Very interesting news. Several years ago when Carl Tilley had announced his invention the "perpetual electrical device" which was installed into his DeLorean I was very curious so I had attended the event. It was held in Nashville Speedway, Tennessee. Bruce Battles, another DMLer who live locally was in attendance with his DeLorean towed to the event. (Hi Bruce.) About Carl Tilley?s vehicle? I personally think he did a neat and clean job cosmetically in converting his DeLorean with the electrical power plant and all of the other necessary devices including the installation of all of the dozen batteries through out the car. The car did run and had ran well that morning, now as far as his perpetual device working as he claims??? Read on. For what I?ve witnessed, Tilley's DeLorean was unique in several areas. For one, the car on a stand still, took off faster then the stock PVR DeLoreans. Second, which was most impressive, it was totally quite! No mechanical or components noise at all. All you can hear is one click of the toggle switch to power it on and that is it. There is no fan noise, no belt noise, no alternator noise, no buzzing and etc. Upon take off, there is no acceleration noise. It just took off with no lag! You do hear more noise coming from the tires rolling over the gravel pavement. It also was eerie to see the vehicle traveling at 90MPH plus with no engine or exhaust noise! It was dead silent and if anything, I believe all I heard was the electric power plant's low hum when it zoomed by, or was it the rear wheel bearing? You can see it coming, but there is no noise, no sound at all! What you do hear if you listen carefully is the sound of the wind noise generated by vehicle moving and cutting through the air. There is no heat generated from the vehicle, so the vehicle was cool physically and figuratively speaking. I believe many of you would respect his vehicle, once you see it on the move, although many of you dislike the fact that Carl Tilley may have made a mockery of the DeLorean and the marque using his invention. On the test track that day, his car did several fast performance laps around the track as to impress the audience and there was a press conference for the press, his investors and the many invited guess including myself. There was a rumor that there was a representative from Detroit from one of the ?big three? to see his invention or contraption as many had expressed it to be. All the people were allowed to inspect the vehicle, but they were not allow to see the "perpetual device" which was hidden...... hummmmm? Anyway, I had asked Mr. Carl Tilley openly with the press listening, that I would have gladly to test drive his vehicle back to NYC and all he did was chuckled, looked downwards towards the ground and avoided in giving me an answer. (Hey, I would have converted my DeLorean if I can get 200 miles on one charge even if his device is nonsense and "full of crap.") Right after the press conference, Tilley again, did allow another smaller group of people to test-drive the electric DeLorean. What was strange was that the electric DeLorean had developed a bad rear wheel bearing. I said strange because, for all those laps generated, it was beginning to equal to the approximately the time for the batteries to expire. Everyone was anxiously expecting the vehicle to die out, including myself for his device can?t really work? Or did Carl Tilley conveniently planned it as many believed, for there was no noise coming from the bearing nor did the bearing collapsed? So, out of the blue, he announced that his DeLorean was crippled and the DeLorean cannot be driven any farther. Carl Tilley immediately stopped the whole event and he then had his electric DeLorean was place on a flat bed and quickly hauled back to his "shop" away from the crowd with no further inspections or interviews to be given to the press or to the public, only saying that he will ?repair the rear bearing? and ?schedule another run in the future.? (I am still waiting.) The crux of the matter is, he could have changed the bearing in under two hours, if he wanted it to as to prove the worthiness of his claim. BTW, the event that day lasted from 8AM to about 10:30AM, for it was expected to have been an all day event. So off, I went to do some sight seeing locally of the many nice houses and places of the famous country singers living in that area of Nashville. I later had dinner and waited after midnight and headed back to NYC. Alone on the drive home that night, I was pondering what it would have been like, as to be driving a smooth noiseless and vibration less electric DeLorean? Despite that his device is questionable, the fact that his electrical DeLorean had given the "gull wing stainless steel car" another modern unique feature to brag about -- Electrically powered. Hey, has anyone on the list toyed with idea of a electrical power or a hybrid DeLorean? Gas in Manhattan, NYC is $3.45 per gallon for 87 octane, with the price of gas maybe this is the way to go? Kayo Ong #5508 Lic . "9D" NY The two questions that should be raised is that if his electric device real then it would the next greatest On Aug 6, 2006, at 11:25 PM, Lawrence Lormand wrote: > Carl Tilley's Car was released from IRS holding in May 06 & is in > storage (I can't disclose were) along with 2 other vehicles. the > auto company that is buying the technology just wants the patient & > designs, Tilly was cleared as my informant tells me. & is making big > bucks on this deal (9 digits). > Lawrence > Lawrence's DeLorean Service & Repair > Dearborn Heights,Mi.48125 > 313-506-3786 Cell > --- In dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Ryan Wright" <ryanpwright@...> > wrote: > > > > Are you talking about the "Hydristor" - "Hydrostatic transmission" > that was > > discussed here awhile ago? Or the electric DeLorean conversion by > Carl > > TIlley? > > > > Lawrence, if you're dealing with Tilley, you're about to get > scammed. Don't > > give the guy a penny. Read the archives and do some Google > searching on his > > name. > > > > As for the Hydristor guy, I don't know much about that. I did some > research > > awhile ago and he looked legit, believe it or not. > > > > -Ryan > > > > > > > > On 8/4/06, Lawrence Lormand <lawrencesr@...> wrote: > > > > > > Hey Fellow Owners, > > > I don't know if you guys remember the guy that poated about > electric > > > Delorean transmissions or not about 4 months or so ago, > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] 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! 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