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.....