# DeLoreanDirectory.com

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- [01227](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/vin01227/): DeLorean SCEDT26TXBD001227
- [04660](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/vin04660/): DeLorean SCEDT26T6BD004660
- [04737](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/vin04737/): DeLorean SCEDT26T4BD004737
- [VIN 16028](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/vin16028/): DeLorean SCEDT26T0CD016028
- [05564](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/vin05564/): DeLorean SCEDT26T4BD005564
- [VIN 10381](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/vin10381/): DeLorean SCEDT26T8CD010381
- [01174](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/vin01174/): DeLorean SCEDT26T4BD001174
- [16799](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/vin16799/): DeLorean SCEDT26T5DD016799
- [VIN 03703](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/vin03703/): DeLorean SCEDT26T4BD003703
- [VIN 05677](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/vin05677/): DeLorean SCEDT26T6BD005677
- [VIN 06311](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/vin06311/): DeLorean SCEDT26T2BD006311
- [06704](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/vin06704/): DeLorean SCEDT26TXBD006704
- [VIN 16046](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/vin16046/): DeLorean SCEDT26T0DD016046
- [06235](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/vin06235/): DeLorean SCEDT26T1BD006235
- [06846](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/vin06846/): DeLorean SCEDT26T8BD006846
- [01052](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/vin01052/): DeLorean SCEDT26T1BD001052
- [VIN 00742](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/vin00742/): DeLorean SCEDT26TXBD000742
- [VIN 00726](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/vin00726/): DeLorean SCEDT26T1BD000726
- [VIN 00710](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/vin00710/): DeLorean SCEDT26T8BD000710
- [VIN 00709](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/vin00709/): DeLorean SCEDT26T1BD000709
- [VIN 00707](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/vin00707/): DeLorean SCEDT26T8BD000707
- [VIN 00702](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/vin00702/): DeLorean SCEDT26T9BD000702
- [VIN 00698](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/vin00698/): DeLorean SCEDT26T0BD000698
- [VIN 04296](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/vin04296/): DeLorean SCEDT26T0BD004296
- [VIN 05557](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/vin05557/): DeLorean SCEDT26T7BD005557
- [VIN 03188](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/vin03188/): DeLorean SCEDT26T3BD003188
- [VIN 07148](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/vin07148/): DeLorean SCEDT26T0BD007148
- [VIN 02530](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/vin02530/): DeLorean SCEDT26T5BD002530
- [VIN 03346](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/vin03346/): DeLorean SCEDT26TXBD003346
- [VIN 16625](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/vin16625/): DeLorean SCEDT26T5DD016625
- [10987](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/vin10987/): DeLorean SCEDT26T0CD010987
- [VIN 01624](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/vin01624/): DeLorean SCEDT26T9BD001624
- [VIN 05891](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/vin05891/): DeLorean SCEDT26T8BD005891
- [VIN 04468](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/vin04468/): DeLorean SCEDT26T3BD004468
- [06341](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/vin06341/): DeLorean SCEDT26T0BD006341
- [01651](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/vin01651/): DeLorean SCEDT26T1BD001651
- [VIN 02390](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/vin02390/): DeLorean SCEDT26T4BD002390
- [VIN 10242](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/vin10242/): DeLorean SCEDT26T5CD010242
- [VIN 05625](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/vin05625/): DeLorean SCEDT26T9BD005625
- [00909](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/vin00909/): DeLorean SCEDT26T9BD000909
- [06415](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/vin06415/): DeLorean SCEDT26T3BD006415
- [00696](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/vin00696/): DeLorean SCEDT26T7BD000696
- [03001](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/vin03001/): DeLorean SCEDT26T5BD003001
- [05266](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/vin05266/): DeLorean SCEDT26T7BD005266
- [03864](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/vin03864/): DeLorean SCEDT26T6BD003864
- [VIN 02146](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/vin02146/): DeLorean SCEDT26T4BD002146
- [10515](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/vin10515/): DeLorean SCEDT26T3CD010515
- [Don't trust a DeLorean seller who won't share the VIN](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/dont-trust-a-delorean-seller-who-doesnt-share-the-vin/): When you’re looking to buy a DeLorean and doing online research, don’t trust a business (or individual) that hides the VIN in their listing. VIN theft is a real thing – for mass-produced cars. Not for DeLoreans. There are no bar codes or ODB II computers in a DeLorean. No one is going to clone a DeLorean VIN. Therefore, there is no reason to keep a DeLorean VIN private/secret – unless you’re trying to hide information about the car. Any half-intelligent car dealer knows this, especially ones who deal with rare or classic cars. So the short of it is, if a dealer doesn’t, or won’t list the VIN of a DeLorean they are selling on their website, BEWARE! There are a few “car club” dealers around the world who frequently sell DeLoreans. Most of the time those cars are in bad to extremely poor condition. And most of those dealers only share their stock number on the listing, most likely to keep potential buyers from discovering the history (and sometimes the truth) about that vehicle. Some of these “car clubs” have refused to post the VIN on their listings citing potential VIN theft as the reason. To reiterate, that argument doesn’t work for DeLoreans. The dealer is more than likely just looking for a sucker to buy the car (for an inflated price.) So WHY is it important for car dealers and private owners to post the VIN of the DeLoreans they sell online? Because the community that surrounds the DeLorean is vast, and there are many, many people who follow these cars, and who know when something doesn’t look right. We’ll take care of our brand. We don’t want bad actors pulling scams with our cars. When someone is looking to buy a DeLorean, they almost always look on the web. When a car comes up for sale, other DeLorean owners can be a big help in making sure a potential new owner doesn’t get taken advantage of in the sale. Plus, on the extremely rare occasion of DeLoreans being stolen in the past, it’s the whole car – not just the VIN. Luckily, eBay requires the VIN when listing cars. Again, for mass-produced cars the VIN cloning issue is real. As of 2015, cloning theft cost Americans around $12 million each year. But that’s for mass-market cars that are stolen and can be folded into the mix of hundreds-of-thousands of the exact same car. That just doesn’t happen in the DeLorean community. Even the new DeLorean Motor Company lists the VIN (only the last 5 numbers matter) on the cars they sell. There’s no excuse, rhyme, or reason for a DeLorean seller to hide the VIN. Note to DeLorean sellers: At the very least, include the last 5 digits of the VIN. Better is to include the full VIN. Best is to have a photo of the door VIN plate. Do this, and your sale will go well.
- [DMC Columbus, OH](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/dmc-columbus-oh/): Google Street View: 394 W. Nationwide Blvd., Columbus, OH 43215 (Originally 400 Dublin Avenue) From Hemmings Daily – “When De Lorean moved to Columbus Daniel Strohl on May 17th, 2012″ When De Lorean moved to Columbus Daniel Strohl on May 17th, 2012 Columbus, Ohio, isn’t widely regarded as a center of automotive manufacturing, and rightly so: Of the 10 or so manufacturers that actually proceeded with automobile production in the city, all had disappeared by the mid-1920s and only about four of them built automobiles for more than a couple of years. Yet one company – DeLorean – thought Columbus would make for a fine place to build some cars call home in the 1980s. Yes, DeLorean built the majority of its cars in Dunmurry, Northern Ireland, before the company went bankrupt following the October 1982 arrest of John DeLorean on drug trafficking charges. According to a DeLorean Museum, DeLorean Motor Company built 9,200 DMC-12s in Northern Ireland between January 1981 and December 1982. Those latter months of 1982 proved a turbulent time for De Lorean, both the man and the company, but they also saw the arrival on the scene of Sol A. Shenk, a Russian immigrant to the United States, who in 1967 started a business selling closeout and overstock car parts; the business, Consolidated Stores, took off when Shenk switched to household goods and became the company that runs Big Lots and Odd Lots stores across the country. Following the demise of Malcolm Bricklin’s eponymous car company in late 1975, Shenk swooped in to buy its remains and sold off the 300 finished cars along with the leftover parts inventory. “He’s doing all right with Bricklin,” David Brownell told the New York Times years later. “He’s the sole source for Bricklin parts, and since parts fall off Bricklins with some regularity, it’s a good business.” Shenk and business partner Jerome Schottenstein wouldn’t wait until DeLorean went belly-up to invest in that company, however. In March or April of 1982, when Bank of America seized 1,400 DMC-12s because DeLorean hadn’t made payments on a loan, Shenk paid the bank $18 million and took a stake in De Lorean Motor Company. Then just days after John DeLorean’s arrest, Shenk hopped a plane to Northern Ireland to begin discussions about buying out the remains of the company. By mid-November, Shenk struck a deal, beating out the offer made by John DeLorean’s brother, Charles. Shenk would pay the company $1.5 million and assume another $8.7 million in debt and in turn receive $1.2 million worth of parts, the exclusive U.S. distribution rights for cars and parts, and $17.5 million worth of unsold cars. That appears to include 649 unsold DMC-12s, part of Shenk’s earlier investment into De Lorean, but the total number of cars seems to vary by source, anywhere from 1,041 to 2,800. Shenk initially said he wouldn’t liquidate De Lorean; instead, he intended to continue production on a scaled-back basis in Northern Ireland. “It’s a beautiful plant,” he told the AP in mid-November. “I think that there is an opportunity here to sell cars at a very good price. (John DeLorean) was a big man. I’m a little guy. All I want to do is sell cars.” Before the end of the year, though, he’d change his tune after analysts told him the car couldn’t be sold at a profit at the price DeLorean had previously been selling it. “I don’t think there’s much hope – there’s any hope – for the car being built,” he said. “I think it’s a wonderful car, and it’s a shame such a well-built car will not be able to be produced.” Almost immediately, Shenk began to ship the leftover cars and parts to the United States – specifically to a warehouse or two on Dublin Avenue in downtown Columbus. Discussion on some old De Lorean mailing lists indicates one of the warehouses was located at 319 Dublin Avenue, but thanks to PhotOhio.org – where we found these several photographs of De Lorean in Columbus – we see that the Columbus De Lorean operations centered around 400 Dublin Avenue, a very appropriate location. At least two of Columbus’s more successful auto manufacturers occupied that building: the Columbus Buggy Company, which produced the Columbus Electric, the Buggymobile, and the Firestone-Columbus from 1903 to May 1915; and Allen, which bought the property from he Columbus Buggy Company and operated out of that location from 1915 through 1922. From the new Columbus digs, Shenk then hired another company, KAPAC, to distribute the remaining DeLorean parts inventory. The remaining DMC-12s he sold off directly and through existing dealers. Shenk must have had more demand for the cars than he expected – according to DeLoreanMuseum.org, he hired former De Lorean factory managers to come to Columbus and assemble about 100 more cars from leftover components, including the very last DMC-12http://bigtexas.com/dmc/gold/, assembled from leftover gold-plated parts in 1983 and used for a promotional giveaway at Big Lots retail stores. Woman filling out an entry form for a drawing for the last De Lorean built outside a Big Lots store. How long it took Shenk to sell the cars remains unclear, but by September 1983, Shenk noted that he had sold about two-thirds of the cars and had only a few hundred left. Shenk died in 1994 and three years later KAPAC sold the remaining parts inventory, production and distribution rights, and engineering drawings to Stephen Wynne of De Lorean Motor Company in Texas, who in recent years has resumed De Lorean production much as Shenk did – by assembling cars from leftover parts. UPDATE (18.May 2012): James Espy of the Texas DeLorean Motor Company noted that the 100 or so cars that Shenk had built were built in Northern Ireland, not in Columbus.
- [ASI Radio User Manual](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/asi-radio-user-manual/): Thanks to the DeLorean community, someone out there scanned a copy of the ASI radio user manual. But, the original quality of the manual wasn’t great, so we recreated it, along with the legend map. Please do re-share and pass this around. After reading the manual, it looks like Audio Systems Inc. radio was kinda ‘high-tech’ for the day. And now you’ve ever wondered how to set the clock or what happens when you push the left knob in, here ya go. Click the cover photo for a PDF that is print-ready as a booklet, so you can print on your home printer, or at Kinko’s. Text version of the ASI manual AUDIO SYSTEMS, INC. RADIO OPERATION TO TURN TAPE PLAYER ON (1)The ON-OFF switch is combined with the VOLUME control, both of which, are operated by the front knob. Turn this knob clockwise until a “click” is heard, which indicates that the radio is now “ON”. Further clockwise rotation will increase the volume. AM / FM SELECTION (4)The desired broadcast band is selected by the “AM / FM” Selector Button which is the button marked “AM / FM”. The radio has the FM and AM band indicators (6) located to the left of the Radio Frequency display and the appropriate indicator will light up depending on whether FM or AM band is operating. MANUAL STATION TUNING (10)This radio is equipped with an electronic tuner. To tune to a station manually rotate the right front knob clockwise for up scale tuning and counterclockwise for down scale tuning. The frequency will appear on the digital display area of the radio. On the AM band the frequency will appear in the steps of 10 KHz and on the FM band the frequency will appear in steps of 0.2 MHz. Each “click” while rotating the manual tuning knob will be one step on the respective broadcast band. Tune the set carefully until you are exactly on the station. This FM receiver is equipped with an automatic muting circuit. This circuit filters out virtually all off station background noise when tuning from station to station. Also, when background noise is greater than the transmitted station signal, both the station signal and background noise are muted (filtered) out. SEEK TUNING (1)The SEEK tuning feature of this radio automatically locates the next strong station available on the radio dial when actuated. This feature operates in the up scale direction. The SEEK tuning feature is activated by pushing in the left front knob when in the radio mode. The radio automatically locates the next strong station and stops. This procedure can be repeated by pushing the left front knob again. Repeat until the desired station is being received. For maximum sensitivity of Seek Tuning feature, the L/D button (12) should be in the distant position. TUNING PUSHBUTTONS (15)Each tuning pushbutton can be set to two stations, one on the AM band and one on the FM band. This provides a total of twelve stations which can be selected by pushbutton operation. Each tuning pushbutton also has a dual color LED light in its center. These lights allow the user to easily locate each pushbutton at night. The lights change from red to green to indicate the last pushbutton operated. MEMORY (9)Set pushbuttons as follows:1. Select the desired broadcast band with the AM/FM selector button (4).2. Carefully tune to the desired station with the manual tuning control (10) or by using the SEEK tuning feature (1).3. Press the top right button marked “ME” for approximately ¾ second until the orange color “M” appears on the display area (7).4. Press one of the tuning push buttons. The “M” on the display area will go out indicating the button is now preset to this station.5. Repeat steps 2-4 for the remaining buttons.6. Set the AM/FM selector button (4) to the other broadcast band and set the six push buttons in the same manner as above. NOTE: THE ELECTRONIC CONTROL FUNCTIONS IN THE RADIO WILL NOT OPERATE PROPERLY IF POWER TO THE RADIO IS INTERRUPTED. THE POWER INTERRUPTION COULD BE CAUSED BY DISCONNECTION OF THE BATTERY, OR LOW BATTERY VOLTAGE AS MAY OCCUR IN COLD WEATHER STARTING. DISCONNECTION OF THE BATTERY WILL CAUSE LOSS OF PUSHBUTTON STATION MEMORY AND THE TIME. THE MEMORY AND CLOCK WILL REQUIRE RESETTING WHEN POWER IS RESTORED. LOW BATTERY VOLTAGE WILL CAUSE FAILURE IN THE SEEK TUNING OPERATION. THE SEEK TUNING WILL OPERATE PROPERLY WHEN POWER IS RESTORED. STEREO INDICATOR LIGHT (8)An FM Stereo light, “ST”, is located on the right side of the display area. This light will glow whenever the radio is tuned to an FM stereo station who’s broadcasting signal is of sufficient strength. If the stereo signal begins to weaken the radio will automatically blend to monaural reception. The mono mode will increase the radio’s ability to receive the weak signal. As the signal strength returns to a sufficient level the radio will automatically return to the Stereo mode. LOCAL / DISTANT SELECTOR (13)The center button on the right side of the radio marked “L/D” is the Local/Distant Selector. When the small green indicator light is on, the radio in the ‘Distant’ mode. When the indicator light is off, the radio is in the ‘Local’ mode. This which allows the user to discriminate the strong (‘Local’ position) from week stations (‘Distant’ position) in the FM mode. When the radio is in the Seek Tuning mode, this feature allows the user to discriminate the strong stations from week stations on both the am and FM bands. Your radio should be in the ‘DISTANT’ mode for the best reception under most conditions, an exception would be in an urban area with tall buildings. TREBLE CONTROL (2)The trouble response can be adjusted to the desired level with the middle knob on the left side of the radio. Rotating clockwise increases the treble and rotating counterclockwise decrease is the response. There is a detent Position at the middle point of the knob’s rotation. BALANCE CONTROL
- [DeLorean A-Pillar Restoration](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/delorean-a-pillar-restoration/): by Matt Kerns, VIN #03650 When I bought my car from upstate NY, the interior A-pillar windshield trim was deformed, pulling away, and the vinyl was hard and cracking. I decided to reshape and recover them rather than buy new ones. Steps: Remove the pillar trim by cutting the vinyl holding it to the car. I chose to remove the windshield and bracing the roof to properly remove and install the new trim, like factory gluing the vinyl, particularly under the glass. After separation, I stripped them of covering and glue, cleaning the plastic with acetone, MEK, mineral spirits, and whatever wouldn’t harm the plastic. To reshape the warped plastic, I clamped the flat side between two 1″x1″ pieces of wood, heating as I went with a low-to-medium setting on a heat gun. When I was done reforming, I left the pieces clamped for a couple days to ensure no spring back. I then traced the flat portion that was now reshaped, onto cardboard as a template, so I could transfer it to a thin 0.032 inch stiff aluminum sheet metal. I cut out the metal backing plate I just made, then glued / bonded it to the inside of the A-pillar trim using rubber cement (or any desired glue.) Note: The stock metal angle plate where the trim meets the dash is still used in conjunction with the new plate I just made, and should not be overlapped, as this will add thickness. Butt joint the two pieces. Take your desired covering material (I used automotive grade, one-way stretch-backed vinyl) and cover the plastic pillar, leaving about an inch overlap on the both sides, to wrap and glue under the windshield and under the door jamb where the door gasket fits over it. Let the glue dry completely to make sure it does not peel away from the trim piece. Dry fit the pillar on the car, wrapping the flat side-flap around/over where the glass would be, cutting the excess material off. (It should be about half-way along the frame, so about half-an-inch of material and half-an-inch of windshield surface for gluing, like the OEM.) Trimming Not pictured. I Used 3M double-sided foam tape to secure the trim to the car, sandwiched between the car and the metal plate I glued in. Use your desired glue to bond the flap to the frame (I used rubber cement.) Use Windshield glue to reinstall the windshield. *Remember to use the depth blocks to allow the right height for the shield to the body. Press on the door gaskets that overlap the vinyl and glue the vinyl to the door jamb. (I also added vinyl trim to the top of the windshield where it meets roof and headliner.) Photos:
- [Free Posters](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/free-posters/): Want some FREE DeLorean posters you can get printed at your local Walgreens for local pickup? Scroll down to see all the posters! DeLorean Patent poster These print great at 24″ x 36″ – DeLorean Patent Publication Goodyear NCT Tire poster This prints great at 16″ x 20″. Concours DeLorean poster This prints well at 18″ x 24″. July 27, 1986 Concours DeLorean sponsored by DeLorean One. DeLorean Cutaway poster This prints well at 12″ x 14″.
- [Ecto88](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/ecto88/): “Ecto 88” is the Ernest Cline‘s name for his hybrid-DeLorean. Ernie created his DeLorean using the DeLorean Time Machine, Buckaroo Banzai’s Rokit 88, The Ghostbuster’s Ecto-1, and Knight Rider’s K.I.T.T for inspiration. Articles: Ecto88: Ernie Cline’s ultimate Eighties geekmobile | Hemmings Daily
- [DeLorean Proto-1](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/proto1/): The 1976 DeLorean Prototype #1, “Proto 1” was the first road-worthy DeLorean built, used to sell John DeLorean’s dream of an “ethical sports car.” The exterior and interior design was created by Giorgetto Giugiaro’s design team and Bill Collin’s engineering team. The exterior of Proto 1 looks similar to production DeLoreans, but a keen eye (or dedicated DeLorean owner,) can easily see the differences. Not only Giugiaro update his original styling between prototyping and production, but engineering challenges and costs brought significant changes to the production line version of the cars. There are many photos of JZD with Proto-1, as it was a great tool for getting investors for the company. It was also put on display all around the United States in the late 1970s, which gave reporters many opportunities for photos of this unique automobile. Some things Proto-1 has (or was advertised to have,) that production cars did not get are: In 2014 Cliff Schmucker sold Proto-1 to Tony Ierardi, after it had recently been restored, including stainless steel regraining by Chris Nicholson. Prior to its sale, it had been kept in a climate-controlled building for several years prior.
- [DeLorean Time Machine](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/delorean-time-machine/): The DeLorean Time Machine from Back to the Future (1985)…
- [Tom Kimmerly](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/tom-kimmerly/): DMC corporate attorney
- [Howard Weitzman](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/howard-weitzman/): Howard Weitzman was a litigator who defended John DeLorean in the government entrapment scam. Kinsella Weitzman Iser Kump & Aldisert USC School of Law John DeLorean’s attorney “Defending John DeLorean in the biggest case in the world 30 years ago.”
- [EZ-er DeLorean Oil Changes](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/ez-er-delorean-oil-changes/): by Chris Miles There comes a time in DeLorean ownership when you want to make maintenance tasks more convenient. After many years of ownership certain tasks because a hassle, like changing the oil. As most of us know, the stock oil drain plug is a bit of an odd duck. It takes a specially tool to remove the plug. This is especially troublesome if you elect to take the car to a shop to get an oil change. Not only do you need to carry the tool with you, you have to explain to the shop techs not to wrench down on the plug. One of the coolest upgrades I’ve come across for the car is the “EZ Oil drain valve”, sold by Toby Petersen at DeLorean Parts Northwest. It replaces the stock oil pan plug with a convenient valve that allow you to drain your oil effortlessly. No longer do you have to worry about special tools, copper crush washers, or stripping the drain plug socket.Toby has teamed up with EZ drain valve people to come up with a kit especially for the DeLorean. When you get the kit, you’ll find the valve body, an adapter, and two blue fiber washers. Once it’s all assembled on the car you should have a tight seal with no leaks. Due to the limited space between the oil pan and the frame crossmember, it’s a tight fit, but it all works. Once the valve is fitted, you won’t have to mess with it again. [flickr_tags tags=”post-3637″]
- [DeLorean Owners - Get Ready... for Ready Player One](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/delorean-owners-get-ready-for-ready-player-one/): Okay DeLorean owners and DeLorean clubs… if you want to have some FUN with your car, you need to talk the general manager at your local movie theater NOW to setup something for March 30, 2018… The Ready Player One movie is going to be VERY popular, and having DeLoreans parked in front of the theater on opening day will be fun for everyone. Be it a DeLorean car show, or even just a single car. If you or your club DO coordinate with your local movie theater, be sure to create a Facebook event so that it’s easy to share, and easy for others to find out about it – and email DeLorean Directory so we can share it too. Stop by your local movie theaters and talk to a manager to see if you can work something out. Click here for a list of movie theaters in your area.
- [THE DE LOREAN. LIVE THE DREAM](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/the-de-lorean-live-the-dream/): Your eyes skim the sleek, sensuous stainless steel body, and all your senses tell you, “I’ve got to have it!” The counterbalanced gull-wing doors rise effortlessly, beckoning you inside. The soft leather seat in the cockpit fits you like it was made for your body. You turn the key. The light alloy V-6 comes to life instantly. The De Lorean. Surely one of the most awaited automobiles in automotive history. It all began with one man’s vision of the perfect personal luxury car. Built for long life, it employs the latest space-age materials. Of course, everyone stares as you drive by. Sure, they’re a little envious. That’s expected. After all, you’re the one Living The Dream. Start living it today at a dealer near you. A dealer commitment as unique as the car itself. There are 345 De Lorean dealers located throughout the United States. Each one is a stockholder in the De Lorean Motor Company. This commitment results in a unique relationship which will provide De Lorean owners with a superb standard of service. For the dealer nearest you, call toll free 800-447-4700, in Ill., 800-322-4400.
- [DeLorean Owner's Handbook](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/delorean-owners-handbook/): The DeLorean Owner’s Handbook below is the 1982 version. Learn more about the other versions of the DeLorean Owners Manuals.
- [Hi-Resolution DeLorean Relay and Fuse diagram](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/hi-resolution-delorean-relay-and-fuse-diagram/): A hi-res, full-page printable DeLorean relay and fuse diagram. (Click here for PDF version.)
- [Joffrey Dragotta’s DeLorean camping trips](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/joffrey-dragottas-delorean-camping-trips/): We recently saw Joffrey Dragotta’s posts in the DeLorean Fanatics Facebook group, where Joffrey and his friends took their DeLoreans CAMPING! Who would have thought you could fit enough supplies into a standard DeLorean (not towing a trailer), and travel part of the world while sleeping in tents?! Well, Joffrey and his friends did it – twice! He called his most recent trip “Eurofest Trip 2016”, driving the DeLorean over 3,500 km (over 2,100 miles) in 10 days, visiting Paris, Calais, Cambridge, Edimbourg, Inverness, Fort William, Glasgow, Cairnryan, Belfast, Dublin, Holyhead, Bristol, Stonehenge, Southampton, Brighton, Folkstone, and Paris. We sent some questions to him, and got his response in French, so here are both the English and French versions. Enjoy! English Q: What made you decide to take a DeLorean camping, and how long was it? In December 2014 I proposed to the French DeLorean club “Stainless Wings” (I’m currently the Vice President) that we do a tour of Italy in August 2015. I posted a message in our online comments, and I talked to my friends who are around Paris. Two of them had the courage to be part of the adventure: Cedric and his brother in a DeLorean, Cyril with his DeLorean, and me with my girlfriend. I then thought about the road trip, established a route with itineraries, the number of daily kilometers, the camping (I selected 3 or 4 cities), and calculated the total budget (food, camping, petrol, tolls), favoring roads without tolls. Once the budget and itinerary were figured out, we thought about the material organization (automotive parts, mechanical tools to take, camping equipment etc.) We decide to make custom luggage doors because the original ones are too small and not strong. We wanted to make them stainless steel, but didn’t get them done in time, so one afternoon a month before leaving, I talked to the father of my friend Cedric. I showed him some pictures of the original idea, explaining that we did not need an attachment system with removable hinges, just a fixed system, that would allow us to detach the baggage rack during travel in order check water and oil levels, but still be able to remove them quickly if there was ever a problem. I explained that the original luggage rack was too small and need one that was bigger. He had to be careful not to reduce the visibility from inside the car, and that the radio antenna could still extend. Oh, and it was also necessary that the engine got airflow for cooling. We started work on the car the same day, and just two days later, two racks were done (the third car was already equipped with an original luggage rack). 15 days later, two luggage racks were made and a week before leaving, they were installed on the two cars. The cars were ready, and we did not modify the cars as our German friends did. We changed the old shock absorbers, and front and rear suspension on Cedric DeLorean on August 4.  On August 8th we changed the oil, coolant and brakes, and we left on August 10th. Q: How long have you owned a DeLorean? I bought my car in August 2013 from California. from the original owner, who had it for 32 years, and he drove it often, while maintaining it. The car was in great condition when I bought it, but after all those years it made sense to upgrade and fix things that were old. So during the past two years I’ve made my car more reliable by changing the fuel system (pump, filter and Avia hoses), the entire cooling system (radiator, etc.) I also rebuilt the entire brake system, and updated the electrical system (alternator, LED bulbs everywhere, red optima battery, etc.). Q: Have you ever been camping with the DeLorean before? For the Italian trip, in August 2015 we traveled 5000 km (over 3,100 miles) in 14 days and visited Annecy, Pisa, Florence,  Siena, Pienza, Lake Bolsena, Montepulciano, Cassino, Rome, Naples, Pompeii, Metaponto, Matera, Rocca Priora, San Marino, Sant’Agata Bolognese (Lamborghini museum), Venice, Lake of Gardia, Lake Como, Switzerland, and Paris. Camping for 13 nights. There was just one night we did not find place, and we slept in the car at the track “Enzo and Dino Ferrari” as you can see in the photos. Q: What was the hardest thing to pack, and how many times did you practice loading the cars? I thought a lot about it and measured each element would be in the car. For example, we did not buy the same folding chairs. I bought chairs without armrests while Cedric bought with armrests. Except for his trip to Ireland did not fit in the trunk in the front for too long 5cm. Same for cots for Ireland, I had to measure to make sure they held well forward. Be clear and decide what we really need. The day before we left, we assembled and disassembled the tents, otherwise, we inaugurated the trip by sleeping first evening in Annecy 😉 Adventure! For the Italy trip in 2015, we did not do the same packing, as we had 3 small tents, while for this trip, we had one big tent. I organized my car like this: Safety first: I put all the tools and repair parts in the spare wheel location, in case I ever have a mechanical problem. One large suitcase with food. One small suitcase with different liquids for the car (cleaning, engine oil, gearbox oil, coolant, transmission fluid) That was the organization of two cars. Since we ended up having three DeLoreans, we could travel with our things equally distributed. (Gas stove, extension cords, tarps, Italian coffee maker, etc.) Q: Do you see many DeLoreans near you in France? We did not see other DeLoreans on the trip, but we met an Italian at Lake Garda who had a workshop. Q: Did you have any maintenance problems on the road? How did you
- [DeLorean Fender Prices](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/delorean-fender-prices/): Did you know that in 2012, a front-right fender for a DeLorean costs about $900? But, at the same time, a front-left fender cost about… $3,500!? While Barrie Wills did not cover this specific question in his book, John Z, the Delorean & Me: Tales from an Insider (get it at DeLoreanGarage.com), he did share this information via email. Considering Barrie’s former position at DMC and his encyclopedic knowledge of the years when the DeLorean was being manufactured and sold, it seems we now have a definitive answer to the question about why front-left DeLorean fenders cost so much more than front-right fenders. Here’s Barrie’s response to the question: Please, share this page, and pass on these details so that we may correct the many years of incorrect information.
- [What does a DeLorean VIN mean?](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/what-does-a-delorean-vin-mean/): DeLorean VINs are no different than any other vehicle VIN out there. But, since there were so few DeLoreans built (9,080 to be precise, according to Barrie Wills) our VINs are almost identical, except for the mathematical check digit, and the ‘serial number’ of each car – that is, the last 5 digits. All DeLoreans were built in Dunmurry, Northern Ireland, and all were built in either 1981, 1982, or 1983. It’s also important to note that the ‘serial numbers’ jumped through the production years. The first manufactured vehicle is known as “500” (00500), and each car manufactured in 1981 had a (presumably) sequential number. The 1982 model year DeLoreans jumped the serial numbers to start at 10,000. And 1983 model year DeLoreans start at 15,000. Also interesting to note, is the “Month and year of manufacture” stamp. While all 1981 DeLoreans were built in 1981, early 1982 model cars were built in December of 1981. And the 1983 model cars were mostly built in mid-1982, but were unfinished when the factory was shut down. During receivership, those unfinished vehicles were completed and numbered with 15,000 and higher serial numbers. To understand more about how all vehicle VINs breakdown, here’s a re-print of an article from Research Maniacs:
- [Uber’s San Francisco DeLorean rides](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/ubers-san-francisco-delorean-rides/): In 2013 Uber hired DeLoreans to give free rides to a few lucky Uberites… here’s the reprinted page from Uber… DeLorean Time Machines in San Francisco September 6, 2013 | Posted by Tess Uber hasn’t introduced a time travel option yet, but you might see shades of 1985 when you open your app today. For this weekend only, Uber has partnered with GE to bring DeLoreans to the streets of San Francisco. GE’s Brilliant Machines campaign uses real-world examples to demonstrate how GE’s advanced hardware and analytical software can revolutionize the way cities are powered. In other words, the GE technology in your DeLorean might predict and meet an entire city’s power needs someday (but don’t worry — these cars won’t be hitting 88 miles per hour on Market Street). How to snag a free ride: Open the Uber app anytime from noon to 9 p.m. on Friday or 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday Supply will be very limited, but if your timing is right, you’ll see the DeLorean option Maximum of 15 minutes per trip and one person per vehicle Brilliant Machines are transforming the way we work, and Uber is transforming the way we ride. History is gonna change!
