RE: [DML] Re: Barris DeLorean Auction

["Randal Atamaniuk" <martydmc12@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

When I contacted the auction house, I informed them with the correct
information about Barris, and made them well aware that neither he, nor his
company had anything to do with the "actual" movie cars.  I've seen his
replica up close a couple of times, and it is modified to look like the Part
II version, with Mr. Fusion.  Since my phone call and I know Stephen Clark
also emailed them with the proper information, a "Special Notice" has gone
up on the auction listing website, stating that it could be a replica car.

Either way, the fact that this auction is being marketed as a Part III
DeLorean, is what first got confused me.  Either Barris has transformed his
DeLorean to a Part III version since, or he has somehow got hold of an
actual Universal car.  Problem is, Universal is not likely to sell off these
cars, and it's also still listed in their props department warehouse.  But
there was more than one DeLorean ever used throughout the trilogy, so one
can't be too sure.  The only way to truly ever know where all the "actual"
movie cars ended up is if Universal ever released this information.  I know
that at one time, the DOA had all the VIN numbers of the screen used cars in
their database.




-----Original Message-----
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jeff512tr
Sent: Friday, May 13, 2005 4:47 PM
To: dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [DML] Re: Barris DeLorean Auction

FWIW, 2 years ago I was at a Kruse Auction, and they were conducting 
a sale at a car museum in Daytona that had a few "movie cars." George 
Barris himself was there, hawking a Batmobile as "one of the orginal 
4 from the TV show." The car brought a staggering $200,000. Weeks 
after the auction, the buyer learned that this was not a car used in 
the TV show, but a recreation built by Barris many years later. 
Lawsuits were threatened but in the end Kruse bought the car back.
Now a Barris BTTF DeLorean? Hmmm....




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