Re: [DMCForum] Re: your first impression of DMC

["Marvin" <marv@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I saw JZD being interviewed on the tv around 1980. Johnny Carson on the Tonite Show, was talking about this fantastic car. I was very interested in a vehicle that could be so unusual in design and have an unpainted finish. Who had money in the early 1980's. Not I. The thought remained in my mind. Then an auction for a 1981 DeLorean appeared, being run by a friend of mine. He advised me that this car was an automatic,  but the transmission was sitting in a box on the front seat. He gave me the name of the mechanic who had worked on the car and who was totally frustrated with the transmission. He could not seem to repair it. The car would not shift out of low gear. I found some contacts in Ohio and got hold of Jerry Rine who had worked on DeLoreans when Kapac bought the assets of the company and they were shipped to Ohio. He advised me about the computer, half shafts could be damaged, look for this and that, etc. I also called around and discovered many things wrong with that particular car. I went to the bank to borrow some money and then went to the auction with $10,000.00 cash in my pocket, to buy it. I was told not to pay more than $7,000.00.. The auction started @ $7,000.00 and the winner paid $13,500.00 before I could even bid! I was so upset. The guy who bought the car was an ass. Rich but an ass. Years later, that car still has never been repaired, has green moldy interior, and is now rotting junk. I would offer him $2500.00 max. The guy will not sell. He will not fix it although I suggested that I would be happy to help @ n/c, and direct him to a decent honest mechanic, and part supply. He is still an ass!

A year later, I got "a deal" from a Jag dealership, and an original DeLorean dealer. The car was crap. They sold me a car with a cracked motor or warped heads.It cost me a fortune to upgrade and eventually I sold it, and I have owned 2 others since then.

The car is for a masocistic autophile, who is a dreamer. I fit the bill perfectly and love my stainless stallion!

Marv.
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  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Flavia 
  To: DMCForum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Thursday, November 11, 2004 10:29 AM
  Subject: [DMCForum] Re: your first impression of DMC



  Very nice idea, Walt!
  Here's my DeLorean story. I was a little kid when my parents and 
  their friends dropped all the kids off at the movies to see BTTF 
  while they went shopping. I had no idea what the movie was about, but 
  I always liked futuristic movies, so I was excited when I saw the 
  word "future" in the title. In fact I had just learned how to read :) 
  LIttle did I know that most of the movie was in the 50's! Anyways, I 
  saw Michael J. Fox and I was already happy because I was a big fan of 
  Alex Keaton, he is so cute!
  Then Doc Brown showed Marty the time machine, I saw the gullwing 
  doors and I was amazed. I don't have to say that I just loved the 
  movie even though I didn't understand thoroughly. I still remember 
  when I left the movies, I ran to my dad and I told him: you should 
  have seen the car in the movie (he loves cars!)
  In January 1987 I went on vacation with my family to California and 
  we went to the Universal Studios. My dad had a camcorder in his hands 
  (I still have the tape) and I of a sudden I said: Look, Back to the 
  Future, then my dad catches me with the camera running towards the 
  DeLorean on  display and this huge movie poster. And I said: this is 
  the future car, the time machine, I tried to open the door, it was 
  locked of course. Then my parents called me and I walked backwards 
  still staring at the car. I watched that part of the video over and 
  over again.
  Then in May 2003, I was driving down Route 18, a busy road here in NJ 
  and I saw a car that looked like a D, but the traffic was heavy, the 
  car was way ahead of me and it was so sunny that I couldn't see a 
  thing, I still chased that car like a maniac. Guess what, it wasn't a 
  DeLorean. Later on I thought that if that was one, I'd never have 
  been able to chase it driving a Neon!
  Over a year later, June 2004, I was lost in Pigeon Forge looking for 
  the DeLorean car show, then I saw one pulling out of the smoky 
  shadows hotel, I can't even describe my amazement, I didn't even look 
  making the U turn. And someday I'll own one :) For those who don't 
  know, I saw all the details about Pigeon Forge on bttf.com, there was 
  no one I could travel with, so I was about to give up when I decided 
  to rent a car and go by myself, 700 miles each way, worth every mile!

  Flavia - NJ
  VP of BITCH :)
  --- In DMCForum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Walter Coe" <Whalt@xxxx> wrote:
  > I'm starting a fun thread here.  I want to hear everyone's opinion 
  what they felt when they first saw a DeLorean in person.  What was 
  your impression?  What emotions did you feel when you sat in the car?
  > 
  > I followed my dad into a Buick dealership.  He was interested in a 
  Buick, of course.  And I was a bored teenager who came across an 
  irresistible temptation.  There it was with the gullwing door open 
  inviting me to sit in it.  As I climb in, being the lanky teenager 
  that I was, my knee bumped the horn button on the end of the turn 
  signal.  Being indoors in a showroom, it was LOUD.  And being so 
  young, I was seen only as a nuisance.  "Hey kid!  Get outta 
  there!   ... and by the way, how did you get the horn to work?"  They 
  wrongly assumed it was in the center of the steering wheel.
  > 
  > As I sat in the car, I looked around.  Everything seemed so foreign 
  & exotic yet comfortable & safe.  I felt like I was getting a glimpse 
  of a toy that only a very rich person would play with.  As I sat in 
  the driver's seat, my neck did a lot of craning.  The front where the 
  engine SHOULD have been was small & low.  The net over the rear 
  parcel shelf looked like a chain link fence adding to the 'off 
  limits' feeling.  Looking thru the rear window gave a shaded view 
  over the engine compartment and under the louvers.  It added to the 
  close, compact feel of everything.  
  > 
  > Actually owning one of these cars one day was pretty far from my 
  mind.  I never considered owning one even while watching all the BTTF 
  trilogy.  I assumed that they were too expensive and you couldn't get 
  parts.  Then one day while waiting in a barber shop, I passed the 
  time looking thru an autotrader.  "Hey look, a DeLorean.  Only 
  $19.5K.  And here's another one for $17.5K.  I cant believe something 
  so cool is priced so cheap.  I should get one."  And I did.
  > 
  > Obviously I have been drinking some really good coffee.
  > 
  > Walt
  > 
  > 
  > 
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