Forget about the dies! It is a lot less work to repair a mangled panel then to recreate a new one. Besides the dies you would need a press big enough to put them in and they aren't cheap. A good "Metal Man" can straighten out something most would consider junk. Right now enough panels are around so it isn't worth the time but someday it will be worth repairing anything. In the event someone MUST recreate a panel it is done on what is called a "Bucking Block". This is esentially a wooden form and the panel is beaten over it. This is how prototyping is done and you can make a small number of panels before you destroy the mold. If anyone has damaged panels I encourage you to save them because as I said at some point in the future it will be economical to repair instead of replace so there will be a larger market even for damaged panels. The potential market for panels is small and diminishing but there is always the "totaled" car that still has some value in the undamaged parts. It will never be profitable to make NEW panels for the Delorean as the demand is too small. If a car is damaged the owner always has the option of using filler and painting the whole car. In recovering the dies there would also be the ugly queestion of legal ownership. David Teitelbaum vin 10757 --- In dmcnews@xxxx, rpeckhoff@xxxx wrote: > List, > I read the site on DMC news about the delorean dies being dumped as > anchors in ards bay for a fish farm. I was wondering what those dies > were made out of and how feasible it would be to 'borrow' the dies > back. Of course replace them with cement blocks. > How feasible would it be for anyone who knows anything about the > production process to refurbish the dies. Is it possible? Why would > I want to do this? Because it is there. Because it would make it > possible for anyone to make the firestar 500 (The modernized > delorean.) It would make it much harder to get those rare quarter > panels. We could make new doors. > So my main question is: If those dies were brought up would they be > any good? > I've got some connections with groups that owe me a favor. The > DeLorean community might benefit by getting those back. > > Rob