Re: [DML] Go Getting My DMC
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Re: [DML] Go Getting My DMC



Thanks you guys, you really know how to put a guy down! As for 
waiting, is 10 years not enough? I could certainly see it if I 
discovered the car 1 or 2 years ago, and had about 500 or 1000 
downpayment, but I have saved every dime I possibly could since I was 
8 years old. Still, $8300 is pretty pitiful for all that time, cant 
blame me, blame my parents allowances when I was younger! Haha.

I will reconsider purchasing the DeLorean at a later date, but the 
urge is really there to get something this year that I can drive, I 
like the comment about driving the Sunstar model! Thanks all of you 
who have replied on the list, and to those who emailed me in person, 
you will/already have a reply shortly, I'm backed up 2 days on the 
list due to working more than I should.

Another question, 

Should I get the DeLorean with as little debt as possible, use the 
8000 I have and get a loan for about 6-8 k and go with monthly 
payments with risk of repo (haha, I pray not) 

Or get a full loan of about 15,500, keep the cash on hand for 
emegency use incase I cant pay the payments for a month or two (say I 
loose my job) or other reasons.

Thanks, and please live that elusive dream guys (and gals),

Tom Porter 
Vin: Summer 2003 ?
treehouse2000us@xxxx



--- In dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Gus Schlachter <gus@xxxx> wrote:
> I think the moral here is that any car no longer under warranty is 
going to have a
> certain cost associated with regular upkeep, in addition to usual 
maintenance (oil,
> tires, etc.). Particularly a car that is 20 years old.
> 
> That cost consists of parts, then labor which is the really tricky 
part. My DMC is
> worked on solely by one of the DeLorean vendors, but mechanics not 
familiar with this
> car will spend more time (and more of your money) doing the same 
job, and won't do it as
> well; they frequently will perform unneeded repairs and/or make the 
problem(s) worse.
> 
> If you read this list, have a smattering of tools, and are brave, 
you can do 90% of such
> work yourself. In my case, my available free cash exceeds my 
available free time, so
> the car goes off to Houston. But in my younger days the situation 
was quite reversed
> and I did a great deal of auto repair myself (although it was on a 
Datsun).
> 
> So I hate to discourage the new drivers from getting a DeLorean, 
but any car this old is
> going to be on the "high maintenance" side. If you budget your 
wallet for the parts,
> your calendar for the time, and have a bus pass, you can keep a 
DeLorean on the road for
> many years without breaking the bank. If you expect to be able to 
drive it all the time
> as long as you have gas money, it will end up as someone else's 
project car after it
> sits in your driveway for 5 years.
> 
> 
> Gus Schlachter
> VIN #4695
> Austin, TX
> 
> 
> Swoyerzone@xxxx wrote:
> 
> > I want to add my input, I just turned 19, I bought my car when I 
was 17, I
> > went threw the hell of waiting.....






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