[DML] DELOREANS IN SYDNEY

[Lance Haslewood <lanceh@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Scott,

I'm the owner of the Sydney Harris Street Museum DeLorean.  Mine was in the 
museum for about 10 years as a private exibit owned by a Sydney 
doctor.  The DeLorean owned by Andrew Prentis was also at the museum but 
only for a short time, put there on an interim basis by its previous owner 
William Junkins, an American who had brought the car with him to Australia 
from the US.  William's car was placed in the museum about 18 months after 
the departure of mine.  Unfortunately I do not have too much praise for the 
staff of the Sydney Auto Museum as my car suffered badly from lack of 
upkeep.  It lacked preventative maintenance and was in pretty poor 
shape.  Suffice to say, the DeLorean was a feature attraction of the museum 
and featured in many of its promotional material.   The curator was quite 
disappointed to see the car go and he rang me several times over the next 
two years and asked if I would consider returning it to the museum.  I said 
I was willing to return the car for special occasions only but not on a 
permanent basis.

I moved to Queensland last year and the DeLorean is here with me, however 
there is a likelihood that the car may go back to Sydney later in the year 
as my son Rick is keen to take charge of it.

Site http://www.deloreanaustralia.com was written by Rick who had put as 
lot of effort into the site.  However, in 2002 Rick joined the air force 
and he didn't have the time or access to a terminal to continue the site's 
upkeep.  Hence it was closed-down.  I will consider re-instituting it 
within the next month or so.

I'm not quite sure of the exact number of DeLoreans in Australia, but I 
would say that 15 is more accurate than 20.

Lance Haslewood
Queensland
Australia

Message: 15
    Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 06:59:35 +1100
    From: "Tim Ruckley" <tim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Deloreans in Sydney Australia

Scott,

The one in the Harris Street Car museum was purchased by Lance Haslewood who
is on this list.  It is vin 10599 and is a factory right hand drive model.

You used to be able to go to http://www.deloreanaustralia.com which had
useful info for Australian DeLorean owners and fans including a listing of
the known cars in Australia, but it seems that this website no longer works.
I believe there are about 15-20 DeLoreans over here scattered accros the
country.

- Tim.

V




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