Don The first 600 cars that left the factory did not have door guides, these items were added as of Service Bulletin ST-14-9/81 which was issued after the factory was notified of problems with the latching of the doors. All cars leaving the factory after Vin 1100 were fitted with Door Latch Guides. "We're here to help you" DMC Help / De Lorean Services / <dmchelp@xxxx> Web Site: <www.deloreanservices.com> . ----- Original Message ----- From: Don Ekhoff <ekhoff@xxxx> To: <dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2000 10:07 AM Subject: Re: [DML] Looking for a DeLorean to be restored for museum use > Dear Larry, > > Interesting to hear you have one of the training cars. I really like the > sticker. I have one that I believe was built on the temporary "Kerksite > (sp?)" exterior sheetmetal tooling. It is different in several details in > the way the metal was formed, however one striking feature is on the rear > door latch it does not have the cast aluminum guide as is standard in the > production units. It has simply a rough elongated slot cut in the metal to > allow the body latch pin to access the rear door latch. This is not simply > a matter of a missing guide casting. Does yours have the same feature? I > also do not have the vin # handy but it is close to yours. > > Best Regards, > Donald L. Ekhoff > ekhoff@xxxx