Re: [DML] (unknown)

["Joe OBrien" <joeyoseppijoe@xxxxxxxxx>]

If it is so slow, then why didn't you get a 5 speed instead? There 
is a great difference between the stock automatic & the stock 5 
speed. Just remember your experience with the automatic is the 
smallest percentage as most have 5 speed transmissions. In the slow 
category you are only speaking for a few hundred with that 
transmission. Not the general population.


Joe OBrien






--- In dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Videobob Moseley" <videobob@xxxx> 
wrote:
> 
> Don't kid yourself, the time was not right in 1981, and it is not 
right now.
> It is hard to get $20K for an original, if they remade them they 
would be in 
> the
> $30K-$50K range and people won't buy them.
> If you want a new "modern" DMC, and are willing to drop that sort 
of dough
> then get DMCH to sell you one with the new interior, and have a 
Northstar V8
> slapped in it and then you will have a modern DMC-12,
> except it would be more like a DMC-50.
> 
> If not for Back to the Future, no one would know or care about our 
cars.
> It would be nothing more than a Bricklin or any other obscure car 
of that 
> era.
> You can go to car shows and see one off type cars of limited 
production that
> you have never heard of or seen before and find that there were 
thousands 
> made
> yet you have never seen one.
> ...the DeLorean would be in the same category if not for the BTTF 
films.
> If not for the movies, our cars would be worth even less than they 
are now
> and you could'nt give one of them away.
> 
> I know I will catch hell for this from a lot of fans but you have 
got to 
> know it is true
> and if you don't think so you are just fooling yourself.
> 
> I bought my car as the final cherry on the top of my Back To The 
Future 
> collection
> and I am converting to a full scale replica.
> If I wanted a car for it's performance and street respect I would 
have 
> gotten
> something completely different.
> The DeLorean is an exotic, but by no means a "muscle car".
> Of all the cars I have ever owned the DeLorean is the slowest car 
I have 
> ever had.
> 
> I know it sounds like a I am just bashing the car to death, but 
sometimes 
> the truth hurts.
> This does not mean I am not a fan.
> My entire house is covered in DeLorean and BTTF stuff and I drive 
the car 
> everyday
> so I feel I am speaking from experience.
> 
> As far as trusting John Z. DeLorean in a business relationship?
> There is no secret why he keeps a low profile.
> If you have seen the BBC Documentary "Car Crash" you would know 
why.
> 
> I think that DMCH's new interior is a step in the right direction.
> I think that they could easily reproduce body panels out of carbon 
fiber and 
> make a new
> front end, and make a whole new car based on the original that 
people would 
> go for if
> it were done as a supercar with a mid mounted engine.
> McLarean did it, Saleen did it, I think Steven Wynne could do it 
if they 
> spent the money.
> However their market would not be previous DeLorean owners.
> If you spent some time with some Lamborghini and Ferrari owners 
you would 
> feel
> like a pauper when it comes to taking care of your car.
> The average 10K mile tune up on Countach will set you back about 
$1 per mile 
> - yup $10,000
> for a service.
> What we pay in order to drive a car that gets as much or more 
attention is 
> NOTHING
> compared to what others spend to have a car that is half as 
ostentatious as 
> ours.
> 
> Again, I am a hardcore DeLorean fan, I love the car and spend my 
time 
> defending it
> on a daily basis to every know-it-all who approaches me at a gas 
station, 
> but I doubt
> that this car will ever be remade, and if someone ever does use 
the DMC name 
> to make
> a car it will not look much like this one and will not Stainless 
Steel, and 
> will 3 times the engine
> and cost more than most of us will be able to afford.
> 
> - Videobob
> http://www.bttfstuff.com
> 
> 
> 
> >From: M5E <nitrousgarageworks@xxxx>
> >Reply-To: dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >To: dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >Subject: [DML] (unknown)
> >Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2004 17:18:31 -0800 (PST)
> >
> >
> >
> >  I just think the time is right for a comeback of the
> >DMC is all. So if the investors won't pony up the
> >cash, go to the stock market, and make it a public
> >company. We've seen remakes of all kinds of things,
> >trying to capture the market that has the cash to
> >spend; Our generation. The factory is still probably
> >there in Dublin. I disagree with the idea that there
> >would be no repeat customers. Build a better
> >mousetrap, and the world will beat a path to your
> >door. Build a superior car, even today, like the DMC,
> >and Dad will buy one, and love it, and get one for the
> >Mrs, then his kid going off to college and so on. Then
> >the kid gets into it, and so on. Plus there's always a
> >hefty markup on parts. Parts wear out, even on a super
> >car. And when you think about it even a super car dies
> >somewhere every day. So I believe the market is there,
> >and the time is right now for a comeback. Hell, they
> >even remade the movie"The Planet of The Apes." Ya-know?
> >
> >
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