This document was among the files we acquired from KAPAC, and it's probably about 50-60 pages in length, and appears to be a draft rather than a "final" copy. Nevertheless, it provides for interesting reading. As an example, I've posted a quick and dirty scan of one page here: http://www.delorean.com/lrpp.jpg How to best present these items to the DeLorean community has been a problem I've been wrestling with for some time. As David T. mentioned, these items have some instrinsic value as "intellectual property" and are considered to be assets that we acquired through our purchase of the KAPAC inventory. Also, as David mentioned, there are limits as to what I can distribute, not so much for "secrecy", but for time constraints. The history of the original DMC is of great interest to me, but it generates absolutely zero revenue for the company. Stephen does prefer that I spend my working hours on projects and tasks that generate income for the company, as you might imagine. I would like to be able to scan and post them online, but don't want them to be "lifted" from the site and posted everywhere. I want them to be used as a "draw" to our website or magazine. That is the "wiggle room" that I have with Stephen to get these scanned, posted, whatever. In that respect, some of the original memos and telexes that we got with the KAPAC purchase or the files donated to us by Leif Montin have been reprinted in the current issue of "deloreans" magazine. I expect that we will continue to do so in that manner. However, items like this 50-60 page document are not feasible to print, even in sections, in the magazine. At the our recent Open House event, BRP'ers were invited to relax in the conference room here at DMC (Texas) and peruse the files to their heart's content. Access to this is limited usually to events like this because we don't feel comfortable letting just anyone wade around in the files. Some of you longtimers may recall the 1998 Cincinnati DeLorean Show, and the trip to our old warehouse in Columbus and the theft issues from the event. I applaud Ken'e effort to have some "museum-type" display set up at the DCS PR show in 2006. In my spare time, after working hours, I have been scanning these memos, files and telexes with the idea of burning them to CD/DVD, but there are literally thousands (maybe tens of thousands) of pages of files here. I've culled through them over the years and have about 250-300 of the interesting ones scanned. This brings up a related subject, the massive amount of historical documents being sold online by the bankruptcy trustee. I believe that once these documents are sold and in private collections, they will never see the light of day again. In a worst case scenario, in the event of a divorce or child going off to college, some of these items may be discarded by a malevolent spouse or an unwitting parent. In any case, they're no better off in the hands of the eBayer than they were in the trustee's files. I've appealed, as have others, to the bankruptcy trustee to donate these items to the Crawford Musuem in Cleveland (home of the first production DeLorean built, #500) or to allow an organized group access to these files for the purpose of copying and preserving them before they are sold off to collectors around the world. The bankruptcy trustee, at the time, insisted that neither was possible, and the items were being sold to provide funds for the creditors of the original DMC. I was under the impression that this action had been closed, and if this is the case, where are these funds going? There is at least one creditor of the original DMC on the list - can you confirm or deny that you may be receiving any more settlements from the bankruptcy trustee? The preservation of these files, and if possible, to get those who have bought things previously or who hold documents from the original DMC, to copy them and make them available for preservation as well is a task that should be undertaken by a well-organized national or local DeLorean group in conjunction with a major auto-related museum (DCO, are you listening?) I would be happy to donate copies of all the DMC related files, memos, and telexes to an organized, structured effort in this regard and I would encourage all others to do the same. So much of the history of the original DeLorean Motor Company is lost forever, I would hope that what does remain can be preserved. James Espey DMC (Texas) http://www.delorean.com 800/USA-DMC1 --- In dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, PRC1216@xxxx wrote: > I remember a year or two ago, James mentioned they found a sheet with all of > the specs for the 1984 model DeLorean and all of the changes such as a radio > mounted up top on the headliner and a light in the ash tray, and numerous other > changes. James, you said you were going to scan this and put it online, but > I haven't been able to find it yet. Is this going to happen soon? Was I > dreaming this up? :) > > -Patrick C. > 1880 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! 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