xxxx
> Subject: Middle Eastern DeLoreans?
> 
> This may be a weird question, but does anyone know how many, if any, DeLoreans
> exist in some of the Middle Eastern countries on the news recently? I know
> there's probably not many tooling around Pakistan or Afghanistan, but do any
> DeLorean vendors ever get contacted by, say, wealth folks in Saudi Arabia,
> Egypt or Israel? I wonder how hard it would be for owners in the Mid-East to
> maintain a DeLorean.
> 
> Just curious (for some strange reason),
> 
> Richard