I can assure you without a doubt that no cars left Ireland painted. Yes, indeed they were looking towards doing that and had contracted with DuPont, but, I have spoken with ex-shipping agents who were involved with getting the car here (I can't release names, sorry), b/c I myself was quite excited about the entire deal "wow I have a great collector's item." I know that my car was indeed painted at the dealer because I have spoken with them about it, this was an obsession of mine. But sadly, there are just no facts to back up any painted cars crossing the Atlantic, unless they were sent via a secret carrier that didn't enter the usual ports. To the contrary there are several facts speaking towards the impossibility. I will concede that there may have been work proceeding before the company entered receivership, JZD has stated that, but it went no further than that early research and maybe the manufacture of the before mentioned tan parts (which were also used to produce the gold D's). Lastly I will quote John DeLorean from the June 1993 interview when he was asked about painted cars. JZD--- "Well, it was our intention to make available (painted cars) and we worked with DuPont to develop a series of paints to the dealers. This is a very easy car to paint-the panels pop right off, you paint it, run it through an oven, bring it back out and you've got the equivalent of a factory job, also very easy to repair. So it was our plan to offer through dealers a variety of paint colors. Again, that was to be step number two. We had completed development work with DuPont but we never got around to starting to sell it." The way I read this, he states that the paint was to be marketed to dealers as a step two process, meaning after the fact. But, apparently, it never got to the selling stage. John Weaver ETDOC RED DMC #10527 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]