- [Doing it Right: DeLorean RHD Conversion](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/doing-it-right-delorean-rhd-conversion/): It takes so very much care and work to convert a car to right-hand drive, especially one that was never meant to be that way in the first place: stuff you’d never even necessarily think about has to be switched over, re-routed, and grafted in. I mentioned awhile back that Toby Peterson from DeLorean Parts & Service Northwest was converting an original ’81 DeLorean for an Australian customer, and now it’s finished and he’s written up an overview of the procedure for the Pacific Northwest DeLorean Club newsletter. It’s reproduced in its entirety below the jump. Take a look! RIGHT HAND DRIVE CONVERSION, OR HOW TO FLIP A DELOREAN by Toby Peterson Many local members have followed with interest a project that we recently completed at DeLorean Motor Company Northwest (www.dmcnorthwest.com).  The project involved taking a normal DeLorean and converting it to a fully-realized right hand drive DeLorean.  This DeLorean was purchased by one of our newest international members back in late 2010, and the plan was to perform the right hand drive (RHD) conversion and then ship the car to its new home near Brisbane, Queensland (Australia).  We set a lofty goal of completing the conversion, along with numerous other repairs and upgrades, by April of this year.  As it turned out, the project took considerably longer than expected.  The car was picked up by the transport company on August 12th, leaving a large hole in the collection of cars at the shop. There were no RHD DeLoreans built in the original factory.  A total of 16 cars were taken through a “factory authorized” conversion – 13 black interior cars were done by a company called Wooler-Hodec Ltd., based in Hampshire, England.  Three other cars were converted by another company with different methods used as compared to the Wooler-Hodec cars.  These are called the “AXI cars”.  Of note … according to Wikipedia, only one of the factory authorized conversions had an automatic transmission.  This means that there was only one factory authorized RHD black interior automatic car in existence at that time. The Car – We started with a “typical” 1981 DeLorean sporting a black interior and automatic transmission.  The car is an early VIN with dark gray wheels, and hadn’t been licensed since 1997.  This meant that there would be a great deal of repair and maintenance needed, in addition to the conversion work, in order to have a DeLorean that would be reliable and road-worthy.  The stainless steel panels were in decent condition, with a few dings and dents suffered during its first 30 years of existence.  The frame and underbody were good, with no significant rust or other damage.  The various systems (brakes, cooling, electrical, and fuel) had the range of issues that we would expect from a car that had not been regularly driven in 14 years.  The windshield had minor damage which eventually led to a replacement. Getting started – We decided to keep the repair and restoration portions of the project separate from the RHD conversion portion.  There were many overlaps, of course.  We completed a minimum number of repairs to allow the car to be started and driven around for a functional evaluation.  When the car was drivable, we performed a Full Technical Inspection (FTI) in order to document the condition of the many systems and components in the car.  With the report in hand that detailed all the issues that would need to be addressed for full functionality of the basic vehicle, we began the process of disassembly.  The following list of original parts would not be used in the final converted car – steering rack, HVAC air distribution box, dash board, knee pads, windshield wiper arms, and about 1/4 of the main wiring harness.  These parts and components were removed, to be replaced by new parts suitable for the RHD configuration. Vehicle Controls – The Wooler-Hodec cars featured revised brake systems with the booster and master cylinder moved to the right side of the car.  This allowed for direct connection to the relocated brake pedal.  This method also required extensive modifications to the front fiberglass underbody, including moving the spare tire well to the left side of the trunk.  We elected to leave the brake components in their original locations and utilize a sturdy torque tube and linkage system for brake controls.  This minimized changes to the underbody, and didn’t require disturbing the previously certified and safety critical brake system. The pedal box and steering column assembly were moved over, and mounted to the revised firewall on the right side.  A large bracket was fabricated in perfect alignment with the original brake controls, and a torque tube was fashioned to link the brake pedal to the brake master cylinder.  The various control stalks on the steering column were left in the original configuration relative to the steering column.  The emergency brake lever was moved from the far left side to the far right side.  The wiring in the doors was transposed from one side to the other to allow for the exterior mirror controls to be on the right hand door. HVAC system – The rather large air distribution box in the DeLorean is located primarily in the center and right hand side under the dash board.  This necessitated a change to allow for relocation of the pedal box to that side.  The original assembly was scrapped, and replaced by an aftermarket self-contained HVAC system that could be fitted to the left side.  The new air distribution box is smaller than the original, features all electronic controls (no more vacuum mode switch), and is more efficient than the original.  One compromise with the new system is that it doesn’t have fresh air intakes, so all air conditioning is done with recirculated air.  Australian law does not allow cars to be imported with any refrigerant installed in the A/C system, so this was left “dry” for that purpose. Windshield Wipers – These represented an interesting detail in this project.  The
- [DELAUREN](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/delauren/): Parking is the hassle in Manhattan, finding a legal space then fighting for it, recalling street-sweeping hours or dodging meter cops and delivery vans that buzzcut side mirrors. So if your doorman knows someone at a public garage, as Lauren Reilly’s does, and he lands you a $235-a-month deal in a town where rates approach $900, half the battle is won. It helps to pay your bill, however, a fact the cashier at this midtown garage is reminding Reilly, who’s determined to spring her car, tonight, gratis. “C’mon,” she pleads, “I’ll pay tomorrow, please, it’s important.” Finally he relents, and we stand with a dozen other New Yorkers awaiting their vehicles. Reilly paces in cargo-pocketed Capris, knee-high black boots with three- inch heels, and a long-sleeve T she’s designed with a prototype DeLorean silk-screened across her chest and GULLWING DOORS STAINLESS STEEL FLUX CAPACITOR ON THE FLOOR MODELS across her back. She’s a zaftig, Irish/Italian 29-year-old, with shoulder-length brown hair and a rakish smile. “That clerk is the crankiest of all,” she sighs, “the one person who’d say, ‘No you can’t have the car.'” She pouts. “I was worried I wouldn’t get to see her.” “Her” is Belinda, the 1981 DeLorean she bought in 2004 on eBay, for $13,000 (“I’ve put about $10,000 into her”), and who just this minute is rolling off the garage’s elevator, to the customary oohs and ahs. “Having a DeLorean is like being five percent a rock star,” Reilly says, popping the gulls. “That part gets me every time.” Except for an abrasion on its front bumper, the car looks pristine. Its plates read “New York, DELAUREN.” “I reserved that before I bought the car,” she says, then frowns. “Belinda’s a little dirty, which is why we’re taking her to the car wash.” Reilly slides in and we slip past theater traffic toward Broadway. “I named her Belinda after the singer, Belinda Carlisle,” she explains. “I wanted to give her an ’80s pop star name. I liked DeLoreans, from Back to the Future, and I’m into ’80s nostalgia. Part of that, of course, is my childhood.” She smiles. “Like, last night was my roommate’s 30th birthday, so we ate all this ’80s candy, like Nerds and Pop Rocks, we played all the music, like Blondie, the Go-Gos and Duran Duran, and we whipped out the Atari for Pac-Man and Pitfall. Afterward we went to Times Square for laser tag. The entire other team was 12-year-olds, who actually won. We decided we were too old to be chasing people around in the dark. We stayed there until about two, then we went to a bar until about four, then we went out for pizza. If I don’t see the sun come up, I don’t think it’s been a good night.” She swears at a taxi that’s cut her off, then adds, “That’s my philosophy on life.” New York born, having grown up on Long Island but residing in Manhattan for the past eight years, she does quality assurance/business analysis for a Soho marketing firm. Before 9/11, she worked at The World Financial Center in a complex that was partially destroyed. “My roommate’s building was destroyed. It was her fourth day in New York. She’d moved from Kansas. Her parents said, ‘Don’t move to New York, it’s dangerous there.’ And the fourth day, 9/11 happens.” Here in Times Square, with million-kilowatt signs flashing and the sidewalks jammed, all that seems decades removed. “There’s nowhere I love as much as New York,” Reilly says. “I’m a night person. I like the excitement and I like that there’s always something to do.” She veers toward the Hudson. “Cruising through Times Square is one of my favorite things. It feels like you’re somewhere.” The first day she drove Belinda, she broke down in the Square. “A cop was really nice about it. I didn’t even know how to jump her. I pulled the doors up, I had the trunk up… and people kept coming by. They thought it was a display. They’d say, ‘What are you here for?’ She exercises Belinda most weekends – on trips to Mohegan Sun, Atlantic City, Long Island, or just around Manhattan-in part to keep her battery charged. “In garages, batteries go dead. Once it took them 45 minutes to jump it, because they wouldn’t give me access. I’ve even had it die in the car wash. Which is why we’re circling now.” At West Street, hard by the river, a sign for West Side Parkway Car Wash looms. “If I leave her for more than a week in the garage, she’s filthy-it’s the dust, the soot. Let’s check this place.” She gets out, speaks with attendants, returns. “That sounded sketchy. The office was closed, but I could pay them. I’d rather just avoid it. If something happens to the car, they might say, ‘Oh, we weren’t open.'” She accelerates up 46t-h Street. “Here’s another one. Hey,” she calls, “is your office open?’ A Middle Eastern guy answers ‘It’s close.'” Then he bargains, but Reilly shakes her head. “I’m not really that insured,” she explains. “If anything happens to the car, I pay for it.” She backs into 11th Avenue, against oncoming traffic. “That’s one reason I’m a very careful driver.” We head toward Harlem and, we hope, car washes. Belinda runs smoothly. “Everything in this car is practically new,” Reilly says. “When I bought it, it was an absolute wreck. The windows wouldn’t roll down, the windshield was cracked, the radiator, water pump and tie rods were broken, the hoses had like molded. And every time 1 hit 55, the doors would fly open. I got really lucky driving it home. Now it’s in perfect mechanical condition.” We dodge an enormous, accordion-waist bus. Reilly snickers. “I’ve had quite a few times when I’ve had my battery die, though. One time I drove it in the Greenwich Village Halloween parade, with all my friends dressed as characters from the ’80s or from Back to
- [A Living Legend](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/a-living-legend/): https://www.forbes.com/forbes/2005/0919/090.html#1b13189f6299 Forbes.com Sep 19, 2005 Christopher Helman The last DeLorean rolled off the assembly line 23 years ago. But Stephen Wynne can build you one, better than new. John Z. Delorean died in March, 23 years after his sports car venture bit the dust. Yet DeLorean Motor Co. survives today, in ghostly form. This zombie was resurrected by Stephen Wynne, who acquired the name and the spare-parts inventory of the bankrupted company. He has a waiting list of fans eager to pay $40,000 for an overhauled specimen–renowned for its stainless-steel body and gull-wing doors–and a warehouse piled high with enough stuff to build 500 cars from scratch. It’s still a small business. Wynne, 49, earns an estimated $700,000 pretax on sales of $2.5 million. But there’s plenty of room for growth. In 1981 DeLorean buyers were drivers sensitive to style but not to price tags (the $27,500 is equivalent to today’s $61,500). Fans these days tend to be geekier types whose first exposure to the car was in the Back to the Future movies. Cool, yes; speedy, no. One way to bring more customers into the fold is to boost horsepower. At 135hp the DeLorean is less peppy than the average family sedan. Wynne now charges an extra $5,300 to soup up a model to 195hp. After a recent meeting with Gildo Pallanca Pastor, race-car driver and owner of a tiny car company in Monaco called Venturi, Wynne will soon be able to move up to a 300hp engine with better turbochargers and a wider exhaust system. That might cost an owner $10,000. “In time,” says Wynne, “we could even do 400hp for somebody who’s psycho enough.” Some might say the same of Wynne. In 1980 he immigrated to Los Angeles from Liverpool in the U.K. to help run a European car repair shop. A year later DeLorean launched his car factory in Dunmurry, Northern Ireland–and problems, like melted electrical systems, quickly emerged. “Because of a lack of competition we were doing good business [servicing DeLoreans],” says Wynne. Even after the motor company went bankrupt in 1982, Wynne and his partner had their hands full. They renamed the shop “DeLorean One” and opened a second garage in Houston in 1987. When the partnership soured eight years later, Wynne went his own way. What to call the new shop? Wynne discovered that while DeLorean Motor was still tied up in Chapter 11, registration of the company name had lapsed. Before grabbing the name and logo, he called John DeLorean, who told him, “I hope that you have better luck with it than I did.” Then he hit the jackpot. Like all DeLorean mechanics, Wynne had been buying replacement parts from Kapac Co., which had acquired the liquidated inventory from the Dunmurry factory. By 1996 Kapac decided to get out of the business, and Wynne started scraping together a bid. With a wealthy brother-in-law like John Hargreaves–who founded British retailer Matalan and taught Wynne how to run a business–Wynne thought he’d have it made. But when Hargreaves didn’t bite, Wynne talked a friend into investing, and in 1997 they acquired the entire warehouse and contents, in Columbus, Ohio, for less than $1 million. The retail value of those parts, Wynne says, is $35 million. He moved all those parts–50 truckloads‘ worth–to Houston three years ago, where they sit in a new 40,000-square-foot warehouse. Financed with family money and cash flow, the move and construction cost Wynne $1.2 million. Even with annual carrying costs of $100,000 a year (including interest payments, property taxes and utilities), every sale of parts is virtually found money. A fully overhauled car that Wynne sells for $40,000 starts with a dilapidated DeLorean, for which he pays maybe $10,000. Then his mechanics install parts that cost Wynne $6,000 or so. Throw in $7,000 in labor costs, plus overhead, and Wynne’s gross profit on a rebuilt model approaches $17,000. He can even make money on junked DeLoreans into which his guys put just enough work to get them running. Price: around $10,000. But you’ve still got to bring in the customers. “Everything we do is geared toward selling more parts,” says Wynne. “Unless you’ve got the marketing to do something with it, it’s a million dollars of trash.” That marketing consists of [their website], a showroom, warehouse tours and a quarterly magazine called DeLoreans, which gives owners step-by-step photographic instructions on how to install various parts themselves. Wynne has also licensed the DeLorean image and logo to Sony for use in the videogame Gran Turismo 4. There will be other markets for all those parts. In March Wynne sold his first DeLorean franchise to a customer in Florida whom he’s known for years. Still, the move initially made him a tad nervous: “It was like letting somebody take your wife out to dinner.”
- [Going Gold](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/going-gold/): It was on sheer sentiment that David searched the internet this past winter for information on his father’s gold DeLorean. The last the family knew, it had been given to the William F. Harrah Automobile Foundation. The owner, Sherwood Marshall, had not seen his DeLorean since 1983 when his wife, Maureen, drove it to the back of a transport, prepping it for its journey to Harrah’s Automobile Museum, where it remained on loan until 1986. At the time, the couple lived in San Francisco. Marshall was involved in building, starting up and then selling convalescent hospitals and retirement centers. Maureen had first seen DeLoreans advertised in Harper’s Bizarre. She showed her husband. “He wanted a car just to go down to the office which was about six minutes away,” Maureen says, “and he thought the DeLorean would be great. It didn’t have to be painted. It got good mileage, and he wanted a sports car.” But Marshall had seen some advertisements of his own, particularly one in the 1980 American Express Christmas catalog. Sure it was pricier; but it was prettier. After all, why go steel when you can go gold? Without his wife’s knowledge, he put one gold DeLorean on his American Express card. Little did he know that he would receive the very first of the proposed 100 limited-edition, gold DeLoreans. At the factory in Ireland, orders were taken for only two gold cars. The second was purchased by Roger Mize, a banker in Texas. His secretary, Kate Owens, thought it would be oh-so-funny if her boss bought the car, and she teased him to get one. Mize considered the matter for a time and finally decided that gold was a good investment. In 1980 dollars, one gold DeLorean cost $85,000 – mere peanuts, equivalent to $215,871 in 2005. The flamboyant C.R. Brown, vice-president of marketing, lavished the cars as a bargain, saying that each represented a loss to DeLorean Motor Company in the tens of thousands of dollars. While the idea was tantalizing, the hype couldn’t match the company’s ambitious projections. With 100 gold cars a pipe dream, the factory assembled the dynamic golden duo, under guard and purchased one spare set of electroplated, 24 karat gold panels. These were a precaution, in case a reckless, speeding new owner put a teeny, tiny ding into the body. Of course, everything can be fixed, as Sherwood Marshall was told on the phone. Replacement front wheels cost only $318, rear wheels $364, fascias a petty $778, and the quarter panels a simple $4,705. To replace the T- panel cost $5,984, fenders cost a smidgen $5,990, and the door panel cost a pittance really – a bargain at $24,286. In 2005 money the equivalent rates are $807, $924, $1,975, $11,949, $15,197, $15,212, and $61,678 respectively. Had a clever thief left nothing but a shell of the DeLorean, total gold replacement would have cost $78,866 – or over $200,000 today. By 1981, Marshall had more or less forgotten about it until he received a call from New York. A man cheerfully asked him where he would like his gold DeLorean. “I asked when the car would be delivered,” Marshall says, “and he said it would take three days.” When Marshall realized the car was in Ireland, he asked how that was possible. The man told him they would fly the gold DeLorean right to him. All he needed was the name of a dealership that could take delivery. A Cadillac dealer near San Francisco International Airport said they’d be happy to receive it. On October 12, 1981, the Marshalls were presented with the keys to gold DeLorean SCEDT26T0BDD04300 and drove it off the lot. The idea of storing the car as a collectible didn’t occur to them. It was meant to be driven. “It really was a great car to drive,” Marshall remembers. “It was low to the ground and had lots of zip. It ran beautifully.” “We drove it in San Francisco,” Maureen says. “We drove it to Monterey and to Sonoma where some friends of ours had a winery.” For five months they drove gold in California. Everywhere they stopped – at traffic lights, park­ing lots and along streets, crowds would form. “That was the problem,” Maureen says. Privacy is a luxury more-afforded to those that don’t own DeLoreans, and gold made it worse. Still, the Marshalls zipped along the roads for five, happy months, despite their growing worries that vandals might try to scratch the metal. Gold DeLorean VIN 04301 enjoyed a less active legacy. Upon receiving it that same October, Mize promptly directed the removal of the front doors of Snyder National Bank in Snyder, Texas and had the car rolled into a glass vault. The DeLorean promptly took a nap for 24 years, snoring silently to the delight of thousands of awed onlookers who came from all over the world. In 2004, Mize’s daugh­ters donated the car to the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles where it currently sleeps with only seven registered miles. A third, infamous gold DeLorean, VIN 20105, with its off-tinted, passenger­side door panel, found its way into the possession of Carl Winters, who still owns it today. Disputed by some, the car has the reputation as being the last DeLorean ever produced’. Purists claim it’s not one of the factory-built gold cars intended for the American Express promotion. But some argue that three sets of gold panels were made and three gold cars were built. Consolidated International raffled the car off on December 16, 1985 and reported four million entries. A draftsman named Charley Greene won and quickly sold the DeLorean to Harry Kaufman Motorcars in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. A representative was sent to Columbus to drive the DeLorean back personally. Through a snowy blizzard, the car covered almost 450 miles that day. By the time ownership passed to Winters, the DeLorean had 605 miles and was never officially registered. Today, the Marshall DeLorean resides in the National Automobile Museum in Reno,
- [DeLorean shop steels itself against time](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/delorean-shop-steels-itself-against-time/): May 22, 2005 | CHICAGO TRIBUNE | by Steven Kurutz, New York Times News Service
- [John DeLorean Obituary](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/john-delorean-obituary/): SeattleTimes.com | by Eric Malnic | Los Angeles Times | March 21, 2005 John DeLorean, 80, automaker John Z. DeLorean, the dashing former General Motors executive whose flamboyant lifestyle faded into obscurity after charges that he tried to use drug money to salvage his own fledgling car company, has died. He was 80. Mr. DeLorean, who created the gull-winged car adapted as Michael J. Fox’s time-traveling vehicle in the “Back to the Future” films, died Saturday at a New Jersey hospital of complications from a recent stroke. The innovative car maker — tall, handsome, charismatic, known for his flashy clothes, his lavish tastes and the beautiful women who accompanied him — was acquitted in 1984 of the drug and conspiracy counts against him, but DeLorean Motor Car was fatally wounded. Despite being videotaped in the act of apparently buying cocaine and pronouncing it “better than gold,” Mr. DeLorean never admitted guilt in the case that led to his arrest in 1982. He claimed instead that he was the victim of a government frame-up by drug agents and prosecutors bent on self-promotion, and the jury apparently agreed with him. But after becoming a self-described born-again Christian while awaiting trial, Mr. DeLorean did concede there were some things he had done wrong. “I think my ultimate sin … was that I had this insatiable pride,” he told journalist Robert Scheer in a Playboy magazine interview about two years after the acquittal. “Looking back at it, I see that I had an arrogance that was beyond that of any other human being alive.” It was a pride based, at least in part, on the remarkable achievements of a man from humble beginnings. Born in Detroit to immigrant parents in January 1925, Mr. DeLorean was reared in a working-class neighborhood about a mile from the Ford Motor plant where his father, an abusive alcoholic, was a foundry worker and a union organizer. After graduating from college, Mr. DeLorean found work as an engineer, first with Packard Motor Car and then with General Motors. It was at GM that Mr. DeLorean’s career — and his reputation for creative thinking and bold marketing — began to soar. In 1961, at age 36, he was named chief engineer at GM’s Pontiac Division, eventually holding more than 100 patents for innovative designs. His introduction of two “muscle cars” that proved enormously popular with young buyers — the GTO and the Firebird — led to his being named head of the division in 1965. Within a few years, he was promoted again, to chief of GM’s truck and car division. Nonetheless, in April 1972, as industry pundits were beginning to talk about him as the next president of GM — the largest corporation in the world — Mr. DeLorean resigned. “I realized I would never be happy in the headquarters environment,” he said later. “I wasn’t a team player.” By the end of 1973, Mr. DeLorean had decided to set up a network of companies to design, manufacture and market a sports car in his own image: sleek, fast and glamorous. It would be called — naturally — the DeLorean. He got the British government to invest more than $140 million to build the car in Belfast, Northern Ireland. The rear-engine, gull-winged, stainless-steel car that emerged in 1981 was well received at first and developed a cult following, which helped propel it into the “Back to the Future” films. But the $25,000 price tag was a bit higher at the time than that of the principal competition, GM’s Corvette. The factory produced only about 8,900 cars in three years, and many of those went unsold. In February 1982, the British government declared DeLorean Motor insolvent and appointed a receiver to take over the firm. Short of cash, Mr. DeLorean turned to James Hoffman, a sometime drug smuggler, convicted perjurer and admitted tax evader who lived near Mr. DeLorean’s sprawling home in rural San Diego County, Calif. Hoffman would become a paid FBI informant. On Oct. 19, 1982, watched by a hidden video camera, Mr. DeLorean was arrested by FBI agents at the Sheraton Plaza La Reina Hotel near Los Angeles International Airport. Agents said he was part of a scheme to shore up the sagging finances of his company by buying — and then reselling, at enormous profit — 220 pounds of cocaine from Colombia. Videotapes made moments before Mr. DeLorean’s arrest show him briefly examining 25 kilograms of cocaine and saying, with a laugh, “It’s better than gold.” Another tape, made at a hotel in Washington, shows a conversation between Mr. DeLorean and Hoffman, during which Mr. DeLorean says, “I’m relying on you saying that there’s no way of connecting me to this thing.” “You’re not going to be handling product,” Hoffman says. During Mr. DeLorean’s trial in 1984, prosecutors relied heavily on the videotapes. Hoffman, the prosecution’s star witness, was on the stand for 18 days, testifying that Mr. DeLorean had suggested a drug deal to save his company. To counter the accusations of the prosecution, defense attorneys contended that Mr. DeLorean had been conned by a lying government informant and enticed by prospects of big investments in his dying company. Weitzman said government agents lied, destroyed crucial notes, backdated documents and withheld important evidence. On Aug. 16, 1984, after 29 hours of deliberation, the jury acquitted him on all counts. Mr. DeLorean retreated to his estate in Somerset County, N.J., and began a futile battle to fend off creditors. In 1999, mounting debts forced him to declare bankruptcy. In January 2000, a federal judge approved the sale of Mr. DeLorean’s estate for $15.25 million. All of the money went to Mr. DeLorean’s creditors. Mr. DeLorean is survived by his fourth wife, Sally Baldwin; son, Zachary; and daughters Kathryn and Sheila.
- [DeLorean Plans Comeback](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/delorean-plans-comeback/): Controversial sports car tycoon John DeLorean claimed late January that he was “very near” to finalizing plans to produce another car. He denied that his latest venture revolves around the Firestar 500, the ugly duckling previously linked to his own name. “What I am working on now,” DeLorean told us from his $4 million apartment in New York, “is an entirely different car.” The silver-haired 61-year-old stated that a “well-known” German designer will style a $100,000-plus sports car for him. DeLorean, a “born-again” Christian, who last December was acquitted of major criminal charges for the second time in two and a half years, said, “Interest in investment is incredible. I’m getting letters from everywhere. We have a lot of opportunities.” He read over the telephone one such letter, “just received this morning from one of the wealthiest men in Canada,” offering assistance and production facilities in Alberta. “We have a couple sets of investments available to us,” said DeLorean, “and at the moment, we’re trying to decide which is the better of the two.” He has reportedly raised $20 million. The Firestar 500, trumpeted by one of its backers as “the fastest car in the world” while it was little more than a sketch on a napkin, was to have been based on the DeLorean DMC-12. A New Orleans businessman and self-proclaimed counter-intelligence agent, 48-year-old Gordon Novel, boasted partnership with DeLorean to produce the car. DeLorean told us that he had been introduced to novel by Marvin Katz, an entrepreneur who had bought surplus parts from the failed DMC-12 project, but that he had never agreed to involvement in the Firestar. “I just went along to listen to them,” he said. Novel reassures us, “John and I are still close friends and business associates.” Meantime, about $20 million of DeLorean’s assets have been frozen by court order pending the outcome of bankruptcy proceedings. The British government, as largest creditor in the case, would probably have obstructed any attempt by DeLorean to utilize in a new venture parts or patents belonging to the DMC-12. Motor Trend Magazine : volume 39 number 4 (April 1987) : p22
- [DeLorean Set To Build 'Exotic' Cars](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/delorean-set-to-build-exotic-cars/): Twice acquitted of criminal offences, former auto maker John DeLorean says he is ready to start over with a new enterprise aimed at people who think of their cars more as toys than as transportation. “I’m looking to bring a high-performance, high-priced sports car into the market — I guess you would have to call it the exotic market — with a cost over $100,000 (U.S.).” Mr. DeLorean said he has raised the $20-million needed to build the new automobile, but he would not name the investors who put up the funds, or the well-known West German designer he said would take part in creating the car. A federal jury in Detroit last week acquitted Mr. DeLorean of charges that he embezzled $8.5-million (U.S.) from investors in his previous enterprise, which built a stainless-steel sports car at a plant in Northern Ireland in 1981 and 1982 before failing. It was his second successful defense against U.S. federal charges. A Los Angeles jury found him innocent in 1984 of trying to sell $24-million worth of cocaine. Mr. DeLorean, who turns 62 on Jan. 6, said he has lowered his ambitions since the collapse of his earlier project. “This is a much more modest venture,” he said, adding the $20-million in startup funds is less than the $27-million profit posted by his Northern Ireland enterprise the first half of 1981. Globe and Mail (Toronto) Newspaper – Metro Edition : December 24, 1986 : pB2
- [DeLorean Dream Dying](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/delorean-dream-dying/): The boom that has hovered over the head of John Z. DeLorean since his cocaine-trafficking trial has finally been lowered by a federal grand jury in Detroit. DeLorean was the only one named in the 15-count indictment that charged him with racketeering, mail and wire fraud, interstate transportation of stolen money, income tax evasion, and causing false income tax returns to be filed. At the heart of the matter is some $17.65 million of DeLorean Motor Company funds that allegedly disappeared in an intricate investment scheme. The indictment comes on the heels of an announcement that DeLorean intends to build a new sports car. Based on the stainless steel-bodied sportster marketed in 1981 and 1982, the new car will use substantially more powerful engine which, says one of its backers, will make it “the fastest car in the world.” Dubbed the Firestar 500, the gullwing’s styling is similar to that of the earlier DeLorean, with wider front and rear fenders and an elevated rear wing not unlike that of a Plymouth Superbird. According to Gordon Novel, a New Orleans businessman and one of the backers in the venture, present plans call for the car to be powered by a 4-valve fuel-injected all-alloy V-8, expected to produce in the neighborhood of 500 hp. By lightening the previous DeLorean up to 500 lb, Novel expects the power-plant to propel the Firestar 500 from 0-60 in less than 4 sec and to a top speed of 220 mph with Boneville-type tires. Motor Trend Magazine : volume 38 number 1 (January 1986) : p17
- [Letter from John DeLorean to the Bobs](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/letter-from-john-delorean-to-the-bobs/): Just a few years after the DeLorean Motor Company was shuttered, Universal Studios, Bob Gale, Robert Zemeckis, and Steven Spielberg made the DMC DeLorean a household name, by using it as a main character in the movie “Back to the Future“. The creator of the car, John DeLorean, saw the movie and loved it. He sent this letter to those involved: Lamington FarmRD #1 LAMINGTON ROADBEDMINSTER NEW JERSEY 07921 July 25, 1985 Mr. Robert ZemeckisMr. Bob GaleAmblin Entertainment100 Universal PlazaUniversal City, CA 91608 Dear Gentlemen: Last week I had the opportunity to see a screening of “Back To The Future” in New York, and want you to know I think it was absolutely brilliant. I was particularly pleased that the DeLorean Motor Car was all but immortalized in the film, and want to thank all those responsible: Ron Cobb, Andy Probert, Mike Scheffe and Kevin Pike, for the outstanding job they did in presenting the DMC as the vehicle of the future. They can join my soon-to-be-revived design team at any time. Thanks again for continuing my dream in such a positive fashion. Sincerely, John Z. DeLorean JZD/mwcc: Steven Spielberg
- [DeLorean II: The Comeback](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/delorean-ii-the-comeback/): Who would bet money on an entrepreneur whose last company went bankrupt, who was tried and acquitted on charges of cocaine trafficking and who is being investigated for embezzlement? “An abundance of people,” says Walt Bratten, chairman of Castle Croup, a Newport Beach, Calif., investment firm. Bratten claims to be arranging financing for a new venture by John DeLorean, 60, the former General Motors executive whose first auto company collapsed in 1982. DeLorean has been working on the new project for about six months. He told the Los Angeles Herald Examiner that it was “inevitable that the company come back.” Tentative plans call for building a new sports car that would be similar to DeLorean’s previous model, a sleek machine with gull-wing doors. The new one would have an improved engine and transmission. Analysts doubt, however, that investors in DeLorean’s comeback attempt will ever see any profits. “I think it would be more fun to just go out and throw your money off the Brooklyn Bridge,” says David Healy, an auto company expert at Drexel Burnham Lambert. DeLorean is still under investigation for allegedly defrauding investors in his last company of millions of dollars. Time Magazine : June 17, 1985 : p63
- [John DeLorean Vows He'll Build A New Sports Car At Plant In Ohio](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/john-delorean-vows-hell-build-a-new-sports-car-at-plant-in-ohio/): LOS ANGELES (AP) — Automaker John DeLorean, whose venture to make a stainless steel-skinned sports car failed, says he will set up a plant in Ohio to produce a new high-performance car. DeLorean said in an interview he has been working on the new venture for about six months and that the assembly operation may be established soon in Columbus, Ohio. “I want to be involved,” DeLorean said. “It’s inevitable that the company come back.” He told the Los Angeles Hearld-Examiner that it has not been decided what part he might play in the company if it is revived. Sources in Ohio and Northern Ireland said the 60-year-old former General Motors executive hopes to produce a car similar to the DMC-12, which was built by the DeLorean Motor Co. from 1979 until it went bankrupt in 1982, the Detroit Free Press reported Sunday. “I’ve seen the design on the car, and it’s beautiful,” said Marvin Katz, vice-president of Kapac Co., a Columbus-based auto parts distributor. “It’s all done.” Katz, whose company acquired most of DeLorean Motors’ parts inventory after it went bankrupt, told the Free Press he had an agreement to sell parts to DeLorean if the car goes into production. The new car would be “a modified DeLorean with a larger engine and transmission and wheels,” Katz said. DeLorean’s lawyer, Howard Weitznam, said from Los Angeles that he had no direct knowledge of any new car-making plans by DeLorean. DeLorean remains under investigation by a federal grand jury in Detroit. The jury is reported to be looking into allegations by creditors that DeLorean misappropriated millions of dollars from investors and from the British government, which helped finance the Northern Ireland plant. Toronto Star Newspaper : June 4, 1985 : pE9
- [DELOREAN LAWYERS SEEK A GRAND JURY TRANSCRIPT](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/delorean-lawyers-seek-a-grand-jury-transcript/): By JUDITH CUMMINGS | June 8, 1984 | New York Times from http://www.nytimes.com/1984/06/08/us/delorean-lawyers-seek-a-grand-jury-transcript.html
- [DeLorean feared for kids, polygraph tape indicates](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/delorean-feared-for-kids-polygraph-tape-indicates/): November 10, 1983 | by Linda Deutsch | The Associated Press LOS ANGELES — A videotape of John Z. DeLorean taking a lie-detector test, saying he was “scared silly for my children” during events leading to his arrest on drug trafficking charges, was shown in federal court yesterday. DeLorean, 58, denied on the tape that he ever solicited a drug deal, and he told the polygraph examiner he was forced through threats into negotiating with a government informer posing as a drug dealer. “Of course, my only interest was in staying alive and saving the (DeLorean Motor Car) company if there was any way to do that,” DeLorean told the polygraph examiner just before the test, which defense attorneys arranged. DeLorean told the examiner that he tried to back out of the deal, but that the informer threatened his children and told him, “We’re going to deliver your daughter’s head in a shopping bag.” “I was destroyed by it,” DeLorean said. “I was scared silly for my children.” DeLorean was not in court yesterday for the hearing on the admissibility of polygraph results. The maverick automaker, charged in a $24 million cocaine distribution deal, passed the polygraph test shown on the tape, but a month later flunked a test given by the FBI. Defense lawyers, who plan to seek the dismissal of cocaine conspiracy charges against DeLorean, say they want jurors to see the videotape if the case does go to trial. No trial date has been set. Prosecutors oppose admission of any polygraph results, but say if jurors know of the defense test they also should know of the FBI examination. Earlier yesterday, U.S. District Judge Robert Takasugi ruled that the videotape may be shown on television without damaging DeLorean’s right to a fair trial. In the interview, DeLorean recalled how in 1979 he met James Timothy Hoffman, a neighbor in San Diego, and was contacted by him again in 1982 about a possible investment in DeLorean’s company. DeLorean said he tried to back out of the deal after narcotics were mentioned at a September 1982 meeting, and that Hoffman threatened his children. He spoke of reluctantly going to an Oct. 19, 1982, meeting at a Los Angeles hotel, where he was arrested. “They (undercover government agents) whip out a bottle of champagne and I think I’m toasting the fact that funds are available for the company. They indicate we’re toasting a long series of narcotics transactions. “(A government agent) runs to the closet and jumps out with a suitcase full of bags of cocaine. By now, I’m paralyzed and ready to jump out the window,” DeLorean said on the tape. “I’m convinced if I do anything, I’ll never leave that room alive. And of course, 10 minutes later, they arrest me.”
- [Receivership Declared at DeLorean](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/receivership-declared-at-delorean/): February 20, 1982 | by STEVEN RATTNER, Special to the New York Times www.nytimes.com/1982/02/20/business/receivership-declared-at-delorean.html LONDON, Feb. 19— John Z. DeLorean, the flamboyant American entrepreneur, in a move that amounted to a declaration of bankruptcy, called in receivers today for his Belfast auto maker in a last-ditch effort to keep a slimmed-down version of the company operating. In the face of a weak car market -the $25,000 stainless-steel two-seat sports car is sold exclusively in the United States – and what it viewed as overambitious plans, the British Government, which has already invested $150 million in the project, refused to grant any more aid, ending Mr. DeLorean’s role in car production. Mr. DeLorean, an engineer who had been a rising star in the General American Motors lost $47.2 million in the fourth quarter and $136.6 million in 1981. Page 36. Motors executive suite until he stunned Detroit by quitting his $650,000 job in 1973, had tried to start the world’s first major new auto maker in decades in a strife-torn region of Northern Ireland, where the previous Labor Government had given generous assistance in the hope of providing jobs in an area of 20 percent unemployment and resuscitating the economy. Today’s development threw into doubt the fate of that effort. Not since the Chrysler Corporation was begun in 1920 has a major new American car maker met long-term success. Nevertheless, when he began producing his low-slung, high-performance, safety-oriented car last spring, Mr. DeLorean predicted that the DeLorean would revolutionize the industry. But after an encouraging start, sales slumped badly, and only half the 7,500 cars shipped to America have been sold, even discounted. Nevertheless, Mr. DeLorean said at Claridges Hotel, shortly before departing for New York by Concorde: ”I am delighted at the outcome.” (”We came out largely unscathed,” Mr. DeLorean said in an interview late Friday in New York. ”The Government has the problem, and we have the fun end of the business.” He said that the American parent company, the DeLorean Motor Company, was not affected by the agreement restructuring DeLorean Motor Cars Ltd. Mr. DeLorean, who owns about 80 percent of the shares, said that the American company, which controls the sale and licenses the manufacturing of the cars, would also be relieved of a $70 million obligation to guarantee notes used to build the plant if he put up $5 million, which, he said, he planned to do by next week.) Today, the two receivers, from the firm of W.H. Cork, Gully & Company, estimated that they would have to put together financing of between $75 million and $95 million in the next five weeks, to keep the plant operating. The goal is to sell 8,000 cars a year, instead of the 20,000 envisioned by the 56-year-old Mr. DeLorean. Charges of Mistakes In denying further assistance, James Prior, who as Northern Ireland Secretary effectively governs the troubled province, said bluntly that ”very considerable management and marketing mistakes have been made over the estimate of sales.” ”The time had come when the Government just had to say no,” Mr. Prior, a Conservative, told the House of Commons this morning. ”I do not think there would have been any credibility left in a whole range of matters in which one is seeking to try to help in Northern Ireland if we had taken any other course,” he said. Sir Kenneth Cork, who was joined as receiver by Paul Shewell, said that a number of expressions of interest had been received from businessmen hoping for ”a clean new company not loaded with an overweight debt.” ”There was a dichotomy of management,” Sir Kenneth said. ”I think it was too extravagant a setup for the size of the business.” But he added: ”The receivers believe that there is a market for these motorcars, and it would be a great pity if the skills which have been learned in Belfast were lost.” He said that he would apply to the Government for a short-term working grant. Lien to Government The receivership means that the British Government has effectively written off its investment. However, as the principal creditor, the Government would have a lien on the assets that could be sold or leased to the operating company. Until a rescuer comes forward or the receivers give up, the plant will continue at its current reduced level of output, and the 1,500 remaining jobs will be temporarily preserved. Even before the collapse in sales, Mr. DeLorean had been seeking further British Government aid to develop a second, larger model automobile. The Government had come under considerable pressure not to grant the request because of disclosures that DeLorean Motor Cars Ltd., had just $1 million of private investment, none of it from Mr. DeLorean. In Belfast today, the reaction was almost relief among a work force that had been expecting a complete shutdown. ”It is an encouraging sign at least for the company that Sir Kenneth has given a commitment to maintain it,” said George Clarke, the Transport Workers Union shop steward. —- Statement by DeLorean Mr. DeLorean said in a news conference at the company’s New York headquarters yesterday, that the decision gave the auto maker ”a new foundation” and that it was now ”in significantly better financial shape.” He said he did not intended to sell the company but to get money from American investors to help the company in Belfast. He called ”the continuity of production, sales and service for the DeLorean car” insured.
