This is my first posting on the DML, so "hello" to all of you. I am a painter in search of a pretty high resolution image of a DeLorean sporting the wide side stripes for my next project. Even though I have a fairly extensive DMC photo archive, as I'm sure many of you have as well, I have not managed to capture any quality shots of the "cars with the stripes"...I just don't see them as much. About a year and a half ago I was in Garden Grove, CA seeking out the DeLorean Motor Center. Well, I found it and the guys gave me a full tour of the facility. By the time we got out to the back lot where the bulk of the DMC's were, I had already blown through all my film...that's where I saw the most beautiful Delorean I still have ever seen to this day (no offense to any of you). Described as being a one time champion show car it had something like 12 hundred miles on it (maybe 12 thousand but I really thought he said 12 hundred), not one wave of imperfection in the brushed steel, had gas flap and style lines, no heat warping on either rear or front fascia's...flawless. Oh, back to my point...This car had customized side stripes. They were the wide black factory side stripes with the DMC cut-outs and double "italic" dashes, but inside and around all the lettering was a masterful, meticulous pinstriping done in a very thin red vinyl, or it could have been enamel. Anyhow, this is what I'm trying to re-create in my newest painting and the images I have, even from the internet, are very poor. If anyone has a few good pictures of these stripes I would very much appreciate them. My email is twin_rotors@xxxx or you could try submerger@xxxxx P.S. Just so you know I'm not wasting our time, all the work I do is car related, whether it be paintings, graphics, installations, film/video/animation, etc. I am mostly transfixed with sportscar designs from the late 60's to the early 80's. I idolize Giugiaro and other designers who brought us the "wedge" and the "high imposing truncated tails", the straight lines and the symmetry...all those things that make a DeLorean what it is, and what it will always be...Perfect. That is what I hope for people to recognize in my work. Kindest regards, -cr