Build your custom Delorean!

[washernoob]

How super cool is this?

Customize your brand spanking new 1982/3/4 DMC Delorean.

http://www.delorean.com/newbuild.asp

Oh my... I am in car heaven with this website. I LOVE DELOREANS! What an ugly, yet awesome car. I know of 2 here in town and I nearly faint each time I see them.

They have the classiest interiors for an older car. I just love them.

Any other DMC fans out there?

http://www.delorean.com/newbuild.asp

 

[cfz2882]

amazing that there are enough spare parts left from the early 80s to
basicly build whole cars nearly 30yrs later!

 

[bugsyjones]

Getting a New Old Stock DeLorean would be the best way to go in my opinion.

Someday I may have one.

~Tim

 

[whirlcool]

And  they build them right here in Houston!
 I have been on a tour of the plant here.  Very impressive. They'll even totally rebuild your old DeLorean if you want them to. They not only build DeLoreans, but they repair them too.

 

[washernoob]

Way Cool! Lucky you!

Do you see a more than average number of deloreans around? It seems the closer you are to a products central plant, you see a lot more than anywhere else.

 

[countryford]

I used to own one. It was a 1981 (first year they made them). Unfortuneatly I had to sell it last year. Needed the money. It was a blast to drive.

 

[washernoob]

No way!!!! How I envy you!

How was the ride? Smooth? Quiet? How did it handle? (seems so aero dynamic it would be a quiet smooth ride)

Is it a comfortable car?

I bet you got a lot of complements!

 

[countryford]

It was a nice ride. Low to the ground.It wasn't realy quiet, but it wasn't realy noisey either. It handled great. Could zip around corners really well. Wasn't that powerful though. Had only a 6cly in it. We did get a lot of comments from people wherever we went. Had a lot of people taking pictures of it as were driving down the road. It was cool. I do miss it though.

 

[swestoyz]

Earlier this fall Greg and I went to the NFM in Omaha to see the Delorean on display. I had never seen one in person before. Quite a bit of pent up anticipation considering I've been a huge BTTF fan since childhood.

The car on display didn't match up to my expectations, more than likely due to the fact that someone had dumped some janky updated audio equipment into the car. And it was also an automatic.

I'd still like to own one someday, but for now I'll stick watching Doc's Delorean on the big screen.

(Brandon: check the link out below. Fabulous article from Ate It Up With Motor on the Delorean Motor Company. I've always been impressed with John Delorean's influence at General Motors/Pontiac in the 60's. He was responsible for more success at GM than what most give him credit for.)
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The Harder They Fall: The Saga of the DeLorean Motor Company < Ate Up With Motor

The saga of John DeLorean, the DeLorean Motor Company, and the short-lived DeLorean DMC-12 sports car.

ateupwithmotor.com

 

[whirlcool]

 If you look at a DeLorean while the body style itself may be futuristic, all the things like lights, bumpers, turn signals, etc looks very dated. It was mostly 80's stuff adapted to the base car.
 
 You still don't see many DeLoreans on the roads around here. Most people that own them keep them in the garage and take them out only on weekends or very nice days.  You do see a lot of them at car shows in the area.

 I do remember seeing them in show rooms. In the SW part of town Marcus Jones(?) Buick was also a DeLorean dealer and had a few in stock. The salesman said more people came to look at them then to buy them.

I can just imagine what a current day DeLorean would look like had the company survived.