- [Central Jersey distribution point for import sports cars](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/central-jersey-distribution-point-for-import-sports-cars/): August 13, 1981 | The Courier-News (Bridgewater, New Jersey) | by CARL AYERS; Courier-News Staff Writer Stainless steel autos filling Bridgewater lot The first shipment of the sleek DeLorean sports cars arrived this week in Bridgewater, which will serve as the eastern distribution center for the $25,000 imports. Brought in from Northern Ireland, the cars are lined up on the old Dooley Chevrolet lot at 385 Route 202-206 to be readied for delivery to dealers. There should be 400 on the lot by the end of the week. The unpainted, stainless steel cars, which a spokesman admitted were made with the affluent in mind, are manufactured by John Z. DeLorean, a part-time Bedminster resident. They can hit a maximum speed of 125 mph. DeLorean, a former high-ranking executive at General Motors Corp., shocked the auto industry eight years ago when he left his lucrative job at GM to start his own company. Another surprise came later when he obtained financial backing from the British government to help construct the company’s assembly plant in Belfast. Last April, he and his wife, fashion model Christina Ferrare, bought the 430-acre estate of the Cowperthwaite family for $3.4 million — reportedly the highest price ever paid for a Somerset Hills residence. They live in New York and use the estate’s Lamington House as a weekend and summer vacation home. The automobile lot in Bridgewater, which is being leased from its current owner, is the site of the firm’s Quality Assurance Center for the eastern half of the country. DeLorean could not be reached for comment, but Michael Knepper, a spokesman for the company, said the facility is being used to “make sure everything fits.” The cars get a final cars get a final check before being shipped to dealers east of the Mississippi River. Once the facility is fully staffed, which Knepper said should be within a week, it will take about five days for a shipment of cars to be checked out before being trucked to dealers. He said he did not know how many people would work at the site. “I would hope by the end of next week we’ll have cars being shipped out to dealers,” he said. The center is one of two in the country, he said. The other is located in California and is the distribution point for cars being sent to dealers in the western part of the country. He said that 8,000 of the autos have already been bought by dealers throughout the U.S., who have in turn sold their orders of the highly touted sportscar. “Each dealer has made a minimum investment of $25,000 in equity stock in the company,” Knepper said. The dealers also had to purchase some special tools and spare parts and guarantee to sell between 50 and 150 of the cars within the first two years they are available. The car’s black interior is a mixture of leather and vinyl. The carpet is a light shade of gray and the two bucket seats are genuine leather. Standard equipment includes an AM-FM stereo radio and cassette player, air conditioning, digital clock and electronically controlled windows. It has a standard 5-speed transmission; a 3-speed automatic transmission is available at additional cost. The engine, in the rear, is a V-6 built in France by the consortium of Peugeot-Rennault-Volvo. The company says the fuel-injected engine gets 19 miles per gallon (mpg) in the city and 29.4 mpg on the highway. The automatic transmission engine gets 18 mpg in the city and 24.5 mpg on the highway. There are 14 dealers of the DeLorean cars in New Jersey, including Autosport on Route 22 in Somerville, Knepper said. More than half of the 345 dealers across the nation are GM distributors. The car, the only model produced by the company, has been on sale out West since June. It is now being sold only in this country, and the company is completing arrangements to make the cars available In Canada and Europe, Knepper said. Dealers have received 12,000 orders for the cars from customers who had to deposit between $1,000 and $5,000. Knepper said the company expects to sell 20,000 cars next year. “The only problem we have is building them fast enough.” He said people placing orders for the car might have to wait two months to a year before delivery. Knepper said the car’s “gull-wing doors” — which lift up rather than swing out — are examples of aspects of the auto that attract the people “who buy quality no matter what the price.” Although they are not painted, the cars are “brushed stainless steel,” which gives the autos a silver color. DeLorean left his $650,000 a year job at GM in 1973, citing the company’s growing dissatisfaction with his desire to build smaller and sportier cars. The British government, anxious to aid the economically depressed Belfast area, offered the DeLorean Motor Co. $160 million in grants, loans and equity for the company if its production plant were built in the troubled Northern Ireland city. The 56-year-old DeLorean and Ferrare, 30, have two children, Zachary, 9, and Kathryn, 3. One of the world’s highest paid fashion models, Ferrare was on the March cover of Harper’s Bazaar. She has also been on the cover of other top fashion magazines.
- [Reprint: DeLorean to peddle car in area](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/reprint-delorean-to-peddle-car-in-area/): Since leaving General Motors Corp., John De Lorean has been developing the De Lorean DMC-12, a stainless steel sports car that will compete in the market against the Chevrolet Corvette and similar vehicles. Three Twin Cities concerns have signed up to handle the DMC, which is being produced in Ireland and is expected to arrive in U.S. showrooms by the end of the year. The dealers are Carousel Porche-Audi-Renault Inc., Golden Valley; Key Cadillac Inc., Edina; and a partnership formed by Wally McCarthy of Lindahl Oldsmobile Inc. of Minneapolis and Jim Christy of Christy Pontiac-GMC Village, White Bear Lake. McCarthy said about 25 people already have made refundable $5,000 down payments to the partnership for DMCs, which are expected to sell for $16,000 to $20,000 each. The dealership, called WJM & C Corp., with McCarthy as president, will operate out of Christy Pontiac. At Key Cadillac, owner Adam Stanzak said 10 down payments have been received. He added, however, that “at this point (the car) is still a gleam in John De Lorean’s eye.” The Minneapolis Star, Minneapolis, MinnesotaTuesday, March 4, 1980Page 35
- [The $200 Million Car](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/the-200-million-car/): When John Z. DeLorean startled Detroit by quitting his $650,000-a-year executive position at General Motors, it was with the idea of starting his own car company. This was not thought of as the wisest of decisions. No one in his right mind started his own car company anymore. Remember the Kaiser‐Frazer? The Tucker Torpedo? The Bricklin? But now, six years later, DeLorean’s fantasy has_materialized in the form of a two‐seat sports car temporarily named the DMC‐12. By the beginning of next year, the DMC‐12 is scheduled to roll off a Northern Ireland assembly line straight into the hot exhaust fumes of automotive‐industry competition. DeLorean follows in a classic American entrepreneurial tradition, but his undertaking is still regarded as an outrageous gamble. The last American to start an independent mass‐produced automobile company, and succeed, was Walter P. Chrysler back in 1925. Last year, American auto dealers sold a record 15.4 million vehicles and G.M., Ford and Chrysler maintained their spots in the top 10 of the Fortune 500 list of major American corporations, though Chrysler says it needs a $750 million Government loan to stay in the competition. Yet DeLorean believes he and his new DeLorean Motor Company can overcome the odds against him in the Detroit and foreign‐car markets by concentrating on the prosperous but slightly less competitive American sports‐car field, in which his goal is to sell. So far, he has disproved most Wall Street and Detroit analysts, who thought he wouldn’t get enough financial backing in the first place. He has, in fact, raised $200 million. In large part, it was his 17‐year record at G.M.’s Pontiac and Chevrolet divisions, where he set longstanding sales records, which lured investors. Some 400 of them include Johnny Carson, who will also be a D.M.C. spokesman; there are also executives of Merrill Lynch and Sears, Roebuck, about 300 car dealers across the United States and the Government of Northern Ireland. DeLorean put up $4 million of his own. The birth of the new American sports car really began when General Motors made the mistake of promoting John DeLorean in the fall of 1972. After just three years of running Chevrolet — the company’s largest division — he had turned sagging sales into record profits, and so he was made a group vice president. DeLorean tried to resist. “Nobody had ever heard of that before,” he said. Not that this mattered. The style of this 6-foot-4 misfit — his long hair, Gentlemen’s Quarterly dress, his preference for foreign sports cars, for buying into sports teams like the Yankees and the San Diego Chargers, for dating actresses like Ursula Andress and Candice Bergen, between his three marriages — hadn’t conformed precisely with the anonymous, blend-with-the-wallpaper-G.M.-executive But DeLorean was talked into the promotion and the Detroit intelligence network had him, at 48, all but appointed G.M.’s next president. He was bored by the upper echelon, however, by what he saw chiefly as attending meetings and pushing paper. He also realized that part of his leverage was gone. “In the past, the main defense latio worked had for the way I lived and worked was that I’d made a helluva lot of money for the company,” he said. “Suddenly, ‘When you’re a staff guy, your future is how much they like you.” In fact, one of his staff bosses had told him right off: “Now we’re expecting you to blend in.” So he quit the company in April 1973, shortly after he married a 23-year-old model, Cristina Ferrare. He then spent a year as president of an American business group that seeks to find work for the hard-to-employ. He also began studying the problems and possibilities of starting a car company. The moment G.M. found out about that, it canceled his remaining $600,000 in bonus pay. With that rather important bridge burned, DeLorean realized he had to speed up or get out and walk; he chose the former, and, as the complete car expert (he once owned 40 cars and trucks), selected the sports car as the vehicle for risking his reputation. For one thing, the American sports‐car market was growing (from 6.3 percent of United States car sales in 1972 to 12.4 percent in 1977) and its affluent clientele was less affected by recessions and fuel crises. From his years at Chevrolet, DeLorean also knew that G.M. sold out its 40,000 Corvettes each year and, in fact, “we had to send back 8,000 sold orders a year because we couldn’t deliver them.” Another revelation came during the 1973 OPEC oil crisis: while large segments of the auto industry slumped by 30 percent, “Corvette and BMW went[] For a new company planning to do battle against giants, it made sense to attack the smallest link in G.M.’s mighty chain. The Corvette amounts to 0.8 percent of the company’s 6.8 million cars and trucks produced last year, so Corvette’s tooling costs are higher than most of the mass‐produced models, giving DeLorean a chance to compete. Otherwise, he said, “if you try to play them in the Super Bowl, they’re going to kill you.” The DMC‐I2 will be in the Corvette / Porsche 924 $14,000 price range. At this end of the scale, profit margins are also higher. DeLorean explains that, if you compare the fenders and bolts on an old Chevy Vega with a four‐cylinder BMW, “there’s almost no difference on paper. They’re made within a fraction of the same percentage of rubber, copper, aluminum, plastic, vinyl and steel.” Yet, while their costs of assembly are also about the same, there are astonishing differences in the performances of the cars, their prices and their profitability, principally because of design and prestige. “At that point Chevys were selling for $1.25 a pound,” DeLo“ and BMW’s about $6 or $8.” To get his car into the $8-a-pound price range, DeLorean, who started out himself as an auto engineer, persuaded one of G.M.’s top engineers, William T. Collins, to leave the company after 20 years, and Collins teamed
- [DeLorean, Bricklin Spin New Dreams](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/delorean-bricklin-spin-new-dreams/): Thursday, July 29 1979 | BY GLENNA McWHIRTER | Free Press Business Writer | DETROIT FREE PRESS The Paul Newman and the Robert Redford of the auto industry met briefly at the Automotive News World Congress in Dearborn. John Z. DeLorean, who wants to get into the business of building a high-styled, high-performance U.S. sports car, delivered the final speech at the three-day gathering. Malcolm Bricklin, who did what DeLorean hopes to do and went bankrupt, spoke earlier in the day about his latest adventure: helping to develop and market an exotic piston engine called the Bricklin-Turner Power Plant. The charisma index was high, but neither speaker had much solid information to impart. DeLorean refused to answer questions about his DSV sports cars project, saying, as he has for many months, that he is working on the prospectus for the new company and Securities and Exchange Commission rules prohibit prior public announcements. He promised some information would be available in 40 to 60 days. “We are in the final stages of registering for a public (stock) offering and we just can’t talk. It’s killing me,” DeLorean said. Delorean said Bricklin failed in his attempt to start the first new auto company in North America in 30 years because of undercapitalization. BRICKLIN AGREED, and said DeLorean will do better in his attempt because “he’s smarter than I am.” Bricklin and his Canadian-headquartered company spent about $30 million of Bricklin’s — and other people’s money designing, building and marketing about 3.000 Bricklin cars between 1973 and 1975, when the company went bust. Since then Bricklin has moved to Phoenix and has formed a new company called Bricklin Motors Inc. He is chairman. A Phoenix investor and retired Air Force officer, Robert Whitlow, is a primary financial backer and president of the company. He owns the Phoenix Road Runners, a World Hockey Association team. Bricklin’s fiancee (the wedding is set for Sept. 18 in Phoenix) Colleen McCabe is a company director. There are a half dozen other unnamed California and New York investors according to Whitlow, who said: “And we’re looking for about four more.” Bricklin Motors has associated itself with a Graham, Tex., firm called Turner Re-search Inc. This company comprises Frank Turner, an inventor, and some few people of like persuasion. Turner has developed an unusual piston engine with no reciprocating parts. Much of the hardware in a conventional spark ignition has been eliminated. BRICKLIN claims the engine develops high torque, idles at 150 r.p.m., but can rev up to 9,000, is lightweight, compact, smooth running and almost vibration free. Little is known of its capacity to meet emissions standards or of its fuel economy or durability. The engine has never powered a car. So far only prototypes on test stands have been built and a spokesman for Chrysler Corp. said: “As in the case of all current alternative power plants, this one has some potential advantages as well as disadvantages. We just don’t have any data to evaluate.” Bricklin hopes to Interest one or more of the Rig Three auto companies in taking on the cost and effort of pursuing this development work. Brick¬lin and Turner would receive royalties. Turner himself was in town in 1972 trying to interest the automakers in an engine, which he was then calling the Rotary-Vee. Turner and an oil man-auto dealer-entrepreneur named Fred Boaz met unsuccessfully with representatives from all four automakers. Bricklin said he was meeting with Henry Ford II, chairman of Ford Motor Co., late Wednesday to discuss such a project. A Chrysler spokesman confirmed that a similar meeting with unnamed Chrysler executives was scheduled for Thursday. Bricklin planned no meetings with General Motors Corp. or American Motors Corp. John DeLorean and Malcolm Bricklin at auto congress: DeLorean is trying—amid much secrecy—to succeed where Bricklin failed.  
- [DeLorean cancels car plant in Puerto Rico despite loan](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/delorean-cancels-car-plant-in-puerto-rico-despite-loan/): August 2, 1978 | The Akron Beacon Journal WASHINGTON (AP) — The Commerce Department confirmed Tuesday a proposed sports car plant in Puerto Rico will not receive $40 million in government-backed financing because its builder has cancelled the project. Last Thursday, the department released a detailed announcement of the approval of federal loan guarantees totalling $40 million for the plant, to be built by former General Motors executive John Z. DeLorean. Up the ladder Carl J. Smeller has been named sales manager of Packaging Corp. of America’s Rittman plant. Jens A. Hansen has been appointed director of taxes for General Tire. Richard E. Amos was appointed assistant administrator of Doctors Hospital of Stark County. Marilyn J. Mekeal has been appointed Hudson branch manager by Marsh & McLennan Inc. Edward J. Clark, formerly of Cuyahoga Falls, has been named executive vice president of marketing and research and development for Haworth Inc. of Holland, Mich., maker of open office interior systems. NRM Corp. has appointed Daniel Shiclunan corporate director of research and development and limas A. Koewler director of sales and marketing. Anita Levin has been named director of sales training and development for Goges & Co. Realtors. William A. Shaffer has been named marketing manager-accelerators by B. F. Goodrich Chemical Division. Edward Baumgartner has been named field sales manager for new products and specialty chemicals. Both are new positions. The guarantees would have been among the largest ever granted for the start-up of a new business, although Lockheed Aircraft once received a $250 million loan guarantee to help stay in business. DeLorean had planned to build about 30,000 models annually of the sports car known as the DMC-12, with a retail price of between $12,000 and $13,000, according to reports. The plant was to be located at the site of the old Ramey Air Force Base near Aguadilla on Puerto Rico’s economically-depressed northeast coast, where unemployment is over 30 percent. The island government would train the 2,000 workers needed for the plant. But DeLorean apparently began to have second thoughts about the project. ON MONDAY, Puerto Rico Gov. Carlos Romero-Barcelo said DeLorean had abandoned plans for the plant in Puerto Rico in favor of a site in Northern Ireland. A statement issued Tuesday under the name of Assistant Commerce Secretary John T. Hall said, “The DeLorean Motor Co. decided not to establish an assembly plant in Puerto Rico because it was unable to raise the necessary equity.” Hall is in charge of the Economic Development Administration (EDA), which was to guarantee half of the loan. The Agriculture Department’s Farmers Home Administration was to guarantee the other half. “EDA is, of course, disappointed for the people of Puerto Rico, who would have benefited from the 2,000 jobs and related expenditures associated with the plant,” the statement said. ROMERO-BARCELO has threatened legal action against DeLorean, calling his move “an open violation of good faith.” In addition to training the workers, the island government had also agreed to loan DeLorean $17.7 million for the project, the total cost of which was estimated at $85.6 million. A spokesman for the EDA, Tom Register, said there was “no legal problem I’m aware of” as far as the EDA was concerned. But he did indicate the agency was embarrassed at the sudden turn of events. “We approved the project, and obviously any time we approve a project, we wouldn’t do so if we didn’t expect it to go into fruition,” he said.
- [03787](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/vin03787/): DeLorean SCEDT26T3BD003787
- [Cooking in your DeLorean: To Tint or Not To Tint](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/cooking-in-your-delorean-to-tint-or-not-to-tint/): by Gordon Carpenter | VIN 10987 Having owned my DeLorean since 1985, VIN 10987, I have seen the ravages of UV and IR radiation on the DeLorean upholstery, and have experienced how quickly the cabin of our beloved cars can heat up when left in the sun. My wife frequently points out that the sun is ‘most always beating in on her side’ of the car, or that her knees are burning from the heat through the front windshield. My friends, we can do something about this! Window Tinting used to be something only operators of limousines did for the privacy of their clients. Today nearly every new car comes with tinted rear and side windows. Why? Because today’s window tint films offer privacy and protection from both UV and IR radiation. This translates into less UV damage to your car’s upholstery and lower heat accumulation in the cabin when exposed to the sun. The difference with tint is very noticeable! I started my search for automotive window tinting, focusing on Crystalline and Ceramic products. I wanted a product that would make a big difference for the money I was spending. There are six basic types of window tint that I have outlined below. Search the web for specific details and distributors for each the window tint product in your area. There are many factors by which the manufacturers rank their products, so, at the bottom of this article I have included a glossary of terms to help you understand. For me, the key factors are: %TSER: Percent of Total Solar Energy Rejected %VLT: Percent of Visible Light Transmitted %IRR: Percent Infrared Radiation Rejected and of course $$$: Price! Where available, data for more than 70 tint products have been recorded to the “DeLorean Window Tinting” spreadsheet. Within the Crystalline and Ceramic products, nearly every tint option can deliver 96 to 99% UVR blocking, making this an expected baseline objective. For me, the %TSER speaks to the expected performance once the window tint has been installed. This spec. quantifies to the overall capability of the product and is the one ‘factor’ that all manufactures have calculated for comparing tint products. I was looking for a window tint with at least 50% TSER, and a color that is light enough that the California Highway Patrol wouldn’t notice (and demand that it be removed.) The %VLT closely relates to the relative tint color. Obviously, the darker window tints have a lower %VLT. The California Highway Patrol code specifies 88% VLT in CA Vehicle Code 26708 paragraphs C1 & E1. However, paragraphs C2 & E2 of the same code reference the Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard where a minimum of 70 %VLT is required. With so many cars on the road today using tinted windows, the standards don’t seem to be enforced as strictly. The 2019 Window Tint Specs chart I’ve created shows you the relative color of the Tint films alongside the technical specs. I visited many auto window tint shops learned that I prefer the Crystalline Series by 3M. If money were no object, I would install CR70 tint to the front windshield and CR50 or CR40 to all side windows of the DeLorean (excluding the rear window.) This will result in a pretty clear front windshield and darker side windows. A second favorable option is the Llumar Stratos Series S70 tint film. And a very close 3rd option is the Llumar Pinnacle Series PS50 tint film. In those cases, I would install either of those tints all the way around for a uniform look – that ‘should not’ be considered too dark when compared to the overall vehicle population on the road today. Selecting a tint film for your car can be intimidating because there are many types of films, and each film has various qualities. The challenge is picking a film that meets all of your objectives. For example: Metalized window tinting blocks solar energy very well and adds to the window’s strength and shatter resistance. However, metalized window tint greatly affects mobile phone operation within the car, unless you install an external antenna. Dyed window tinting is the way to go if you have a tight budget, but the overall performance isn’t as good as Crystalline and Ceramic products. Hybrid window tinting is a combination of Dyed and Metalized film, offering the best of each while minimizing the negatives of each film type. Carbon window tint provides many advantages over other films. The unique matte-finish makes it attractive, while blocking around 40% of IR radiation, which is primarily responsible for heating the interior of your car. Besides keeping the vehicle’s interior cool, it also prevents (or slows down) upholstery fading. Carbon film helps save energy by reducing the need to cool/heating during weather extremes. Carbon film is also durable and doesn’t fade like dyed tinting. Crystalline window tint achieves good rejection of most solar radiation (UV & IR) without making the window dark. This is an excellent choice for cars with very large front windshields like our DeLoreans. Price is likely to be the only negative a factor on this product. Ceramic window tint is a high-performance material. Containing microscopic particles known for their non-conductive properties, Ceramic tint is expensive, but proven to have high total solar energy rejection capability. Wrapping up, the price of window tinting can deter you from installing the very best product available. In San Diego, I got a quote of $1200 to install the 3M Crystalline products, $650 to $400 for several of the Ceramic products, and the lowest bid for installing a Nano-Hybrid Carbon tint on a DeLorean was $375. Installing a tint film in a DeLorean is a very tedious and awkward task. The front window is very large, but access to it is limited by the small cabin and the rear view mirror is an obstacle for ‘freshmen’ installers. The side windows are easier, but still require a fair amount of skill. To my surprise, the curvature of the
- [Air Filter Update](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/air-filter-update/): by Chris Miles Many people in the car world like simple upgrades to make their cars better and more efficient. One of those upgrades is about making the car “breath” better. If you have already done the “cold air intake” modification, then there is one other thing you can do – replace your paper air filter with a reusable K&N air filter. For many years, K&N has been a trusted name in automotive performance upgrades. Some DeLorean owners might be reading this and saying to themselves “this isn’t news to me, I already have a K&N filter in my car.” That may be true, as K&N used to make an air filter for a PRV Volvo that fit the DeLorean. K&N discontinued that filter, and they are becoming hard to find. Some vendors might have stocked up of that part, or are selling a different K&N filter that also fits the DeLorean. So, I decided to research this myself and found a filter that K&N makes for a modern car. Taking the dimensions of a stock DeLorean NOS filter, I searched K&N’s catalog for filters that matched as closely as possible. It turns out that the filter used in the Mercedes C Class closely matches the dimensions of the DeLorean filter. The part number is 33-3072. I ordered one at AutoZone and brought in my DeLorean air box to test fit the new K&N filter. It fits snugly and makes a good seal. I think it actually fits better than the Volvo application (#33-276) (see pictures below). The filter retails for about $55. If you buy it locally, you get the benefit of an easy warranty exchange should you ever need to replace it. Some people have their own opinions about the effectiveness of K&N filters – in that case, they should continue to use the standard paper filters. For everyone else, the K&N filter may be a long-term solution for finding a good air filter for your DeLorean. Check the crossover-parts list for other places to buy the air filter, as well as other parts. [telaalbums album=”Air Filter Update”]
- [02186](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/vin02186/): DeLorean SCEDT26T5BD002186
- [Barrie Wills](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/barrie-wills/): Barrie was the last employee of the DeLorean Motor Company, Ltd., He spent 50 years in the automotive industry.
- [Sol A. Shenk](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/sol-a-shenk/): Sol, a Russian immigrant to the United States, started a business in 1967 selling closeout and overstock car parts. The business, Consolidated Stores, took off when Sol switched to household goods. They renamed Consolidated Stores to be Big Lots (which was formerly called ‘Odd Lots’ across the country.) In the lat 1990s, Big Lots bought out Pic ‘N’ Save stores. In late 1975, Sol bought the remains of Malcolm Bricklin’s car company and sold off the remaining 300 Bricklin cars, along with the leftover parts inventory. Shenk and his business partner Jerome Schottenstein invested in DeLorean prior to the company’s demise. In 1982, he paid the Bank of America $18 million for a stake in the company. Shortly after John DeLorean’s arrest, Shenk paid another $1.5 million to the company and took on nearly $9 million in debt to take ownership of approximately $1.2 million worth of DeLorean parts (as well as exclusive distribution rights for the remaining cars and parts in the US.) Soon after his purchase, Shenk began shipping the leftover parts and cars a warehouse in downtown Columbus, OH. He then hired KAPAC to begin selling the remaining cars and parts inventory. Sol Shenk: October 15, 1911 – August 30, 1994
- [03916](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/vin03916/): DeLorean SCEDT26TXBD003916
- [17149](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/vin17149/): DeLorean SCEDT26T4DD017149
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- [DeLorean Interior Sound Level Test](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/delorean-interior-sound-level-test/): Most of us don’t think too much about sound levels in the DeLorean because we’re just enjoying driving the car. But we thought it would be interesting to ask the DeLorean community to do a little test and collect some data on interior sound levels. If you feel comfortable doing so safely, we hope you’ll install this decibel app on your smart phone, and get an average reading while driving the car. Step 1: Install the decibel meter (Android |  Apple) Step 2: Using the app, get the AVERAGE decibels, using these conditions: Drive at 65mph, on the freeway. Windows are up/closed. Radio is off. Vent fan is set to 0 / off. With the app open and measuring, hold the phone directly above the shifter, at the same height as the A/C vents. Take note the AVERAGE decibels, then fill in the form below (and, if possible, email a screenshot to contact@DeLoreanDirectory.com with the VIN.) DeLorean Interior Sound Levels
- [Some interesting DeLorean Census data...](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/some-interesting-delorean-census-data/): The DeLorean Census was started because the existing VIN lists just didn’t have the depth of detail we were looking for about the DeLoreans left in the world. Since mid-2017, the Census has collected hundreds of submissions, primarily from owners, and now it’s time to display some of that data in interesting (although not terribly USEFUL) ways. Over time, as more DeLorean VINs are submitted, whether by owners or just by observers who see them listed for sale on websites or at car shows, this data, and these charts may become useful to the DeLorean community. Useful for how cars are priced when listing them for sale… or for determining a fair price when buying a DeLorean. It may be useful to some owners when working on a restoration, or the data might be useful when someone is writing an article or book on our wonderful DeLorean automobiles. In any case, these charts, and this data, should be at least interesting to owners and fans alike. DeLorean Census Charts
- [06093](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/vin06093/): DeLorean SCEDT26T7BD006093
- [10358](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/vin10358/): DeLorean SCEDT26T2CD010358
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- [DeLorean Floor Mats - Choices, Choices, Choices…](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/delorean-floor-mats-choices-choices-choices/): by Gordon Carpenter – DMC #10987 I’m always motivated to improve the state of my DeLorean when my wife makes comments. After 15+ years of service, the floor mat on her side was not holding its shape, so I decided to replace the set. The grey carpet with the DMC logo stitched in black thread has always been my favorite, but to my surprise it is no longer available. Currently, the DMC logo may only appear on products sanctioned by DMC-Texas. After all of my research, I elected to customize my new floor mats from Lloyds with the letters of my personalized California license plate ‘SEXY 2-DR’ (Sexy 2-door). Here is what I found… Let’s start with the DMC-Texas option… DMC offers very nice floor mats in either grey or black carpet, with a DMC logo. The mats are precision cut to fit the footwells, and come with a ‘nubbed’ backing to ensure they don’t slip around. The DMC logos are NOT embroidered, but rather die cut carpet of contrasting color that has been welded in. The DMC logo is black for the grey mats and white for the black mats. DeLorean Europe is now selling a slightly different version of the DMC logo floor mats. Online, DeLorean Europe still show mats that look like the DMC-Texas mats, however, when I inquired, I was sent a photograph showing a new design floor mat. These new mats differ in the following ways: 1) The DMC logo appears to be a logo patch that has been stitched in place. 2) The mats have a rubberized area, positioned below the driver foot pedals, to minimize the wear from your shoes. 3) the mats have vinyl seam binding stitched all around to finish the mat edge. They appear to be very durable. Custom floor mats with the DMC logo also appear on the PJ Grady website. I was very interested in these, as they appear to be identical to my old mats. Unfortunately, they are out of stock, there is no price shown and new stock has not been scheduled. Of course, there are other sources for DeLorean floor mats without the DMC logo. These sources have a proprietary mat material and already know the shape needed to fit the DeLorean foot well correctly. An example of these floor mat sources are: Lloyds Mats or Auto Accessories Garage. Lloyds will only embroider custom logos if they have copyright permission. Many years ago, the DeLorean Owners Association had permission to use the DMC logo and sold floor mats by Lloyds that looked very similar to those shown on the PJGrady website. To summarize, I prefer floor mats that have an embroidered logo. Embroidered logos remain sharp, they are durable, and embroidery thread colors are more fade resistant than the carpet. Additionally, seam binding around the edge, and anti-slip texture added to the back side of the mat are both very important finishes. In the end, I decided to forgo the DMC logo and customize my new floor mats in a different way. Lloyds Mats embroidered the letters of my personalized license plate ‘SEXY 2-DR’, which expresses my admiration of the DeLorean doors. In case you are wondering, this personalized plate was issued in 1985 by the California DMV, long before life got so ‘word sensitive’ and ‘politically correct’. With Lloyds, you have a choice of 4 different fonts and a wide range of colors for both the carpet and the embroidery thread. And so, for only $30 more on the floor mat order, my Lloyds floor mats are very personalized to VIN 10987. I’m very happy with my ‘SEXY 2-DR’ floor mats. As of April 2019, here are the prices: DMC Store – $149.50 US PJGrady – $ Unknown DeLorean.EU – $98.84 EUR Lloyds Mats – $89.90, Plus $30 To embroider Auto Accessories Garage Hexomats – $54.95
- [03307](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/vin03307/): DeLorean SCEDT26T7BD003307
- [How to Save the DOA](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/how-to-save-the-doa/): by Dave Tavres – February 28, 2019 The DeLorean Owners Association started in 1983 and helped bring DeLorean owners and clubs together from around the world. The DOA did that successfully for many years. They created and printed several magazines each year, they helped owners find parts – and each other, and they became a source of information for the media, as well as a trustworthy source of information for the DeLorean community. With the mass adoption of the world wide web (the internet,) and computers in general by the mid-1990s, DeLorean clubs started creating their own websites, email lists, and newsletters that quickly expanded their own reach. Fast-forward to today. Just about every DeLorean club in the world now has a Facebook page and/or website, and DeLorean owners can easily share ideas and communicate across the globe through a number of different ways. The DOA served the DeLorean community well for many years, but it needs some drastic changes to stay relevant. I don’t want to see it disappear. Many people that I’ve said that to don’t understand why. Most of the time, other DeLorean owners insist that the DOA is ‘dead on arrival’ and just isn’t needed anymore. And I do mean A LOT of DeLorean owners. My response to that is this – there is no ‘mother-ship’ organization that currently exists to help promote the clubs, the cars, the owners, or the passion that the world has for our cars. Aside from DMCTalk.org and DeLoreanDirectory.com, there’s not really any good, singular source of information about the DeLorean. Plus, the DOA owns a very specific piece of IP (intellectual property) that I personally want to see shared with the public, but they don’t understand how to use it, or share, properly. The ideas below are offered to the community, but specifically to the DeLorean Owners Association as a way to keep the DOA from disappearing, and to attempt to make the DOA useful to the community again. I hope everyone who reads this letter will contact the DOA to let them, and everyone know your own thoughts – whether you agree with my ideas or not. The role of the DOA The DeLorean Owners Association should be an overarching “mother-ship” that exists, using these directives: The DeLorean Owners Association’s mission is to: How could this be achieved? Why? Because local clubs will always do a better job of outreach and support than a worldwide organization. Memberships The DOA should drastically reduce membership fees, and encourage owners and fans to support, join, and donate to their local DeLorean clubs – instead of an international group. The DOA’s financial needs should be small, so memberships should not be a source of income. How could this be achieved? Why? The DOA should be a helping hand to the clubs – not the ‘boss’ of the clubs. Also, with owners and fans paying a small amount each year, that means more people might join and could benefit from the information that gets shared. The primary focus of ‘memberships’ needs to be on the local clubs – that is, people should be joining and paying dues to the club nearest to them. Magazines Since 1983, the DOA produced around 100 issues of “DeLorean World” magazine. The DOA should continue to create the “DeLorean World Magazine,” but it should no longer be a pre-printed magazine. The DOA also has a large number of previously printed back-issues that could be sold at a greatly reduced price to clear out inventory, raise funds, and be used for other fundraising. How could this be achieved? Why? The single biggest reason is simple and obvious – just about anything printed in a magazine is already old news. The web and social media now share information in the blink of an eye. DWM should become a historical record of the DeLorean community each year, recapping the big and small news of the clubs, the owners, and the history of the car for that year. DOA Websites / Technology A simple website should be created with this content: How could this be achieved? Why? Because having a central point of information – from a (eventually) trusted organization, would be good for the DeLorean community. As of 2019, much of the DOA website is… D.O.A. with “coming soon” text that has been there for years. Events The DOA should NOT be the primary host or organizer of events. Instead, the DeLorean Owners Association should, when feasible, contribute time, resources, and support to any club or organization that puts on an event that expands interest in the DeLorean automobile. How could this be achieved? Why? Because the DOA is no longer big enough to organize events; they don’t have the experience to host them properly – and – they don’t know what the local clubs know. DOA events detract and confuse owners and fans more than they help the community. Fundraising Some funds would still be needed to cover basic costs for the DeLorean Owners Association, such as legal and financial filings, website hosting, domain names, annual magazine creation, press releases, etc. How could this be achieved? Why? Because there are costs to operate any nonprofit organization. In Closing… The point of this letter is to drive discussion about the DeLorean Owners Association, to hopefully keep it from disappearing any further, and to keep it from further confounding the DeLorean community. While local clubs and groups are the primary driving force for the DeLorean community, the DOA could still serve a purpose – assuming drastic changes are made in a timely manner, and if the DeLorean community as a whole supports the idea of keeping the DeLorean Owners Association relevant. Again, please contact the DOA to tell them what YOU want them to do. And feel free to share your thoughts and ideas below – but make them useful, thoughtful, and intelligent.
