Fw: [DML] Gold DeLorean

["Chris Parnham" <chrisparnham@xxxx>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "murrayempire" <murrayempire@xxxx>
To: "DMC NEWS" <dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, March 16, 2001 11:39 PM
Subject: Fw: [DML] Gold DeLorean


> I was there when the Gold DeLoreans were build at the plant in Dunmurry .
> They hand picked a team of workers from the shopfloor.
> A special crib was built just off the shopfloor .
> A firm of security guards was employed to protect the project .
> All in all it took 2 weeks to build the Gold cars.I can only remember 2
Gold
> cars being make there may be have been 3 but I don't think so.
> These cars were built 2 years before the plant closed down.So I don't
think
> they would have left Gold panels
> laying around the plant for 2 years.
> I was not one of the workers involved in the assembly of the Gold cars.
> My wife Eileen was the person who made the Tan seats
> for the Gold car.Eileen worked for a firm in Belfast called Trimtec not
far
> from the DeLorean plant .
> They were an English firm with a base in Belfast
> Eileen said there were only 5 Tan seats made for the Gold car so there was
> one spare seat just in case
> Anyone coming to Belfast for Eurofest can go and see were the seats were
> made but it is closed down now .
> They now make windows on the site
> Joe Murray Clock No.1065
> The 65th. worker to be employed at the plant.
> I have loads more stories like this.So see you @the Eurofest 2001Belfast
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Murray Fisher" <murrayf@xxxx>
> To: "DeLorean" <dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Friday, March 16, 2001 3:20 PM
> Subject: [DML] Gold DeLorean
>
>
> > Re the Gold Deloreans, about all I really know is what I READ (like
> everyone else) and I have most of the books and magazines that ever
referred
> to the car. From what I have gleaned from these sources, plus a couple
> phone calls, it appears that the two gold versions were built and ended up
> in museums.....at the time one of the articles said that it was "required"
> that parts be available for all cars.
>
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