How does this look Aaron Cake??

http://toronto.craigslist.org/car/127358172.html

Seems kind of expensive thou .....

 

if its in really good shape it isn't that bad of a price.
I would love to have one in nice shape I think they are a real collector item or will be.
matt

 

Does canadian tire stock flux capacitors for this car? Call and ask....I know I have....lol

 

How can you tell from the picture which is his?

 

I think Deloreans are more novelty than anything these days. They are about as releaible as an RX-7 and 10 times harder to get parts for one.


On the other hand, I'd definetly own one.

 

doesn't come with an ashtray..

 

i guess iv been living under a rock because i can honestly say WTF is the deal with these cars??? to me they r hideous...

 

Stainless Steel body, only car made by DMC (the DeLorean Motor Company) which was founded by the guy who came up with the Pontiac GTO. Brilliant guy.

Lots of great history on this car, tons of unique (at the time) technology in that car and alot of innovation... then of course the smuggling of the drugs, but that's a different story.

The cars themselves are rare, having been very expensive to own at the time, and being the only car produced by DMC. The fall of the company means that they were un-obtainable anymore and that made them even rarer and more sought-after. Add to that the fact that a DeLorean was featured in the "Back To The Future" trilogy, which itself had a cult following, and this is what you get.

Hence all the talk of "Flux Capacitors"

Jon

 

I'm sure Aaron must have looked into this already....

Delorean is a childhood favorite of mine... simply because of the Back to The Future movies...

Lates,

 

^ +1



Prôdigy

 

I have been considering the car for many years now. With a $30,000 US price tag you can get a factory refurbished one with the H.O. 200HP V6 and upgraded stereo, as well as other, 'New-Age' Options.

Seems I can't find the webpage anymore. Oh well.

 

That car is owned my Marvin Stein who lives here in London. I think it's his 3rd DeLorean in about 6 years or so. In fact I'm pretty sure that I took that picture at the last cruise in 2003.

It's in great shape, and the price seems fair for the condition. But frankly in my world DeLoreans are very easy to find and I could get the same car for about $17K since I know where to look.

Also his car is in too good shape for me since the first thing I'm doing with mine is cutting it up...

There was no smuggling as such. Just the initial FBI sting. But it's a LONG, complicated and weird story.

They're not really that rare if you know where to look. And not really that expensive either. Really nice DeLoreans can be found for $25K, daily drivers for about $15K. Anything below $10K is generally a project car and that's what I'm looking for. The problem is that the drivetrain is so damn reliable that any cars with drivetrain damage also show serious neglect in every other area.


I could have any part on the car by tomorrow should a replacement be necessary. DeLorean's have HUGE vendor support and many of the engine components are standard Volvo stock.

Sad to say but that "factory" refurbished car is just DMCH's way of saying that they've serviced it. Not that they don't do good work of course, but DMCH is not "factory" as such. They just bought the rights to use the DMC name and the parts inventory from Kapac.

The modded engine is also a pretty big disappointment from my experience a well. A 200HP DeLorean is still slow even though it is better then the stock 130HP, but the price tag for that 70 extra HP is ridiculous and it sounds like absolute CRAP. The modded engine also runs HOT.

 

www.DMC12club.com


Johnny Z was not nearly as brilliant as you might think. Just had a knack for being in the right place at the right time, combined with a willingness to take money from whoever would give it to him. Just ask Ireland.

Besides, other than putting a large car motor in an intermediate body, what did he do?

 

Hey, it's only got 50 km!
So maybe it DOES have the flux capacitor, just so's it can keep going back in time to reduce the odometer reading!

 

i love the car since its from back to the future but its more a childs dream car then a car i would ever want to own.

Only way i would buy one is if i was ridicoulously loaded and could have a colllection of cars. In that case a mint delorian would be nice to have.....

 

I must be in the minority since my fascination with the DeLorean has nothing to do with Back To The Future.

 

ill be honest with u .. i like them because they are made of stainless steel lol .. and the gulwing doors make me wanna yagga lol .. i was gunna do that conversion to my 91 civic hatch .. to much fab work involved .. i eneved up scraping the car

 

The ad sez this car is an '83. I thought they only made DeLoreans in '81 (?)
Anyhoo, in '81 they sold new for around $35,000 CDN. For this money you got a car that could almost keep up to a 280ZX or RX7 of the same vintage--- cars that sold new back then for around 13K.

 

good thing not all cars are judged on performance!

deloreans are cool and always will be. Forever.

besides, it's easy to make anything fast. It's not so easy to make anything have /style/.

 

hahaha. a DeLorean? take me back to the 80s.

i think it's fair to say that car is already a collectors item.
swedish engine. italian body. british suspension. built by irish hands using american money.
i think that's the simpliest way of summing up Johnny Z's "DMC-12"

 

The factory produced the car in '81 and '82, going out of business in late '82. A company called KAPAC bought the remaining inventory and finished assembling the left over cars from '82, selling them as '83s. '83s generally have all the updates, a flat hood and two toned black/gray interior as well as the power antenna.

The engine is a PRV6 made by Douvrin (France) and used in Peugeot, Renaults and Volvos.

 

Especially if you are starting with a Delorean!

 

I prefer the '82s, personally. I don't like the DeLorean badge added to the hood on the '83s (though I do like the grey interiors, they were also available in '82, I believe) and I do prefer the hood creases.

Aaron, whad'ya think of the Lotus V8 conversion?

 

V8s are nice and certainly add the low-end grunt the car needs as well as the top end...But the shoe-horning it takes to get the engine in there isn't cool (have fun changing the spark plugs ).

John's original idea was rotary and that's the engine swap I prefer to see.