[DMCForum] Re: Does anyone want to send an email to correct this guy?

["John Dore" <dmcjohn@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hey Elvis,
The plot thickens! Who knows I guess where each bit was made, I'll 
try find out for sure sometime what was done in Lapple and what was 
not.

Thanks,
John

--- In DMCForum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Elvis Nocita" <elvisnocita@xxxx> 
wrote:
> 
> John,
> maybe they desgined them, I don't know.
> But I know that the tools - at least some of the tools for the SS 
> were made in Germany by Thyssen-Nothelfer.
> I met a guy 2 years ago who said he worked on the tools when he
> started to work there after his apprenticeship.
> 
> They had to wear gloves when they touched the panels and the panels 
> were covered with a plastic foil or so.
> 
> But that was just about the tools. 
> 
> Elvis
> 
> 
> Message: 2         
>    Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 10:44:33 -0000
>    From: "John Dore" <dmcjohn@xxxx>
> Subject: Re: Does anyone want to send an email to correct this guy?
> 
> 
> Hey Elvis,
> 
> The body dies were all designed by and built by Lappel Engineering, 
> less than an hours drive from where I am sitting right now! Here is 
> their website:
> 
> http://www.irishmanufacturing.com/it/companies%5Ccompany.asp?ID=972
> 
> They also stamped all the DeLorean body panels in house, and 
> transferred them by road to the factory in Belfast. Today they 
still 
> have the original press machines in use that were used to stamp the 
> panels. I don't know where the rumors started that the panels were 
> stamped in Germany?? Well Lappel is a German company, so maybe that 
> is where it came from...
> 
> Thanks,
> John

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