Suprizingly I drove the car 300 miles home, and for the next 4 month with no real problems, besides the fuel accumulator. It was over the winter that it broke down, starting with the waterpump. When I took it to Micah Fryman (thats where it is at right now) to get work done to it, he told me that I had a lot of angels watching me because it was VERY unsafe. My steering rack was dry and distroyed, my trailing arms were rusted through, my engine was leaking oil, the electical was a mess and very dangerous. I even had some parts on the car that suprized him, like a steel clutch line. As in, not a hose. It was a bent pipe that was supposidly the cool thing to install in the early '80s to replace the plastic hose. I also has some weird things bolted onto my frame that messed it up. If Micah is learking out there, maybe he could inform us on my badly treated Delorean. you wouldn't believe some of the things that was wrong with this car. The steering rack was installed backwards and upside down!! It WAS a real mess. it's not like that any more. All but the frame has been replaced, but that will get done soon. So the moral of the story is...don't be too excited when you first see a Delorean that you might buy. Thats what I did. Bring someone along with you who knows a lot about Deloreans, or at least what to look for. When I was looking at this Delorean all that I said was "oh, the dashboard can be replaced no problem, so can the dents, the fascia and headliners. No bid deal." All that right there is a couple thousand dollars! BE CAREFUL, there are crap Delorean out there! I'll shut up now. Erik Geerdink 4512 --- In dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxx, "Gabe W." <thecreech@xxxx> wrote: > Was the 10,000 delorean driveable when you got it? Did you run into any > problems? What was your first car? > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Erik Geerdink" <delorean502@xxxx> > To: <dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Sunday, August 20, 2000 8:23 PM > Subject: [DML] Re: delorean pricing, first time driver > > > > I bought my Delorean for $10,000. Listed is the work I have done to > > it.... > > > [Moderator deleted large copy...]