Hello, I've received some e-mails over the past 3 months asking the condition of VIN 4512. As some of you know, I was "alone" in Cleveland. My Delorean was in the presents of Micah Fryman and Marty Maier getting a lot done to it. As of this Saturday (Oct28) everything that we wanted completed is DONE! The car looks, feels, and performs totally different now. My car was pretty much a complete disaster, and I didn't know it.(DON'T BUY THE FIRST CAR YOU FIND, unless it's really good) Starting from the front of the car, this is what was done. All new suspension, except the springs. The shocks are from the Mid State DMC Club and are great!! The steering rack was rebuilt and is perfect. Mine was so bad that it's amazing I'm not dead. They said it was the worst "working" steering rack they've seen. I also had my fascias repainted I also had just about every cooling and fuel line/hose replaced because mine were dry rotted and cracked. My transmission was leaking so that was rebuilt. My clutch was soaked in oil, so that was replaced. The engine was taken apart, cleaned, painted, and then put back together. While doing that, everypart that had wear on it was replaced. So my engine performs like a champ now. I put on an '82 muffler with the cool tips on it. My electrical compartment was a mess, so that was redone and now I'm safe :) As far as interior goes, my seats were redone, headliners replaced and my carpet was cleaned. All this was completed by the beginning of September. but this past weekend we needed to do more work to it (the tranny was still leaking). I had my parts car at Micahs house, so he took the tranny from that and had it all ready for us. I left my house early Friday morning with the Delorean on my flatbed. 7 hours later we got to Micahs house. Rolled the D off the trailer and started to work. We decided to just drop the transmission instead of pulling the engine and tranny out. We started work at around 6pm...at 12am the tranny was out. Called it a day and started working again Saturday morning. To make a really long story short, that evening we got the "new" Transmission in and everything re-adjusted. Replaced the clutch again because it was soaked. Sunday morning we made our 7 hour trek back home to Michigan with the parts car on the trailer and me in the Delorean. The car performed beautifully! Not a single problem. All my gauges were where they needed to be, my gas milage was perfect..about 26MPG. Best of all...no leaks. So, that were 4512 stands now. gradually it is coming back from the dead. Thanks to Micah and Marty for putting in the long months getting my car back on the road and making it safe. Erik Geerdink 4512