IMHO it will never pay for anyone to create hard dies to reproduce the body panels. They could never be payed off against the production run, it can only be done in a large expensive press and the amount of stainless steel sheet required is immense. I believe that there will come a time that another alternative will work. That is the creation of a bucking block which is constructed out of wood and can be used to produce a limited quantity of parts and also repair them. This is how the car was prototyped and is a quick and dirty way to produce small quantities of formed sheet metal parts. You take a good part and make a wooden form that fits inside it. Then you beat a piece of sheet metal over the form and you have a part. Of course it will take a lot of smoothing and polishing to get a finished part as opposed to pressing it out but it can be done. As body panels get harder to find panels that were given up for dead or too expensive to repair start to look good. Old beaters will give up their lives to become parts cars as prices on the panels go up. Hoarders who have stocked parts will start to unload when the prices climb. In short there will be a lot of parts for a long time and when the need arises they too can be reproduced. The result of the destruction of the dies only means that the Delorean will never again be mass produced ( which should eventually cause the value of the car to go up?) David Teitelbaum vin 10757