To address comments privately to the moderating team, please address: moderator@xxxxxxxxxxx To search the archives or view files, log in at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dmcnews ------------------------------------------------------------------------ There are 7 messages in this issue. Topics in this digest: 1. reply to the ultimate delorean From: "Silas " <silas102000@xxxxxxxxx> 2. RE: Lowered springs - just the front? From: "Mike Griese" <mike.griese@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 3. DeLorean Commercials. From: DMCVegas@xxxxxxxx 4. Re: THINK - Ideas for a "new" DeLorean? From: srubano@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 5. Delorean on E! From: P12C16@xxxxxxx 6. Re: Where does it go???? From: njp548@xxxxxxx 7. Re: K-mart Battery (sucks) From: "Walter" <Whalt@xxxxxxx> ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ Message: 1 Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2001 01:11:15 -0000 From: "Silas " <silas102000@xxxxxxxxx> Subject: reply to the ultimate delorean Is the ultimate d on the market yet? -Silas ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ Message: 2 Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2001 19:12:30 -0600 From: "Mike Griese" <mike.griese@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: RE: Lowered springs - just the front? A simple and inexpensive alternative to a spring compressor is 3 nylon cargo straps. I use the 1" variety with a buckle. Thread the strap between the coils as close to the top and bottom coils as possible. There is enough material to get three complete loops with each strap. This makes for 18 lengths of strap to take up the tension from the spring. Compress the spring with the weight of the car and take up the slack in the straps. Get them as tight as you can. Remove the spring as normal. Mike -----Original Message----- From: wingd2@xxxxxxx [mailto:wingd2@xxxxxxx] Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2001 10:26 AM To: dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: [DML] Lowered springs - just the front? In a message dated 12/4/01 6:02:24 AM Central Standard Time, jwit6@xxxxxx writes: > I lowered just the front of mine with the springs Rob at PJ Grady offers. > > use is the two piece type that > fits on the outsides of the springs. You'll need to position them at about > the 4 and 8 o'clock positions. There is just not enough room to use the > internal type. > Jim > ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ Message: 3 Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2001 00:07:58 -0000 From: DMCVegas@xxxxxxxx Subject: DeLorean Commercials. Originally, the TV spots for the DeLorean were given to the dealerships themselves. It was apart of the whole media kit handed out. Included of course were the clip-art images for news paper ads, along with a few templete ads as well. Everything paper came in the binder. There are two commercials. The short "Live the Dream" ad, and the longer one which shows the car in motion, and has a couple of interior shots, and is more detailed. Both of the commercials however were delivered on magnetic tape reels, NOT 16mm film. If you want to find originals, your best best would be to contact the original dealerships. This can be hard because they've changed hands since. Like the one in Reno, NV, they've changed 3 times since, and are on their 4th owner. Of course you can check with your local television stations, but I seriously doubt you'll find anything there. A few years ago, I called KNBC in Los Angeles, and spoke with the programing dept. As was told to me, they will only keep reels for commercials & shows for only so long. And then they are destroyed. The man on the phone reccomended to me that I contact the either the producers (for TV shows), or the Advertising Firm and/or the company itself for copies of their commercials (for advertisments). If someone were to make copies of the ad to sell, DVD would be the best choice. Quality doesn't deteriorate over time, and it is the qucikest, and cheapest media to mass produce for someone working out of their home. Of course at this point you would need a Macintosh G4 Quicksilver box w/a Superdrive to do this. And that is no cheap investment. It's one of the more expensive PC's on the market. But it would be worth it with the simplistic software for quick results. To be honest though, I think that online archives would be the best idea. Differant people can host the files online, and you could create a webring to link everyone together. If you want to stop dilution of the values of DeLorean memorabilia, stop buying the hack stuff on eBay. If someone designs a poster, or creates some sort of artwork, that's one thing. But I for one get tired of seeing someone simply write "DMC" on a clock, or those god-awful street signs. -Robert vin 6585 "X" ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ Message: 4 Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2001 01:29:10 -0000 From: srubano@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: THINK - Ideas for a "new" DeLorean? The same material you are refering to has been used on the American car Saturn since the company first opened shop some years ago and is still used in production. Actually if you go to a dealership they actually beat on the car with their fists and kick the panels in to prove the strength of it...makes you kind of cringe when they