Re: Possible buy:)

["Steve Rubano" <srubano@xxxx>]

Warped frame? The only way that a car would have a "warped" frame is 
that it would had to have been in a serious accident like you said. 
Maybe the warped part of the frame is the crumple tubes up front? 
They are very weak and the factory issued special steel 
reinforcment plates to be placed on the crumple tubes where the 
stabilizer bar bolts to it. Without those reinforcments the crumple 
tubes "oil cans" out, collapses, warps...whatever you want to call it 
from the force of the stabilizer bars. If you want to look under the 
front of the car at the crumple tubes (the radiator is mounted ontop 
of it) and inspect. If it is the crumple tubes that are damaged you 
can go either way:

1. PJ Grady sells replacemnt ones. You would have to cut the old one 
off the frame and weld the new on in place with a jig to line it up 
perfectly.
2. You can check to see if your local autobody shop can repir it by 
straightening it out.

Either way make sure those brackets are installed afterwards.

If it happens to be that there is something wrong withe the frame 
itself, I would suggest staying away from the car unless you 
like "big projects".

Steve

--- In dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxx, "Lance B. Bowman" <spaceace@xxxx> wrote:
> Owners, list members,
> 
> >SNIP<> 
> My girlfriend (bless her soul for finding this one!) told me about 
a
> DeLorean that has a (possibly) warped frame (?). I've seen pictures 
of a
> DeLorean frame, and it's not the typical automobile frame the rest 
of
> the world is used to seeing. It looks to me like it would take a 
pretty
> serious hit to warp it. We drove by the guy's house, and there it 
was,
> under a car cover, and she assured me it hadn't been moved in quite
> awhile, and she never sees it on the road. <Anyway...>
> 
> I haven't contacted the gentleman about the car yet, but I wanted 
to
> ask those in-the-know about any experiences they might have had with
> this subject.
> 
> Thanks in advance!
> 
> Lance B. Bowman