Re: [DML] BTTF DeLorean Console

["DMC Joe" <dmcjoe@xxxx>]

Jack,

I just checked your web site and was very impressed, sometime in the near
future I will add a link from our website to yours. Nicely done.

DMC Joe / De Lorean Services / <dmcjoe@xxxx>
Web Site: <www.deloreanservices.com>
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----- Original Message -----
From: Jack and Virginia Stiefel <stiefel@xxxx>
To: <dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, April 11, 2000 8:27 PM
Subject: [DML] BTTF DeLorean Console


> I realize that this is not a Back To The Future Mailing list, but I just
had
> to post this. For those of you not on ebay, the other week there was an
> auction for an actual overhead console from one of the DeLoreans used in
the
> movie. To make a long story short, I won the auction and just received my
> parts.
>
> The seller told me he had gone to the backlot of Universal Studios quite a
> number of years ago with a friend who worked there and saw one of the
actual
> cars (not a fiberglass mockup) almost stripped of all of it's parts i.e.
> Flux Capacitor, Mr. Fusion etc. He was told by his buddy that the car was
> in very bad shape. He went on to say that the car looked like it had been
> wrecked or taken apart hardhanded and put back together again. The only
> really salvageable part was this overhead console, and a small part of the
> section behind the drivers seat that showed the power in the car. The
> "tour" ended, and the seller went home. Later on that evening his buddy
> came to his house and had the parts.
>
> For those interested, I have uploaded a picture of the console in the
vault,
> the lower part is the aforementioned "power meter". As you can see the
part
> is banged up a bit, and missing 3 lightcovers but still in working order
> after a bit of tweaking.
>
> I do not know enough about all of the cars used in the movie, but could
this
> have been the remainder of the train parts car?
>
> Jack Stiefel
> DMC Vin: 3461
> New York Lic: 1981 DMC
> Visit our DeLorean site at www.geocities.com/rodeodrive/8601/delorean.html
>
>
>
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