[Closed] For the Love of Cars - Delorean DMC12

I saw one driving down the M3 a few years back.

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Awesome looking thing.

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Almost as good as the car Homer designed.

They had one on the Motorex stand at the Geneva motor show last year, tried to blag a sit in it but failed 🙁

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Even if money were no object, I still would not have one of those... It would never be out of the garage and you'd be constantly sounding out new owners

We went to an 80s themed 40th a while back. The birthday boy is into American film/TV cars and he had a DeLorean and a KITT Trans Am inside the venue. We got to sit in them both 🙂

There's a feller lives just down the road from me that owns one, it doesn't get driven much but the presence of the thing when it comes out is ridiculous. Particularily when you see it squeezed into a standard wimpey garage 😆

Horrible piece of work. Looks like an Austin Princess from the front.

The company I worked for used to make the wiring harness for them. Needless to say it wasn't a good business deal because of what happened. Saw the early prototype when it was shipped to our factory. Did look sweet too.

Peas in a pod.

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Friend has one, it is a thing of beauty really, not my bag though

What's wrong with the Austin Princess?

Have a look under the hood. I had a poke round one a couple of years ago and my Mk1 sierra 1.8l's engine bay looked more modern.

Not my cup of tea, but this program has been the one of my tv highlights over the past weeks looking forward to next week.

bigyinn - Member

Have a look under the hood. I had a poke round one a couple of years ago and my Mk1 sierra 1.8l's engine bay looked more modern.

I like that it makes about the same power as a typical family estate 😆

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A friend of mine had one and asked to use my jeep for a couple of weeks in trade, as the delorian didn't have room for his skill saw and tool belt.
It drove like a pig on castors and the novelty wore off after about 10 mins.
Horrible!

See one all the time in Weymouth. Practical for the salt air. When they were released we popped down to Barclay's ( the garage) in Oxford and spent 5 minutes shooting photos of ourselves hoovering talc up our noses off the bodywork before the staff called the Bill and we had to scarper.

I was stuck in a traffic jam once on a hot sunny day and there must have been a Delorean owners club meet nearby because a saw a string of them by the side of then road broken down. Something about them though.

Oddly, I saw one in the flesh near Chester today. Looked great

I got to drive one a few years ago - there was one of those prestige car hire companies and a friend rented one.

Great fun, but some really bad design touches - the best was probably the handbrake. It was on the right, so you had to climb over the handbrake to get in and out of the car. Not a brilliant idea...

I'm really enjoying the series, the Mini Cooper was a good one too.

I didn't know about DeLorean and the cocaine deal though. The programme said there was only 9,000 DMC 12's made, wasn't/isn't there parts for tens of thousands more though? Think it was mentioned on the Wheeler Dealer's show when they had one.

the best was probably the handbrake. It was on the right, so you had to climb over the handbrake

saw a de lorean at work the other day. no idea whose it was.

The auction show is next week.

What is the betting that Philip Glenister buys the mini?

wasn't/isn't there parts for tens of thousands more though?

There's a company in the States building them. They recently built an electric one.

seen one in a museum. They've got that lovely 1980's square / angular look and are super low. Chassis and suspension based on Lotus designs.Body panels were not structural. Built in Ireland. Yes they have been re-assembled from 80% old stock and then some new parts. [url= http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeLorean_DMC-12 ]everything you need to know[/url]

iamroughrider - Member
They've got that lovely 1980's square / angular look

They (DMC),cocked up all the great work Lotus put in by jacking the car up to improve the ride!.

Great show. Great car.
Arguably the most iconic car of all time.
If it worked better and didn't have the back story it wouldn't be the car it is.

My Dad picked me up from school in one when I was younger (right hand drive twin turbo). I walked straight past it as I wasn't expecting him to pick me up. Felt like a right nob when I had to open the wing doors in front of everyone.

Was looking at a list of what all the cars went for at auction.
Won't spoil it for anyone who doesn't want to know, but some of them did rather well.

@brakes I reckon the E-Type has the edge on it.

*SPOILER*For those that can't wait,
http://www.coys.co.uk/past-auctions.php?auctionID=41

Went quite cheap for a Mexico, no?

Went quite cheap for a Mexico, no?

not a bad return that

Landrover and the Mexico for me

mmm dmc wasn't it a renault 25 gearbox and v6 whacked in a fibreglass body with a bit of stainless steel cladding stuck on.

Sort of lotus esprit rip off wivout any handling or performance 🙂

I would love the Escort, but bubble-arched and Olympic Blue with RS2000 decals, a bank of 4 Cibes and some wide minilites!
Don't think the £ figures they gave included any of the parts or labour they used, just purchase price and sale price (but might have missed that bit?).

