Hey Guys, Merry Christmas to all DML'ers out there in cyber space through out the world! Hope all is well on your end. Havent realy posted much in the past couple of months, and I doubt I will be posting much anymore at all. I have been slowly loosing steam of hope in DeLorean ownership. Been saving since I was ten years old for the car of my dreams, and now that a decade has passed, and nearly there (had to buy cars in the mean time) I have decided that in my current possition, it would be wasteful to plunk down a good 15 or 16 grand on a car. Well, not any car, but a car without a warrenty or guarentee of any kind, other than that it "WILL" break down, mostly due to P.O. of the car I decided to get, and the fact that they now are over 20 years old. If it didnt break down, it would be a much better canidate in comparison to a 2004/05 current model, even without such a warrenty. What realy gets me is people almost always have to add a good 10 or 15 grand on top of the purchase price to make the car a good runner with few problems. Exceptions asside, the DML is full of examples of this. I can not afford such a car on a 13k year salary, working 40hr a week including many weeks of overtime. I'm not joking either. It took 11 years to get this money to buy the car, but I have a problem with wasting it on something that will break down within months, if I'm in any way lucky. And then the other maintainance items which would cost many thousands on top of just keeping it running... not including anything causmetic. And what for, 300 or 400 miles a year (thats all i would dare drive it, the frame rusting away in my dads barn (where I would keep it!). Please dont get me wrong at all, I have lived, breathed and idolized the DeLorean ever since I have first realized its existance on this great earth. The DMC-12 is not one of the best automobiles, it is the BEST out there, and nothing can change my mind on that fact. But time takes a toll, and one can not wait forever, or however long it was. I have read the DML in entirety many times, i know people have 'waited' longer than my measly 11 years, even recently a posting stated apx waiting 20 years before purchasing one. In my current financial sistuation, there is no way i can make that decision, even if I have the cash to outright buy a car on ebay at this moment. Doesnt make sense in northern Maine anyway, couldnt use it 9 months of the year for fear of frame rust. Glad I made the discision to stop now, I would have been in a much worse state of mind after buying an expensive car, and find out it needed just as much work as the initial purchase price. (Not saying at all that the DMC is a lemon, but a potential money pit if you get an abused/abandoned model) Anybody else lurking on the list who actualy has tried to save the money to buy a DeLorean and is realy discuraged? Tell your story, even if you dont come up with the same conclusions I have recently come to. Merry Christmas everyone! Tom Porter :+) Maine, USA To address comments privately to the moderating team, please address: moderators@xxxxxxxxxxx For more info on the list, tech articles, cars for sale see www.dmcnews.com To search the archives or view files, log in at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dmcnews Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dmcnews/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: dmcnews-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/