- [My memories of Arnie Brandon](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/my-memories-of-arnie-brandon/): On March 15, 2019, Arnie Brandon passed away. Arnie created the very first DeLorean car club in the world – the Pacific Northwest DeLorean Club. He started putting the club together in 1982, and formally started it in February 1983 – and he was extremely passionate about the car, and the club, ever since. Like a lot of DeLorean owners and fans, I learned about the DeLorean from Back to the Future in the mid-80s. By the mid-90s, I was living in the Seattle area and found out about the PNDC. Although I didn’t own a DeLorean, I still joined the club, and I was an infrequent visitor to their tech events and other gatherings – but when I did go, it was magical. I only had a DREAM of one day owning and driving a DeLorean. But, even though I was a kid – without a DeLorean – I still remember Arnie Brandon greeting me and talking to me at the events I did attend. Over the years, I was not involved with the club, and didn’t make any other long-lasting connections, but I always remained a fan. It wasn’t until the early 2010s that I had finally saved enough money to start looking in earnest to buy a DeLorean. The first time I found a candidate for purchase, I called Arnie. Even though he likely wouldn’t remember me, he was my only human connection to the car. Amazingly, he did remember me… a non-owner who had only gone to a couple of events 10 years earlier. Arnie was such a nice guy. He was helpful and detailed in our conversations. He cared about the car, but he also cared about me and my experience with trying to buy a car. Arnie wasn’t just nice on that first phone call – he was nice on all of our calls. Even when I just called to touch base, and didn’t have a car in mind to purchase. Several times over the next five years, when I’d find a car I thought might be “the one,” I’d call Arnie and he’d spend more time with me than I expected him to. He answered so many questions. He really helped prepare me for finding a good car. On November 6, 2015, the planets finally aligned. I found DMC #10515, and as I’d done several times before, I called Arnie. His teachings helped me find a good car. Unlike previous calls to him when I found DeLoreans for sale, this time he said it sounded like the right one. Of course, I was elated to have found #10515, and it truly was because of Arnie that I got a good car. In mid-2016 I started putting together DeLorean Talk – an audio show about all things DeLorean. Of course the first person I thought of was Arnie – he was episode number 1. And as always, he was kind and generous with his time. Over the next couple years, I called Arnie to chat about technical things on #10515, but also about the social and political aspects of DeLorean ownership. I talked to him when I joined (and eventually quit) the DeLorean Owners Association board. And, I called him when I started putting together the Orange County DeLorean Club. He was supportive and positive and helpful. He knew the ins-and-outs of the DeLorean community. He also knew A LOT of DeLorean owners, for a lot of years. He’d been around the block lots of times, with lots of people, but I always got the feeling when talking to others about Arnie, that he was well liked. Unlike myself, he didn’t seem to ruffle any feathers. He was a good guy. I’m sincerely thankful for Arnie’s time and mentoring when it came to the DeLorean world. I wish I had taken a photo with him, but I’ll settle for looking at all the great photos out there of him enjoying his DeLorean(s) and the DeLorean community. Dave Tavres 
- [Cold Air Intake Update](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/cold-air-intake-update/): by Chris Miles photos by @DeLoreanTech When the DeLorean was built, it included systems that allowed the car to perform well in all operating environments. That includes operating in very cold weather. Since most owners only drive their cars in “nice” weather, an easy improvement can be made that can simplify the car and potentially increase performance. Many modern car enthusiasts upgrade their cars to make them breath better by utilizing cold air intake systems, which allow engines to take in more cool and fresh air. A similar modification can be done to the DeLorean. As designed, the DeLorean has a temperature controlled valve that allows warm air coming off the exhaust manifold to be piped into the engine during cold operation. When the car has warmed up, the valve closes to the hot air, and pipes cold air into the engine. By removing the old warm air valve, and installing a full-time cold air intake tube, you remove the possibility of a stuck valve (which would continuously deliver hot air,) and you streamline the air intake. Head down to your local auto parts store and look for a Spectre Air Duct Hose #8741 (O’Reilly; Advance Auto Parts; AutoZone). It’s a corrugated flex hose that installs in place of the original equipment. You can also get the hose in silver, blue, and red.
- [Hagerty Vehicle Valuation Report - January 2019](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/hagerty-vehicle-valuation-report-january-2019/): According to Hagerty, as of January 2019, the 1981 DeLorean is worth $31,800. Click the image to open the PDF report.
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- [LED crossover parts](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/led-crossover-parts/): There are many reasons to replace all of the lights in the DeLorean with LED equivalents. For those who show the car at car shows and other events where you most likely have the doors open/up, having LEDs in the door markers means the battery won’t go dead in a few hours, like it would with the original incandescent bulbs. If you have LEDs in the front and side markers and the rear running lights, as well as the center console and dashboard / instrument cluster, and front and back interior lights, then you can turn on all your lights to really show off! Another good reason to replace everything with LEDs is the power draw – regardless of battery usage. The LEDs use less power, and put off MUCH less heat. Luckily, there are options to replace EVERYTHING (even the headlights!) on the DeLorean… www.DeLoreanDirectory.com/led-crossover-parts
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- [Nick Sutton's 40th DeLorean Anniversary](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/nick-suttons-40th-delorean-anniversary/): On the 40th anniversary of Nick Sutton‘s employment with DeLorean Motor Company LTD., Nick shares his memories of that day… Forty years ago, on 4th December 1978, I arrived at the facility in Belfast as my first working day for the company as employee number 16. I then lived in Leicestershire in England so I travelled by plane to Belfast arriving at about 9:00 am. I had visited the plant previously for an interview – this was late October, just a few weeks after the ground breaking. I say the facility, although it was a single two story building which was to be named the “Training Building”. Only the top floor was used at that time as Dixon Hollinshead, the master contractor, hadn’t finished the renovation of the ground floor. I worked for Barrie Wills, Director of Purchasing, who joined some weeks earlier. I was introduced to the MD Chuck Bennington with whom I enjoyed an excellent relationship. Also, to Buck Penrose, Director Planning from New York, Brian Tanney, the Comptroller and his team. Walking down to the lobby I met John DeLorean, he introduced himself by name – as if I didn’t know. Security was tight – unless we were travelling to the airport or the local hotel we stayed within the Training building from 8 – 6. My first job was to complete a costing on the car – both the unit cost and capital investment. But I had nothing except two photographs. I was given details of the submission to NIDA – Northern Ireland Development Agency (the local Government Agency looking after the DeLorean project.) This wasn’t much help, as the numbers were too generic and non-specific. Chuck noticed that I was struggling with the costs and decided to help. He gave me a plastic model kit (Airfix in the UK) of a Lotus Esprit and I was to cost each item as I assembled the parts one by one. Each evening we left to check in to the local Hotel – The Conway – that was some experience. Although the hotel was only 400 yards away, it was not unusual to be stopped by the Security forces, usually the Army, who would ask for identification and/or to search the car. Arriving at the Hotel, yet more security. A body search and every item of luggage was opened in a shed some 100 yards from the hotel entrance. The year before, the hotel had been bombed and much of the frontage destroyed. This was my routine until the end of January 1979 when I opened what I thought would be my base in Coventry England. Short lived, because I spent two days a week at Lotus and another one to two days in Belfast. Then working both Saturday and Sunday in Coventry. Great thanks to Nick, and all of the wonderful people who were involved with building the DeLorean Motor Car!
- [Nick Sutton](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/nick-sutton/)
- [Chuck Bennington](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/chuck-bennington/)
- [Discovery of Pilot 19](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/discovery-of-pilot-19/): Pilot cars are quite unique to any production run for the automotive industry. They are also never to be seen once a car is in production. These cars are meant to be destroyed and have a short lifespan. What is quite unique about Pilot cars is that one can see the changes, the researched ideas that came to fruition and ideas that were left out. Some ideas in the DeLorean pilot cars may have been changed due to cost reductions like the early seats with lumbar support or the center storage unit. Our production DeLoreans only hint at some of these ideas that were left behind. But with other ideas, maybe it was good that they did change them like the side marker lights flush to the front and rear fascias on these Pilot cars. We can speculate that they were moved more towards the center of the panel for impact reasons. Many other changes, subtle and large were done on these Pilot DeLoreans. For those of you who have been following our DeLorean Pilot car stories featured in DeLorean World Magazine, most are well aware that Pilot cars #20 and #21 have been accounted for and are currently under restorations. To date, we know of only a few in existence and that is why they are so special for the Association to document. Our journey takes us to the county surrounding Temecula, California. For those of you who are not familiar with California, Temecula is between San Diego and Los Angeles. There has been talk here and there about Pilot #19 but for Sascha Skucek, former editor of DeLorean World and past owner of Pilot #21, and myself, this was the last Pilot car that was unaccounted for by our records. We were always curious on what characteristics this Pilot car would have and to my surprise there were a few. It all started when I received an email, being the Chapter 12 director, asking if anyone had an interest in this unique DeLorean. Many have stated in the past to us that they have a unique DeLorean. But once photos were sent, I knew that this was one of the lost Pilot cars. And it was #19. Rewinding back over a year now, I was also fortunate, with the help of Sascha Skucek to uncover Pilot #20. If was only miles away from my residence. To be a part of two Pilot car findings in my vicinity is quite extraordinary. It is like history passing through your fingers understanding how the engineers and designers fine tuned or changed ideas before production. And Pilot #19 was going to be another adventure. Her name was Kathie Carmer. The alleged DeLorean Pilot car has been sitting for over 10 years now. Her late husband, a former pilot, owned the automobile and used to drive it around the airfield. The DeLorean was known in its day by other pilot comrades. As the car went to rest for years, it preserved most of its integrity. As the day came to view the DeLorean, my first big amazement was the interior of this vehicle. The interior was grey. We always assumed that the early production Pilot cars would all have black interiors. Even in the early stages of testing, the Pilot team appeared to assemble a car with an interior other than black. It had ail the signs of a Pilot car. The wrapped leather binnacle, center hideaway compartment behind the window switches and the Renault steering wheel to name a few. The unfortunate missing piece of the interior is the seats. The original seats were gone or maybe not ever there but the big question remains if these seats were actually ever grey and did have the early design of a lumbar support as seen in the Visioneering Prototype. The other distinct feature is the center console area and the unique shaping of its contour. Without a doubt, this was Pilot #19 and it would soon be on its way to a new home in Europe. Front marker lights hugging the bumpers. Unique for Pilot cars. The exterior of this vehicle was painted red. Many people wondered why through Pilot #19, #20 and #21 two of them were painted. The simple fact is that these body panels were never quite finished as we know in DeLorean production models. So the stainless steel did not have that beautiful grain as we know of today. Again, these cars were test vehicles and in the early stages of production nothing was held sacred. The owners that did acquire the Pilot cars painted them for this reason. As I looked around Pilot #19 the obvious signs of the uniqueness of this car were the front and rear quarter panels. The side marker lights were indeed flush with the fascias. Also clearly not seen is the embossed DeLorean letters on the rear fascia. When moving to the front of the car, no DMC logo was present on the grille and the front impact absorber below the fascia was unique in shape. The grooves in the hood of the car are significantly deeper in Pilot cars. One will only tell once the red paint is removed during restoration. Standing back from the vehicle, one can notice the ride height of the Pilot car. It was significantly lower as in all DeLorean Pilot cars. The DeLorean also had low mileage and looking into the engine compartment, it appears that this vehicle was a good candidate for resuscitation. Oddly enough, the wheel rims appeared to have a dark shade of grey on one wheel and a lighter shade on another. These Pilot cars were not out to win beauty contests at the time but used to provide the consumer with a solid production vehicle. It was another great privilege to see a Pilot car and to conclude on the mystery of the whereabouts of #19. The importance of the Associations role was to ensure that this DeLorean would find a good
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- [DeLorean Power Steering - Best Upgrade Yet!](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/delorean-power-steering-best-upgrade-yet/): by Gordon Carpenter I just received the best DeLorean upgrade I could imagine for my car, VIN 10987: The new Electric Power Steering system!  Those who know me would probably agree, I am an early adopter of new technology and upgrades when discretionary funds are available. My car, VIN 10987, was given a Stage I Exhaust and Stage II Engine upgrade in 2003. My full refurbishment of the DeLorean interior in 2011, included Dynamat for noise reduction, a remodel of the center console to accommodate a double DIN stereo head with GPS and installation of an electrically controlled HVAC by Vintage Air. Upon learning of the power steering upgrade for DeLoreans, I was immediately curious. My wife and I have owned our DeLorean since 1985, and she has avoided driving the car because of the difficulty of turning the car at low speed. This October that all changed! Driving our DeLorean became ‘A-Piece-of-Cake’ with the installation of the recently announced Electric Power Steering upgrade. Developed by EPAS Performance in Florida, making U-turns, 3-point turns and navigating tight parking lots can be easily accomplished with the push of a single finger on the steering wheel. My system was installed in about four hours. My wife and I are very happy with the results! When compared to other upgrades available, the Power Steering System is by far the best upgrade for the money! VIN 10987 was invited to demo the installation of the Electric Power Steering system at the 2018 SEMA, Las Vegas show over the last week of October. Having just completed the 665 mile round trip drive from San Diego to Las Vegas for the DeLorean Weekend, driving there a second time in one month made for an easy comparison. Whether driving at highway speeds or navigating city streets, it is a true pleasure to drive our DeLorean now! Wiggling the DeLorean through the maze of narrow aisles in the SEMA building… my 3 handlers were nervous the whole trip, but it was a piece-of-cake for me at the steering wheel! By far, the power steering system is the best upgrade any DeLorean owner can install in the car! Anyone who drives their DeLorean must deal with making U-turns, 3-point turns or navigating tight parking lots will truly enjoy their car after getting this upgrade! Best of all, the system is adjustable, allowing the driver to adjust the level of steering assist they are comfortable with. Don’t get me wrong, the Stage I & II upgrades to the DeLorean power plant are impressive (can you ever have too much power?) – but this power steering upgrade reignites the “new car feel” of your DeLorean! FAQs Q. How long does it take to install?A. It can be installed in about 4 hours. Q. Can I install it myself?A. Yes, if you’re an accomplished mechanic.. Q. What additional machining or shop work is required to install?A. None, The power steering assembly comes ready to install. You will probably need to realign the steering wheel after installation if top-center of the wheel is slightly off.  Q. How much will the whole thing cost me?A. As of November 2018, the EPAS Performance assembly listed for $1,987.52. Installation time may vary some. Labor is about $1,400, bringing a fully installed power steering system to approximately $3400. Q. Will I have leaking fluid problems down the road?A. No. There are no fluids in this system – it’s 100% electrical. Q. Does the Power Steering System make noise?A. No, there is nothing to hear, even when the engine is off and one turns the steering wheel, Nothing! Q. Does the power steering try to return to center after a turn?A. No, the power steering system only responds to changes the driver makes to the steering wheel orientation. Stays right where the driver leaves it. Q. You mentioned the power steering is adjustable… How?A. The system has a potentiometer that allows the driver to increase the power steering assist when needed. I prefer full assist in tight situations like parking lots and 3-point turns. I find the DeLorean only needs 50% assist when driving at highway speeds. Q. Where is the potentiometer located?A. It is located under the knee board to the right of the steering column. If you are left handed, it might make sense to locate it left of the steering column. Q. What happens if the power steering system fails?A. You loose the power assist and your steering wheel goes back to the stock level of effort.  Keep in mind that this system has been approved by SEMA.
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- [DeLorean Time Machine - The "A" Car](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/delorean-time-machine-the-a-car/): by Steve Concotelli This vehicle is the original DeLorean Time Machine immortalized on screen in the Back to the Future trilogy. It’s widely considered to be the most famous movie car in the world. This particular car began its life as a stock DeLorean manufactured in October of 1981. Two years later, in 1983, Universal Studios purchased the car from a private owner, to be converted into Doc Brown’s Time Machine. The design of the Time Machine was based on drawings by artists Ron Cobb and Andrew Probert. Over the course of 10 weeks, the The Time Machine components were built and assembled by Kevin Pike and his team at Filmtrix. Michael Scheffe served as the Construction Coordinator on the project. He was responsible for acquiring pieces for the vehicle and supervising the construction. Scheffe also designed several components on the Time Machine, including Mr. Fusion. Once completed, the vehicle received the designation of the “A” Car or “Hero” car – due to the fact that this vehicle was the first Time Machine built for Universal. It was also the most detailed, both inside and out. Two other Time Machines were also built for Back to the Future, including a stunt car (designated the “B” Car) and a process car (the “C” Car) that was cut in half, in order to film inside the vehicle. While all of the Time Machines were meant to be identical – there were differences between the vehicles. Most notable were the Time Circuits. Originally, all three vehicles had Time Circuits with numeric-only displays. So, the date October 26, 1985 read 10-26-1985. However, Bob Zemeckis and Bob Gale felt that a row of numbers made it too difficult for the audience to read. Since production was already underway, the Special Effects team quickly changed the “B” and “C” Car Time Circuits to alphanumeric displays. So October 26,1985 reads OCT-26-1985. These are the Time Circuits fans are familiar with. However, since the “A” Car wouldn’t be used for interior close-ups, they didn’t swap out the Time Circuits in that vehicle. So, the Time Circuits in the “A” Car are technically wrong! You can see the “A” Car’s numeric Time Circuits in several shots when Einstein is sitting in the car during the Twin Pines Mall scene. The “A” Car received the most screen time in Back to the Future and was used for all the beauty shots in the film, including the iconic shot of the Time Machine rolling out of Doc Brown’s truck. The “A” Car was also used extensively in Back to the Future Part 2 and Part 3. It also appeared on camera for the Huey Lewis “Power of Love” video, as well as Back to the Future the Animated Series and Secrets of the Back to the Future Trilogy with Kirk Cameron. After the trilogy, the “A” Car served as a tourist attraction at Universal Studios Hollywood. Sometimes, it was displayed in front of Back to the Future: The Ride. Other times, Doc Brown character actors drove the vehicle through the park as they interacted with guests. Through the years, thousands of fans had their picture taken next to the car, in the car, or sometimes even sitting on the car. When Doc wasn’t using the car, it was often kept on the backlot – unlocked, with the keys in the ignition. There are reports that several fans discovered this fact and made their way onto the Universal backlot. There, they were able to locate the Time Machine, open it up and start it up. To make matters worse, some fans who desired a souvenir went so far as to steal pieces off the car. Over time, many of the most iconic pieces went missing, including Mr. Fusion, the Time Circuits and the Flux Capacitor. As a movie prop, the Time Machine was built to look good on camera – not to be long lasting. Many of the pieces used to build the Time Machine were fragile – being made of glass, neon, and wood. Unfortunately, the Time Machine was not able to withstand the daily barrage of park guests poking, pulling, touching, and prodding the vehicle. Many pieces on the car were broken or damaged as a result. Adding to the car’s problems was the weather. When the car wasn’t in use, it was parked outside – where sun and rain caused significant damage to the fragile Time Machine pieces, as well as the vehicle itself. Holes drilled throughout the car’s panels allowed water and moisture to get inside. The back window had also been removed to make room for the Time Machine components – which meant the car was no longer waterproof. When it rained, the water found its way into the bulkhead, wreaking havoc on the car’s electrical systems. Throughout the years, Universal’s transportation team worked to keep the vehicle running. While they did attempt to repair the Time Machine components, accuracy was not a major consideration. Pieces were altered or put back on the car incorrectly. A pair of stereo speakers were added to the pontoons, allowing the car to blast music wherever it went. The rear vents, originally painted with heat and oil splatter effects, were inaccurately painted black. While the “A” Car suffered, the other screen used Time Machines fared even worse. The “B” Car was destroyed by the train at the end of Back to the Future Part 3. The “C” Car was eventually disposed of. This meant that the “A” Car was the only original Time Machine left from the first film – adding to its significance. As the years passed, the condition of the car deteriorated to the point where the vehicle no longer functioned. At that point, Universal put the car on permanent display along the tram route, along with several other picture cars. A large tarp structure was built to help protect the vehicles from the elements. But by that point, it was too late. Birds, mice and cats had
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- [Bar Keepers Friend Soft Cleanser](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/bar-keepers-friend-soft-cleanser/): Tried, and true… the liquid Bar Keepers Friend soft cleanser does a great job finishing the stainless. You can also use the powered stuff, but the premixed bottles make the already work-intensive process a bit easier. Only work on “small-ish” areas at one time, as the liquid often dries faster than you want, which means more work to clean it off. If you start one the right (or left) half of the hood, always work WITH the grain (obviously,) by either wetting the surface, then squirting on a healthy amount of BKF, and giving it a good, deep clean. You can also squirt it right onto a wet cloth and work one area at the time, between wash-downs. Keep in mind – after you do a good cleaning with the BKF, you’ll still want to wash the car afterwards, and/or use some stainless steel cleaner to bring out the final shine. It’s quite amazing how much better the stainless looks after BKF.
- [Social Media for DeLorean Clubs](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/social-media-for-delorean-clubs/): After having conversations with a few DeLorean club/organization group leaders, I was prompted to restructure how the Orange County DeLorean Club’s social media is setup. Mainly, to distinguish the difference between a “Public Page” vs. a “Closed Group” on Facebook. Facebook has three main user formats: There are also three main distinctions for groups. They can be public, closed, or secret. The OCDC has two Facebook formats, a public page and a closed group. The main reason for having a closely restricted, closed group, is to foster discussion and communication among those who are involved with the local group. On rare occasions, DeLorean owners outside of Orange County are added to the group, but again, this is rare. By keeping the closed group limited only to people who live in Orange County, AND who own a DeLorean, the expectation and hope is that the local community can build up a trust and relationship with each other. Lastly, the Orange County DeLorean Club has a mailing list that anyone is encouraged to join. Almost all of the emails will be related to local events and gatherings, so those outside of the area may get bored with the content… but they may also get ideas for their local DeLorean clubs/groups. I hope this article can help other DeLorean clubs and groups around the world figure out how to best serve their local community. Driving a DeLorean is fun – but it’s SO MUCH MORE FUN when you get together with other DeLoreans.
- [Facebook Discussions and Comments](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/facebook-discussions-and-comments/): Discuss
- [Sonax Wheel Cleaner Plus is Magic on DeLorean Rims](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/sonax-wheel-cleaner-plus-is-magic-on-delorean-rims/): Sonax Wheel Cleaner Plus is magic! Well, it’s magic for any DeLorean owner who has ever spent hours with rags and tooth brushes trying to clean between every fin of the DeLorean rims. Why is it magic? With very little effort, 98% of the brake dust that gets caked onto the rims comes off, leaving them surprisingly clean. With a few sprays of the bottle, a few minutes of waiting, and a hose, your rims can look pretty amazing. And if you want to get that last 2%, break out the brush and the remaining brake dust comes off easily. We used a home pressure-washer when cleaning off the Sonax, but many people on YouTube who recommend Sonax use hoses. We took all four rims off the car to install DeLorean Go’s Brake Dust Shields, so figured we’d ‘super-clean’ the rims – outside and inside. The Sonax did an amazing job cleaning the inside, which had decades of baked-on, caked-on brake dust. (Who ever cleans the INSIDE of the rims… other than Col Bennett?) We did try a large scrub brush for a minute while cleaning the inside, but it didn’t seem to do any better than the pressure-washer. Check out the before-and-after photos below. The instructions specifically say to spray the rims when they are cool and DRY. Do NOT wet them first. Within a few moments of spraying a dry rim, you’ll see the liquid turn a deep purple and start dripping down the rim. As most of us know, in order to get into the nooks-and-crannies of the fins, you need to get some weird angles. Of course, taking the rim off the car made it much easier. And I would say, don’t be shy when spraying. Get a good coat of the liquid on the rim. The instructions then say to wait 2-4 minutes before hosing it off. Another interesting note – Sonax is acid-free! Which means it won’t damage your rims. As of this writing, Sonax Wheel Cleaner Plus is about $18 for a 16.9 oz. bottle. Based on our usage, I estimate that one bottle will clean (just the ‘outside’) all four rims, two times. Check out the photos and video if your skeptical – then gamble $20 on buying a bottle and give it a try – THEN, share your comments below.
- [DeLorean Talk - Mike Persyn](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/delorean-talk-mike-persyn/): Mike Persyn shares his DeLorean story, and Dave Tavres talks about their odd connection over finding Mike’s stolen (and destroyed) DeLorean.
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- [The 'Gold-plated' DeLoreans](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/the-gold-plated-deloreans/): by Barrie Wills, with acknowledgements to Stuart Craven, Nick Sutton‘s book The DeLorean Story, the Sunday Times newspaper, and the DeLorean Motor Company website. In the fall of 1980, John Z. DeLorean was in Dunmurry for one of his ‘in and out’ day visits, and all seemed quiet, as everything at this stage by our standards, seemed to be going reasonably smoothly. Everyone in the company was working flat out. The peace was broken when director of manufacturing George Broomfield, director of engineering administration and quality, Mike Loasby and I were asked to join John Z and managing director Charles K. Bennington in the boardroom. We arrived with hastily written crib sheets, from which we could update the chairman on our respective progress. John Z was at his most convivial when we opened the conference room door and filed in. He went straight to the point and told us the American Express Christmas Mail Order Catalogue had the largest circulation of any across the US. How interesting, I recall thinking. He went on to astonish us all by announcing he had finalized a deal for its front cover to feature a picture of a gold DMC-12. That’s good, we thought. Then came the punchline: ‘ … and inside we will be offering to sell 100 24-carat gold-plated cars at $85,000 each to the first comers.’ We stared at each other in disbelief. It was not as if we hadn’t enough to do, without a side issue of this magnitude to account for. But this was for real, even though New York-based DeLorean PR chief Mike Knepper thought the idea came from John Z’s interior decorator Maur Dubin. John Z was not joking – the deal was done. The cars were to be delivered to the lucky buyers by October 1981. My mind went back to my youth. I had grown up at the bottom of the hill leading to the Daimler factory in Radford, Coventry. I remembered the ‘jungle drums’ doing the rounds when I was about 13. Somehow, we local urchins got to know when the chairman of Daimler’s wife, Lady Norah Docker, was about to appear in her Daimler DK400 Coupe, complete with seats trimmed in natural zebra hide and gold-plated bright body fittings. We would congregate until it passed us. That car’s components were only 14-carat gold. Cheapskate! Once the three of us had left the boardroom, we all agreed no one would be crazy enough to buy one. So we could get on with the job and wait for it to go away. But it didn’t. By the Spring of 1981 we were shocked to learn from John Z that two cars had been ordered – not 100, fortunately. In a way though two were as big a problem as would 100 have been as no-one had a clue whether stainless steel could be gold-plated successfully. We also learned the front and rear fascias and road wheels were to be painted a ‘matching’ gold colour, and that specially-designed exhaust tips manufactured by trusted supplier Prescott Powell, wheel nuts, door hinges, rivets for the door seals, other visual small metal pressings, and the aluminium front DMC logo were required to be gold-plated too. Knowing it had been impossible to match a silver painted fascia with the normal grained stainless steel, an ‘executive decision’ was made to ask the fascia supplier Phoenix to paint three (including a spare set of course) to an acceptable contrast in line with the policy adopted for production cars. A deal was also negotiated with GKN Alloys for the painting of three sets of road wheels to a ‘gold’ colour to compliment the plated skin panels. As the gold-plating of the grade 304 stainless steel was to be the most demanding element of the process, after I consulted with production purchasing manager Nick Sutton in the Coventry office, senior buyer Stuart Craven, the most technically-qualified of the Coventry purchasing team, was given the job of leading the project. He was supported by Len Nelson of quality engineering; Martin Mail, our new product planning manager; and George Fraser of material control manager Martin Graham‘s material handling team. Stuart undertook a review of gold-platers in the UK and mainland Europe, quickly finding out hardly any had the processing equipment capable of plating the size of panels in the DeLorean’s body shell. Very soon he focused his attention on the well-proven plating expertise of the large German chemical conglomerate Degussa. Degussa’s payment terms demanded the gold itself should be paid for up-front. I swallowed hard, conferred with director of finance Joe Daly and financial controller David Adams, and agreed to pay the $45,000 that represented, at the same time as Nick Sutton’s team’s order was placed. Despite their impressive facilities, a larger purpose-built plating vat was required, estimated to cost $37,000. By comparison, the plating process itself represented a meagre $15,000. In view of the number of unknowns relating to the likelihood of success, Degussa went the whole hog and asked for a total (including ancillary costs) of $131,000 up front. All for three sets of panels and door assemblies, one each for the two cars bearing a selling price premium of $60,000 each, and a third in case anything went wrong and if available – as most did – to be held as spares in Irvine, California. The only concession we managed to negotiate was that of a refund for any gold left over in the vat after plating – small mercies – and a chance perhaps to make up for the nett loss (before labour and overhead costs at Dunmurry) of $11,000. As Stuart got deeper into discussions with Degussa, it became clear they were more than sceptical about the likelihood of success. To Stuart’s shock they asked whether the plating could be carried out at Dunmurry to avoid damage to the panels after plating – with them providing the process know-how, the electrolyte solution, specialist platers and other processors. Stuart didn’t bother to
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- [3 Deloreans on a Farm](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/3-deloreans-on-a-farm/): Found on a website called “CarsInBarns.com” these three DeLoreans are somewhere in Ohio. There’s no contact info for “Ian” or any other details. If you have any info, contact us, or add comments to the Discussion section below. “I first spotted these rotting Deloreans about a year ago. Then earlier this week, I saw them again and thought of your site. I know they aren’t exactly ‘American Muscle Cars’, but when was the last time you saw an abandoned Delorean? Well, here’s three of them! The whole property looks abandoned, in fact I’ve never noticed anything change or move during the many years I’ve been driving by this property. – From Ian in Ohio” Discuss
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- [They All Look The Same... But they Aren't](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/they-all-look-the-same-but-they-arent/): by Gordon Carpenter (DMC #10987) & Dara Solo More than 50 DeLoreans attended the 2018 DeLorean Convention and Show at Pheasant Run Resort in St. Charles Illinois. While glancing at all of these gleaming beauties, one might say ‘They All Look The Same’… But they Aren’t! I took it upon myself to find and photograph the ‘Custom’ of every DeLorean at the show, and ended up taking over 300 photos! Personalizing your DeLorean while maintaining the key design elements has always been my passion. I was happy to discover that many of the participants at the 2018 DCS have been very creative in adding their own unique touches. Here are a few that caught my attention… VIN 01115 Owner Unknown (can anyone help here?), gave 01115 an interior makeover that grabs your attention like no other. The seats have been recovered with a soft, velvety, textured material. The Binnacle, dash center console, and shift boot have all been recovered in a red vinyl. The center console instrumentation has been redesigned to include a Double DIN stereo head unit, bright stainless steel knobs to control the AC, the stock manual shift ball has been replaced with a stainless steel knob, and the ashtray has been transformed to a cup holder. Last but not least, the steering wheel and turn indicator housing were painted red to match. From any angle, this interior is beautiful! VIN 05180 Owner: Dennis Schlieckau outfitted 05180 with custom luggage from www.HillsAliveLuggage.co.uk that goes perfectly with the DeLorean styling. Dennis elected to remove the spare tire and position the first piece in the now-empty well. Then two identical primary luggage pieces, beautifully tapered to fit our unique trunk, are positioned above the circular luggage piece. Hills Alive added a snap-on bag to utilize the space opposite the gas fill protrusion. All four pieces fit perfectly in the trunk space! And there is more… Behind the two passenger seats, two more suitcases expertly fit on the parcel shelf! I estimate that Dennis and his wife could easily take a 3-week vacation and never have to visit a laundromat on their travels! VIN 10205 Owner: Matt Slaw has a great example of a fully painted DeLorean. I love painted DeLoreans as much as I love the Stainless body. In every case I have observed, the front and rear fascias blend better with the body panels on painted cars, creating the illusion of a wider stance. While listening to a recording of a John DeLorean interview, presented by John Lamm at the 2018 DCS Tech Talks, we learned that painted DeLoreans were definitely on the horizon, maybe as early as the 1984-85 production run. This fire engine red paint job is amazing from any angle, and I am sure that it would have received two thumbs up from John DeLorean! VIN 03513 Owner: Kolin Brown has decorated his car with cool vinyl graphics from a collection of automotive sponsors, giving the car a NASCAR vibe. Additionally, this DMC-12 sports a ‘ground effects’ kit that completes the race car package. VIN 10270 Owner: Luke Sandel drives 10270 on RAYS Volk TE37 wheels that are very popular with performance enthusiasts. Custom wheels for a DeLorean are not a simple task considering how unique the dimensions of stock DeLorean wheels are! I know, as I have been searching for my ‘holy wheels’ for a decade or more! The wheels chosen by Luke are especially interesting because of the contrasting style and color. Even with 10mm wider tires (205 and 245), approximately 4 lbs. per wheel of weight savings is realized. Luke has upgraded 10270 with a single water-cooled Garrett T3 ‘Mr. Turbo’ feeding the stock Delorean engine. At 6 pounds of intercooled boost, Luke is experiencing approximately 170 HP at the wheels. At the heart is a Megasquirt 3 sequential EFI system, providing boost control and safety monitoring of air/fuel ratio, boost level, and engine knock. Boost begins at 1800 RPM providing seamless power during any driving condition. For long range trips, 30+ MPG is obtainable at 70MPH. VIN 06138 Owner: Diane Bailey’s 6138 has a trunk that is worth seeing! The carpet has been replaced with a well-fitted piece of plywood sporting a large DMC logo. Then you will notice that the whole trunk has been coated with a ‘LineX – Rhino Lining’ style coating. What a beautiful surprise for a part of the DeLorean that is usually overlooked. VIN 10410 Owner: Nathan Schmucker rolls 10410 on four custom wheels that we may be seeing a lot more of. These wheels are just like the stock 14”/15” front/rear DeLorean wheels, except that they are 17”/18” in diameter. DMC Houston currently offers these ‘Billet’ wheels on a ‘custom-made and non-cancellable order’ basis. Nathan has swapped the stock DeLorean engine for a Toyota 2JZ Supra engine, a 3.0 liter turbocharged inline 6 cylinder that delivers an amazing 400hp at the wheels! Affectionately known as “2JZD”, it was owned by Nathan’s father, the late Cliff Schmucker. Cliff made many upgrades including a computerized engine management system, a digital RPM relay, 11” vented and slotted brake rotors, upgraded gas shocks and adjustable rear lower control arms. Even in a room full of DeLoreans, this car is an attention-getter! VIN 10574 Owner: Dennis Adams’ 10574 rides on four customized DeLorean wheels. Dennis shared that he first stripped the wheels of all paint, then powder coated each entire wheel. Later he had each wheel machined to expose the bright metal shown in the photo and finish each wheel up with a thin clear coat. The black paint of the DeLorean body and the wheels are stunning together. VIN 07104 Owner: Eric Weber has an amazing stereo/audio system installed in 7104. The amplifier is the largest I have ever seen and occupies a good portion of the trunk. Behind the seats and beautifully installed in a sculpted cabinet, are two speakers obviously capable of handling the output of the amplifier in the trunk. I can only imagine the abilities
- [There are NO "Factory Painted" DeLoreans](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/there-are-no-factory-painted-deloreans/): There are many DEALER painted DeLoreans out there, but according to Joe Murray, the person in charge of painting at the DMCL factory (at about 16 minutes, 51 seconds in this video): “There was never, never ever, a DeLorean motor car painted in this factory. Anything that was painted in this factory, I painted. And there wasn’t any cars, wasn’t a DeLorean car painted. Every car that left here was stainless steel.”
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- [DeLorean project unfairly maligned](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/delorean-project-unfairly-maligned/): September 20, 2018 | Belfast Telegraph / PressReader The Venice Film Festival review in the Belfast Telegraph September 15 (Cocaine, Catastrophes, and Crazy Cars: the battle to make the John DeLorean biopic Driven) is disappointing. It appears to overdose as a critique of the DeLorean car, manufactured in Dunmurry in the ’80s, in preference to focusing on the movie itself. Better the story itself than the facts, it appears, following in the wake of Bruce Gardyne’s statement in the House of Commons, under the protection of parliamentary privilege, that John DeLorean was a “conman”. As many of your readers, who were former employees, know, 6,500 cars of the total manufactured of 9,080, shipped almost exclusively to the USA, remain in use 36 years later – across the world from the west coast of North America to New Zealand. That is a remarkable statistic which is testament to John DeLorean’s aim to develop the ethical car. Whilst my 2015 book, John Z, the DeLorean & Me – Tales from an Insider, sets out to correct the many myths, it is critical of my former chairman. It does, however, lay the blame for the bad press towards the DeLorean project in the UK fairly and squarely on the seeds sown by Bruce Gardyne. BARRIE WILLS Former CEO of DeLorean Motor Cars Ltd Warwick
- [06668](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/vin06668/): DeLorean SCEDT26TXBD006668
- [90 Degree Fuel Filter Fitting](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/90-degree-fuel-filter-fitting/): by Ryan Foster (VIN #06668) Have you installed a new fuel filter, just to start up the DeLorean and see fuel pouring out from the filter that you just installed? Well, that stock 90-degree fitting is usually the culprit. I recently experienced this problem myself. When I was installing the new fuel filter, I cranked on the compression fitting, and for the life of me could not get the hard line that goes into the filter to stop leaking. So, I got in contact with Josh at Delorean Performance industries (DPI) and he told me he had an updated 90-degree fitting that can be reused, and doesn’t need to be so tight. I ordered it right away. The kit comes with a new fuel filter, the elbow and copper washers needed to install. Part number 100523K. Below is a pic of the new elbow installed. The kit is very easy to install. Just install the elbow to the filter. No thread sealer needed. Install it dry. You’ll need a small tubing cutter (picked up at a local hardware store) to cut the end of the hard-line off as close to the end as possible. WARNING: Do not use a grinder or a cut off wheel as you will create heat and sparks and there is fuel in the line. The old elbow off the car looks like this: You can see how much of the line had to be removed to get the compression fitting off. The new elbow is reusable, and if you need a new compression fitting, DPI sells those too. Job takes about 45 mins tops using basic tools.