Much better 'proper' restoration work done on these than that terrible Classic Car Rescue programme with the angry cockney and the fat Canadian!

Pink one anyone?

Got to say I love the look of that Princess on the previous page but that might just be that it's been lowered on some nice wheels.

I've really enjoyed this series, I'm not sure Glenister was the right person for the job, if it was a job, it may well have been his instigation but I don't think the catchphrase "fire up the quattro" qualifies him for this role and it showed in some of the terrible ideas he brought to the programme. Having said that I did warm to the guy, he seemed genuine enough even if he didn't bring any real passion or knowledge to it.

Think there was a bit too much fluff in the programmes and not enough restoration the DeLorean was a case in point as all they seemed to do was get the engine fired up and replace the clutch then get an expert in to sort the dent when there was obviously a lot more work done by the end. I guess they had to balance car geek against joe public and the latter got the lions share.

Ant Anstead came across really well, he's obviously extremely good at what he does and even if they got some specialist help in (suspect there was more expert assistance than perhaps was let on) they produced some excellent restorations. Not sure if they would have actually made any money if Channel 4 hadn't been paying some wages as there was a huge amount of work went into them.

On balance more of the cars and less fluff and it'd be a really great series.

Would any one care about the DeLorean if it wasn't for Back To the Future?

Its just a badly made 80's sportcar, with gull wing doors.

The history of John Z DeLorean is pretty interesting but the car itself was rubbish

True, but it looks cool.

the auction show was a good idea, but the bits where the two presenters were filmed during each auction were cringey.
It was like a day-time TV show where grannies sell the family silver to pay for a cruise - I expected some orange-faced luvvy to mince in and deliver some innuendo about push rods and big ends.
apart from that a great show!

Just finished Guy Martins book and apparently he was offered the presenter role and turned it down - felt it had already been done to death.

I struggled with Glenister as I found him a bit fake, Guy would have been awesome and would have done a 'rate good job'...

The Princess design concept was a great looking car IMO, see here:

http://www.leylandprincess.co.uk/HarrisMann.htm

...totally ****ed up by British Leyland. You all know the Allegro was more aerodynamic going backwards than forwards?

You all know the Allegro was more aerodynamic going backwards than forwards?

I suspect that's true of many cars - the Allegro wasn't a particularly weird shape. Maybe it was the Vanden Plas version with its Rolls Royce grill.

If Guy Martin had hosted it you wouldn't have been able to keep him away from the spanners:D

Should have got Charlie Broomfield. And the world's most powerful bleep machine.

On balance more of the cars and less fluff and it'd be a really great series.

Available on Discovery in the guise of Wheeler Dealers!

richmtb - Member
On balance more of the cars and less fluff and it'd be a really great series.
Available on Discovery in the guise of Wheeler Dealers!

If that involves having to watch Mike Brewer, I'm out.*

* Can't get Discovery on Freeview anyway so thankfully it's not an option.

...totally ****ed up by British Leyland. You all know the Allegro was more aerodynamic going backwards than forwards?

I owned an Allegro, square wheel and all. Apart from having the aerodynamics of Anne Hathaway's cottage and the grip of a hot air balloon what I mainly remember is the service of the Hydrolastic sus that pumped it so high and so rigid that only chassis flex got it round the corners.

My mum had an Allegro Vanden Plas with the picnic tables in the back of the front seats - I quite liked it (though I never got to drive it as it dissolved before I was 17)

Ant Anstead came across really well, he's obviously extremely good at what he does and even if they got some specialist help in (suspect there was more expert assistance than perhaps was let on)

Seeing as he runs his own car company he should know a thing or 2 about building cars.

http://www.evanta.co.uk/team.html#all

Resurrecting this thread cod I've seen two Deloreans on the roads this weekend. First was in heswall on Saturday afternoon, then again in chapeltown Sheffield tonight.
Seems the tv programme has got them out the woodwork...

I saw about 12 drive past in a convoy on Saturday down in Corfe. Thought I was seeing things.

I went past the factory at the weekend.

Candodavid - Member
Friend has one, it is a thing of beauty really, not my bag though

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Or how about this?

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Now [i]these[/i] are things of beauty!

Just recently I've seen a Maserati and a McLaren with those doors. Bit silly but these seem to be nicer designs (even though I'm not interested in cars and there's so many posh ones park up in the market square other people don't seem too interested either.) Bit of a vulgar display of wealth really, I guess people like that impress other people like that.