I find it impossible to believe that there were ever 500 produced in the VIN 0001 thru 0500 series. More likely it was just the batch of VINs that were set aside for this purpose. I'm sure they knew that they'd never make 500 black cars, but instead as their assembly processes were refined, black cars were likely reassigned higher VINs, still within the 0-500 range for documentation purposes. (Like software versioning) I'd be interested to hear form anyone who actually knows. Steve --- cbl1739 <cbl302@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > One last mystery HOW did the company dispose of > those first 500 > Black bodies? That would be a hell of a lot of > wasted company money > on both labor and material and disposal costs. So > the company > was "not" afraid to dispose of a big lot of items,in > one fashion or > other.What one possibility is that those black > shells were cut into > sections,to try to sell for Body shell repairs or > other? Could those > missing Deloreans gone the same route(recycled as > parts for the > assembley line cars or for QAC to cannablise for > cars at QAC,this is > only a guess,and NOT fact. > > Regards > Claude __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - now with 250MB free storage. Learn more. http://info.mail.yahoo.com/mail_250 To address comments privately to the moderating team, please address: moderators@xxxxxxxxxxx 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/