Re: [DML] grey interiors

["Donald Ekhoff" <ekhoff@xxxx>]

I could be completely out to lunch here but I recently removed the carpeted
panels that cover the rear bulkhead on four different DeLoreans. The
purpose was to make modifications to mount speakers on these panels. They
were absolutely four different colors. One came from a black interior car
and was closer to a charcoal color. The other three ranged from a silvery
gray to a rather yellowish gray. The silverish was from a very low mileage
car while the yellowish had seen considerably more sun. I suspect the
history of the car accounts for the most variation at this time. Things
like smoking/non-smoking, battery fumes from leaving a battery charger on
too long, sun exposure as well as possible different batch lots of original
material. There was a surprising amount of differences as well in the other
materials used so they were obviously struggling with vendors and getting
the production problems ironed out.

I kept carpet samples from spots not exposed (back side wrapover) over the
years and there was still conciderable variation, so I know it was not all
sun induced color change. Hope this helps.

Don Ekhoff


----- Original Message -----
From: "Louie G" <louie@xxxx>
Subject: [DML] grey interiors


> I've heard that there are two slightly different shades of grey interiors
on our cars. Is this true?