Re: [doc] Florida / Houston Trip

[Phil Peters <PhilPeters@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Good to have you on board for Monday John, I really hope you can make it!

Prospective attendance: 5 members, 2 cars

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On Fri, 29 Apr 2005 14:42:30 -0000 , "John Chapelhow" <chapelhow@xxxxxxxxxxx>  wrote:
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>A long post as I am playing catch up following my holiday to Florida.
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>First, and most importantly a big thank you to James Espey. As I was 
>over in the US, I spent a day to fly to Houston and visit DMCH. James 
>was good enough to give me a personally guided tour, and put up with 
>me crawling all over the prototype for pictures, (copies on the way 
>to Chris/Andy). Any holiday which manages to cram in Disney, the BTTF 
>ride and a visit to ~40 DeLoreans is OK in my book....
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>Second, my visit to the Florida BTTF ride also resulted in some 
>pictures of one of the supposed film cars, if anyone else subscribes 
>to the DMCNEWS newsgroup you may recall posts on how poorly the car 
>is being maintained, I am sad to say that these were fair. The car is 
>on display outside in the glorious heat, and has suffered 
>accordingly. Several pieces of exterior trim are missing, presumably 
>due to souvenir hunters..
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>At that time I also purchased what I was assured was the last of the 
>Florida stocks of the small Johnny Lightening BTTF 1:43 models, the 
>spares will be made available in due course.
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>Two new gadgets to report, they will be the subject of a second post 
>to aid future searching.
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>Third, whatever Phil Peters does to his car really works. I have now 
>seen a proper rebuilt/refinished DMCH car which comes close to the 
>gleam on his carÂ.
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>Finally, if at all possible I will make the Monday meet, so I hope to 
>see some of you there.
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>John Chapelhow
>DOC 19/19a : `Boeing' #0737
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