I belive they were working with Dupont on colored tints that allowed the stainless grain to show through but they didn't stand up to climate extremes. Bruce Benson > DMCH has a painted fender that has all kinds of different colors of > paint that were tested on it, which can be seen hanging in their > warehouse. I'm sure someone (Mark V?) has some pictures of it from > the open house that they would want to post to show you. > > -Patrick C. > 1880 > > --- In dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Qumefox <qumefox@xxxx> wrote: > > Hey all.. Was just bored and digging through the old DMC service > > bulletins, and I read in ST-02-2/82 that three deloreans were test > > painted at the factory. Does anyone know what happened to these three > > original cars, and what colors were tried? > > > > Just curious. > > > > -- > > > > Chris > > VIN# 03209 > > http://badger.brazi.net/delorean > > > > > > > > -- > > No virus found in this outgoing message. > > Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. > > Version: 7.0.338 / Virus Database: 267.10.14/79 - Release Date: > 8/22/2005 > > > > > > > > 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 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/