Re: [DML] Re: DeLo's In Year 'Round Use

[DMCVIN6683 <dmcvin6683@xxxxxxxxx>]

You know that car also traveled back in time too so why don't our cars 
do the same?

  It was a movie prop car and nothing more and you cant compare any 
driving or braking characteristics to a real Delorean.

Quit using BTTF as a reference to the Deloreans performance.

Mark V


On Friday, December 3, 2004, at 01:20  PM, Dom Diaz wrote:

>
>
> Those were not Goodyear NCTs on the BTTF car. It also spun out when 
> taking
> off, does your do that much? I wouldn't use a movie as a definitive 
> comment
> on the capabilities of this car. You should drive yours back to 1955.
>
>> From: "Videobob Moseley" <videobob@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Reply-To: dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> To: dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Subject: RE: [DML] Re: DeLo's In Year 'Round Use
>> Date: Fri, 03 Dec 2004 00:16:20 -0600
>>
>>
>>
>> Put in a copy of BTTF 1, just after Marty goes back in time and leaves
>> Peabody's farm
>> he is driving down an old country road and then slamms the brakes.
>> The cars slides on the front wheels and then jerks to the left hard.
>>
>> There is your DeLorean braking system.
>> Of course, those were a set of Goodyear NCT's but the also on bone dry
>> asphalt.
>>
>> On a wet road your car will slide like it's on glass if you lock the 
>> front
>> wheels.
>>
>> Maybe John Hervey is to blame?
>> I put on a set of his rebuilt brake calipers and they do work a lot 
>> better
>> than the originals did.
>> They will lock your wheels right up.
>>
>> Yes it's true, I do drive like a mad man, but that was not the case 
>> when I
>> was only
>> going 30 MPH, and slid about 50 feet into the back of a BMW with zero
>> control of the
>> car in heavy rain.
>> Bottom line, leave the car at home in the rain and take the OTHER car.
>> - VB






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