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- [303 Aerospace Protectant](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/303-2/): 303 Aerospace Protectant is quite amazing. It brings back the ‘black’ of the rubber and plastic on the DeLorean, and protects it at the same time. It’s especially noticeable when you give your louvre / sunshade a good spray-down, then LEAVE IT for a day or two to soak in, then wipe it down. Although it isn’t cheap, it’s a great product that many DeLorean owners recommend. Made by 303 Products
- [Optimum Opti-Bond Tire Gel](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/optimum-opti-bond-tire-gel/): If you’ve been looking for that ‘clean’ tire dressing that doesn’t make your DeLorean tires look like they’ve been dipped in a swimming pool, try “Opti-Bond Tire Gel.” “This stuff is friggin amazing. Balances out the rubber, hides discoloration imperfections, and makes them look like showroom-new tires – with a very low-gloss, eggshell-like finish.” – NorCal DeLorean Club Member [flickr_tags tags=”DD11267″]
- [DeLorean Owners Manual Disambiguation](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/dmcmanuals/): by Chris Miles Did you get an owners manual with your DeLorean when you bought it? Did you know the owners manual is unique to the model year? There are actually three different versions of the owner’s manual (or Handbook). For 1981 models, DMC called it the “Owners Manual.” For the 1982 and 1983 model years, they called it the “Owners Handbook”, even though they all contained the same information. All 1981 model cars were supposed to ship with spiral bound owners manual. It featured black and white photographs documenting various parts of the car. The manual came in a pouch style valet case along with other documentation. When the 1982 cars rolled out, DMC had “cheapened” the manual by going to the booklet format, with simple line drawings, and calling it the “owner’s handbook”. It had a black cover with a graphic of the car and had beige accented pages. It came in a padded gatefold style valet case. These are reportedly harder to find as they did not produce as many. For the 1983 cars, there was a further simplification of the handbook. Now, there was no black outer cover and all pages were black and white. The next time you’re in your glove box, go check to see what version of the owners manual/handbook you have. If you don’t have one, DMC now offers a reproduction 1982/1983 style owners manual with a 1981 style valet case – or you can watch eBay for the original DeLorean owners manuals. All three types usually come up for sale. The spiral bound versions usually command a high price these days. Then there’s always the digital versions available around the web. 1981 1982 1983
- [What?! My Battery is Dead?!](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/what-my-battery-is-dead/): by Chris Miles Many DeLoreans suffer from vampiric battery drain if the car is parked for too long. How many times have you wanted to take the DeLorean out for a drive, just to turn the key and find out your battery is dead? The battery cut off switch is not a new idea. However, some of us probably have an inexpensive switch that we just live with. Others don’t have one at all. While it’s best to make sure you don’t have some underlying issue, a battery cut off switch will prevent your battery from draining if you do not operate your car regularly. Especially for owners who store their cars in the winter, a battery cut of switch is almost a must. It’s also a convenient way to disconnect the battery whenever you want to work on the car. I never like messing with the battery cables if I don’t have to. With a battery cut off switch it may also eliminate the need to have your car on a trickle charger. The Pollak Master Disconnect Switch is my favorite, as it’s a very heavy duty battery cut off switch that outperforms your run of the mill switch from Harbor Freight, or your favorite discount auto parts store. Pollak has been manufacturing these switches for many, many years. Over the span of production they have been made in the USA, Mexico, India, and most recently Taiwan. If you watch eBay, you can usually find New Old Stock USA made Pollak switches. Just beware of the cheaper Chinese knockoffs, as they do not have the Pollak stamp on them. Over the years many people have installed these switches by drilling a hole through the battery access door. I am not the biggest fan of doing this because I don’t want to damage the original battery cover. Or, the switch could rub or dig into the back of the passenger seat, which is more costly to repair/replace. I prefer to make a bracket to mount the switch inside the battery cubby. You will also need to buy one 2 foot battery cable to run between the battery and the switch. You can pick one of these up at your favorite auto parts stores, or on Amazon or from O’Reilly Auto Parts. For installation, I connect the positive battery cable to one stud on the switch. I then run the new 2 foot battery cable to the other stud.  
- [To LoJack, or Not to LoJack...](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/to-lojack-or-not-to-lojack/): We all know that DeLoreans aren’t stolen… well… ever (statistically.) But as we recently saw with Mike Persyn’s truck being stolen, while towing VIN #05984, it can happen. And with only about 4,000 DeLoreans left in the world, the question is, should we consider installing tracking devices on our cars? Which is quickly followed up with, ‘Is it worth the money?’; ‘What devices should I consider?’; ‘What will it cost me over time?’ After looking at a lot of vehicle tracking devices and options, the short answer seems to be: LoJack. Q&A? Below is an email from June 5, 2018 directly from LoJack with details. (View the PDF of the email)
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- [DeLorean RPM Relay](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/delorean-rpm-relay/): by Chris Miles The RPM relay is essential for fuel pump operation. It powers the fuel pump when it detects an RPM signal, meaning there’s an ignition signal, and the engine is turning over. It’s a black six pin relay usually found mounted to the underside of the relay tray behind the passenger seat. Or, just look for the large relay similar to this photo. If the relay fails, you can be left stranded, and you likely won’t get a warning of a failing RPM relay ahead of time. To avoid RPM relay issues, I recommend buying Dave McKeen’s solid state RPM relay (https://dm-eng.weebly.com – use the “Contact Email” link at the top of his page for pricing). Unlike the original RPM relay, McKeen’s solid state relay runs cool and will essentially last forever. Since the RPM relay is essential for running the car, why rely on a 30+ year old piece of technology. Dave will rebuild your original relay with solid state components, or you can send him a compatible relay to rebuild. Search eBay and other websites for Volvo relays. You can also go to junkyards and search for 1980s Volvos (commonly Volvo 240s) for compatible relay cores. If you send McKeen one of the Volvo relays, you can keep your original DMC relay as a spare. Alternatively, please see my for sale link here (RPM Relay Core),if you would like to buy a relay core from me. This photo gives you an idea of what to look for on the INSIDE of the Volvo relays. Make sure the pins “stacked” when they attach to the circuit board. Other relays cannot be re-used for McKeen’s conversion. I’ve been using these relays in both of my DeLoreans since about 2010 and they work great. If you don’t want to spend the money for McKeen’s relay, it’s not a bad idea to make a three-wire lead you can use to jumper the RPM relay socket in case of emergency. The three wires are all connected to each other at the top (so that they make a single circuit,) and when plugged in as the photo shows, the fuel pump circuit will be powered – allowing you to get home and buy a new RPM relay.
- [DeLorean Alternator Tensioner](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/delorean-alternator-tensioner/): by Chris Miles If you’ve ever had to replace the alternator / water pump belt (or just adjust it,) you know what a pain it is – especially if you’re broken down on the side of the road! So, to make it easier, I have been using a turnbuckle style alternator tensioner. It’s made from parts sourced from McMaster Carr. You don’t need to install this now, but it’s a good idea to have it in your car, so that you can install it the next time you replace the belt. (You SHOULD have a spare belt in the car too – Gates #7495 – www.rockauto.com/en/moreinfo.php?pk=3913&jsn=10393) You’ll be replacing the existing alternator tensioner bracket (DMCT Part#: 110102) with this new tensioner. Here are the parts you’ll need to build this replacement bracket: Remember, you’ll also need a long enough bolt to go through the rod end into the alternator itself. Check your YOUR alternator bolt size, and get one about 1/2″ longer than the current size. The coupler accepts a ½ inch open-end wrench. Simply rotate the coupler to extend the tensioner, which pushes the alternator away from the water pump pulley, thus tightening the belt. I’ve been using these on both of my DeLoreans for years, and have never had an adjustment problem. At the time of this writing, the rod ends were about $14 each, and the coupler nut was $18. The jam nuts are probably less than $1 each. For about $50, you can have piece of mind that you can replace your broken or damaged alternator belt on the side of the road quickly and easily.
- [VIN 02991](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/vin02991/): DeLorean SCEDT26T8BD002991
- [Live Watch Party: "DeLorean: Living the Dream"](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/live-watch-party-delorean-living-the-dream/): Watch “DeLorean: Living the Dream” and live chat with other owners! Monday, October 26th | 5pm PST / 8pm EST Be ready: Today, go to the “DeLorean: Living the Dream” Vimeo page and purchase your digital version of the movie. Go to the DeLorean Directory Watch Party video and click the “Set Reminder” link. Live chat: On Monday, October 26th at 5p PST / 8p EST, return to this page on the device you’re going to chat on (browser, phone, etc.). On a 2nd device/screen/browser (the screen you’ll watch the movie on), Launch the DLTD movie your previously purchased on Vimeo, and start playing it, but PAUSE it at 10 seconds. Go to the DeLorean Directory Watch Party video and watch the countdown. When the live stream starts counting up, match the timecode on your Vimeo player to the timecode on the DeLorean Directory live stream. (If you join late, just fast-forward your video, and pause ahead of the live stream video, then un-pause it when your timecode matches. In the chat window below (or on the YouTube live stream,) join the discussion with other owners. Make sure you’ve selected “Live Chat”, and not “Top Chat”.
- [Brandon Fayette's 3D Model DeLorean Parts](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/brandon-fayettes-3d-model-delorean-parts/): Brandon Fayette has taken the time to create these 3D models of DeLorean parts that are hard to find, or are no longer available.
- [John DeLorean](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/john-delorean/): John Z. DeLorean, a General Motors division manager and executive vice president, is credited with developing the first “muscle car,” the Pontiac GTO, along with many other innovations. After leaving GM, he launched the stainless steel-bodied DeLorean automobile, made even more famous as the time machine in the “Back to the Future” movies. Born: January 6, 1925 in Detroit, Michigan College: Lawrence Institute of Technology, Bachelor of Science degree in 1948; Detroit College of Law Ross School of Business, MBA 1957 Experience: Automobile engineer and executive Died: March 19, 2005 at Overlook Medical Center, Summit, New Jersey Spouse: Cristina Ferrare, 1973-1985 Children: Zachary DeLorean, Kathryn DeLorean Parents: Kathryn Pribak DeLorean; Zachary DeLorean John Zachary DeLorean was born January 6, 1925 in Detroit, MI. He died on March 19, 2005 in Summit, NJ. DeLorean was a genius automotive engineer who worked his way up the ladder at General Motors. He became an executive at GM, but left when it was clear he was going to be a small fish in a big pond. He had strong and successful ideas, and wanted to progress, but as he said, being one in a committee of seven or 10 didn’t interest him. And so, he started his own company – the DeLorean Motor Company, which created not just the DMC DeLorean, but they designed generators, an aircraft tug, and a bus. Here are some of the places that JZD called home… John’s homes 17199 Marx St., Highland Park, MI 48203     640 Lone Pine Hill, Bloomfield Hills, MI 48304   900 Lamington Rd., Bedminster, NJ 07921   726 ??, Bloomfield Hills, MI     32220 Cuesta De Camellia, Pauma Valley, CA 92061   White Chapel Memorial Park Cemetery – 621 W. Long Lake Rd., Troy, MI 48098 – Section 4775, Block G-2     [su_google_photos_pro album_id=”AF7RCjHTIxSzaXDnrBCuBGVzDjvti2HTPiSD9sAgqHj4eUCCKZ6U31RGAxW-AWMTUVwh1JIWqIMp”]
- [Get "En-light-ened"](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/get-en-light-ened/): by Chris Miles, VIN: 16409 As I’ve been helping more and more DeLorean owners with their cars, I’ve been hearing reports of their cars just dying. They’re either driving on the road and lose power, or they’re unable to re-start the car after a short stop. The first thing people tend to think is that they have a bad battery or alternator, but that isn’t always the case. As a pretty technically-skilled DeLorean owner, I’ve made myself intimately familiar with the instrument cluster and related electrical components. Unlike modern cars, the DeLorean has a finite number of warning lights. The two most important warning lights are the oil pressure light and battery light. The oil pressure light comes on when the engine is running and has low oil pressure – which means you should pull over immediately and shut the car off right away. The battery light is just as important as the oil pressure light. However, many owners never pay attention to whether the battery bulb lights up at all. The bulb is supposed to illuminate – and stay on – when you switch the ignition to position 2, but it will then turn off when you start the engine. (NOTE: if you have a DMC Houston alternator, the light may just flash in position 2.) If the battery light remains on after starting, that indicates you have a charging issue. However, if your battery light does not illuminate at all in ignition position 2, you’re probably going to have an issue with the charging circuit – or – the battery bulb is simply burnt out. I’ve helped a few owners diagnose their battery issues, so I want to stress that you should check your battery light the next time you start your DeLorean. So, what if you don’t see the battery light illuminate in ignition position 2? That means the alternator will not charge the battery. Eventually, the lights and engine will completely drain the battery. Sometimes this happens while you’re driving and there’s not enough power to spark the spark plugs and your engine will just die – but most often, there’s just not enough amps to start the car again. Again, it could just be that your battery bulb is burnt out (or, when you upgraded the binnacle lights to LEDs, you replaced the incandescent bulb with an LED instead of a new incandescent, and that’s bad – keep reading.) But, it could mean that you need to check your alternator wiring. Most DeLoreans now have a Motorola or some type of GM alternator. Both have a single wire that connects to the battery bulb circuit. The DeLorean battery light wire that connects to the alternator is brown with a yellow stripe. If you have a solid brown wire connected to your alternator, you’ll probably have an issue with charging the battery. The original Ducellier alternators used both the brown and brown/yellow stripe wires. The modern GM style alternators use a Dorman 85854 or 85118 oval connector – in which only one wire connects to the brown/yellow striped wire on DeLorean wiring harness. (see photo for my installation.). Having a functional battery light is also important, because it’s a warning that your water pump may not be spinning, since the alternator belt turns the water pump too. So, if you lose that belt, the alternator quits spinning and the battery light will illuminate – which also means you should immediately pull over and turn the car off, because you may end up overheating. And finally, a note on upgrading the light bulbs in the binnacle to LED. It’s fairly well known that the “battery” bulb must remain incandescent. The battery light circuit is designed to check for the resistance of an incandescent bulb. LED bulbs have less resistance than normal bulbs, so the circuit won’t work properly, and the bulb will not illuminate – which also means you will likely have charging issues. So, when upgrading your binnacle lights to LEDs, DO replace the original battery light bulb with a NEW incandescent bulb. Now you should be “en-light-ened” about this quirk of the DeLorean.
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- [Don't Be A Lug-Nut](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/dont-be-a-lug-nut/): by Chris Miles, VIN: 16409 Some DeLorean owners might be frustrated with the state of their lug nuts. Have you noticed after visiting a tire shop your lug nuts appear to be chewed up, or even worse, the caps are loose or have fallen off? Not everyone knows that the original lug nuts are not solid – they’re ugly nuts that have pretty caps covering them. Over time, those caps become loose and sometimes fall off while driving. Many owners don’t even notice for some time that one or more caps are gone. Some members of the DeLorean community have been looking for alternatives to the original capped lug nuts. Most wheel lug nuts on the market are usually too long and stick out too far, especially for the front wheels of the DeLorean. The DeLorean community has come up with two solid lug nut candidates, also called ‘acorn’ style nuts. Since all DeLorean owners can’t read every message on DMCTalk.org or the numerous DeLorean Facebook groups, I thought I’d share my findings and some details. The Original Equipment (OE) lug nuts are metric 12 (with a 1.5mm pitch), and measure 29mm tall. The reproductions are 30mm tall. The first lug nut replacement option is the Dorman #611-310. It’s almost identical in height to the OE nut, measuring 27 millimeters tall – just a couple millimeters shorter. This lug nut can be used for all four wheels and they look great. Because the front wheels have a shallow depth for the lug nut wells, they appear to fit perfectly, with no noticeable difference from the OE nuts. But, when putting these short nuts on the rear wheels, they seem too short, and seem to disappear into the darkness of the lug nut well. The second lug nut is the Dorman #611-221. This nut is, again, just a couple of millimeters different than the OE nut, measuring 31 millimeters. This taller lug nut can also be used for all four wheels, but sits more flush in the face of the front wheel, making the shiny nuts stand out more than I like. You may not like this look if you prefer the front lug nuts being ‘countersunk’ a little. On the rear wheels, they work great and don’t get ”lost” in the deep lug nut wells. My recommendation is to use eight Dorman #611-310 lug nuts in the front and eight Dorman #611-221 lug nuts in the rear. This offers the perfect visual balance. Both size Dorman lug nuts are available on RockAuto.com, or you can get them at most O’Reilly Auto Parts stores. Check out the DeLorean crossover-parts list for more details, or use the links below:
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- [Stirling Moss road tests the DeLorean sports car](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/stirling-moss-road-tests-the-delorean-sports-car/): Before the first production models of the long-awaited DeLorean sports car were readied for export, Popular Mechanics sent British race-car driver Stirling Moss to John Z. DeLorean’s plant in Northern Ireland to drive the gull-wing two-seater. Shortly after, Auto Editor Tony Assenza visited the Dunmurry facility for a firsthand look at the plant, the car, and the former GM executive who wants to put an all-new sports car on American roads. Here’s their report. Moss: The DeLorean is certainly a striking-looking car – long, low and extremely sleek. Like the old Mercedes 300SL of the ’50s, it has gullwing doors, a design it shares only with the Lamborghini Countach. They make access and exit easier, but once you’re sitting in the low and very comfortable seats, you find you need the arms of an ape to reach up to close the doors behind you. The controls are nicely arranged for driving quickly, with the gearshift lever falling easily to hand for grabbing gears. It’s a five-speed unit, with fifth being an overdrive. I found fifth quite useful for cruising at moderate highway speeds, but it needs to be downshifted to a lower gear for acceleration. The engine doesn’t produce enough torque to overcome the gear ratio. Getting into reverse isn’t as much of a chore as it is on so many other so-called sports cars. There are electric windows, though they only open a few inches. I suppose the only time you might need them is to ask someone the way or pay a toll, since the car is fully airconditioned, with vents in the doors as well as the center of the dash. Assenza: The car’s styling was done by the now-legendary design studio, Ital Design headed by Giorgetto Giugiaro. His design credits encompass a variety of vehicles, including the Mangusta, VW Rabbit, Audi 5000, Alfasud, and even the non-exotic, but thoroughly practical, little Rat Panda. At first sight, the DeLorean reminds you of the Lancia Monte Carlo due to the cut of the roof line and sloping rear panels. But that’s as deep as the resemblance to any other car goes. It has a character and a styling all its own. Moss: There are only two seats, of course, separated by a fairly high center console that houses control switches for the windows, lights and so on. The console is quite handy actually, because under really severe cornering it helps to keep you put. Not that you really need it, because the seats are well bolstered. Behind the seats there’s an elastic net over a small luggage compartment – a good idea, since it keeps small items of luggage in place when you’re driving quickly. There’s also a little luggage compartment in the front end of the car that holds very small items of baggage. Visibility from the driver’s seat is good in front, but poor out the back. Rear vision is aided by a pair of rear-view mirrors, but you sit so low in the car that you can’t really see the front and sides of the car. This makes passing or maneuvering difficult in confined space. But of course, the DeLorean is a car intended for the open road. Here, I must admit, that I found the performance didn’t quite match up to the car’s looks or pedigree. However, it handles very nicely, with good transient response and fairly neutral cornering attitudes. It has a good, firm suspension, independent at all four corners; nice, light and very direct steering response, and very powerful Lucas-Girling disc brakes all around, good for 60 to 0 mph in 135 feet. DMC DeLorean pictured in front of C.R. “Dick” Brown’s DeLorean offices in Irvine, CA. (https://goo.gl/maps/gmg9uU5MfDC4Y35d9) At speed, the noise level Is low and the engine is well damped. You’re not conscious of a power unit churning away Just a few feet behind your head as you would be, let’s say, in a Maserati or a Lotus. I found wind noise to be more obvious, mainly due to the gull-wing doors. Assenza: Unlike the vast majority of cars running on the road, the DeLorean doesn’t have a unitized body. Also, unlike some of the exotics, it doesn’t use the race-car derived monocoque tub. Instead, It uses a separate chassis and body combination. The chassis Itself looks like two Ys Joined at the base. This central backbone Is the platform upon which the body and the suspension Is attached. It’s not surprising that this wishbone configuration is somewhat similar to that used in Lotus cars, since Lotus engineers were consultants in the design and development of the DeLorean. The engine Is placed at the rear of the car. Just behind the rear axle. So this is a true rear-engine car, rather than the more common mid-engine cars which fit the engine just in front of the rear axle. Front and rear suspension is coil-over shock with upper and lower A-arms – It could be called a classic racing suspension. The plastic fuel tank is at the front of the car, nestled between the two arms of the Y. This seems to be a very safe place to store it, since it would be almost impervious to rupture, even in the most severe crash. The powerplant is the jointly developed Peugeot, Renault, Volvo V6 displacing 2.85 liters. It is fitted with Bosch K-Jetronic fuel injection and runs on a fairly low 8.8:2 compression ratio. Moss: I suspect the performance is a consequence of the car’s main market. The version I drove was modified to meet the stringent U.S. emissions regulations, which must have knocked the heart right out of the engine. Still, this is a problem all other sports-car manufacturers must face if they want to sell cars in the United States, and the DeLorean seems to have done as good a job with the engine as most of the others. You’ll get 0 to 60 mph in about 9 seconds. At speeds over 100 mph, the car seems very stable
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- [John DeLorean](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/john-delorean-2/): John Zachary DeLorean was born January 6, 1925 in Detroit, MI, and passed away on March 19, 2005 in Summit, NJ. He was born to immigrant parents, and served in the United States Army. JZD had a long career in the automotive industry, starting with Packard. He later joined Pontiac and rose in the ranks to become head of General Motors‘ North American Car & Truck Division. He brought with him many accomplishments in both vehicle engineering, as well as marketing, and even influencing car culture as it influenced himself and his work. After leaving General Motors, he went on to found DeLorean Motor Company to produce the DeLorean sports car. What happened to the DeLorean? In the autumn of 1982, DMC went out of business. While John DeLorean was arrested, and soon acquitted of all drug trafficking charges, the company still folded. This included DMC, and its corporate subsidies, such as DeLorean Motorcars of America (DMCA) which was responsible for the distribution of the DeLorean automobile, and DeLorean Motor Cars, Ltd. (DMCL) of Dunmurry, Northern Ireland, which manufactured them. A push to increase production in the summer of 1981 exhausted credit lines with parts suppliers and resulted in large debts, but also created the massive stockpile of original parts which the community uses to this day.
- [The Exchange of One](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/the-exchange-of-one/): “I don’t have any regrets,” Bill Yacobozzi says. “It was time.” Still, the former lawyer turned real-estate agent admits it was a little discomforting after Prototype 1 left his home. For twenty years, two months and five days, Bill had upheld a daily tradition. He would walk to his garage and acknowledge the rarest DeLorean in the world. But on January 30, 2005, he paused and was forced to gaze at an empty space. For months it has remained empty – as if nothing else except the Prototype could ever belong there. On January 11, Yacobozzi told me he had put the car on ebay to see what might happen. “Good luck,” I said. “You’re about to be flooded with emails.” The auction opened with little hurrah. Within a day, however, phone calls were made, internet chatrooms buzzed and the auction counter quickly registered thousands of hits. The price jumped sporadically, and Yacobozzi’s office was barraged with questions… and accusations. Among the skeptics was Tony lerardi. He had the frequent habit of checking ebay for DeLorean-related items. And there it was: Prototype 1 for sale, complete with pictures from the 2004 summer issue of dw magazine. “I remembered the pictures from the magazine,” lerardi says, “and thought wait a minute. The seller has zero feedback and scanned the pictures.” It’s a scam, lerardi thought and immediately emailed the seller to say he knew it was fake. Yacobozzi received many emails from angry DeLorean lovers. The auction is phony. You’re a liar, ebay will be informed of this fraud. A mock auction for “Prototype 2” started on ebay, showing a picture of a snow-covered car with a “DMC” plate. But while enthusiasts lost themselves in the growing, negative propaganda, lerardi  started digging deeper for information. “I called Ed Bernstein,” lerardi says, “and, as usual, Ed gave me the right phone number and information.” I received a call shortly after. “The next thing I find out,” lerardi says, “Yes, this is indeed for real.” From here, he faced a hard decision. How much would or could he afford for this car. How much to restore it? Could he allow the Prototype to fall into the hands of a private collector – allow to it disappear for another 20 years? For much of his life, lerardi held a deep connection to the DeLorean automobile. He already owned VIN 6041 – a beautiful Concours winning car. Years ago he had sold it – the car he and his father had bought together. It was a heartfelt mistake he later realized after his father died, and lerardi desperately sought the new owner to buy it back. He had misplaced the information; somehow it had gotten lost over the years. But Bernstein at DeLorean One led him to the new owner, and lerardi got his car back. Now, Prototype 1 was for sale and the auction was ticking. The bid surpassed $75,000. lerardi remembered the car from the videos in the late 70s. He had always wondered where it was now – how great it would be to own. This was his chance. Now. Jay Leno had read the article in dw magazine and called Yacobozzi. He was curious and talkative but not really interested in buying the Prototype. With the auction coming to a close and the bid still rising, Yacobozzi spoke at length with lerardi. Several other parties had expressed serious interest, most notably an executive from Dell Computers. But for Yacobozzi, it wasn’t so much about the money as it was about the car’s future home. In the end, he took the advice from his sources. He told lerardi, “I’ve heard from people that you’re a man of your word. If you say you want to buy this car, I’ll take your word and end the auction.” lerardi committed. Yacobozzi ended the auction early, with a high bid of $96,000 and the reserve not met. The final selling price remained private. When the transport arrived on January 29, 2005, Yacobozzi felt ready. He knew the Prototype would leave him that day. The transaction was finished. It was time to say goodbye. After a two-decade slumber, the car would be brought back to the public eye. And there was something comforting about that. “I felt good because I knew it wouldn’t be sitting in some executive’s garage,” Yacobozzi says. “I knew Tony would display it for his business.” The business would become DMC Florida in March 2005. With lerardi rampant with preparations to open the DeLorean repair facility, he still found time to feel anxious about his new purchase as it spent a week crossing the states. Even John DeLorean had heard about lerardi’s plans and his acquisition of Prototype 1. He was impressed and expressed interest in meeting the young man. The transport finally arrived a week later, and lerardi waited impatiently. When the cargo door went up, he was nervous. As the car rolled off the back of the transport, lerardi felt a little overwhelmed. His mind raced back to the images of the past, and it dawned on him. This is it. The first and only surviving prototype’. The one they paraded around America in the 70s. The one Johnny Carson sat in. This was the car that was filled with John DeLorean’s vision in 1976. The console was full of gauges, including a tire-pressure warning light that would not be fully-realized for 30 years. “The airbag light, that got me,” Jerardi says. “That got a lump in my throat.” With his car DeLorean had envisioned dual airbags and side-impact door beams. He had worked hard to implement his dream for an affordable and safety-conscious sports car. But with the politics, the bureaucracy, the successes and failures of his car company, not everything had made it to the final product. Over time, people might become skeptical of what John DeLorean had tried to do. “They’d say, ‘What airbags? That was just a story,'” lerardi says. “But no this is the
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- [Why does the fake DMC in Texas think they own OUR DeLorean logo?](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/why-does-the-fake-dmc-in-texas-think-they-own-our-delorean-logo/): The DeLorean Motor Company went out of business in 1982. In 1997, Stephen Wynne spent less than a million to purchase the original remaining DeLorean parts from Sol Shenk. Since then, the fake DMC has claimed ownership of just about everything DeLorean, except our actual cars. But they seem to think they own those too. There are a number of stories from DeLorean owners who have tried to get floor mats, hats, shirts, etc. customized with the DMC logo from the door frame, or the DeLorean emblem from the hood and bumper, just to be told ‘Sorry, we can’t do that. We’ve been told by (the fake) DMC in Texas that we’d have to pay them a license fee to put your logo on this item.’ So, the fake DMC is bullying us, and companies we want to use to make items for us. And no, that’s not an exaggeration. The fake DMC is doing their best to take ownership of everything they DIDN’T create. Why? Only they know for sure, but it’s a pretty good guess that it’s a strategy to make themselves worth more when they sell the business. Yes, that’s the likely plan – to sell the business to some bigger company with deep pockets. Basically, to cash out. The fake DMC knows that there’s not enough money to be made from DeLorean owners. Owners have gotten smarter over the years, and haven’t been as willing to pay the exorbitant prices for the many inferior products the fake DMC sells. And with about 5,000 DeLoreans still in existence, that’s a very small number of customers to make any significant money from. So the likely plan is to sell. And when you want to sell something, you try to make it look as good as possible. Which means, gobble up all of our logos and recognizable emblems for our cars and stop people from making cool stuff. That is, unless you pay the fake DMC for the privilege. In a recent trademark search, the fake DMC somehow took ownership of the hood emblem and bumper logo – “DeLorean” – for their own use, and profit. Which means they get paid when an owner wants a set of embroidered floor mats, or a jacket with the logo to go with your car. It turns out, the fake DMC decided they owned the logo back in 2008. And there’s little to nothing DeLorean owners can do about that now. Except – spread the word. Make sure that other owners know that the fake DMC is systematically trying to take ownership of our cars, simply because they have deep pockets. So the next time you need parts for your DeLorean, support the independent shops – the shops who are there to make money, but who ALSO care about the DeLorean community – check out www.DeLoreanDirectory.com/service for parts and repairs, and www.DeLoreanDirectory.com/parts for an ever-growing list of crossover parts you can buy online and locally that work as well (or better) than what the fake DMC is selling… and often for much less.
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- [DeLorean Dealer List](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/delorean-dealer-list/): The original DeLorean Dealer List, from the brochure in the glove box of every DeLorean sold. See where the DeLorean dealership was in your town by clicking the map, or searching the list below. If you have more details, or know of other information you’re willing to share with the DeLorean community, contact us. And, check out the gallery of photos of DeLorean dealerships.
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- [John DeLorean's New Jersey mansion](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/john-deloreans-nj-mansion/): John DeLorean’s New Jersey estate, on Lamington Road in Bedminster Township, NJ, was originally called Lamington Farm. It was DeLorean’s home away from New York and California. He owned the property from 1981 to 2000, when he had to turn it over to cover expenses from the sham drug trial. In 2002, Donald Trump bought the property and turned it into the Trump National Golf Club Bedminster.
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- [DeLorean in Coventry, UK](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/the-delorean-office-in-coventry/): by Enda Mullen-BPCoventry Live – November 29, 2019 Look: Coventry connection with Back to the Future iconic sports car by Steve ChiltonCoventry Live – October 21, 2015 It is the world’s most famous time machine with its trademark gullwing doors atop a stainless steel-clad body. The DeLorean DMC-12 sports car is instantly recognisable to even the most clueless car enthusiast after becoming the iconic star of the Back to the Future movie trilogy. And now its creators are gearing up to celebrate a milestone anniversary for one of the best loved cars of all time – which is one of Coventry’s lesser known motoring success stories. This year will marks the 35th anniversary of the construction and first public showing of the production version of the vehicle in 1980 – the ‘Visioneering Show Car’. But what many people don’t realise is that the star of the science fiction comedy which transported Marty McFly back to 1955 life in the fictional California town Hill Valley has strong Coventry connections. The Belfast company’s British headquarters and procurement office was based in Christchurch House in Coventry city centre from 1979 to 1982. Staff were hired to set up new supply deals in the UK and the DeLorean even underwent endurance testing at the city’s head office. And next year the remarkable creation of John Zachary DeLorean will be celebrated with a reunion of former employees based in Northern Ireland and Coventry. Organised by the firm’s previous director of purchasing, Barrie Wills and financial controller David Adams, the reunion has been arranged for next year’s May Bank Holiday weekend at The Culloden Hotel at Cultra, near Holywood, County Down. Mr Wills said: “We are hoping that staff and shopfloor workers alike from Dunmurry, Coventry and the Adelaide Industrial Estate plant of CP Trim will attend the reunion. “We have also arranged a conducted tour on Tuesday 5 May of part of the former Dunmurry plant, now utilised by the French automotive foundry group, Montupet.” The story of the iconic car started in April 1973 when John left General Motors where he was vice president of car and truck production, to follow his dream of creating his own company and building a car that GM would never make. With help from Italian designer Giorgetto Giugiaro, who worked on the new car’s styling, and Lotus Cars, which undertook the engineering of the car, the first running prototype was quickly completed. Its groundbreaking technology took the media by storm and the company set up a greenfield production site in Dunmurry, near Belfast, before John then focused on the UK and opened the Coventry headquarters. When the DeLorean rolled off production lines it received promising reviews but when the recession hit, the expected sales failed to materialise and unsold vehicles started to mount up. In February 1982, the receivers were called in and a rescue bid was devised. However when the FBI arrested John in a Los Angeles hotel room for ‘narcotics violations’ the DeLorean dream ended. Despite its brief time in the city, the two former company executives believe the anniversary is a good reason for a long-overdue reunion of its former employees. Those interested in attending the reunion should contact barriewills42@gmail.com for more information.
- [John DeLorean, June 6, 1987](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/john-delorean-june-6-1987/): Thanks to Darryl Tinnerstet, this special episode of DeLorean Talk features John DeLorean, talking to a church group on June 6, 1987. Darryl attended this talk with one other DeLorean owner, and saved the tape for all these years. John talks about his life growing up, his time in jail, his time at General Motors, his family, the trial proceedings, and how his life has changed.
