[DMCForum] Re: your first impression of DMC

["Flavia" <frvianna@xxxxxxxxx>]

Very nice idea, Walt!
Here's my DeLorean story. I was a little kid when my parents and 
their friends dropped all the kids off at the movies to see BTTF 
while they went shopping. I had no idea what the movie was about, but 
I always liked futuristic movies, so I was excited when I saw the 
word "future" in the title. In fact I had just learned how to read :) 
LIttle did I know that most of the movie was in the 50's! Anyways, I 
saw Michael J. Fox and I was already happy because I was a big fan of 
Alex Keaton, he is so cute!
Then Doc Brown showed Marty the time machine, I saw the gullwing 
doors and I was amazed. I don't have to say that I just loved the 
movie even though I didn't understand thoroughly. I still remember 
when I left the movies, I ran to my dad and I told him: you should 
have seen the car in the movie (he loves cars!)
In January 1987 I went on vacation with my family to California and 
we went to the Universal Studios. My dad had a camcorder in his hands 
(I still have the tape) and I of a sudden I said: Look, Back to the 
Future, then my dad catches me with the camera running towards the 
DeLorean on  display and this huge movie poster. And I said: this is 
the future car, the time machine, I tried to open the door, it was 
locked of course. Then my parents called me and I walked backwards 
still staring at the car. I watched that part of the video over and 
over again.
Then in May 2003, I was driving down Route 18, a busy road here in NJ 
and I saw a car that looked like a D, but the traffic was heavy, the 
car was way ahead of me and it was so sunny that I couldn't see a 
thing, I still chased that car like a maniac. Guess what, it wasn't a 
DeLorean. Later on I thought that if that was one, I'd never have 
been able to chase it driving a Neon!
Over a year later, June 2004, I was lost in Pigeon Forge looking for 
the DeLorean car show, then I saw one pulling out of the smoky 
shadows hotel, I can't even describe my amazement, I didn't even look 
making the U turn. And someday I'll own one :) For those who don't 
know, I saw all the details about Pigeon Forge on bttf.com, there was 
no one I could travel with, so I was about to give up when I decided 
to rent a car and go by myself, 700 miles each way, worth every mile!

Flavia - NJ
VP of BITCH :)
--- In DMCForum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Walter Coe" <Whalt@xxxx> wrote:
> I'm starting a fun thread here.  I want to hear everyone's opinion 
what they felt when they first saw a DeLorean in person.  What was 
your impression?  What emotions did you feel when you sat in the car?
> 
> I followed my dad into a Buick dealership.  He was interested in a 
Buick, of course.  And I was a bored teenager who came across an 
irresistible temptation.  There it was with the gullwing door open 
inviting me to sit in it.  As I climb in, being the lanky teenager 
that I was, my knee bumped the horn button on the end of the turn 
signal.  Being indoors in a showroom, it was LOUD.  And being so 
young, I was seen only as a nuisance.  "Hey kid!  Get outta 
there!   ... and by the way, how did you get the horn to work?"  They 
wrongly assumed it was in the center of the steering wheel.
> 
> As I sat in the car, I looked around.  Everything seemed so foreign 
& exotic yet comfortable & safe.  I felt like I was getting a glimpse 
of a toy that only a very rich person would play with.  As I sat in 
the driver's seat, my neck did a lot of craning.  The front where the 
engine SHOULD have been was small & low.  The net over the rear 
parcel shelf looked like a chain link fence adding to the 'off 
limits' feeling.  Looking thru the rear window gave a shaded view 
over the engine compartment and under the louvers.  It added to the 
close, compact feel of everything.  
> 
> Actually owning one of these cars one day was pretty far from my 
mind.  I never considered owning one even while watching all the BTTF 
trilogy.  I assumed that they were too expensive and you couldn't get 
parts.  Then one day while waiting in a barber shop, I passed the 
time looking thru an autotrader.  "Hey look, a DeLorean.  Only 
$19.5K.  And here's another one for $17.5K.  I cant believe something 
so cool is priced so cheap.  I should get one."  And I did.
> 
> Obviously I have been drinking some really good coffee.
> 
> Walt
> 
> 
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