As a former automotive component producer, prototypes were produced as revisions, so I believe that its possible that the 500 number was for revision purposes and not for actual prototypes. Therefore only a small number of actual black cars were produced then modified and assigned another revision number. Dave Sontos > > From: deloreanernst@xxxx > Date: 2003/12/18 Thu PM 01:07:11 CST > To: dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: [DML] Prototype > > In a message dated 12/18/03 12:07:18 AM Eastern Standard Time, > delorean@xxxx writes: > > > > The first 500 DeLoreans built were "black cars > > No doubt somewhere it's written how many were actually made, but it seems > unlikely they needed or made 500 preproduction cars. They simply reserved the > numbers up to 500. Just as new checking accounts typically start at "check 100" > not "001." > > Wayne > 11174 > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > To address comments privately to the moderating team, please address: > moderators@xxxx > > For more info on the list, tech articles, cars for sale see www.dmcnews.com > > To search the archives or view files, log in at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dmcnews > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > To visit your group on the web, go to: > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dmcnews/ > > To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: > dmcnews-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: > http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ > > >