Re:[DML}Young Owners (was DeLoreans as first cars)

["Harold McElraft" <hmcelraft@xxxx>]

[MODERATOR NOTE: For the sake of balance I'm allowing two off-topic rebuttals to the editorial by "sid vicious." After that, no further messages on this subject will be approved. - moderator Mike Substelny]

Easy young fella - some day you too, with a little grace, will be 
and "old fart" too. Not all of us fit your stereotype portrait.

Harold McElraft - 3354


--- In dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "sid vicious" <sid_villan@xxxx> 
wrote:
> i havent been on here in along time but i read this thread and had 
to 
> respond
> 
> i got my delorean when i was barely 17 
> the car had no interior no tranny and was trashed
> i installed the interior my self and did some work with help from 
> friends and i took it to a delorean shop and i had to pay for it 
my 
> self and to make things worse i had to sell my car because my 
family 
> could not afford to keep the car i loved that car more than 
anything 
> in the world and i had to give it up because i come from a very 
low 
> income family (unlike most people who just have money to trow 
around)
> 
> if anything young people are keeping the dream alive 
> when all those old farts that own deloreans die(and theres alot) 
> there grandkids will most likely sell them and us "younger kids" 
will 
> buy them up and start a new cycle
> and why is it that sooo many old people own these cars is it 
> the "poor old mans ferrari"? they keep these cars in there 
garages 
> all covered up as if there ever going to go up in value! they 
treat 
> them like antiques ,they have tea partys,they have all these old 
> folks conventions! when i was selling my car i had this 70+ year 
old 
> man that came to look at my car and i felt a horrible feeling in 
my 
> gut i knew this old geezer was just wanna lock this car away so 
> thanked god he didnt buy it