Re: [DML] Re: NEC show this weekend past

[Martin Gutkowski <webmaster@xxxx>]

I won't repeat what Paul Salsbury has already written - he's spot on in 
everything - but want to add a few comments. The NEC show is our biggest 
advert for the DOC each year. The cars that go on the stand are chosen 
simply by whose turn it is. I had my first car on the stand last year. 
This year it was time for someone else. All cars had dents and dings all 
over them did they? You obviously didn't pay much attention to the grey 
interior car as it had _one_ small dent, and apart from that is simply 
in need of re-brushing, which the owner has already booked in with us, 
as well as getting that dent removed.

The car with all the parts under the bonnet is my friend and business 
partner's. He bought it for less than $6000. It's now one of the fastest 
DeLoreans in the country (nobody really knows why, it just goes like 
stink, we've assisted by changing a few parts over, and it's now EVEN 
faster). We had our stainless expert, Chris Nicholson on hand on 
Saturday going over all the cars pricing up the work that would be 
required to fix them.

All in all, it's not just an advert for the car, but the work the club 
does, and in that, having cars that aren't 100%, but will be one day 
thanks to the dillegence of their owners, is all part of owning a 
classic car.

Project cars are far more desirable here in Enland due to the cost of 
parts and limited choice of cars

Martin
DMUK
www.delorean.co.uk

>--- In dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "grimsby_paul" <grimsby_paul@xxxx> wrote:
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>>I went to the show in Birmingham this past weekend to see my first 
>>DeLorean in person - while it was a thrill to see 3 of them in one 
>>place, I was a little disappointed in their presentation. One had a 
>>shattered back window, all the cars had dents and dings all over 
>>them, and tatty interiors. Not outstanding examples of the marque by 
>>any stretch of the imagination! Is that all that we've got here? I 
>>spoke with one youngish person selling parts from the "boot" of a 
>>DeLorean there and was led to believe that these were fine examples 
>> 
>>



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