pshome Posted February 19, 2017 Share Posted February 19, 2017 has PRV engine... can't be that bad. HillmanImp, stormee and pilninggas 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CortinaDave Posted February 19, 2017 Share Posted February 19, 2017 I have a mate who has one. I've had a go in it a couple of times. It does look incredibly cool and turns every head...but is nothing special to drive.. There's no way in my mind they are worth spending the crazy money they go for to own one Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Breadvan72 Posted February 19, 2017 Share Posted February 19, 2017 I chatted to the owner of an un-flux capacitored DeLorean at a pez station. His was scruffy but working. He said that he liked it, and that it gave him only about as many problems as the average old car, but that it wasn't very fast. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cheggers Posted February 19, 2017 Share Posted February 19, 2017 By the way, forget Deloran, what you really want is this:Bricklin? Sent from my SM-A310F using Tapatalk HillmanImp 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CortinaDave Posted February 19, 2017 Share Posted February 19, 2017 That's the thing -theyre just OK. And 20 times more expensive than any other car of similar vintage that is similarly just OK. I'd have one if they were a grand...but they are crazily overvalued Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
red5 Posted February 19, 2017 Share Posted February 19, 2017 Chap up the road from my works has a turbo conversion one.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tamworthbay Posted February 19, 2017 Share Posted February 19, 2017 The performance figures are very similar to a mk1 1.6 mx5. I loved my MX5 but it was no supercar. Think of it as an exciting grand tourer and you will be less disappointed. I doubt many cars are as instantly recognisable to the non car types. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pshome Posted February 19, 2017 Share Posted February 19, 2017 Bricklin? Sent from my SM-A310F using Tapatalk Yes, Mr. Yugo (shiters must read: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Yugo-Rise-Fall-Worst-History/dp/0809098954)himself created this fine piece of automotive styling to make Canada proud. Safety car, with rear drum brakes! Just thinking about a dream garage: SV-1, Yugo, DeLorean and a Lagonda. Sigmund Fraud and Lacquer Peel 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sofarsogood Posted February 19, 2017 Share Posted February 19, 2017 The owners club used to be In Derby and a couple seem to turn up at the car shows around here (Derby). Not sure how much help that is with regards to finding one. A quick google seems to suggest the club is still active. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noel Tidybeard Posted February 19, 2017 Share Posted February 19, 2017 didnt the jewish mockney & the septic buy a delorean that was painted red? ...for a reason- it was wobbed up Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alcyonecorporation Posted February 20, 2017 Share Posted February 20, 2017 You know when you're told if you can't say anything nice, don't say anything? I've driven two DeLoreans. The story behind its conception is fascinating, but I'd rather park one in a museum and dust the shelves around it than actually try and use it as a car, sorry. Lacquer Peel 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
overrun Posted February 20, 2017 Share Posted February 20, 2017 That would go some way to addressing a lot of the issues, imo. I bet loads of you love* his number plate!As for de-twatting one, I doubt it could be done easily. The flux bands and associated cabling require holes drilling into the bodywork, and I reckon plating up the rear window might leave a mark. That's the power of love! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
overrun Posted February 20, 2017 Share Posted February 20, 2017 19 for sale on Carandclassic,most are in the USA. http://www.carandclassic.co.uk/list/111/ Or sorted,thank me later. http://delorean.herocollector.com/?utm_source=facebook&utm_campaign=2ModelCarInterest&utm_medium=display Episodes 8,9,10 and 11 of my 1:8 build coming soon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stormee Posted February 20, 2017 Author Share Posted February 20, 2017 Great thread development! Thank you all for your comments and please go on! Must admit, I was starting this in my euphoria about PRVs with a lot of beer involved, some of you might understand... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Breadvan72 Posted February 20, 2017 Share Posted February 20, 2017 From 2016: I was about to go back in time to buy a DeLorean in 1982, when my future self appeared and said not to bother as I can buy one next year.http://jalopnik.com/...-law-1755528406 And then my further future self appeared and said that the plan seems to have gone spaff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robinmasters Posted February 20, 2017 Share Posted February 20, 2017 WTF is DeLorean???Some kind of poof deodorant? Del O'Rean was the chief engine fitter in their heavily-subsidised Belfast factory. Station, alcyonecorporation, stormee and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Junkman Posted February 21, 2017 Share Posted February 21, 2017 By the way, forget Deloran, what you really want is this: Meh, they neither have cigarette lighters nor ashtrays. Corvette every day and Sunday for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Junkman Posted February 21, 2017 Share Posted February 21, 2017 Right. There is a guy here in Stockport, who totally covertly has already restored two DMC-12s and is now in the process of doing another one.He doesn't like to be in the limelight, he isn't on the internet and he is one of three people I know, who also don't do mobile phones.His workmanship is second to none. I'm not easily impressed, but what he does is surgical.He also designed a fully computerised self learning engine management system, which is lightyears more 21st century than that half arsedbodge the Texans came up with. It adapts itself to your driving style. Honestly, he is one step away from making them hover.And with 21st century, I mean proper progress, not the newfangled tosh the mainstream car industry coaxes you with into a lease plan. I'm not too unconvinced that this injection system would also work extremely well on brand new Tagora racing engines sourced in Lower Bavaria. Having said all this, do not forget, that John Z. DeLorean is directly responsible for the Pontiac GTO.If you prefer sledgehammer performace for less dough than a feeble attempt to fleece a government, get one of those.Shonky examples are way more shite to boot. Vince70, Skizzer and stormee 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M'coli Posted February 21, 2017 Share Posted February 21, 2017 Ah! We did lose my post yesterday. RTé ran an archive piece yesterday about DeLorean going into receivership.http://www.rte.ie/archives/2017/0215/852818-delorean-receivers-appointed/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barefoot Posted February 21, 2017 Share Posted February 21, 2017 There's a bloke here in Castle Donington who imports no end of interesting stuff, he had a De Lorean in recently - it was red. http://greenwichknight.co.uk/home I have no idea of his prices, but he did let me have a sit in a Silver Cloud the other week! HillmanImp 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
5speedracer Posted February 21, 2017 Share Posted February 21, 2017 theres a delorean forum you could join, but, its a bit of a closed shop, but they do seem to swop around bits like tubs/ panels... I remember viewing that forum as a guest n one of the 'leading lights' was clobbling together a 4 door delorean out of stripped tubs - all the bits from a delorean are parts bin bits, so if you spend enough of your free time looking up part no's or origins of the bits John delorean cobbled them together in Belfast, you could in say 15 years have one cobbled together, depending on how handy you are with the spanners 'electrical cleaner'/soldering iron... Look how it turned out for Johnny Cash.... Sent from my X17 using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faker Posted February 21, 2017 Share Posted February 21, 2017 I recall a few close friends not that long ago struggling to shift a couple of these things. I shit you not! And I'm not talking any more than 10 years ago. You could buy one of these for hot hatch money in N.I. They have rocketed in price (just like 911's and mk1 escort rs's have). I however adore them! Unfortunately I'd have to sell everything I own (quite a lot) along with half my organs to buy one. overrun 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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