[DMCForum] your first impression of DMC

["Walter Coe" <Whalt@xxxxxxx>]

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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