DML, The DeLorean has Ford Pinto Front lower control arms? Are they similar, i.e., look the same but different sizes and specs? OR Are they exact, i.e., part is totally interchangeable, exact match? AND Why would installing a Pinto lower control arm or steering rack, on the DeLorean make it a better handling car? Why not purchase original or restored lower control arm(s) or steering racks from the DeLorean suppliers? Additionally, there were three US DeLorean prototypes built by Triad Industries in a suburb of Detroit. I remember Bill Collins, the early chief engineer say, the only Pinto components were in the first & second prototypes built in late 1976 and early 1977. This first prototype was semi -- nonfunctional, just a parameter to build another functional DeLorean prototype for further engineering purposes, and attract investors like Allstate Insurance etc. (This is not the wooden styling mock up.) The prototype made famous on the cover of the July 1977 Road & Track, had the incomplete pinto steering rack from the first prototype. The second prototype's front end was used again to make the third and last US made prototype. The second and third prototype was used in the promotional dealership film, circa 1977. In the film there is a picture of a group of suspension components, non of which made it to the actual production car. When Lotus won the engineering contract in 1978, Colin Chapman founder of Lotus, had Team Lotus (racing dept.) and Lotus Cars LTD (production dept.) engineers' work together to develop a first class suspension and chassis for the Esprit S3 and DMC. (Chapman was quoted saying "this [chassis & suspension] is the best they have designed.") Lotus engineering the DMC backbone chassis and Esprit S3, front and rear suspension and VARI underbody, evolved the DMC & Esprit into a real production cars far from the US built prototypes and early S1 cars. Michael