In a message dated 5/22/2003 4:50:07 AM Pacific Daylight Time, louie@xxxx writes: > The DeLorean is NOTHING at all like a good old simple American muscle car > for the '60s or '70s. They're overly complex and EXTREMELY fickle little > machines. I would beg to differ with this a bit Although it is different it is far less complex than a lot of other cars. I am restoring a Jaguar and that is far more time consuming, expensive and complicated than the DeLorean. In addition I recently disassembled and reassembled 2 DeLoreans and in one case in Chicago fired up a car that had been sitting for 5 years and it started on the first turn of the key and ran smoothe. My Jag never cooperated that nicely and after 4 years of on again off again restoration is still not running (mainly due to time) In restoring cars the DeLorean because of the plastic an Stainless take out one of the most time consuming parts of the restoration (body work) As long as the frame is solid the work to restore the rest is mainly a good cleanup and polish. As far a sthe engine goes I have seen many messed up DeLoreans mainly by shops that don't know what they are doing. Recently I took a car considered to be a basket case to Dave Bauerle and in a matter of a few hours he put back all the vacuum hoses and took off all the bypasses and turned the key and it ran perfectly. Your best bet it to put it back the way it belongs if it doesn't work find out what was missed because it does work if everything is right and if you prepare properly. I find it interesting and can usually troubleshoot or can explain the problem well enough to one of the service centers to fix it. I had a wire harness problem (my own fault for it in the first place) and Don Steger figured it out over the phone in minutes. Our car may not be a 60's muscke car with an engine attached to a start switch but it is nowhere near as complicated as some of the other cars out there. Ken vin16684 restored concours entry 3720 restored 1880 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]