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If so, you lucky fucker! I've been going over and it seems one can order parts and assemble one yourself. Or even better, get a complete one from ebay for a little over $10000. Man, they look so sweet. I'm going to make this my new life mission: Get a Delorean and live your dream! |
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Better make sure the body is real stainless steel, and not some rust bucket after-market kit car. |
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wait, surrely you can't build an entirre carr frrom scrratch, using parrts bought overr the interrnet. |
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they have the parts. all you need is the knowhow and the tools. it seems. |
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i drove it once or twice in some old dreamz |
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was it good? |
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the original back to the future one lives less than a mile from my house. hanfact. |
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yeah!!! especially flying it through the planet of the apes! :) |
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Really? I thought it was at Beaulieu, near Southampton? |
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get a mk2 scirocco. they look the same, and are better. |
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it lives at stubly old hall,the pair of twats who own it did the gumball rally in it a couple of years back. |
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the parts of your brain that are responsible for aesthetic perception are FUCKED. the delorean is a nice looking car, but the door mechanism seems to be crap, same as the A/C and the engine. |
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Ah, the Beaulieu one must be a bog-standard DMC Delorean. Doing the gumball rally in the original is obscene! |
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Flyagaric: On the subject of building one yourself. 1. It's possible. 2. It'll be very, very time consuming. 3. It'll cost far more than you imagine. If you want to build a car "from parts" it's easiest to buy a write-off or two and combine the parts of them, then buy the bits remaining bits you need (then either keep the leftovers as spares, or if space is a problem, sell them). Buying each part seperately is the most expensive way to do it. Given the rarity of the car, there won't be Haynes or Clymer manuals, so you'll need a proper workshop manual. Given the cult status of it, I imagine you will be able to DL a copy somewhere online. In spite of how rare the car is/how many parts on it are specific to the car, parts aren't supposed to be too hard to source. My advice would be to do a mechanical work nightclass. Then build a working car of something a lot more common or easy (one of my mates did an old style mini as his first one) first. Not only will you improve your skills/confidence on it, you'll also make all your mistakes (and you will make them at first) cheaply. If you're remotely considering doing it for cash (IE planning to sell it for profit at the end), you'll be very disappointed. Even if you break even once you factor in all the tools/training/parts you've needed to buy, you still won't be paid for all the time on it. A mate recently had to sell a car he had built (needed the money) and described it as "heartbreaking". As well as it going for about £250 less than he put into it, he realised he had given up numerous weekends/evenings over the 3 years he did it and didn't get any "pay" for all that. All that aside, if you really want to do it, go for it. I'm renovating my garage at the moment with a view to building a bike I want over the next 2-3 years. |
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deloreans are not meant to be very good. very unreliable, slow, handle badly and fall apart. they were potentially good, but they ended up putting a really shit engine in it, and shit brakes and shit electrics coz Mr Delorean was a fucking con man and ended up getting arrested for drug trafficking |
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The stock ones aren't too quick, but there's a legit engine variant that is close to 200bhp (which you can still buy!) and well maintained ones regularly go way over 100,000 miles (not that impressive these days, but 25 years ago, it was). They do need to be looked after though. Apparently a big problem with the engines that fail is people not changing the coolant often enough and (big no-no in an aluminium engine) not changing the oil regularly enough. I've not heard anything about the brakes/handling on it, so can't comment on that. |
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agreed, get a gull wing door conversion on a mint scirocco and bobs your uncle |
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Gull wing doors mean if you park next to anything like another car you can't open the door. What a fantastic design idea. |
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get some scissor doors then (countach) |
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what you do is fix up the car then get the lambo pivot doors but keep the same frame and you'd be set. then of course paint the Doc's face on the front with the caption "NEEDS MORE JIGGAWATTS!" |
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the parts of your brain that are responsible for aesthetic perception are FUCKED. yeah look at his 'artwork' |
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it's not supposed to be good. |
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still, the Scirocco looks like a brick compared to the time machine. |
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delorean's a re totally idm!!! |
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yeah I once drove it from 1985 to 1955 |
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No, and i fucking hope to god i never do |
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Aren't most of the original ones rust heaps now anyway? |
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well finally a topic I can add to in a constructive way like doggy_b in the B12 thread, I know a LOT about delorians! I'm obsessed with them. John Z Delorean's life story is an epic tale of triumph and tragedy. The cars themselves for me represent the zenith of car design. Early 1980's car design is amazing, from the '84 countach to the '85 supra and even the normal family cars from that time are oh so sweet. It will never get better than that. The world was obsessed with robots in a transformers kinda way and it shows through the design. brilliant. Read the life and times of J Z Delorean, he was involved in a major US drug bust and was entrapped by the FBI, essentially ruining the company. 8000 built, 2000 remaining. I :heart: Delorians |
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I'd only consider it if it could time travel. |
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bump :P |
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Is that from a T-Shirt? I want one if it is. |
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Nah I made it a couple of years ago. All digital. Was going to make it into a giant stencil, laziness got in the way.. |
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do it man. I want one too |
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why didnt they catch on? you never see them around. |
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the company went bankrupt cause the owner got caught up in a major coke deal. |
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Just buy one! |
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Could you e-mail me a copy of the stencil please so I can print it out and do my own T-Shirt of it? It's damn sweet and deserves to be on a T-Shirt. |
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brum |
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B123 - you've spelt Delorean wrong - no "i" in it - back to the drawing board for you sonny.... |
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20.000 kms in more than 20 yrs. sure.... deloreans..weren't those the cars that fall apart after about 25.000 kms? |
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DeLorean's have a fiberglass body tub to which the stainless steel panels are bolted and a mild steel chassis which has an resin coating to protect against rust. They are powered by a Peugeot/Renault/Volvo 2.85ltr V6 engine that produces 130bhp with either a three-speed automatic or a five-speed manual transmission. Grey and black leather trim was the only interior options offered on the regular production cars. In 1983 the problems finally became too much and the factory closed down.. After the closure of the factory in Dunmurray, near Belfast, the remaining parts and partially completed cars were sold at auction for whatever they would fetch. |
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2.8 ltr V6 - 130bhp. lol. |
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motors were made by renault, blame them.. I spell everything wrong, I'm dyslexic. |
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want just the silhouette or the whole image with border and background and misspelled ode to deloreans ? found the old .psd on CD. |
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you spelt dyslexic ok......i smell a rat.... |
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I test drove one, got around the corner from the dealership and it broke down. It was a nice experience for about 300m! I wouldn't build your own car they tend to be death traps because people who buy kit cars don't really know what they are doing half the time. |
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you are aware that you cannot time travel in this car? |
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Everything. EVERYTHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIING :D |
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I googled it, as I have to with a lot of words... |
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And it will be done.. |
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