- [People in the News](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/people-in-the-news/): SAN DIEGO (AP) – John Z. DeLorean, better known for living in lavish homes than for painting them, took brush in hand to help spruce up a house for the homeless, recovering alcoholics and drug addicts. The former automaker, who was found innocent last August of charges that he bankrolled a $24 million cocaine shipment to aid his failing car company, appeared at a painting party this week for the New Start in Life Center in San Diego. ″I’m here because I believe in New Start and (its director) Rev. Johnny Carter and because I feel it’s one of the outstanding facilities of its type anywhere,″ said De Lorean, who said during his trial that he had become a born-again Christian. DeLorean, 60, who is divorced from model Cristina Ferrare, lives in Los Angeles. He recently signed over an estate valued at about $2 million to his attorney to cover legal fees, and said he is exploring business opportunities and writing a book about his trial. He also has reportedly signed a deal for a movie about his life. ″Hey, it’s been difficult, but life goes on,″ said DeLorean. ″I feel very strong. Certainly with the spiritual strength I draw from people like this, I can’t imagine how anyone can ever touch me.″ ″The last few months have been very tough,″ he said. ″But as my daughter says, anything that doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.″ from People in the News | April 25, 1985    
- [Systems Analysis Approach to Integrating Air Bags Into a Production Ready Small Car](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/systems-analysis-approach-to-integrating-air-bags-into-a-production-ready-small-car/): Michael U. Fitzpatrick Fitzpatrick Engineering Route 5, Box 495A Warsaw, IN 46580 Contract No. DTNH22-81-C-07330 Contract Amount $24,685 This document is disseminated under the sponsorship of the Department of Transportation in the interest of information exchange. The United States Government assumes no liability for its contents or use thereof. Click here for the PDF of the original file. Dynamic Science, Inc. (now Exponent) appears to have done the testing. Abstract During the course of this study test data derived from Contract No. DINH22-81-C-07330 was use to further validate the computer models “DRACR” and “PAC.” These validated computer programs were used to investigate other crash velocities, operating environments, design specifications, occupant sizes, occupant protections, and sensing and/or inflator staging scenarios. Design options for a restraint system package that, based upon computer simulations, promises to most optimally meet the combined and sometimes conflicting requirements of various occupant sizes, occupant positions and crash conditions are recommended. TABLE OF CONTENTS SECTION – TITLE – PAGE NO. 1.0 – BACKGROUND – 1 2.0 – PRE-TEST COMPUTER SIMULATIONS – 6 3.0 – INTEGRATION OF RESTRAINT SYSTEMS INTO VEHICLE pace – 12 4.0 – TEST RESULTS – 22 4.1 – Crash Test NO. 1 cones – 23 4.1 – Crash Test No. 1 Injury Measures – 31 4,2 – Crash Test No. 2 – 45 4.2 – Crash Test No. 2 Injury Measures – 50 APPENDICES A – DATA TRACES FOR CRASH TEST NO. 1 – A-1 B – DATA TRACES FOR CRASH TEST NO. 2 – B-1 1.0 Background In March of 1981, Fitzpatrick Engineering was awarded a contract by NHTSA to use a “systems analysis approach” to integrate air bag restraint systems into a “production ready; small car.” The term “systems analysis approach” is used to convey the concept of using high speed digital computing techniques to design and integrate an airbag restraint system into the subject car that is optimally compatible with its crash environment. If successful, the necessity of conducting a large number of preliminary tests prior to converging to the final design will be eliminated since the many parameters that affect restraint system performance can be investigated in a more efficient manner. We say more efficient manner because the cost and time for the computer approach should be less than what would be spent for a trial and error approach that relies on a large number of rather expensive tests. The reason for using a “production ready, small car” was two~ fold. First, there is a need to demonstrate that the restraint system. design that evolves through the systems analysis app~ roach will perform effectively in a structurally unmodified, production car: Second, the car should be less than 3000 lb total weight to reflect the current trend to smaller vehicles. The vehicle chosen by NHTSA for this program was the DeLorean sports car. This vehicle is a two-passenger, rear engine car with gull wing doors and a stainless steel exterior skin as shown in Figure 1. The main structural frame is constructed of steel and roughly resembles an “X” with the middle of the X comprising the center spine that runs through the passenger compartment. Figure 2 shows this X-frame. Fastened to the main X-frame is a fiberglass body constructed glass reinforced panels and foam filled beams as shown in Figure 3. The vehicle curb weight is approximately 2700 lb. Fitzpatrick Engineering’s main tasks in this contract were to: a) Design a preliminary driver and passenger airbag restraint system using computer techniques, b) Specify the restraint system components to be used in the two barrier crash tests and recommend test velocities. c) Direct the test contractor, Dynamic Science, on the integration and installation of the restraint systems into the DeLorean. d) Perform as Engineering Test Director for the two, frontal, barrier crash tests. The purpose of these two crash tests were primarily to determine the structural response of the DeLorean at two different crash speeds and to provide an early indication of the performance potential of the computer derived restraint systems in this systems analysis approach to airbag integration. 2.0 Pre-Test Computer Simulations Fitzpatrick Engineering studied existing crash data for the DeLorean at 30 mph as well as the passenger compartment interior design and volume and overall vehicle structural design. Based upon this study, we recommended that the test Speeds for the upcoming crash tests be 35 and 40 mph. This recommendation was made to representatives of NHTSA and DeLorean Motor Co, at a meeting held at DOT headquarters in Washington D.C. In our judgement, the most information could be learned from these test speeds since the vehicle had already been crashed at 30 mph by DeLorean Motor Co. with very good structural performance and since the merits of the systems analysis approach Of restraint systems design would be tested more Severely at the higher impact speeds. However, since we didn’t know the Crash pulse at these higher speeds, the Preliminary computer simulations were of a qualitative nature. That is, we estimated the crash pulse at 35 and 40 mph based upon the 30 mph crash pulse and then conducted a series of computer runs in which we: a) chose the airbag shapes and volumes, b) evaluated eight different passenger inflators (including the possibility of using two “driver type” inflators instead of the one cylindrical type passenger inflator), c) evaluated the restraint system performance at 10 and 15 msec sensing times to determine crash sensor specifications, d) investigated the effect of staging the “driver type” inflators simulated for the passenger System to select the inflator configuration that would optimally satisfy the requirements of the forward positioned child as well as the normally seated adult. In addition to the computer simulations, we made a subjective evaluation of the DeLorean interior to decide on the way the restraint system components would be installed in the vehicle. The result of the computer simulations using the DRAC and PAC computer models and this inspection of the vehicle led to conclusions that aided in selection of
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- [The DeLorean in the bedroom](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/the-delorean-in-the-bedroom/): by Darryl Tinnerstet This is one of those stories that you hear and say “yeah, right.” But it’s true, and I have the photos to prove it. From 1986 through 2004, I operated Specialty Automotive in Olympia, Washington, selling DeLorean auto parts, while also working full-time as an engineer. I drove to 48 states buying up dealer parts inventories, and used ads in Hemmings Motor News to retail those parts, soon building up a small but thriving sideline enterprise with customers worldwide. I also bought a number of wrecked DeLoreans, many through HMN ads, and built up a nice supply of used parts, too. In 1994, I was talking on the phone to a DeLorean parts customer in Switzerland who had owned several DeLoreans there. He asked for my help in finding him a brand new DeLorean car in the US. Even though they would have been 12-14 years old by then, it was not totally unreasonable to find a “new” one, since some had undoubtedly been purchased and put into storage. I just chuckled and said, “Sure, I’ll try, but don’t expect one any time soon.” When I got off the phone, I picked up my latest copy of Hemmings and turned to the “D” section. Several low-mileage DeLoreans were listed, but one 1981 model in particular caught my eye for two reasons: It was in Oregon, which meant it was within driving distance of my home in Washington; and the ad said the car had only 81 miles on it. I figured they might have confused the mileage with the year, but it was worth a phone call to find out. I called the owner and verified that it did indeed have only 81 miles despite being 13 years old, and that it was located in a small town on the southern part of the Oregon coast. Deciding this was too intriguing to pass up, I took a day off from work and asked my elderly mother if she wanted to go for a long ride. We drove about 200 miles south down I-5, and then cut over to the coast. After many long hours in the car, we got to the owner’s 200-acre ranch, home to ostriches, emus, buffalo, yaks and as we were to see, one DeLorean. The elderly gentleman, a retired auto dealer, proudly showed us around the farm and pointed out all of his animals. He then invited us into the house, where his gracious wife provided snacks. When I asked about the car, he explained how he had bought it new in Reno and had it shipped to storage when they lived in California. When they moved to this ranch, he and his wife had a nice seven-bedroom house, but there was no garage. The car sat in a carport for a short time, but he was concerned about having it outside. I asked where it was now. “In the bedroom,” he said, just off the living room where we were sitting. “One day when Mama was in town, me and the hired man took a chainsaw to the back wall of one of those unused bedrooms,” he explained. With carpeting, wallpaper, makeshift ramps and plywood doors still in place, there it was. The fit was so tight that from the inside door of the bedroom you could only get to one side of the car, having to either crawl through the car or open the outside “doors” to reach the driver’s side. I was concerned about the mechanical condition of a car stored for 14 years, but he stated that once a month, he opened the plywood doors and started the car, and every six months he siphoned the fuel out and replaced it. We fired it up, and it idled down perfectly. The car, a five-speed with gray interior, looked and smelled new. The engine and underneath of the car were spotless. The heat shields by the muffler and catalytic converter were not even discolored, and the muffler itself barely showed signs of having been used. In a word, it was perfect. He went on to tell me that he had bought it as an investment, but that now his health was failing. In fact, he would soon be selling everything he owned. We had a long and very nice visit, but had to head for home, going the slow route up Highway 101 along the coast. Now I was faced with a dilemma: I had promised my customer in Europe that I would try to find him a new car, and would probably not have located this one had it not been for that request. On the other hand, I would likely never again find a collector car as pristine as this one at such a fair price. When we got home, I called Switzerland and described the car, and told him to let me know very soon if he wanted it. Of course he did, so we proceeded to complete the sale. I could have just bought it for myself and he would have never known, but I had given my word, so that was not an option. Plus, I was not really in a position to keep it as a non-driven show car, since I already had three DeLoreans – my daily driver, my supercharged Chevy-powered DeLorean, and a turbocharged project, plus several other vehicles. In the next week, there were frantic calls to Oregon and to Switzerland as we tied up the deal and awaited the transfer of funds. But the process was taking too long, and the seller was getting nervous as other prospective buyers were telling him he had sold it too cheap. Finally I called my mother and said, “Ready for another long ride?” We hitched up my car trailer, hit the bank for a quick loan (thanks to my open-ended home equity account), and headed south. We had another nice visit before I bought the car, drove it out of the bedroom
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- [Bill Collins](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/bill-collins/): Bill Collins (William Collins Jr.) was the head of Product Development at DMC.
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- [DMConvoy Email List](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/dmconvoy-email-list/): Email Address First Name Last Name Phone Number Age City, State ZIP code Type of vehicle DeLoreanNot a DeLorean If driving a DeLorean, last 5 of VIN MPG for your car
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- [K. Ferris](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/k-ferris/): Helped build the last right-hand gullwing door to be built at DMC in Northern Ireland.
- [R. J. Cowden](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/r-j-cowden/): Helped build the last gullwing door to be built at DMC in Northern Ireland.
- [Hutch Barrett](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/hutch-barrett/): Helped build the last gullwing door to be built at DMC in Northern Ireland.
- [Phil Gough](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/phil-gough/): Helped build the last right-hand gullwing door to be built at DMC in Northern Ireland.
- [Brian Boyle](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/brian-boyle/): Helped build the last right-hand gullwing door to be built at DMC in Northern Ireland.
- [B. Atkinson](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/b-atkinson/): Helped build the last right-hand gullwing door to be built at DMC in Northern Ireland.
- [What is the DeLorean made of?](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/what-is-the-delorean-made-of/): The DeLorean was originally conceived as a stainless steel paneled, gull-wing door design from the beginning. The panels are 304 grade stainless steel, the exact kind of stainless steel used in commercial kitchens and equipment. That means it’s very durable and difficult to damage. There are eight exterior stainless steel body parts, including the front left and right fenders, the rear left and right fenders, the gull-wing doors, the hood, and the roof “T-panel.” The panels are connected to a molded fiberglass shell with internal foam and steel reinforcements, that contains the wiring and passenger compartments, and is bolted to the steel, single-wishbone double-Y frame for strength, which also contains all suspension and drivetrain components. The stainless steel doors and body panels are bolted in place, and don’t add much weight, resulting in a car that only weighs around 2,800 lbs. Cleaning the stainless steel panels is easier than most people think… just like a stainless steel sink, any water and soap will take the dirt off, and a lot of DeLorean owners use the same products you buy in the store for keeping stainless appliances shiny. Most of the body panels are still available, but the front-left fender is in very short supply today, causing the price to be as much as 4 or 5 times the cost of the front-right fender.
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- [Pull Strap Bezel](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/pull-strap-bezel/): The backside of the door pull strap bezel (the plastic interior cover where the pull strap comes out of the door) can sometimes come off. The is likely because one or both of the retaining clips on the back side have falling into the door. “Spire nuts” or other clips could be used, but a small nut and bolt would also work.
- [Ready Player One Experience on Hollywood Blvd. - March 2018](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/ready-player-one-experience-on-hollywood-blvd-march-2018/): [su_embed_google_photos_album_plugin googlesharelink=”https://photos.app.goo.gl/vLvHbcfY5keUvmRA8″] In early 2018, the Ready Player One movie created a maze and movie memorabilia experience on Hollywood Blvd. in Los Angeles, CA, which also included an RPO DeLorean (VIN #06235.) An Interactive ‘Ready Player One’ Pop-Up is Coming to Hollywood and Vine Next Week /Film Enters The Oasis at Hollywood’s ‘Ready Player One’ Challenge Ready Player One Challenge Pops Up in Hollywood How This Interactive Maze Immersed Guests in the World of ‘Ready Player One’ [su_google_photos_pro album_id=”AF7RCjFFv4Mmzn7I2JwDlOfCjeueC2UPghnm_XUdY9US2N_DIN94sxwt39u2hyJWm9z8kkAy2w_M”]
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- [How much do DeLoreans cost?](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/how-much-do-deloreans-cost/): Like a lot of old, classic cars, the cost of a DeLorean depends on what you want out of it. If you’re looking to do a full rebuild in your garage, you could pick up (most) of a DeLorean for $10,000. If you want to climb into one, turn the key, and drive it across the Country without any worries, that would probably cost you about $45,000 (in 2019.) If you want a replica DeLorean Time Machine, Danny Botkin builds the best ones out there, and could cost you $80,000 (more if you go through big company, rather than an independent.) Of course, there’s a middle ground. There are a number of DeLoreans for sale any at any given time. You could pick one up for $30,000, but expect to put in another $10,000 getting it to a very trustworthy car. And that’s assuming you don’t take it to a corporate shop. If you can, do at least some of the work yourself to save some money. Or, reach out to the extensive DeLorean community for help. The DeLorean’s original code-name was the “DMC 12,” for the expected sale price of $12,000. Due to many engineering issues and changes, the cost kept going up… and so did the price. So, the 1981 DMC DeLorean ultimately listed for $24,000. Some lucky dealers got a premium for the new cars, while others sold them for less, just to get them off the lot, once DMC went out of business.
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- [Learn about the DeLorean](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/learn-about-the-delorean/): Yes, it was / is a real car. The DeLorean was completely built in Northern Ireland,  between 1981 and 1982, with 3 model years – 1981, 1982, and 1983. The company came and went before Back to the Future was released, and the movie production bought and used the cars without the knowledge of even John DeLorean himself. The DeLorean was built for the North American market, and there was a dealership network with full Service Centers in all 50 states. How many DeLoreans are there? Barrie Wills, director of purchasing (and the last employee) of the DeLorean Motor Company, Ltd., has said that 9,080 DeLoreans were built. It’s estimated that approximately 4,500 DeLoreans still exist – although not all of them are road-worthy. Over the years, many DeLoreans were placed into storage and forgotten, others have been destroyed in wild fires and house fires, others have been wrecked in car accidents, and some have simply been left to the elements in driveways, carports, and garages. Many have also been taken apart to restore other DeLoreans that were in better condition. Are DeLoreans slow? / Can they go over 88mph? The DeLorean was never intended to be a drag racer, but rather a highway cruiser. As such for both comfort and fuel economy, the DeLorean was given tall gear ratios and tuned more for emissions than power. While the speed was decent, compared to other vehicles in its time, it’s true that other advancements give modern cars better performance. The 5-speed manual transmissions also performs better, given the ratios and additional gears, not to mention the lack of a lock-up torque-converter. On the flip side, the DeLorean has fantastic low-end torque and will not slow down when encountering steep hills, and will even continue to gain speed uphill where many other cars will bog down. Yes, the DeLorean does indeed go faster than 88mph. The 85mph speedometer wasn’t meant to display a lack of prowess, instead, it was a government mandate to discourage excessive speeding to conserve fuel. In fact, DeLorean reported the the car had a top speed of around 130 mph. Many DeLorean owners have reportedly done 110-120mph, using phone GPS for measurement. A few favorites quotes about the DeLorean: What kind of engine do DeLoreans have? The DeLorean is equipped with the PRV V6 engine. But, the history of the PRV power plant is bigger than the DeLorean. Designed as a pan-European engine to compete with the Small Block Chevy, the PRV was co-engineered as a cooperative engineering effort between Peugeot, Renault, and Volvo (hence the name.) It’s a completely modular engine in every sense of the word. Externally the lower crank case section is swappable to accept different sized and shaped oil pans and motor mounts, depending on which vehicle the engine was supposed to be installed into, as well as up top cylinder heads accepting carburetors, and port fuel injection, as well as the ability to fit dual overhead cams. Internally the engines utilizes wet-jacket sleeves for the cylinders, where the cylinder liners are suspended in coolant. These can easily be swapped out to modify displacement of the engine without having to bore it out. In the DeLorean, the PRV has an output of 130 bhp (brake horsepower.) However, this number has been increased significantly for the PRV in other modified applications to over 300 bhp for production cars such as the Venturi Atlantique, and in excess of 900 bhp for professional racing applications, such as Peugeot WM 88 for the 24 Hours of Le Mans, where the engine has run, won, and even set a still unbroken speed record in 1988. Are DeLoreans hard to fix? It depends on the skill set of the mechanic performing the work. But overall, no, they are actually rather easy to work on in many respects. Firstly, the engine compartment is rather cavernous. Particularly when compared to modern cars. There are very few instances where bolts or components are difficult to access, but that’s the case with most cars. In fact, you’re usually able to get an entire arm in to where you need to reach. While K-Jetronic fuel injection does require a bit of education and some specialty tools to repair and tune, it’s not different from any other cars of the era, and not impossible for most people. Second is the parts supply, of which the DeLorean has a leg-up on even some modern cars. The principal behind the design was to make everything the you can see or touch to be unique to the car. But mechanical, the DeLorean was intended to use as many ‘off the shelf’ parts as possible. In addition, when DeLorean Motor Company closed its doors, they left behind a large number of parts that are generally available today. (The “left over parts” were actually the cars that were not produced after the bankruptcy.) And thankfully, there are a number of DeLorean Parts and Service centers around the world who sell parts and maintain the DeLorean. Overall the DeLorean can be a very reliable car, even by modern standards. But remember, it’s still an old car, and needs maintenance like any vehicle. Why a DeLorean for Back to the Future? The original script for Back to the Future was much different from the final movie. One such aspect was the time machine itself which, at one time, was a refrigerator. But concerns arose over the use of a refrigerator, as it was feared that children playing with abandoned appliances might close themselves inside and become trapped. (Of course, that was before they switched to new latches that could be pushed open.) So, that idea was nixed. Instead the decision was made the use a car, so that Doc Brown could be mobile during his travels through time. Bob Gale and Robert Zemeckis (writers of BTTF,) have also said they thought the DeLorean was perfect for the joke when Marty crashes into the barn in 1955, and the farmer says it
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- [DeLorean LED Headlights](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/delorean-led-headlights/): by Dave Tavres (DMC #10515) DMC #10515 now has LED headlights… and for A LOT less than you may have heard! I’m a huge fan of Toby Peterson’s Wings-A-Light LED Headlight Kit, but it’s out of my price range at the moment. The biggest reason I like Toby’s LED headlights, as that they LOOK stock (when not turned on.) That is, the GLASS just looks… ‘right.’ There are no weird silver bubbles or yellow squares where the SMD (surface mounted device) LEDs are… Toby’s have the right pattern in the glass and they conceal the LED bulbs perfectly. I’m also sure that with Toby’s background as a Boeing engineer, his system is fantastic. Again though, more than I can afford at the moment. Then Kevin Krinn mentioned this thread on DMCTalk.org to me. Whoever “DeLorean03” is, thanks to them for the tip… the single biggest tip, which is – the glass housings! The 4×6 inch glass pattern looks very much like the “original” glass (that is, the headlights that were on my car when I bought it – which likely were 30+ years old, since my car sat for 27 years.) While I’m not a nutcase about the car being original, I’m a bit crazy about the headlights. Those ‘bubble’ LED headlights just make the iconic front of the DeLorean look… weird. I don’t like it. That’s why I liked these glass housings (listed as “GS Power’s Chrome OEM style 4 x 6 inch Glass Lens H4 HID LED Halogen High Low Beam Headlight Lamp Conversion Replacement Kit (2 pc) | Lights Not Included” – along with the fact that they are just *$20* per pair! Yes… not on sale, not with a coupon… $20. They fit perfectly when I installed them, with no issues at all. The only note I have about the housings, is that they are missing the three ‘nipples’ found on most headlights, which are used by headlight alignment tools. Of course, the glass alone won’t get you headlights. You need to buy LED headlight bulbs. The glass is designed for the “H4″ bulb pattern, which is easily found online. I ordered the “LIGHTENING DARK Super Bright H4 LED Headlight Bulbs,CREE Chips Hi/Low Conversion Kit,6,000K Cool White – 10,000 Lumens, Adjustable Beam” bulbs, which were just $50 for two! Again, they installed and worked perfectly! They are ‘long’, but they fit in the headlight buckets just fine. The light output is listed at 6,000K so they are very ‘white’, but that seems to be common when I drive down the road these days and see newer cars with LED headlights. Of course, the ‘white’ light does NOT fit the stock DeLorean – but I don’t care. I’m more interested in ‘seeing’ while driving, rather than what the car looks like while driving. And honestly, only super-purists will be upset that the output of the headlights isn’t stock. Oh, and there’s a slight possibility you’ll need to do a serious headlight adjustment. I didn’t move the adjustment screws during installation, but when I first took the car out that night, the headlights were lighting up the tree-tops on my street. Lastly, I ONLY installed the two ‘low-beam’ headlights. Partly because this was a cheap test, and partly because I just don’t use the high-beams. HOWEVER, you DO need to buy the adapters for the install, or these LED bulbs will run on the ‘high beam’ setting by default. Thanks to Chris Miles for pointing out the fix, and Justin Trabue for the photo of the wiring fix. The DMCTalk thread does talk about a wiring change, but it’s a bit confusing… basically, you need to switch the socket wires to make these bulbs run as low-beams. Another side note… each LED has a heat-sync and a fan… so if your headlights are on while you’re standing there, you can just barely hear the fan through the fascia. So, all-in, it was $70. Not bad for a ‘cheap’ conversion that puts out a LOT more light. I’ve now driven the freeway and side roads several times at night, and other than adjusting them up a bit more, I’m very happy with the outcome. Todd’s installation of the same glass  
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- [Humble-based [fake] DeLorean faces $4.6 million judgment over electric car Alpha5](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/humble-based-fake-delorean-faces-4-6-million-judgment-over-electric-car-alpha5/): An Italian automobile design company has asked a federal judge in Houston to enforce a $4.6 million judgment against Humble-based [fake] DeLorean Motor Company, over claims that DeLorean failed to pay for work done to reimagine the famed car as an electric vehicle called Alpha5. The firm, Italdesign Giugiaro S.p.A., last year received the judgment in its favor from an international arbitration court and on Jan. 2 filed a complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas, asking Judge Keith P. Ellison to confirm the decision and have it enforced. The lawsuit seeks payment from the [fake] DeLorean Motor Company, the Humble-based business that since the ’90s has ‘owned’ DeLorean’s name and branding, and has operated mostly as a repair shop for the classic cars. The lawsuit doesn’t name DeLorean Reimagined LLC, the spin-off company based in San Antonio that advertised itself as the business behind the new Alpha5 model. Joost de Vries, the one-time CEO of DeLorean Reimagined, and Stephen Wynne, the founder of [fake] DeLorean Motor Company, were both involved in the litigation in Europe, according to public records and the arbitrator’s report. Representatives for Italdesign and [fake] DeLorean didn’t respond to a request for comment on Monday. [fake] DeLorean hadn’t filed a response to the claim as of Monday. An initial conference has been scheduled for April. Alpha5, [fake] DeLorean’s electric vehicle project – Italdesign was hired in 2022 to design an electric version of the DeLorean. In news releases announcing the partnership, the companies said the new four-seat sports car, the Alpha5, would feature the brand’s iconic gull-wing doors and be able to reach speeds of 155 mph. The Alpha5 was supposed to mark a rebirth for the company. Executives made appearances around San Antonio, hinted at the creation of a Texas-based factory and teased the car in a 15-second Super Bowl commercial. Italdesign’s founder, Giorgetto Giugiaro, designed the original iconic DeLorean DMC-12 in the 1970s. The Alpha5’s sleeker design was said to be based on a concept for a model the [real] DeLorean Motor Company had before going bankrupt in 1982. Despite initial claims that the car would be in production by 2023, a final model and official pricing have not been announced. Filings included in the complaint show that the dispute over payments began months after the public announcement of the new design. The company said it was hired to create scale models, show cars and styling models, to conduct pre-concept development and provide event support, according to the lawsuit. In July 2022, the design company billed [fake] DeLorean €4.3 million for the concept models that were revealed at the California car show. [fake] DeLorean made an initial payment of $500,000, according to the arbitrator’s report, which was included in court records. In September, de Vries emailed the firm promising full payment by October. The promises continued for months after that deadline, according to the report. In December 2022, de Vries wrote that he was hoping to receive good news regarding an investment. In February 2023, he reported that the company received “a couple of hundred thousand.” “Not enough to make a meaningful payment against our debt,” he wrote. A week later, he promised Italdesign that “big checks” were coming. They apparently never did. Italdesign took the motor company to court in early 2023. During the years-long process, [fake] DeLorean argued that it had never admitted to the debt “in full” and claimed it was unable to find documents related to its debts, according to the report. The car company’s arguments failed. The arbitrator in April 2025 decided in Italdesign’s favor, writing that the firm is the “undoubted victor” and “certain winner” under the law. [fake] DeLorean was ordered to pay its debts, along with interest. It’s unclear if [fake] DeLorean has taken any steps to pay the company since last year’s decision. The dispute over payments came amid other public struggles for [fake] DeLorean. In the years since the Alpha5’s announcement, the company scaled back its promises on how many cars it would initially build and was criticized for not updating customers who had made deposits for the Alpha5. In a sign of the times, early buyers were given NFTs, or nonfungible tokens, as their proof of purchase, rather than a receipt. De Vries stepped down as CEO in October 2023. In April 2024, the company closed its offices at Port San Antonio – where it had once received incentives to move amid promises of creating hundreds of jobs. The company’s new lead said it now planned to be a niche automobile maker, rather than a competitor to Tesla and other larger companies. Since then, there have been no new public updates on the development of the Alpha5. from January 12, 2026 – HOUSTONCHRONICLE.COM, by John Wayne Ferguson, Staff Writer
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- [C.R. "Dick" Brown](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/c-r-dick-brown/): C.R. “Dick” Brown was the Vice-President for Marketing and President of DeLorean Motor Cars of America. Previously, he set up the nationwide Mazda dealer network in the United States of America. His office was at 2065 Gillette Ave., Irvine, CA 92614. Obituary C.R. “Dick” Brown, a Loving husband, devoted father and grandfather, reputable automotive business executive, Christ follower who was best known for his hard work, ethics, and goodwill toward others, left this earth at 81-years of age to be with his Heavenly Father. C.R. Brown and his sister Colleen Callaghan were born to a northern Irish immigrant, Hugh James Brown, and evangelical mother, Bertha Dye Brown. Named after his two uncles who gave their lives on a mission field, C.R. was born into a strong selfless family and proved to live up to his heritage throughout his life. At age 24, he spotted his soon to be wife, Junie, and 3 months later they started a marriage that would last 57 wonderful years. They had four children: Colleen, Deborah, Karen, Hugh, and 13 grandchildren. C.R. graduated at age 17 from high school and enlisted in the army as a paratrooper. He later earned his “wings” and served in the Korean War for three years until he received an Honorable Discharge in 1953. After serving in the military, C.R. graduated from Michigan State University and went to work for Chrysler Corporation. “Son of Detroit”, as often referred to by the automotive press, C.R. moved up the ranks quickly during his time at Chrysler. He left Chrysler and was offered a position at American Motors Canada (AMC). It did not take long at AMC before he had earned a reputation of “getting the job done”, and was chosen by Mazda Motors as the man they needed to help build a company presence in the United States. C.R. moved his family to Long Beach, CA to become Vice President and General Manager of Mazda Motors of America where he was soon coined, “The Man who Made Mazda go Hmmmm.” After Mazda, C.R. opened his own dealership, earned his MBA and enjoyed golf, tennis, and boating with his family. In 1975, he went to work with DeLorean Motor Company (DMC) where he was largely responsible for raising capital to get the company up and running, establishing a dealer network, and developing a strong business strategy. Throughout C.R.’s career, he was known for his commitment to whatever he took on; including the next 11-year relationship in which he helped establish Daihatsu America, Inc. in the United States. He retired in the desert, where he enjoyed golf, friends, and frequent visits from grandchildren who knew him as their loving “Papa.” C.R. Brown was a man of faith, integrity, and strength, who showed strong character during challenging times. He was known as an icon in the automotive business; however, his legacy will be that he was a loving, generous, hardworking, humble man who always put others before himself. He will be forever missed but remembered for the strength in who he was before God, and how he brought inspiration, humor, and love to all who crossed his path. Burial service to be held@ Riverside National Cemetery on Feb.23; memorial to follow, Mariner’s Church,Irvine,CA,1:30pm.
- [DeLorean Ownership is for Fun People](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/delorean-ownership-is-for-fun-people/): by Dave Tavres I’m a DeLorean owner since 2015 and a lifelong Back to the Future fan. After reading the article “Meet the DeLorean Owners Who Hate ‘Back to the Future’” I’ve met and personally known several of those types of DeLorean owners, so to “Angela”, “Vincent”, and any other owners who hate BTTF, here’s the same advice I’ve given those I’ve met and known: go buy a Ferrari – no one will bother you. No one will want to get a picture of your car. They won’t bug you when getting gas. They won’t pace you on the freeway to take a photo. And you’ll NEVER hear someone say “I’ve never seen one in real life.” They will hardly notice you. (But, we know you actually WANT the attention, so you won’t get rid of the DeLorean.) The DMC DeLorean is not a Fabergé egg, it’s a car. And very few cars in history draw out people’s fun and wonderful memories the way the DeLorean does. A non-car friend of mine once said “It’s not a time machine, it’s a smile machine!” after taking her for a drive one day. Everywhere you go, people see the car and smile. Not just at gas stations or the parking lot at work – but in the cross-walks at a red light! I don’t own a Ferrari or a Jaguar or any other collector car – but I would be VERY surprised if any of those cars brings a smile to so many people’s faces the way a DeLorean does. And when people get happy seeing a DeLorean, what a wonderful thing! As for the weirdos who own a DeLorean and hate the Back to the Future comments, it’s clear they just don’t like people. 99% of DeLorean owners bought the car because of Back to the Future. That remaining 1% are the ones who bought their car in 1981, 82, or 83 BEFORE the car was no longer available at dealerships, and before the movie came out in 1985. There are very few of those early buyers in the world. And of that 1%, most of those owners DO like the movie, because the movie saved the car – and the car makes people happy. It’s true, I do like people more than most, and I absolutely love sharing the car with the public. As I said, the car is not a Fabergé egg, it’s a car. As long as there isn’t a group of 20+ people around it, I often invite people to come sit in the car to take photos. How often do fans of any pop-culture icons get to ‘interact’ with the thing that makes them happy in that way? Yes, it’s possible somebody will poke a hole in the seat with keys in their pocket, or break the turn signal stock – but that would be a small price to pay for sharing something that brings so much joy to people. Maybe I should feel sorry for Angela and Vincent and other ‘elitists’, but I don’t. If they choose to be unhappy where others find joy, it’s their loss. I wholeheartedly invite anyone who loves Back to the Future or the DeLorean by itself, to come up and say hello when I’m getting gas, or at the grocery store, or picking up food, or any other number of things (including getting ice cream.) And if you’re a DeLorean owner who hates that – too bad for you.
- [Meet the DeLorean Owners Who Hate 'Back to the Future'](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/meet-the-delorean-owners-who-hate-back-to-the-future/): From Cracked.com – June 27, 2025 Brian VanHooker Please stop asking them if they have a flux capacitor “Tell me about the time you first got your DeLorean up to 88 miles per hour.” This was the original query I posted on a handful of DeLorean Facebook groups a few weeks ago, hoping to get some fun stories in time for the 40th anniversary of Back to the Future on July 3rd. (For those who need a refresher on the iconic film: 88 mph is the speed necessary to activate the Flux Capacitor in the DeLorean time machine.) But I quickly realized I made two big mistakes: 1) My central idea was really dull. “I went fast” was how most answered the question. One conversation went verbatim like this: DeLorean Owner: I got pulled over.Me: Did you get a ticket?DeLorean Owner: No. And 2) I didn’t read all the terms on the DeLorean owners Facebook group, which clearly stated: “No BTTF or Time Machine Posts.” Because I violated that rule, I was quickly met with scorn. “You’re in the wrong group,” scolded one DeLorean owner, along with a screenshot of the “No BTTF” rule. “That movie is a blight on DeLorean owners and is no longer relevant. Less than 3 minutes of DeLorean on screen. It features more incest than car,” wrote another. That’s when it became crystal clear to me that many DeLorean owners hate Back to the Future. Okay, obviously, not all DeLorean owners hate Back to the Future, but DeLorean Fanatics group member Vincent, who has owned DeLoreans since 2006, says there are essentially two types of DeLorean owners. “There are those who enjoy the car, drive it and use it,” explains Vincent. He puts himself in this category, along with others who appreciate the DeLorean as a unique classic car. “Then there are the people who like the movie,” continues Vincent. “The movie people are the most vocal online, and maybe they’ve owned the car for three or four years and they take it out for ice cream once in a while.” Vincent notes that these movie-obsessed DeLorean owners are also the first people to get rid of their DeLorean, oftentimes after they’ve spent thousands on renovations to make it look like the movie — sometimes even drilling holes in the steel. “The longer you own the car, the more you hate the movies,” Vincent gripes. His fellow group member Angela backs him up, saying, “Honestly, I didn’t mind it when I started out with my car in 2017. I used to have a Back to the Future personalized plate and played along with it for a while. It’s the fandom and their cult following of the movie I grew to hate.” The biggest problem Back to the Future-hating DeLorean owners have is the constant barrage of comments in the form of movie quotes and lame, repetitive jokes. “Most interactions are people telling one of the same three jokes over and over while laughing to themselves,” Angela says. “It’s either ‘Where’s the flux capacitor?’, ‘Can you take me back 20 years?’ or ‘Where’s Doc?'” “I get asked about the stupid flux capacitor so many times, and what really irks me is everyone that asks thinks they’re being original,” says Michael, who has owned his DeLorean for 16 years. “I don’t like when I’m asked where the flux capacitor is 43 times a day — and this number is a real number from a car show,” Viktor, another owner and group member, tells me. The comments from movie fans often come at the least appropriate times, too. “When I got my first one, I was on the side of the road trying to put out an engine fire, and some guy slows down, screams out the window, ‘Check the flux capacitor!’ and then drives off,” recalls Vincent. “Having owned a lot of classic cars, I know that, normally, if somebody catches a photo of it being damaged in an accident, you’ll get sympathy and condolences. But if a DeLorean gets wrecked, it’s just: ‘Go back in time before the accident!'” But it’s not just the comments from Back to the Future fans that Vincent and Angela take issue with. “There’s this incredibly weird thing that — because it’s mostly known for a movie — people feel that at car shows they have a right to go up, sit in it, touch it and take photos sitting on it,” Vincent says. “I’ve owned classic cars my entire life. I’ve had probably a thousand of them, and no other vehicle have people felt so entitled to touch and sit in.” “Back to the Future fans are one of the most obnoxious crowds I’ve ever had the displeasure of dealing with,” adds Angela. “They feel entitled to sit in and on your car for photos. If your doors are closed at a show, they will try to open them. I even had one weirdo I’d never met before say we were dating — creepy. The movie draws in nerdy geeks who don’t take women who like the car seriously.” Both Angela and Vincent are convinced that the creepiness of the fandom stems straight from the movie itself. “There’s about seven minutes of screen time dedicated to the weird incest relationship between mom and son and about three minutes of the car. That’s literally one of my favorite facts,” says Vincent. Similarly, Angela takes issue with how the movie glosses over sexual assault, referring to the car scene with Biff and Lorraine. But if owning a DeLorean makes you a magnet for creepy, relentless movie quoters and amateur comedians, why hold onto the car at all? Vincent has an easy answer to this question. “DeLoreans aren’t without charm,” he explains. “You sit in them, and they feel well put together and well composed. There’s no other car like it, which is why, despite the fact that many of us hate the movies, we stick around and stay with the cars.”
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- [Fake DMC files another lawsuit against Universal Studios](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/fake-dmc-files-another-lawsuit-against-universal-studios/): Well, Fake DMC (DeLorean Motor Company Texas) is at it again… trying to get royalties money for something they had no hand in building – the DMC DeLorean car. They think they are owed money by Universal Studios for use of the DeLorean in Universal’s marketing of Back to the Future. Fake DMC started in 1995 and bought the remaining parts that came from the long-closed factory, and have been trying to make the public think they are the same company ever since. Fake DMC recently made millions of dollars selling the DeLorean badge to an electric car company (also in Texas,) and then rebranding themselves as “Classic DMC”, so they could continue to do a disservice to DeLorean owners. But, that EV using the DeLorean name (which looked more like a Tesla than a DeLorean) appears to now be dead. So, Fake DMC may not have gotten as much money as they planned from someone’s else’s work in building a new EV – which means, they need to go back to frivolous lawsuits to make money they don’t deserve. Over the years, Fake DMC has proven that they care nothing about John DeLorean’s stainless steel car – or the people who actually own, drive, maintain, and share the iconic car with the public. Their customer service is as bad as the countless owner stories have portrayed, and they don’t like DeLorean fans coming to the “showrooms” to see the car – unless they look rich, or have bags with dollar signs painted on them when they walk up to the door. Their lack of involvement in the DeLorean community is further proof that they don’t care about their actual customers. With less than 5,000 DeLoreans still in existence (of the 9,080 built,) you would expect that they would embrace the owner community, knowing that’s where they make their money. And to top off their story of disappointment, they’ve lost all of their “franchise” locations except Florida, for some unknown reason. The Texas and California locations are both corporate owned. Their service truly is “second to all”. It’s frustrating to see a company try to sucker the public into thinking they are John DeLorean’s company. John DeLorean actually built the car. He is the one who had vision. He did the best he could fighting against other big companies and a corrupt government – and he did well enough that his car – not Fake DMC’s – was used in one of the best movies of all time – and he was honored that they used his car.
