RE: [DMCForum] Re: Wholesale DeLorean slaughter (Was: Glove Box problems)

["Dave Stragand" <dave.stragand@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Toby --
 
I hear you exactly.  If you haven't read it yet, check out
http://www.projectvixen.com/zen.htm'
 
"You want to know how to paint a perfect painting? It's easy. Make yourself
perfect and then just paint naturally. That's the way all the experts do it.
The making of a painting or the fixing of a DeLorean isn't separate from the
rest of your existence. If you're a sloppy thinker the six days of the week
you aren't working on your car, what trap avoidances, what gimmicks, can
make you all of a sudden sharp on the seventh? It all goes together. 

"But if you're a sloppy thinker six days a week and you really try to be
sharp on the seventh, then maybe the next six days aren't going to be quite
as sloppy as the preceding six. What I'm trying to come up with on these
gumption traps, I guess, is shortcuts to living right. 

"The real DeLorean you're working on is a DeLorean called yourself. The car
that appears to be "out there" and the person that appears to be "in here"
are not two separate things. They grow toward Quality or fall away from
Quality together..."

-Dave

-----Original Message-----
From: tmpintnl@xxxxxxxxx [mailto:tmpintnl@xxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Saturday, January 01, 2005 10:03 PM
To: DMCForum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [DMCForum] Re: Wholesale DeLorean slaughter (Was: Glove Box
problems)



Josh - I have just been reading bits and pieces of the thread 
regarding whether you should buy a particular DeLorean (or any 
DeLorean, for that matter), and I thought that I would toss in 
my "two pence".  When I was 15 years and 9 months old (just getting 
a "Learners Permit" for driving) my parents gave me a car.  It was 
an old, beat up 1965 GTO that had been raced for several years on 
the oval track.  The interior was toast, the engine burned more oil 
than gas from several seasons of racing, the automatic transmission 
was done, it had no brakes, and the suspension was sagging to the 
right from always turning left.  They told me that if I could get it 
running and in safe condition, I could have it.  I worked summers on 
a farm, so I had a little money stashed away, and was somewhat 
mechanically inclined because that is what was required to work on 
the farm.  At this point, I was a junior in high school.  I hunkered 
down and worked on that beast every chance I got for three months, 
while maintaining Honor Roll grades, and drove it on my 16th 
birthday.  It wasn't pretty, but it ran, and passed the state 
inspections.  It went on to become a stunning example of a 1965 GTO, 
and was the fastest street car in Billings, Montana when I sold it 
near the end of my college years.  My point in all of this (yes, 
there is a point") is that you can accomplish anything that you 
REALLY want to accomplish ... IF ... IF ... you have determination, 
the will to work, and a big enough dream to carry you through to the 
end of the project.  If you have those qualities, then go for it.  
If you are lacking in any of those areas, work on yourself BEFORE 
you work on a car.  The key is to be brutally honest with yourself 
about these qualities and characteristics.  If you lie to yourself, 
it will cost you in the long run.  And remember that sanity is not 
statistical.  It doesn't matter what "everybody else thinks".  The 
only thing that really matters is what YOU think, because that is 
the only person that will have to live with your decisions.

PS - I bought my DeLorean on a whim.  Didn't have a clue about them, 
but thought that it might be an interesting project.  Didn't have 
any contacts with the DeLorean community, no manuals or parts 
sources, and this was before Al Gore invented the internet (smile).  
What I did have was a decent job and a supportive wife (still do).  

Toby Peterson
www.delorean-parts.com


--- In DMCForum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Nun Yah" <joshp1986@xxxx> wrote:
> 
When I asked the DML about the car, I was only looking for 
> insight about what the majority of the owners did before they 
bought their car. 







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