do it but it's still fun to watch the panel pop back to it's original form. :) Steve --- In dmcnews@xxxx, "Stian Birkeland" <delorean@xxxx> wrote: > > > If the DeLorean were to be re-produced (same styling), then it would be possible to offer a "cheaper" DeLorean without the expensive stainless steel panels. Someone at some time suggested fibreglass panels (painted) as one possibility in order to make variations of the car but based on the same platform. > > But now, there are another material that could be of interest - its called Thermoplastic here in Norway. > > Its being used in the production of the Norwegian(!) Electricity Car - THINK! > Although the styling is not of a sports car, the car has actually been designed by LOTUS in England! > > Go to: www.think.no for more info! > > THINK is now owned by Ford Motor Company, and I believe they have started to sell THINKs in California already. > > The advantage of thermoplastic is that it is a solid, strong, re- usable and environmental friendly material. Also, it can take a beating. I remember a commercial for THINK where they hit the front fender with a hammer! No damage! Believe it or not! > > So - let this be a suggestion to DMC Houston (they do have all the spare parts and are the only ones that have the opportunity to make a new DeLorean if there is a market for it). I think that as time goes by, more people would want a "new" model 2001 based on the 1981 DeLorean. DMC Houston has the mold for the glassfibre underbody, and panels made out of thermoplastic would be cheap to produce. Hey, maybe you could use the glassfibre underbody mold to make an underbody of another composite material ( Kevlar/carbonfibre comes to mind). This would all make the car very light-weight, which in turn would make the car faster, even with the standard PRV-V6. > > My suggestion are open and free for anyone to use :-) > Opinions please! E-mail me privately :-) > > Best wishes > Stian Birkeland > Norway > > VIN # 06759 > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ Message: 5 Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2001 20:43:29 EST From: P12C16@xxxxxxx Subject: Delorean on E! Hello, Does anyone know when the next Delorean true hollywood story will be on E!? Does anyone have a copy of the video that they would be willing to sell to me? Thanks, Patrick ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ Message: 6 Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2001 21:03:36 EST From: njp548@xxxxxxx Subject: Re: Where does it go???? Paul, That is the vacuum line that goes into the passenger side of the rear part of the intake manifold to pick up vacuum to run the mode switch for the A/C controls. Inside the pontoon is a vacuum canister, and that is what the line is coming out of. The line is supposed to Tee off for the brake servo vacuum line that is on the rear passenger side of the engine compartment. Hope that helps. Later, Nick Pitello 1852 <A HREF="Http://members.aol.com/njp548">Http://members.aol.com/njp548</A> ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ Message: 7 Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2001 20:19:54 -0500 From: "Walter" <Whalt@xxxxxxx> Subject: Re: K-mart Battery (sucks) Les, You gotta stop messing with those old technology batteries that leak acid -- especially in the DeLorean where they get a lot of shock and vibration being near the rear suspension. Steve Wynne of DMC Houston told me that the reason why passenger side carpets are hard to come by (compared to the availability of the driver's side) is because so many of them get damaged by leaking battery acid. Unfortunately for my car, it came from its previous owner with plenty of battery acid damage. I get only Optima brand batteries now. They can't leak, work in any position, don't accumulate explosive gasses and are not subject to damage from vibration like the antique batteries sold at K-mart. Other cars are not as critical for battery quality. If one leaks in an engine compartment, it really doesn't matter so much. If it explodes, it is under the hood -- not with you in the passenger compartment. Before I used to really like K-mart batteries, but the guys who worked there always warned me that if I put too big a battery in my car that it would overload my electrical system and burn it out. If I put a 850CCA battery in a car that their books said only needed a 550CCA, then they threatened that if the battery went bad then they would not honor the warranty. (For those of you who don't know batteries, theses guys were completely wrong!) I put up listening to this nonsense for several years and from several different guys that worked there. Also be aware that battery warranties (with the exception of Optima) are ALWAYS longer than the manufacture expects them to last. This is to keep you coming back to pay for a new battery (of their brand) that are prorated. Since Optima is so much better than the rest, they don't need to keep you coming back by selling you a warranty that is going to out live the battery. Walt Tampa, FL (I don't work for or sell Optima batteries.) From: "Les Huckins" <jhuckins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Check out the Champion 78-84. 770 Cold CCA Amps, 84 month warr. 24 > months roadside service, 36 months direct exchange, bal of 84 months > pro-rated. ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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