- [I bought a DeLorean](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/i-bought-a-delorean/): Ray: “I bought a DeLorean. Needs some suspension work and shocks and brakes, brake pads, calipers, steering rack, CV joints, motor mounts…” Peter: “How much?” Ray: “Only $48,000. Maybe new fuel lines, also a Stage 1, new relays, fuse block, and a little wiring.”
- [05964](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/vin05964/): DeLorean 000000000000000000000000000
- [Arizona DeLoreans at the British Wheels on the Green event](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/arizona-deloreans-at-the-british-wheels-on-the-green-event/): British Wheels on the Green was on Sunday, October 29, 2023. The weather was beautiful and it was an awesome show. Four DeLoreans were in attendance. Gary Adams, Andrew Morales, Steve Flanagan, and Christian Jarzab brought their cars tot he show, and Christian took the prize for the category. Thanks Arizona DeLorean Club!
- [Beware of DPI - DeLorean Performance Industries](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/beware-of-dpi-delorean-performance-industries/): If you’re a DeLorean owner, you know there aren’t a lot of shops or parts houses to choose from when you need stuff for your DMC. And with so few shops, it’s frustrating when yet another DeLorean business engages in dishonest practices. First, it was Fake DMC in Texas, and now it’s perfectly clear that DPI – DeLorean Performance Industries is trying to scam people too (or, more.) In recent weeks, DPI purchased ads on Google Search (using Google AdWords) where they use the names of GOOD and TRUSTWORTHY DeLorean shops – but he’s using his own web address when you click the ad. Long-time DeLorean owners won’t (or shouldn’t) fall for that misleading tactic, but newer DeLorean owners – or those shopping for a DeLorean – absolutely would fall for it. This is untruthful and disgusting. The good and trustworthy shops being maligned in this case, are DeLorean Parts Northwest / DeLorean Service Northwest, DeLorean Midwest, and DeLoreanGo. DPI is paying for ads using each of their names, but linking to his own website. Click the images below to see the unscrupulous screenshots: DeLorean Performance Industries already had a shady past with their deficiency in customer service and their lack of ‘attention to detail’ that they tout so much. Apparently, they don’t really live up to their motto. Just ask around in the community. Plus the time (that we know of,) that DPI tried to steal money from a DeLorean owner by shorting their order, but wouldn’t issue a refund… that is, until the customer finally got the credit card company to do a chargeback, and suddenly DeLorean Performance Industries responded – by posting the customer’s bank account information on facebook! Yeah – DPI is not to be trusted. Furthermore, with Google AdWords, you can put up or take down ads basically immediately. Yet these double-dealing ads have stuck around for at least two weeks. We sent an email to both email addresses we found on the DPI website, asking for clarification on why they were posting these deceptive ads – telling them we were going to post an article if they didn’t have a good answer – and they never replied. Which means, a) they don’t pay attention to the customer service emails, or b) they don’t have a reasonable excuse for their deceitful actions. What to do now? Have some fun… GO SEARCH for DeLorean Parts Northwest / DeLorean Service Northwest, DeLorean Midwest, and DeLoreanGo on Google – and when you see the “Sponsored” link at the top that shows DPI – CLICK IT! Then do the same search on your mobile device, and click the ad AGAIN… then have your spouse, mom, co-worker, and anyone else nearby do the same… He gets charged more for each click, than for just the visual impression.
- [FakeDMC files yet another lawsuit](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/fakedmc-files-yet-another-lawsuit/):   FakeDMC out of Texas REALLY wants people to think they created the DeLorean. They did not. And while they did buy the remaining inventory – and THEY say they basically bought anything and everything to do with John DeLorean’s company, the Fake DeLorean Motor Company in Texas rears it’s ugly head any time they think they can get more money. The most recent example, is the lawsuit they filed against Universal Studios. Get this… The REAL DMC (DeLorean Motor Company) legally went out of business by 1983. Back to the Future came out in 1985, using our DeLorean car(s) as one of the stars of the movie(s). In 1997 FakeDMC bought the remaining DeLorean parts, and started a new company – using the original name, most likely to confuse people and take advantage of the name recognition. And in 2022, they are suing Universal for using a car that FakeDMC did not invent, build, or sell – but they think they deserve royalties from work they had nothing to do with – and thus far, have only bullied people and businesses into not using the name and logo of the long-close (but not forgotten) company. As a DeLorean owner, and someone who’s been part of the DeLorean community for a few years now, AND as someone who has heard countless stories of bad customer service of FakeDMC from DeLorean owners, I can easily attest to the fact that FakeDMC does NOT care about the DeLorean car, the DeLorean owners, or even the DeLorean name – they only care about how much money they can get from people. Their arrogance and greed is legendary amongst DeLorean owners across the Country. Other than this latest lawsuit, FakeDMC has sued many others, including DeLorean owners and small mechanics who serve the approximately 4,500 DeLoreans that still exist. They have sent numerous threatening “cease and desist” letters, black-listed owners and mechanics, and generally do shoddy work. Most DeLorean owners are afraid to speak up, for fear that they too will be black-listed from buying the few parts that you cannot find on crossover parts lists. And so, their tactics often work… but some day, they may not. There have been rumors for many years that Fake DMC was getting paid by Universal, but no one could ever confirm it… until now. I have not yet talked to a DeLorean owner that thinks FakeDMC should be paid by Universal for use of the DeLorean in Back to the Future. The movie came before Fake DMC and whatever agreement John DeLorean had with Universal died with him. We hope that NBCUniversal continues to ignore Fake DMC and stands up to the bullying tactics.
- [FakeDMC does NOT have the support of the DeLorean family](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/fakedmc-does-not-have-the-support-of-the-delorean-family/): If you’re a DeLorean owner, you shouldn’t be shocked that FakeDMC doesn’t have the support of the DeLorean family. Especially Kat DeLorean, John Zachary DeLorean’s daughter. We couldn’t be happier that she has come out (more than once) to remind people of at least 3 simple facts: FakeDMC is NOT associated with the DeLorean family. FakeDMC is not 40 years old. They started in 1995, and bought one of the DeLorean trademarks. John DeLorean did NOT like FakeDMC, nor did he support them in any way. FakeDMC has tried, and in far too many cases they have succeeded in bullying and intimidating individuals and small businesses who DO support and love the DeLorean community. The DeLorean car came from the mind of a brilliant automotive engineer – John DeLorean – who Elon Musk can easily be compared to – someone who fought the system and built their own car against all odds. The difference is, JZD had governments working against him to bring him down, while Musk simply made something that the people wanted. And since politicians could personally line their pockets from Musk’s business(es) they weren’t as inclined to try to shut him down. JZD’s legacy is greater than just producing the stainless steel car – and it certainly has nothing to do with the new company who does everything in their power to take advantage of what someone else built.   There are MANY DeLorean owners who are afraid to speak up about #FakeDMC for fear that they’ll be ‘blacklisted’ from buying parts or getting service – and we understand. But know this – there are A LOT of us. It’s important to support the independent shops and people who DO care about the car, and the owners. They are part of the community – they own cars – they love sharing the car with the public. THEY are part of JZD’s legacy. The next time you need parts or service for your DeLorean, don’t go to FakeDMC if at all possible – just ask around about their “customer service.” Hopefully one day Kat will do an episode of DeLorean Talk to share her memories of her father, and talk about her experience with DeLorean owners and the community… and hopefully will be willing to share her disdain with how FakeDMC has tried to take advantage of JZD’s name and legacy. Here’s our comment on her post: “Thank you for sharing your feelings Kat. #FakeDMC has proven time and again that they don’t care about the REAL DeLorean car, or the owners – it’s all about taking advantage of the name. We support business and entrepreneurs, but FakeDMC has bullied and intimidated owners – and the public – for far too long. They do everything they can to make people believe they ARE the original DMC company – without actually saying it. FakeDMC is untrustworthy, and they are not there to serve their (potential) customers. We highly recommend supporting independent parts & labor shops, as well as individuals who love the REAL DeLorean car, and JZD’s legacy. If you ever care to, or feel comfortable talking about this, please contact us at www.DeLoreanTalk.com” More: John DeLorean’s Daughter Doesn’t Approve The New Alpha5 John DeLorean’s Daughter Isn’t Happy About The New Alpha5 John DeLorean’s Daughter Didn’t Know About New DeLorean Brand Revival
- [Fake DMC's response to not being part of the DeLorean Community](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/fake-dmcs-response-to-not-being-part-of-the-delorean-community/): This is copy/pasted from post #78 on the DMCTalk thread “Delorean Motor Company (DMC) Texas threatening to sue Delorean owners now” “SonnyV” / james espy speaks for Fake DMC frequently… although updated this post after the fact to say that, in THIS case, his opinions AREN’T Fake DMC’s opinions… in THIS case. Unless you have/had an account on DMCTalk.org, you won’t get/understand the depth of frustration and disappointment DeLorean owners have with Fake DMC. You’ll just have to ask around – hopefully on social media. Ask a lot. Lots of things going on in this thread across a wide swath of history. The ones who were there when it happened got it mostly right, lots of the others got it varying degrees of wrong. I’m sure the same will be said about what I am about to write. George Carlin, I think, said “where you stand on an issue depends on where you sit” – that seems to fit here, too. Let me start by saying I stepped away from DMCtalk and social media for a good couple years because it was such a time suck, and I/DMC had more pressing matters at hand. Still do, but knowing what’s going to happen in the very near future – related to the recent changes on our site – and the analytics that say where visitors are coming from, prompted me to come here and find this thread. The C&D’s were sent out without my direct knowledge, so I can’t say exactly why, but many people here are on the mark when it comes to defending a trademark. Was it done with too broad of a stroke? Not for me to say – I am not an IP lawyer,and neither, I think, is anyone else here. Yes, the whole SonnyV thing was a mistake I made nearly 20 years ago. I’ve apologized, learned from that mistake and I don’t know what else I can do…if you want a personal apology and hear my version of events, call me or see me at the next DeLorean event. In any case, please know that I realized I fucked up and I’m sorry that I did it. I understand why people got upset about it. I understand that I let people down. I have tried in the ensuing years to give back to the DeLorean community in any way I can via other good works wherever I can. The DMCnews.com site is not controlled by DMCH nor was it shutdown at SW’s request.. I was able to re-acquire it personally a couple years ago – but never got a full and complete backup of the site. I had hopes of having time to rebuild the data, move it to a different, modern platform, but never have had time. I am supportive of the other DML archives. DMC/DMCH is in a good financial position – all locations are loaded up with cars for sale, cars to be serviced and the new online store is benefiting all dealers as we give them the orders from their region that they can fill, to further reduce shipping times to customers. That said, Florida does not handle any of the web orders placed by customers in their region – if you want them to, reach out to Tony and Robert! Also, with regards to the store, I hope people are enjoying the larger and 360 photos. We do it all in house, so it’s going slower than I’d like. On that subject, we’re hiring in just about all areas for in-person positions here at DMCH. Come work here and see for yourself what it takes to keep this going! Company paid medical, dental, vision, HSA/HSA, paid holidays/vacation, 401k and more! Parts availability is very good with new parts coming though keeping stock on the shelf has been a challenge with longer lead times and shortages from assorted suppliers in the US and abroad. We’ve not had a wide-ranging price increase in more than five years, preferring to raise prices where deemed required due to supplier price increases to us.. That will likely have to change this year. Costs are going up left and right on everything for everyone as we all know – fuel, utilities, wages, benefits, etc. DMC is not an exception. As far as new cars go, yes, we’ve often spoken before we should have. The Pontiac Solstice thing was likely the first, most public, misstep. And it actually started as the Saturn Sky. We had been approached by a company (AMP Motors) that had been building some battery powered Skys (https://uncrate.com/the-amp/) and was making a play for the GM plant where the Sky and Solstice were built when GM shut down Pontiac and Saturn as they filed for bankruptcy. They knew they couldn’t use the Pontiac brand and Roger Penske was making a play (that also fizzled out) for Saturn. AMP reached out to us about licensing the DeLorean brand for their planned continuation cars, using the thread of a DeLorean/Pontiac connection as the tie-in. In the early days of the Obama administration, a top donor to their campaign (and Fisker investor) called in a favor to Biden (connected to Delaware, where the Sky/Solstice plant was located) and AMP lost out to Fisker. You can read on your own how that ended. Spoiler alert: Fisker never built anything there and the plant was demolished a few years ago. The EV that we showed at the 2012 New York Auto Show and our 2011 Open House was built by an ex-Aptera guy who started a battery company and also had a company that made electric ski boats nearby in Louisana as he was (and still is) a composites whiz. We made a deal to buy it from him as part of a plan to work with him to build more. Neither of us were capitalized for it and the EV thing in 2012 was far different than it is today. As an aside, he made a couple
- [DCS 2021 Schedule](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/dcs-2021-schedule/): DeLorean Convention and Show 2021 Presentation and Show Schedule Talks, Interviews and Presentations in Birch Room Presentation order subject to change due to possible late arrivals caused by bad weather. THURSDAY, August 12, 2021 Event ID Pickup Times – 8:30am – 9:00am, 12:30pm – 1:00pm, 6:30pm – 7:00pm (Walnut III Room) 8:30am to 9:00am BTTF.com Info – New BTTF product info for 2020 and 2021 9:00am to 10:00am Mega Mile DeLorean – The Holler’s 800K+ mile DeLorean 10:00am to 11:00am Fuel Systems – Owner presentations (carb fuel systems) 11:00am to 1:00pm Lunch Break – Choose nearby restaurants/food options 1:00pm to 2:00pm DeLorean Launch – Don Sherman, automotive writer 2:00pm to 2:30pm West Coast POG – Greg Sedoff on working with CR Brown 2:30pm to 4:00pm Afternoon Movie – DeLorean: Living the Dream – (JLP) 4:00pm to 5:00pm Movie Summary/Q&A – Jordan Livingston (JLP) 5:00pm to 7:00pm Dinner Break – Choose hotel restaurant/numerous nearby options 7:00pm to 8:00pm 50K Endurance – Ronnie Arnold, DMC endurance driver 7:00pm to 10:00pm DCS Museum – Ongoing Self-Guided (Located in Walnut I & II Rooms) 8:00pm to 9:00pm VIN…500 Review – Review of VIN…500, at 40 years old 9:00pm to 10:00pm Evening Movie – OUTATIME: Saving the DeLorean Time Machine (BTTF A-Car) FRIDAY, August 13, 2021 Event ID Pickup Times – 8:30am – 9:00am, 12:30pm – 1:00pm, 6:30pm – 7:00pm (Walnut III Room) 9:00am-11:00am, 1:00pm-4:00pm, 7:00pm-9:00pm All-Day DCS Museum – Walnut I & II 8:30am to 9:00am BTTF.com Info – New BTTF product info for 2020 and 2021 9:00am to 10:00am 50K Endurance – Ronnie Arnold, DMC endurance driver 10:00am to 11:00am 20 Years of Customs – Custom DeLoreans, 2001 to 2021 11:00am to 1:00pm Lunch Break – Choose nearby restaurants/food options 1:00pm to 2:00pm DeLorean Launch – Don Sherman, automotive writer 2:30pm to 4:00pm Afternoon Movie – Framing John DeLorean – Tamir’s movie 4:00pm to 5:00pm Movie Summary/Q&A – Framing John DeLorean – Q&A with Tamir and Zachary DeLorean 5:00pm to 7:00pm Dinner Break – Choose hotel restaurant/numerous nearby options 7:00pm to 9:00pm POG Fest 2021 – Former QAC POGs: Jeff, Chris, Norm, Greg 9:00pm to 10:00pm OUTATIME: Q&A – Steve C. hosts Q&A on 5th Anniversary SATURDAY, August 14, 2021 9:00am to 11:00am Local DMC Midwest guided Driving Tour – Leaves Hotel at 9:00am 9:00am to 11:00am DCS Museum – Ongoing Self-Guided (Located in Walnut I & II Rooms) 12:00pm to 5:00pm DMC Midwest Open House 12:00pm to 1:00pm Lunch at DMC Midwest – RSVP to DMC Midwest if Attending 1:00pm to 4:00pm Show & Shine at DMC Midwest – Car judging from 1pm-3pm, Awards at 4pm 5:00pm to 7:00pm Dinner Break – Choose hotel restaurant/numerous nearby options 7:00pm to 9:00pm Informal Car Display – “DeLorean Only” Lot at Hotel Parking Lot SUNDAY, August 15, 2021 9:00am to 11:00am Local Self-Guided Driving Tour 9:00am to 11:00am Informal Show & Shine – Informal Car Display in “DeLorean Only” Hotel Parking Lot 11:00am Hotel Check-Out – Safe Travels – Thank You for Attending!
- [Kenneth Cork](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/kenneth-cork/): Kenneth Cork was the receiver who took charge of the DeLorean Motor Company factory when the British Government chose not to continue funding the company, and the jobs in Dunmurry.
- [Bill Haddad](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/bill-haddad/)
- [Passed On](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/passed-on/): DeLorean employees who have passed away: Alan Hanna Anne Hope (freelance British auto journalist) Anne Stewart Anthony (Tony) McDade Anthony (Tony) Rudd (Lotus) Anthony Colin Bruce Chapman CBE (Lotus) Arthur ‘Art’ August (Grumman Aerospace) Arthur Miller (GKN Sankey) Barbara Hollinshead Brian Beharrell Campbell Kennedy Cecil Cullen Charles (Chuck) Belestre (Visioneering) Charles Dunn Charles Keith Bennington Christopher Bradley Christopher Downey Colin Smith Colin Williamson CR (Dick) Brown David Hailwood (CP Trim) Denis Harrison Derek Whittaker (Lucas Girling) Dermot Dornan Jr Dermot Dornan Sr Donald H Lander OC Edward (Ted) Chapman Edward Dornan Eugene (Gene) A Cafiero Frank McCann (Department of Commerce) Frederick (Fred) Bushell (Lotus) George D Broomfield George Doran George Fairman Gerry Castle Glyn Lewis Gordon Griffiths (GKN Automotive) Hal Jones (Cork Gully) Harold Horner (Visioneering UK) Harry Childs Harry Little Helmut Jaeger (Laepple) Ian Neale (Lotus contractor) J Bruce McWilliams James (Jim) Gardner James (Jim) Prentice (Lotus contractor) James (Jim) Sim John Adams (GKN Sankey) John Bowerman John Zachary DeLorean Josh Wilson Keith Douglas (GKN Automotive) LE ‘Bill’ Bellamy MC (CP Trim) Leslie Swannell Lord (Roy) Mason of Barnsley PC Michael Ford-Hutchinson Myron J Stylianides Norah O’Hare Norman McClinton Patrick Dornan Patrick McCarthy Paul Murphy Paul Murray Paul Shewell (Cork Gully) Pearl Cook Peter Milner Ray Green (Lotus contractor) Richard (Dick) Hill Robert (Bob) J Donnell Robert (Bobby) John Cowden Robert Doherty Robin Ross Rusi Mogrelia Sir Kenneth Cork (Cork Gully) Stephen (Steve) Kiraly Ted Rose (Edward Rose Limited) Thomas (Tom) Ronayne Thomas Joseph (Joe) Daly Timothy (Tim) Frankland (Hill Samuel) Timothy O’Rourke Vernon (Vern) Neale (Visioneering) Willi Brenner (Laepple) William Dornan Wilson Smyth Winifred Garner (Cork Gully)
- [George Broomfield](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/george-broomfield/): Obituary George D. Broomfield, 82, of Sun City, AZ passed away on June 3, 2008. George served in the US Navy during WW II. Upon graduation from college, he joined GM Overseas Operations, where he held executive positions in Brazil, Argentina, and West Germany. In 1978, he joined DeLorean Motor Cars as Director of Manufacturing in Northern Ireland. He is survived by his wife Gisela, son George and daughter-in-law Jan, daughter Cheryll, grandsons Sean and Jimmy, granddaughter Jennifer and great-granddaughter Alexis. His Phoenix relatives include Robert and Cuma Broomfield, Chico Austin, Judy and Mike Soock, Heidi and Al Rosetti. Best Funeral Home is handling the arrangements. There will be a Memorial Service at the National Cemetery in Phoenix and subsequent interment in Philadelphia, PA at the convenience of the family.
- [Colin Chapman](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/colin-chapman/)
- [Walter Strycker](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/walter-strycker/): Articles
- [Cristina Ferrare](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/cristina-ferrare/)
- [Zach DeLorean](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/zach-delorean/)
- [3M Scotch-Brite Blending Pads](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/3m-scotch-brite-blending-pads/): The 3M Scotch-Brite (#7446) blending pads are the correct pads for hand blending the stainless steel finish on the DeLorean.  They provide similar performance as steel wool grade 3 without shredding during use, rusting after use, or leaving fine metal splinters to rust in the grain of the stainless.  
- ["Myth & Mogul: John DeLorean" on Netflix](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/myth-mogul-john-delorean-on-netflix/): On Friday, July 30, 2021 Netflix released “Myth & Mogul: John DeLorean”. “Combining exclusive access and interviews with never before seen footage shot by Oscar winning director D.A Pennebaker (“Bob Dylan: Don’t Look Back”) this 3-part documentary series explores the rise and fall of automotive icon John DeLorean, the poster boy of late ‘70s corporate greed. Epitomising these hubristic times with his grandiose vision of the car of the future, the series will show how John DeLorean came to captivate the world.”    
- [What Could Have Been #00502 - Factory Twin Turbo](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/what-could-have-been-00502-factory-twin-turbo/): In April 1981 DeLorean #00502 rolled off of the assembly line in Ireland and was shipped to Legend Industries in Long Island, New York at the direct order of John DeLorean. DeLorean had earlier entered into a contract with Legend to develop a Twin Turbo power plant capable of propelling the DeLorean at race car speeds, while maintaining the fine manners of an expensive European GT automobile, and having the reliability to carry a five-year, 50,000 mile warranty. The Twin Turbo Power Plant, which represented a total engineering systems approach and a development cost of several million dollars, was introduced at the NADA show in Los Angeles in February 1981. John DeLorean was so impressed that he ordered 5,000 of the engines to be built so that they could be offered as a $7,500 option to DeLorean purchasers. Prior to the NADA introduction, the new Twin Turbo engine had undergone extensive laboratory dyno testing and had been installed in Renault Alpines for road testing. In May 1981 the Twin Turbo Power Plant was installed in DeLorean #00502 and road testing began on the prototype. The car was soon delivered to John DeLorean who was quoted as saying “The car’s performance and manners finally match its good looks.” #00502 was returned to Legend for final pre- production testing prior to expected Twin Turbo engine introduction in 1982. Practically every piece of the Renault V6 engine had to be redesigned except the bottom end and the camshafts. Fitting Twin Turbos and Twin Intercoolers with all of their attendant electrics and plumbing into the DeLorean engine  compartment is an engineering feat to be admired. The results are a smooth, reliable engine with great flexibility and lugability. This engine is capable of pulling smoothly in fifth gear from 1,500 RPM, continuing through to full Turbo boost at 2,500 RPM, and climbing solidly on to 6,500 RPM at 150 MPH without the slightest protest. The IHI Twin Turbos are so perfectly matched to this engine that you’re never at a loss for power even if you are a lazy shifter. The prototype car was acceleration tested at an incredible 0-60 in 5.8 seconds and the quarter mile in 14.7 seconds. Before any of the 5,000 Twin Turbo DeLoreans could be put into production, the DeLorean debacle occurred and the DeLorean Motor Company was out of business. Legend Industries as well as many other suppliers were bankrupted by the sudden turn of events. Prototype #00502 was sold in the Legend Industries bankruptcy sale in 1983 to Legend Turbo, Inc., a company formed in hope that DeLorean production would resume. It was not to be, and the present owner acquired #00502 in 1984. In the December 1984 edition of Road and Track Magazine, John Dinkel, the editor, memorialized John DeLorean, Legend Industries, and #00502. John Dinkel became the only journalist to drive the only factory Twin Turbo DeLorean ever produced. What would have been enjoyed and appreciated by thousands is now a Limited Edition of One. by Phil Meisinger
- [Society6 Fail](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/society6-fail/): by Dave Tavres  The Society6 website says that I am not allowed to use the name of the classic car that I own – DeLorean – when selling MY photos of MY car. That’s right… when trying to use the name “DeLorean” in the title (or tag, or description) of a product I want to sell on their site, they return this message: “We were not able to accept your title/tag/description submission, as it appeared to contain distinctive words that may belong to another rights holder. If you believe you have received this message in error, please contact Member Support.” Like many other DeLorean owners, I love taking cool photos of MY DeLorean. And also like other owners, I’m always looking for cool places to get amazing photos of MY DeLorean, with the hope of one turning out totally awesome, so I can sell it, or have it used somewhere as I – the content creator / artist – sees fit. But, Society6 doesn’t seem to agree that an artist has the right to sell their own photos of their property. Now, as of the writing of this article, you can NOT use names like “Mercedes” or “Ford”, but I can see that making sense, as those companies still exist, and are currently making new products. However, the DeLorean Motor Company went out of business in 1983. The DeLorean car that they invented and built, will never be built again. We, the owners of these cars, are the protectors and keepers of the approximately 4,500 left in the world, out of the 9,080 that were built. As it happens, a company in Texas named “DeLorean Motor Company Texas”, did buy the remaining parts left over from the original factory in 1997 – for less than $1 million dollars. Since then, they have proceeded to bully and attempt to scare people into submission, by pretending to be the original DeLorean Motor Company (despite their own admission on their website under the question “Are you ‘THE’ DeLorean Motor Company?” – they answer “We have no connection to John DeLorean, the DeLorean estate or the original DeLorean Motor Company. DeLorean Motor Company Texas is a privately held corporation based in Humble, Texas.”) And to top it all off, they have repeatedly shown their disdain for the actual owners of the remaining DeLoreans out there. So, using the name of MY car, that I own – and the name of a product that is no longer made by an existing company – should be allowed… just as you can use the name “Bricklin” and others on Society6. (Bricklin is another defunct car company.) It’s most likely that intimidation by the fake DMC (DeLorean Motor Company Texas) has caused Society6 to block us owners from profiting from our own property. We’ll see how Society6 responds to the message I sent them disputing their choice to block me from using the name “DeLorean”. Update from Society6: This was the last email they sent me: From: Tristan (Society6)Date: Jun 21, 2021, 18:19 PDT Hello Dave, We recommend that you research the relevant copyright laws and other laws pertaining to intellectual property and their application to your work on the Internet, or consult legal counsel if you are unsure about them. We also suggest that you review Society6’s Terms of Service http://society6.com/terms with respect to our Content, Copyright & Intellectual Property Rights Policies to ensure that you are in compliance at all times. The word “DeLorean” will not be unblocked at this time. Warmly, TristanArtist Community Success Associate  
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- [DeLorean Story submissions](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/census/delorean-story-submissions/): Read about submitting your DeLorean Story. Upload your recording here: (* – required) .mp3, .m4a, and .wav files up to 150mb is size can be uploaded.
- [DeLorean Appearance Upload](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/appearances/delorean-appearance-upload/)
- [DeLorean Appearances](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/appearances/): Since 1981, the DeLorean has shown up all over media in random places – movies, advertisements, and TV shows – showing its popularity and people’s passion for the gull-wing car. Below is a crowd-sourced collection of places the DMC DeLorean has made random appearances in pop-culture and media, that aren’t direct stories about the DeLorean automobile. If you see a DeLorean in media source, submit this form with the details and include a screenshot or photo for reference.
- [Articles](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/articles/): Here’s a list of people associated with the original DeLorean businesses, as referenced in books and publications about the DeLorean.
- [DeLorean Mentions](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/mentions/): This list of links point to articles that mention the DeLorean.
- [My account](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/my-account/)
- [Checkout](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/checkout/)
- [Cart](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/cart/)
- [DeLorean Books, Publications, and More](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/shop/): John Z. DeLorean has been written about for decades. For everything from his incredible career with General Motors, to the development of his unique, “ethical” gull-wing sports car, as well as the FBI / DEA drug entrapment farse. This is an ever-growing list of DeLorean books, publications, and more that cover all of the topics above, and much more. If a book is missing, submit it here.
- [Search DeLorean Directory](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/search/)
- [DeLorean Community](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/community/)
- [DeLorean Census Data](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/census/data/): This collection of DeLorean VINs is shared with the public as a whole. The data displayed has been submitted by users and is not owned by DeLorean Directory, but is a resource for current and future owners when researching their car. Take a look at the Census reports too! Submit a VIN VIN City State Country
- [DeLorean Features](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/videos/delorean-features/): Below are feature segments about John DeLorean, or DeLorean Motor Company.
- [Recommended Products](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/recommended-products/)
- [Personalized DeLorean Plates](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/personalized-delorean-plates/): Want to share your personalized DeLorean plate? Click here to upload a clear, straight-on photo of your plate. Share YOUR Personalized DeLorean Plate Upload a Personalized DeLorean Plate photo. (Your name and email will not be shared.)
- [Fake DMC Stories](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/fakedmcstories/): Over the past several years, the fake DMC in Texas (DeLorean Motor Company Texas,) has bullied, threatened, over-charged, and generally done a bang-up job of alienating their primary customers – DeLorean owners. They get away with this atrocious behavior for several reasons, but the biggest reason is this: owners are afraid of getting black-listed by the fake DMC. And it’s not just DeLorean owners who have been treated badly – fake DMC Texas franchisees have been bullied and threated as well. The fake DMC has filed many lawsuits, and sent numerous ‘Cease & Desist’ letters in the form of communications from their attorneys, to direct emails from fake DMC management to small and large businesses, as well as individuals who want to create custom items for their cars – or who want to create custom items for other DeLorean owners. Why does the fake DMC do this? Because they think they own our cars. They think that because they bought the remaining parts from the DMC factory, and have filed new trademarks using the original name, so they think they can dictate what we DeLorean owners do with, and for, our cars. And so, it’s time to share YOUR stories, so that other DeLorean owners, new and old, can hear how badly the fake DMC has treated us – with the hope that they will realize that WE are their customers, and WE keep them in business – so that THEY will change their business practices and start treating us as more than just bank accounts. DeLorean Owners don’t want the fake DMC to go out of business – we want them to be a part of the community and care about the owners who give them lots of money. Until the fake DMC can prove that they deserve our business by changing their business practices, try to NEVER give the fake DMC any money – instead, support these GOOD DeLorean parts and service suppliers that DO care about DeLorean Owners. If you have stories about the fake DMC that you’re willing to share PRIVATELY with me, click the link below and submit it. I’ll contact you to get more details of the story, and maybe ask for supporting documentation, so that we’re not sharing false information. Your name and contact information will NEVER be shared, but your story will be. Your experiences will help other DeLorean Owners, new and old, and keep us all from being taken advantage of, and will help us share and customize OUR DeLoreans as we see fit. Share your stories of: damaged DeLoreans, work performed that wasn’t authorized, over-charging on invoices, being charged for work that was not done, general rudeness and lack of customer service, bullying, and especially cease and desist letters and emails. Then, check out the stories below. Stories:    
- [DeLorean Dealerships](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/galleries/delorean-dealerships/): DeLorean dealership photos around the Country. Check out the list of locations from the original brochure. Is a photo missing? Submit it here.
- [DCS 2000 - Cleveland, OH](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/galleries/dcs/delorean-car-show-2000-cleveland-oh/): Have DCS photos to share? Submit them here. (Or, send an email to contact@deloreandirectory.com to share a Google Photo Album.)
- [DCS 2002 - Memphis, TN](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/galleries/dcs/delorean-car-show-2002-memphis-tn/): Have DCS photos to share? Submit them here. (Or, send an email to contact@deloreandirectory.com to share a Google Photo Album.)
- [DCS 2004 - Pigeon Forge, TN](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/galleries/dcs/delorean-car-show-2004-pigeon-forge-tn/): Have DCS photos to share? Submit them here. (Or, send an email to contact@deloreandirectory.com to share a Google Photo Album.)
- [DCS 1998 - Cincinnati, OH](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/galleries/dcs/delorean-car-show-1998-cincinnati-oh/): Have DCS photos to share? Submit them here. (Or, send an email to contact@deloreandirectory.com to share a Google Photo Album.)
- [DCS photos](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/galleries/dcs/): Photos various DCS / DeLorean Car Shows / DeLorean Convention and Shows over the years. Have DCS photos to share? Submit them here. (Or, send an email to contact@deloreandirectory.com to share a Google Photo Album.)
- [DM-eng Designing products for the DeLorean automobile](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/resources/crossover-parts/david-mckeens-solid-state-relays-for-the-delorean/): This is a mirror of Dave Mckeen’s Solid State Relay website, as of September 15, 2020. BE SURE to check the original site for the most current information. TO PURCHASE THESE ITEMS, VISIT Dave Mckeen’s WEBSITE https://dm-eng.weebly.com/ LED board for AC (HVAC) panel Colors are more vivid than stock incandescent bulbs. Only draws about 50 ma typical. Available with green or blue LEDs. Requires wiring, sanding paint off and metal cuts. led_ac_panel_installation_instructions_v1.4.pdf Solid state RPM relay Runs cool and dependable. Always will auto prime. Has user selectable hot start fix. OEM units are prone to broken solder joints. Plug and play rpm_install.pdf Solid State Fan Fail unit Each fan now fused. Returns the fan fail indicator operation. OEM fan fail must not be used anymore. Plug and play. fan_fail_install_rev_k.pdf Solid State Fan Relay Delays fans for one second and keeps fan running for 20 seconds minimum. That eliminates fans cycling when AC cycles. Plug and Play. fan_relay_install.pdf Solid State Hot Start Relay You won’t need to do the “PLUG SWAP” anymore. If you unplug your thermal time switch engine starts faster in the summer. Plug and Play. Microprocessor controlled idle ECU User adjustable idle RPM. Turns idle motor off when not at idle speed. Can work without the idle switch. Plug and play idle_ecu_instructions.pdf key_removal.pdf Solid State Relays Custom made from the Fan Relay boards. Note solid state relays are polarity sensitive so headlight and blower relays are not interchangeable. Dome Light Dimmer Works with LEDs that don’t have a switching regulator. Also works with incandescent bulbs. User can program, Battery saver mode (turns power off after 10 minutes) , Parade mode (Flashes door lights) or normal mode. Requires wiring changes to install. dome_light_instructions_110212.pdf Front relay bank ground buss The stock wiring is showing problems with age. New buss has one wire crimped pins. relay_buss_install.pdf Microprocessor BI-directional driver For driving two wire devices that need polarity reversal. 3 amp continuous rated for driving latching relays, actuators, etc. Electronic Otterstat Requires 4 wires into an unused relay socket install_otterstat_rev_b.pdf Dual side marker flasher Shipped with 12 inch wires. You will need to cut and connected the 8 wires into your harness. blinker_install.doc.pdf Lambda Relay Runs cool. The stock lambda relay runs very hot. Plug and play. Fuel Gauge ECU Unit will let you use another fuel level sender and drive the OEM gauge. fuel_level_ecu_install.pdf HOW BUILT    
- [Brandon Fayette's 3D Model DeLorean Parts](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/brandon-fayettes-3d-model-delorean-parts/): Brandon Fayette has taken the time to create these 3D models of DeLorean parts that are hard to find, or are no longer available. To view the the 3D models, download the .obj file, and go to 3DViewer.net or Creators3D.com Click here for Brandon’s DropBox folder.
