Re: delorean pricing, first time driver

["Erik Geerdink" <delorean502@xxxx>]

Suprizingly I drove the car 300 miles home, and for the next 4 month 
with no real problems, besides the fuel accumulator. It was over the 
winter that it broke down, starting with the waterpump. When I took 
it to Micah Fryman (thats where it is at right now) to get work done 
to it, he told me that I had a lot of angels watching me because it 
was VERY unsafe. My steering rack was dry and distroyed, my trailing 
arms were rusted through, my engine was leaking oil, the electical 
was a mess and very dangerous. I even had some parts on the car that 
suprized him, like a steel clutch line. As in, not a hose. It was a 
bent pipe that was supposidly the cool thing to install in the early 
'80s to replace the plastic hose. I also has some weird things 
bolted onto my frame that messed it up. If Micah is learking out 
there, maybe he could inform us on my badly treated Delorean. you 
wouldn't believe some of the things that was wrong with this car. 
The steering rack was installed backwards and upside down!! It WAS a 
real mess. it's not like that any more. All but the frame has been 
replaced, but that will get done soon. 
So the moral of the story is...don't be too excited when you first 
see a Delorean that you might buy. Thats what I did. Bring someone 
along with you who knows a lot about Deloreans, or at least what to 
look for. When I was looking at this Delorean all that I said was 
"oh, the dashboard can be replaced no problem, so can the dents, the 
fascia and headliners. No bid deal." All that right there is a 
couple thousand dollars! BE CAREFUL, there are crap Delorean out 
there! 
I'll shut up now.

Erik Geerdink
4512

--- In dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxx, "Gabe W." <thecreech@xxxx> wrote:
> Was the 10,000 delorean driveable when you got it? Did you run into 
any
> problems? What was your first car?
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Erik Geerdink" <delorean502@xxxx>
> To: <dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Sunday, August 20, 2000 8:23 PM
> Subject: [DML] Re: delorean pricing, first time driver
> 
> 
> > I bought my Delorean for $10,000. Listed is the work I have done 
to
> > it....
> > 
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