Okay, what makes this slightly stranger is the car went to the UAE and spent its first 5 years in Dubai. I have no reason to believe it was ever modified. It hadn't moved since 1987 in its garage in France until 3 weeks ago when we trailered it back http://www.delorean.co.uk/harvey.jpg Were Jan 82 cars still being fittted with fender a antenna ? Martin Dave Swingle wrote: > That's not all that unusual - the original dealers were plenty > willing to swap easily-changed parts around among cars on the sales > lot (i.e. hoods, wheels, radios, etc.) to make a sale. (For example - > customer wants a particular interior and does/doesn't like dark > wheels.) > > But I sure can't imagine arbitrarily swapping a trans. 10-spline > transmissions in late cars are more likely due to using up old parts > at the factory, or some prior owner/dealer putting in a used one. > > Dave S > > > [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/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dmcnews/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:dmcnews-digest@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx mailto:dmcnews-fullfeatured@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <*> 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/