Dear All, Well, what with sifting through all my photos and updating the website, I now settle down to write my report on the International Classic Motor Show this past weekend at the Birmingham NEC. Firstly, I'll tell you what's new on the website There are LOADS of photos of some GREAT cars on our fantastic stand at the show, and I have created a new page dedicated to the Euro-spec cars and their associated conversions. Club Gallery and Members cars are as usual the main pages to change. The DeLorean Owners Club Uk had the largest stand we've ever had at this show and we certainly did the marque justice! We also won 2nd place in the Best Stand competition - credit to Dave and Chris. We had seven cars on display, and I will list them here: Factory right-hand manual owned by the Hoopers Factory Right-hand Auto owned by Chris Parnham THE OTHER factory right-hand Auto owned by Chris Parnham, decorated with BTTF parephanalia incl lit flux capacitor, time circuits and engine "vents". Mark Bourne's pristine Left-hander in centre stage on blocks, with Sony Minidisc stereo blaring out various recording samples from Back to the Future. Stuart Pennington's newly acquired left-hand manual (Jan '82) Stuart's early '81 automatic with gas flap, still a work-in-progress. Chris Parnham's newly acquired right-hand original with 4 MILES ON THE CLOCK. The BTTF car and "Dusty" the recently rescued right hander were displayed in a "barn" setting to the left of the main stand. Dusty is a truly remarkable car. Covered in grime from where she has stood for the past 16 years, Dusty was bought 4 weeks ago by Chris who wanted to display her in the dirty condition before cleaning her (now polished like a new penny!). Dusty has no windscreen wipers, they were never fitted at the factory! She also has the US spec rear taillight cluster - they hadn't got around to changing that! Chris was kind enough to let me start her up after the two-day show and she idles beautifully. Mark managed to burn the clutch when reversing her onto the trailer at the end of the show...:o) All-in-all the stand was a massive success. We attracted LOADS of punters, and met a lot of great people. I got into an argument with one gentleman who told me that the DeLorean is just a copy of the Bricklin. I disagreed, and eventually agreed that apart from being a two-seater, rear-engined car with gullwing doors, they were totally different (I told him about the differing door mechanisms) Strangely enough, no-one mentioned The Car's The Star at all. As they say "a picture paints a thousand words" - well, there are stacks of new images on the website. So I'll shut up, Best Wishes, Martin DeLorean Owners Club UK http://www.delorean.co.uk