- [DeLorean Workshop Manual - Section C:04:02 - Engine](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/delorean-workshop-manual/delorean-workshop-manual-section-c0402-engine/): DeLorean Workshop Manual Index Fig.13 Disconnect: heater hoses from control valve and cylinder head heater bleed pipe from header tank brake servo vacuum pipe fuel feed to metering head fuel return at bundy metal pipe connection accelerator cable starter positive cables (Fig. 14) wiring harness at bulkhead (auto transmission only) Fig.14 Fig.15 40/541
- [DeLorean Workshop Manual - Section G:05:01 - Automatic Transmission](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/delorean-workshop-manual/delorean-workshop-manual-section-g0501-automatic-transmission/): DeLorean Workshop Manual Index MAINTENANCE/ADJUSTMENT CHECKING AND ADDING FINAL DRIVE OIL Raise the vehicle on a hoist. Remove the final drive fill plug. Fig. 8 The oil level should be at the bottom of the fill plug hole. If necessary, add oil to bring level to proper height. CHANGING FINAL DRIVE OIL Notice: The oil should be drained while hot. Raise the vehicle on a hoist. Remove the drain plug from the final drive case and all the oil thoroughly. Fig. 8 Install the drain plug and tighten with special tool wrench (J28847). Remove the oil fill plug from the side of the final drive case and add gear oil until the oil level is at the bottom edge of the fill plug hole. Fig. 8 Install fill plug. Lower vehicle on hoist. CHANGING THE TRANSMISSION FLUID CAUTION: The fluid should be drained while hot. SPECIAL CARE should be exercised to prevent physical contact with transmission fluid when changing or checking as transmission fluid is scalding hot (80°C/176°F). Raise the vehicle on a hoist. Remove the drain plug from the transmission fluid pan and allow the fluid to drain thoroughly. Fig. 9 Install the drain plug and tighten to ensure proper seating. Notice: A new copper washer should be installed each time drain plug is removed. Lower the vehicle and add two quarts (1.89 liters) of transmission fluid through the filler tube. Notice: Use a funnel with a built-in 15/100 mesh filter. With the selector level in the PARK position apply the parking brake, start the engine and let idle. Add additional fluid to bring the fluid level to the proper mark on the dipstick. Fig. 8 – FINAL DRIVE DRAIN PLUG Fig. 9 – TRANSMISSION FLUID DRAIN PLUG 179/541
- [DeLorean Workshop Manual - Section E:05:01 - Clutch](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/delorean-workshop-manual/delorean-workshop-manual-section-e0501-clutch/): DeLorean Workshop Manual Index CLUTCH PEDAL – Fig. 4 REMOVAL Remove pedal box assembly as outlined in chassis frame and body section. Remove spring clip and pivot pin connecting clutch pedal to clutch release shaft. Remove spring clip retaining pedal shaft on right hand side of pedal box. Draw out pedal shaft towards left hand side (at same time inserting short bar or screwdriver to retain accelerator and brake pedals) until clutch pedal is released. Pedal pivot bushes may be replaced by knocking out old bushes and pressing in new. INSTALLATION Lubricate clutch pedal pivot bushes with grease. Smear clutch release shaft pivot pin with molybdenum based grease and lightly oil shaft retaining clips and felt washer. Position clutch pedal in pedal box, with spacer washer (if fitted) between left hand side of clutch pedal and pedal box. Push pedal shaft through spacer washer (if fitted), clutch pedal, brake pedal, accelerator pedal, felt washer, plain washer, and into ‘D’ shaped hole in pedal box. Retain with spring clip. Connect clutch release shaft to clutch pedal lever with pivot pin and retain with spring clip. Wipe any excess lubricant from assembly and ensure all pedal pads are totally grease free. Install pedal box assembly. 139/541
- [DeLorean Workshop Manual - Section D:01:16 - Fuel, Emission and Exhaust System](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/delorean-workshop-manual/delorean-workshop-manual-section-d0116-fuel-emission-and-exhaust-system/):  DeLorean Workshop Manual Index SYSTEM REPAIR NOTES The majority of the fuel injection components are sealed units and cannot be adjusted or repaired. Tampering with a sealed component will automatically void the component warranty. The following guide indicates component serviceability and authorized repairs: Fuel Pump: The fuel pump is not serviceable. The return check valve located in the fuel inlet cannot be replaced. Accumulator: Not serviceable. Fuel Filter: Not serviceable, replace when contaminated. Mixture Control Unit: Fuel Distributor: The fuel distributor can be removed from the mixture control unit for replacement. Fuel distributor is not serviceable. Primary Pressure Regulator: The regulator O-ring seals’ are replaceable and the primary pressure may be adjusted by adding or subtracting spring shims. Air Flow Sensor Assembly: Sensor plate and arm assembly can be centered if a binding condition exists. Rest position of sensor plate can also be adjusted. Control Pressure Regulator: Not serviceable. Cold Start Valve: Not serviceable. Thermo-time Switch: Not serviceable. Fuel Injectors: Not serviceable. Throttle Valves: Throttle idle stop position is preset and should not be tampered with. The largest problem affecting the operation of fuel injection components is dirt and moisture contamination. Therefore, precautions should be taken when working on the system to avoid contamination. When replacing fuel lines or components, use only approved replacement parts that were designed for this system. Due to the high fuel pressures used in this system, do not attempt to splice fuel hoses. After replacing any major fuel injection component, the engine idle speed and CO level should be checked and adjusted if necessary. The RPM relay is located in the relay compartment behind the passenger seat. (See “Electrical System and Instruments” Section M). The inertia switch is located under the left side of the dash panel and is mounted to the footwell wall, adjacent to the luggage compartment cover release. When the button on the inertia switch is in the “up” position the switch is in the “open” position. In this position the fuel pump will not operate and the door locks will move to the unlock position. To reset the inertia switch, depress the button or move to the “down” position. Excessively high fuel pressures can be caused by a plugged fuel return line. Positive pressure buildup in the fuel tank is normal for this system. If it is necessary to adjust the CO level, the adjusting hole plug can be removed by drilling down to the hardened steel insert and threading a pulling tool into the plug. 101/541
- [DeLorean Workshop Manual - Section C:06:03 - Engine](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/delorean-workshop-manual/delorean-workshop-manual-section-c0603-engine/): DeLorean Workshop Manual Index EXAMPLE – Fig. 51 First measurement at A: 0,10 mm (.004″) Second measurement at B: 0,08 mm (.003″) Subtract 0,10 mm from 0,23 mm which leaves 0/13 mm (.005″). Select a seal with red tag, 0,122 mm (.0048″) thick (average value) Fit one seal of the same thickness to each liner and bend castellation (D) into recess (G). Insert the liners so that the base seal colour tags are visible (spaced as shown in the sketch). (Fig. 52) Fig. 52 Positions 1, 2, 3, or 4. Check the protrusion of each liner in relation to the cylinder block. If necessary, change the thickness of the seals in order to position the liners so that: the difference in protrusion between any two adjacent liners do not exceed 0,04 mm (.0016″) within the permitted tolerance. (Fig. 53) and any differences are stepped from cylinder No. 1 to No. 3 (or 4 to 6) and vice versa. Once the correct protrusions have been obtained, refit assemblies A, B, C, D, E, and F together, then number the liners, pistons and gudgeon pins 1 to 6 (No. 1 at flywheel end) so that they match the corresponding connecting rods. (Fig. 54) 55/541
- [DeLorean Workshop Manual - Section C:06:02 - Engine](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/delorean-workshop-manual/delorean-workshop-manual-section-c0602-engine/): DeLorean Workshop Manual Index OVERHAULING – Fig. 38 Clean gasket faces on cylinder heads and cylinder block using paint stripper (protect oil holes) 4 and 5. Take care not to let any foreign matter enter the oilways which could block the rocker arm jet holes and lead to excessive wear of cam lobes and rocker arm fingers. Clean inside the cylinder block, particularly the locating flanges for the liner base seals and crankshaft. Extract the cylinder head locating roll pins (C) and (D). Fig. 48 Check condition of: oil pump and cylinder heads; check their gasket faces for truth (resurfacing not permitted) Grind in the valves and re-cut the valve seats. Change the “liner-piston” assemblies. (Fig. 49) Fig. 49 LINER PROTRUSION Excelnyl liner base seals are used in the engine. They are available in the following thicknesses: blue tag 0,087 mm (.0034″) white tag 0,102 mm (.004″) red tag ~ 0,122 mm (.0048″) yellow tag 0,147 mm (.0058″) With liner base seals in position, the amount of liner protrusion above the cylinder block face should be between 0,16 and 0,23 mm (.0063 to .0091″) work as close to 0,23 mm as possible. The new liners need not oe inserted with an angular reference. Difference in level liner to liner mav De made by selective insertion. To select the correct liner base seals, the amount of protrusion of each “liner-piston-connecting rod” assembly, without its seal, must be determined for each block of cylinders. Check liner protrusions at (A) and !B) using thrust plate, bracket fitted with a clock gauge. J 28856 (Fig. 50) Fig. 50 Subtract the larger measurement from 0,23 mm to determine the thickness of the seal required. Select a seal whose thickness is equal to, or just less than, the thickness calculated. 54/541
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- [File Update Test](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/file-update-test/): Upload photos of a specific DeLorean, by VIN Yes, I have submitted this VIN to the DeLorean Census (www.DeLoreanDirectory.com/census), OR I found the VIN in the Census Data (www.DeLoreanDirectory.com/census/data)
- [Frequently Asked Questions](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/faq/): Is the DeLorean a real car? Yes, the DeLorean was (and is) a real car. The DeLorean was completely built in Northern Ireland,  between 1981 and 1982, with 3 model years – 1981, 1982, and 1983. The company came and went before Back to the Future was released, and the movie production bought and used the cars without the knowledge of even John DeLorean himself. The DeLorean was built for the North American market, and there was a dealership network with full Service Centers in all 50 states. How many DeLoreans are there? Barrie Wills, director of purchasing (and the last employee) of the DeLorean Motor Company, Ltd., has said that 9,080 DeLoreans were built. It’s estimated that approximately 5,000 DeLoreans still exist – although not all of them are road-worthy. Over the years, many DeLoreans were placed into storage and forgotten, others have been destroyed in wild fires and house fires, others have been wrecked in car accidents, and some have simply been left to the elements in driveways, carports, and garages. Many have also been taken apart to restore other DeLoreans that were in better condition. Are DeLoreans slow? / Can they go over 88mph? The DeLorean was never intended to be a drag racer, but rather a highway cruiser. As such for both comfort and fuel economy, the DeLorean was given tall gear ratios and tuned more for emissions than power. While the speed was decent, compared to other vehicles in its time, it’s true that other advancements give modern cars better performance. The 5-speed manual transmissions also performs better, given the ratios and additional gears, not to mention the lack of a lock-up torque-converter. On the flip side, the DeLorean has fantastic low-end torque and will not slow down when encountering steep hills, and will even continue to gain speed uphill where many other cars will bog down. Yes, the DeLorean does indeed go faster than 88mph. The 85mph speedometer wasn’t meant to display a lack of prowess, instead, it was a government mandate to discourage excessive speeding to conserve fuel. In fact, DeLorean reported the the car had a top speed of around 130 mph. Many DeLorean owners have reportedly done 110-120mph, using phone GPS for measurement. A few favorites quotes about the DeLorean: “It’s a smile machine, not a speed machine.” “It looks fast, it doesn’t need to be fast.” What kind of engine do DeLoreans have? The DeLorean is equipped with the 2.8L PRV V6 engine. But, the history of the PRV power plant is bigger than the DeLorean. Designed as a pan-European engine to compete with the Small Block Chevy, the PRV was co-engineered as a cooperative engineering effort between Peugeot, Renault, and Volvo (hence the name.) It’s a completely modular engine in every sense of the word. Externally the lower crank case section is swappable to accept different sized and shaped oil pans and motor mounts, depending on which vehicle the engine was supposed to be installed into, as well as up top cylinder heads accepting carburetors, and port fuel injection, as well as the ability to fit dual overhead cams. Internally the engines utilizes wet-jacket sleeves for the cylinders, where the cylinder liners are suspended in coolant. These can easily be swapped out to modify displacement of the engine without having to bore it out. In the DeLorean, the PRV has an output of 130 bhp (brake horsepower.) However, this number has been increased significantly for the PRV in other modified applications to over 300 bhp for production cars such as the Venturi Atlantique, and in excess of 900 bhp for professional racing applications, such as Peugeot WM 88 for the 24 Hours of Le Mans, where the engine has run, won, and even set a still unbroken speed record in 1988. Are DeLoreans hard to fix? It depends on the skill set of the mechanic performing the work. But overall, no, they are actually rather easy to work on in many respects. Firstly, the engine compartment is rather cavernous. Particularly when compared to modern cars. There are very few instances where bolts or components are difficult to access, but that’s the case with most cars. In fact, you’re usually able to get an entire arm in to where you need to reach. While K-Jetronic fuel injection does require a bit of education and some specialty tools to repair and tune, it’s not different from any other cars of the era, and not impossible for most people. Second is the parts supply, of which the DeLorean has a leg-up on even some modern cars. The principal behind the design was to make everything the you can see or touch to be unique to the car. But mechanical, the DeLorean was intended to use as many ‘off the shelf’ parts as possible. In addition, when DeLorean Motor Company closed its doors, they left behind a large number of parts that are generally available today. (The “left over parts” were actually the cars that were not produced after the bankruptcy.) And thankfully, there are a number of DeLorean Parts and Service centers around the world who sell parts and maintain the DeLorean. Overall the DeLorean can be a very reliable car, even by modern standards. But remember, it’s still an old car, and needs maintenance like any vehicle. What is the DeLorean made of? The DeLorean was originally conceived as a stainless steel paneled, gull-wing door design from the beginning. The panels are 304 grade stainless steel, the exact kind of stainless steel used in commercial kitchens and equipment. That means it’s very durable and difficult to damage. There are eight exterior stainless steel body parts, including the front left and right fenders, the rear left and right fenders, the gull-wing doors, the hood, and the roof “T-panel.” The panels are connected to a molded fiberglass shell with internal foam and steel reinforcements, that contains the wiring and passenger compartments, and is bolted to the steel, single-wishbone double-Y frame for strength, which also contains all suspension and drivetrain components. The stainless
- [DeLorean Motoring Convoy 2021](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/convoy/): Come join us as we embark on our first DeLorean Motoring Convoy! Join us anywhere between Mebane, North Carolina and Las Vegas to enjoy DeLorean Weekend 2021! We want to encourage DeLorean owners to get their cars trip-worthy and get them out to enjoy the drive. Come to DeLorean Weekend for a some great experiences, and lots of DeLorean ownership interaction. Click here to join the email list, and we’ll send out an email at least once a month about updates, plans, and information about the drive. Who: Delorean Owners who want to have some fun with their DeLorean. What: A convoy of DeLoreans from the east coast to the west coast (and back!) Why: To convene at DeLorean Weekend. When: 2021 Where: Mebane, NC to Las Vegas, NV How: By DeLorean of course! Want to head-up a spur line to join up with the main group? Email Ryan Foster at allthingsdelorean@gmail.com to talk details.
- [DeLorean QR Codes](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/census/delorean-qr-codes/): Want a QR code just for your DeLorean? First, submit a DeLorean Census record. Then, upload at least two photos of your DeLorean. You’ll get a QR code similar to this one, that you can print a sticker, or window cling, or include on a “Please do not sit” sign for car shows. You can use it anywhere, and it will redirect people to the VIN page for your DeLorean, based on your Census record. (Or, if you already have a website for your DeLorean, it will direct people there!) A 2.5×2.5 inch window cling (or a sticker) works well on the side-rear windows… it’s subtle, out of the way, and doesn’t affect photos of the car – but it’s still accessible to people who want to learn more about your DeLorean.
- [VIN page photo submissions](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/census/vinphotos/): Upload photos of a specific DeLorean, by VIN Yes, I have submitted this VIN to the DeLorean Census (www.DeLoreanDirectory.com/census), OR I found the VIN in the Census Data (www.DeLoreanDirectory.com/census/data)
- [DeLorean Census - Vehicle Usage](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/census/charts/vehicle-usage/)
- [DeLorean Census - Owner Attributes](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/census/charts/owner-attributes/): DeLorean Census – Owner Attributes View full report
- [DeLorean Census Data - Club Affiliation](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/census/charts/delorean-census-club-affiliation/): Click here to submit a DeLorean Census record
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- [DeLorean Census Charts](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/census/charts/): These charts are automatically calculated based on DeLorean Census submissions as a data source, and do not include ‘every DeLorean ever made.’ The charts are automatically updated on a schedule, using the Census data. If you haven’t submitted your VIN, or if you see a DeLorean listed for sale online, please submit a DeLorean Census questionnaire for that vehicle, so that we can put together an accurate picture of where all of the DeLoreans are today. If you haven’t submitted your VIN, fill out the DeLorean Census form now. If you have ideas for more charts or graphs, based on the existing Census questionnaire, please email contact@DeLoreanDirectory.com with your ideas.
- [DeLorean Census - DeLoreans by Location](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/census/charts/deloreans-by-location/): View full report
- [LED Crossover Parts](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/resources/led-crossover-parts/): Click here for standard crossover parts There are many reasons to replace all of the lights in the DeLorean with LED equivalents. For those who show the car at car shows and other events where you most likely have the doors open/up, having LEDs in the door markers means the battery won’t go dead in a few hours, like it would with the original incandescent bulbs. If you have LEDs in the front and side markers and the rear running lights, as well as the center console and dashboard / instrument cluster, and front and back interior lights, then you can turn on all your lights to really show off! Another good reason to replace everything with LEDs is the power draw – regardless of battery usage. The LEDs use less power, and put off MUCH less heat. Luckily, there are options to replace EVERYTHING (even the headlights!) on the DeLorean… If something is missing or incorrect, send us a note.
- [DeLorean Directory](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/): Crossover Parts List The DeLorean Crossover Parts List is a community‑driven, curated list of compatible aftermarket and OEM parts that cross‑reference with original DeLorean components. With references to trusted suppliers, and notes about installation, owners can find a lot of parts, often for less than some of the untrustworthy vendors, like fake-DMC and DPI. Easily navigate and filter through parts – and give feedback when something needs updating. Clubs and Organizations Connect with fellow DeLorean owners near and far. The DeLorean Clubs and Organizations list is your go-to resource to find clubs and organizations around the world! Whether you’re looking to join a nearby group, connect with enthusiasts while traveling, or discover events in your area, this list makes it easy to stay plugged in. Clubs offer everything from meetups and cruises to tech sessions and social events. Don’t go it alone – find your local DeLorean family today and start making connections that drive your passion forward! YouTube Theater Explore the ‘YouTube Theater’ on DeLorean Directory – the ultimate destination for DeLorean videos on YouTube. This curated collection by several trusted DeLorean owners, brings together tons of DeLorean and DeLorean-related videos all in one convenient place. Whether you’re a fan of the DMC DeLorean, Back to the Future, or DeLorean maintenance and culture in general, you’ll find something to enjoy. From restoration tips and owner stories to rare footage and event coverage, the ‘YouTube Theater’ is your go-to hub. Start watching now! Articles and Information Discover a wide range of DeLorean-related stories in the Articles section, featuring exclusive interviews, historical deep dives, and reprints of classic articles from the early days of the DeLorean car. Whether you’re a longtime owner or just getting started, these articles offer valuable insights, nostalgia, news, and instruction. From technical tips to behind-the-scenes tales, there’s something for everyone. Start exploring… and if you want to submit an article, contact us. DeLorean Magazines The DeLorean Magazines section offers a comprehensive list of magazines dedicated entirely to the DeLorean. Browse the current list of publications spanning decades, enumerating the publication date, cover images, and more detail. Whether you’re a longtime fan or a new owner, this section is a great place to explore how the DeLorean has been celebrated in print. And as always, your help is appreciate in continuing to build the list of issues, and images of the covers.
- [Recommended Products](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/resources/products/): These products have been used and recommended by DeLoreans owners. Not every product that has ever been recommended is listed. This is just a collection of some that caught our attention. If you have use a product that you like – and have photos – send them to us, along with some text about it, and we might share it.
- [DeLorean Magazines](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/magazines/): Below are all of the collected magazines featuring the DeLorean. If you have a collection of DeLorean magazines and can help identify issues without years or information, contact us – or share some cover images. All Magazine Data
- [DeLorean Insurance](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/resources/insurance/): For old and new DeLorean owners, insurance is something we all think about. To help others find good (or bad) insurance companies who cover our DeLoreans, this anonymous survey may help others. It should take you less than 1 minute to submit, and results are posted below. (If you’ve had a previous company in recent years, please submit the survey more than once.) Keep in mind – this is not a ‘scientific survey’… it’s just a quick check. YOU need to do the research for your own DeLorean, location, and coverage.
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- [DeLorean Crossover Parts List](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/resources/crossover-parts/): The DeLorean first came out in 1981, and shortly thereafter DMC went out of business, leaving thousands of DeLorean owners to figure out how to keep their cars running. While someone else did eventually buy the remaining “NOS” (‘new’ old stock), that company has turned out to be untrustworthy, arrogant, they over-charge for most of their items and repairs, they have a huge lack of quality assurance checks, and they don’t care about the community – they only care about your wallet. Thankfully, there IS a good, well-performing, and reputable company – DeLorean Go – www.DeLoreanGo.com. They have proved themselves to offer good products, at good prices, with shockingly fast shipping – and best of all, they actually care about the DeLorean community. So, whenever possible, support DeLorean Go buy purchasing from them. There are times when DeLorean Go doesn’t have a part you want, or you want a better price… or you just want to order elsewhere – for that reason, DeLorean owners have been finding compatible parts for the PRV engine and other parts of the car here at DeLorean Directory’s crossover parts list. Over the years, old and new owners have also found new, updated parts and suppliers for many parts of our DeLoreans, and many of them are sharing crossover parts with DeLorean Directory. If something is missing or incorrect, send us a note. If you’re looking for DeLorean Parts or Service, check the DeLorean Parts and Service Centers list. Click here for LED crossover parts
- [DeLorean Videos](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/videos/): These DeLorean videos are part of a huge saved playlist from the DeLorean Directory YouTube channel. They’re not organized in any order, but they all feature something DeLorean related. The main video at the top of the page is the most recent addition.
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- [DeLorean Parts and Service Centers](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/resources/service/): This list of DeLorean Parts & Service centers has been collected from DeLorean resources on the web. Businesses listed as “Service Centers” have been confirmed by DeLorean owners as being trustworthy. If you buy parts or accessories, or have work done to your DeLorean from anyone on this list, and you’re not happy with the result, we highly suggest you contact them in writing to resolve the issue. If they do a good job – or a bad job – then write up reviews on their Facebook pages, or on Yelp, or DMCTalk.org to let other DeLorean owners know about your experience. And, if there’s a DeLorean-related business missing from this list, submit it here and we’ll check it out. Thanks! If you’re looking for Crossover Parts, check the DeLorean Crossover Parts List.
- [The DeLorean Census](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/census/): The DeLorean Census is an ongoing project by a group of DeLorean owners who hope to find out just how many cars have survived since 1981, and to help the community connect with clubs and owners around the world. Since the DeLorean was first sold, the 9,080 cars built have moved around the globe. They’ve been wrecked in accidents. They’ve been parted out for other DeLoreans. They’ve melted in fires. They’ve moved to museums, and they’ve been forgotten in storage. The purpose of the DeLorean Census is to determine what has happened to our beloved car, and to help the DeLorean community keep track of the cars that still exist. Around 2001, Ed Bernstein (of DeLorean One) estimated that there were about 8,000 cars still in existence. Today, it’s estimated that approximately 4,500 cars still exist in a drive-able, or restore-able condition. We’re asking all DeLorean Clubs, owners, and fans around the world to share this Census call on your social media, in your newsletters, on your websites, and during your meetings. The DeLorean Census data will always be available online, for free, and will never be sold. Most information is optional, and contributors can choose to keep their contact information private. Keep in mind, any Census is a tool to keep track of something over time. That means, data submitted to the DeLorean census does not get deleted. That way, people can see the history of a VIN as it progresses through owners over time. If you have new or updated details about a VIN, submit a new record, and that VIN will contain multiple census records and/or photos. Please email census@deloreandirectory.com with questions, ideas, or comments, or if you want to share many photos of a submitted VIN. Take a look at the Census reports too! Thanks for your help! Loading… Back to the top of the page
- [DeLorean Clubs and Organizations](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/clubs/): DeLorean cars have traveled around the world. Here’s a list of DeLorean Clubs and Organizations to connect with, and get more information. If there’s a club missing from the list, submit it here.
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- [DMC DeLorean Specifications - 1981, 1982, 1983](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/specs/): General info Make / Model DeLorean / DeLorean (DMC12 was ONLY an internal name) Production run 9,080 (per Barrie Wills) Years built 3 (1981-1983) Style Two door coupe First appearance Chassis numbers x – x Design Giorgetto Giugiaro Lug nut size 19mm Dimensions (see image below) Overall length (A) 166″ | 13ft. 10in. Wheelbase (B) 95″ | 7ft. 11in. Overall height (doors open, over mirror) (C) 77.2″ | 6ft. 6in. Width (over doors) 72.83″ | 6ft. 1in. Overall height (doors closed) (D) 44.88” | 3ft. 9in. Overall width (doors closed) (E) 73.1″ | 6ft. 2in. Track Front: 62.6” (F) | 5ft. 3in.Rear: 62.5” (G) | 5ft. 3in. Ground clearance Front: 5.6″ (H)Rear: 6.1″ (J) Front clearance 5.6” Rear clearance 6.1” Chassis Weight (full tank of fuel) 2,844 lbs. (1290 kg) Weight Distribution Front – 38%Rear – 62% Underbody Glass Reinforced Plastic (G.R.P.) Body 304 brushed stainless steel Suspension Brakes Service brakes: Power assisted discs front and rear.Parking brake: Mechanical, self-adjusting, acting on rear discs. Turning radius Turning circle 42 ft. (12.80 m) Tire sizes Front:Rear: Original tires Goodyear Eagle ___ Wheel type cast____ Engine Type Rear mounted, liquid cooled, light alloy 90° V6, with single overhead camshaft per bank, and cross flow cylinder heads. Cylinders 6 Fuel delivery C. I. S. (Continuous Injection System) mechanical fuel injection by Bosch K-Jetronic EPA Mileage Est. 19 Cylinder bore 3.58” (91mm) Stroke 2.87” (73mm) Compression ratio 8.8:1 Torque 153 ft. lb. (208 Nm) Horsepower 130 (after catalytic converter) Power 130 SAE NET HP @ 5,500 RPM Cylinder bore 3.58” (91 mm) Stroke 2.87” (73 mm) Displacement 174 cu. in. (2849 cc) Engine oil: Above 64°F (20°C) use Multigrade oil, SAE 20W/50 Manual & Automatic Transmission fluid: Below -10°C (-3°F) – SAE 75Above -10°C (-3°F) – SAE 80Automatic Transmission – ATF type Dextron 11Steering Gear Box Oil – API service GL-5 (SAE – EP90)Wheel Bearing Grease – NLGI No. 2 (Lithium Base) Multi Purpose GreaseBrake and Clutch Fluid – DOT 4Cooling System Anti-Freeze – Ethylene Glycol based (containing no Borax) with suitable corrosion inhibitors Drivetrain Gear Ratios– Manual, 5 speed 1st : 3.3642nd : 2.0593rd : 1.3814th : 1.0575th : 0.8205Reverse : 3.1818 Gear Ratios– Automatic – 3 Speed 1st : 2.402nd : 1.483rd : 1.00Reverse : 1.92 Transaxle with double universal half shafts Reduction Ratio 3.44 : 1 (Manual and Automatic) Rack and pinion, manually operated Wheels turns, lock to lock 2.4 turnsTurning circle 42 ft. (12.80 m) Electrical System 12 Volt Negative Ground Battery (original) Delco Remy Freedom Capacity 75 Amp/hour Spark Plugs (original) Bosch HR 6 DS (Platinum Tipped) Spark Plug Gap 0.024 – 0.028 in (0.6 – 0.7 mm) Spark Plug Torque 13 – 15 ft. lbs. (17.20 Nm) Capacities Engine Crankcase 6.8 quarts (6.5 litres) A/C Refrigerant 2.5 lbs. (1125 grams) Fuel Tank 13.2 gallons (51.6 litres)(91 octane unleaded only) Cooling System 2.9 gallons (11.0 litres) Manual transmission 7.75 pints (3.7 litres) Final drive 3.6 pints (1.5 litres)(automatic transmission only) Prices Originally planned $12,000 1981 retail ~$24,000
- [DeLorean People](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/people/): Here’s a list of people associated with the original DeLorean businesses, as referenced in books and publications about the DeLorean.
- [About DeLorean Directory](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/about/): The DeLorean Directory started as a labor of love; wanting to aggregate the tremendous amount of information about the DeLorean, its fans, its history, and its heritage. The Directory is meant to embrace everyone, DeLorean owners or not, rich or poor, Ferrari fans or Pinto lovers… bring what you have and let’s add to it! This site is not intended to be a replacement for other sites, in fact, this site would not exist without the tireless efforts of those people around the world who continue to create videos, take photos, write articles and study the DeLorean automobile. This site is dedicated to all of those people, with the hope that it will direct fans and owners, new and old, toward all the great content that’s out there. With YOUR help, we can add on to this site. YOUR contributions will help make The DeLorean Directory a real directory of information and where to find it. Please contribute by sending links, articles, photos and any content that others will find useful and interesting.
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- [DCS 2018 - Pheasant Run Resort, St. Charles, Illinois - August 15-19, 2018](https://www.deloreandirectory.com/dcs2018/): DeLorean Convention & Show 2018 Pheasant Run Resort, St. Charles, Illinois August 15-19, 2018 This is a TEMPORARY page, listing details for DCS 2018. Once the official site is updated – www.DeLoreanConvention.com – this page will redirect. Facebook: DeLorean Convention and Show – DCS SHARE the DCS 2018 Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/1969758106618639/ 2018-04-18 Exactly 4 months from the DeLorean Car Show Event at DCS 2018 DeLorean Owners, Fans and Enthusiasts, With Tax Day behind us (here in the U.S.), it’s time to think about DCS, especially if you have not Hotel Registered or Event Registered yet. Just a quick reminder, we are about 16 weeks away from the convention, with DMC Car Show day of DCS 2018, exactly 4 months away from today. If you have not registered for DCS 2018 yet, remember to Hotel Register and Event Register within the next 12 weeks, for the best pricing. Hotel Registration and Event Registration prices increase after July 15, which is less than 3 months away from today. For the Links to Hotel Registration and Event Registration, and details about DCS 2018, visit the DCS 2018 website with the following link: http://www.deloreanconvention.org/ The earlier that folks Event Register, the more VIP Guests we can invite to DCS 2018, and the more value and enjoyment for all our DCS attendees. Check your calendar and Summer schedule, so you can Event Register soon. We look forward to seeing many of you this August at DCS 2018. Thank you for your continued support of DeLorean Convention and Show. Regards, Rich W. [for the DCS 2018 Planning Team] 2018-04-14 New DMC VIP Guest – J. Patrick Wright – On a Clear Day You Can See GM New DMC VIP Guest – Author of “On a Clear Day You Can See GM” The DCS Planning Team is happy to announce that J. Patrick Wright intends to join us at DCS 2018, but dates are yet to be confirmed. As with many books about JZD, Patrick’s book is a “must have” in many DeLorean enthusiast’s collections and Patrick will elaborate on some of his research done for this book and his JZD interviews. We have also asked Patrick to sell and sign copies of this book. Thanks again to Tamir, who provided the introduction to Patrick. The DCS Planning Team is having ongoing discussions with Patrick and we hope he will be available, between his DCS presentations, to answer questions and autograph everyone’s copy of his book “On a Clear Day”. Patrick will make a great addition to our group of authors at DCS 2018. 2018-03-30 DCS 2018 – Tentative Conference Agenda Summary [as of 03/30/18] Wednesday (08/15/18) Full Day Tech Day at Baltria Auto, adjacent to PRR (Mega Center) Chris Nicholson stainless steel repair and refinishing demo work Wolfgang Hank (DeLorean World Tour Team) VIP Guest Tech/Mechanic DeLorean On-Lift Inspections, minor work (door adjustments, etc.) Optional Self-Guided Driving Tour, St. Charles, IL area (1/2 day) Wolfgang & DeLorean World Tour cars – DeLorean Car Mods Presentation Wolfgang & Restoration Preview of Early DeLorean Pilot 21 Presentation Thursday (08/16/18) Vendor & DCS Museum setup, St. Charles Room, Salons 3 through 6 Vendor Setup in morning, most vendor sales by late morning or 1pm DCS Museum Setup by Noon, open to DCS Registered attendees at 1pm VIP Guest Presentations (break-out rooms) hosted in the Gem Rooms Break-out Rooms: BTTF VIPs, DMC VIPs, Tech Talks and S. Arrington Talks and Presentations will be scheduled in rooms by mid-Summer Optional Self-Guided Driving Tour, St. Charles, IL area (1/2 day) Dinner in SCR Salons 1 & 2, Cocktails 5:30-6, Dinner 6-7, Events 7-10 Dinner Keynote Speakers: Michael Lantieri, Bob Gale, Michael Scheffe After Dinner Presentation: Manson Cheung, Hot Wheels (BTTF/DMC) Alternate Options: Steve C. – OUTATIME – BTTF A-Car Documentary Friday (08/17/18) Mega Center, DeLorean Cars move-in and setup for Car Show display Mega Center, DeLorean move-in and setup, 9am to 12pm & 1pm to 4pm Vendors & DCS Museum in St. Charles Room, in Salons 3 through 6 Most Vendor Sales from 9am to 12pm (optional) and from 1pm to 5pm VIP Guest Presentations (break-out rooms) hosted in the Gem Rooms Break-out Rooms: BTTF VIPs, DMC VIPs, Tech Talks and S. Arrington Talks and Presentations will be scheduled in rooms by mid-Summer Optional Self-Guided Driving Tour, St. Charles, IL area (1/2 day) Dinner in SCR Salons 1 & 2, Cocktails 5:30-6, Dinner 6-7, Events 7-10 Dinner Keynote Speakers: JZD Biography (Author) & Tamir Ardon After Dinner Presentation: Tamir’s Extended Trailer and Out-takes Alternate Options: Tamir’s Documentary, Extended Trailer for DRIVEN Saturday (08/18/18) Mega Center, DeLorean Cars move-in and setup for Car Show display Mega Center, DeLorean move-in and setup, Final Call 8am to 9:30am Mega Center, DeLorean Car Show, open to public, 10am through 4pm Vendors & DCS Museum in St. Charles Room, in Salon’s 3 through 6 Most Vendor Sales, all day, or 9am to 12pm, and from 1pm to 4pm VIP Guest Talks (break-outs before 10AM only) hosted in Gem Rooms Break-out Rooms: BTTF VIPs, DMC VIPs, Tech Talks and S. Arrington Optional Self-Guided Driving Tour, St. Charles, IL area (1/2 day) Dinner in SCR Salons 1 & 2, Cocktails 5:30-6, Dinner 6-7, Events 7-10 Dinner Keynote Speakers: Speaker 2, Speaker 3, Wolfgang Hank DWT DeLorean Car Show Awards Presentation – DCS 2018 – Judging Team After Dinner Presentation: DeLorean World Tour multi-media (talk) Alternate Options: Steve Arrington – DMC VIP Guest presentation Sunday (08/19/18) No Host Breakfast/Brunch, Bourbon Street Atrium (hours 9am – 1pm) Vendor tear-down by Noon, all vendors to be moved out before Noon Mega Center, all DeLorean vehicles must be moved out before Noon Optional Self-Guided Driving Tour, St. Charles, IL area (1/2 day) Presentation List from DeLorean World Tour Team DeLorean World Tour Team members Klaus and Wolfgang have offered to make several talks at DCS 2018 and we plan to have most or all these talks in the breakout rooms and at dinners. “Delorean World Tour Evening with Wolfgang” 2 ½ hours
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