Pinto parts?

[senatorpack@xxxx]

DML,

The DeLorean has Ford Pinto Front lower control arms? 

Are they similar, i.e., look the same but different sizes and specs?

OR

Are they exact, i.e., part is totally interchangeable, exact match?

AND 

Why would installing a Pinto lower control arm or steering rack, on the 
DeLorean make it a better handling car?
Why not purchase original or restored lower control arm(s) or steering racks 
from the DeLorean suppliers? 

Additionally, there were three US DeLorean prototypes built by Triad 
Industries in a suburb of Detroit. I remember Bill Collins, the early chief 
engineer say, the only Pinto components were in the first & second prototypes 
built in late 1976 and early 1977. This first prototype was semi -- 
nonfunctional, just a parameter to build another functional DeLorean 
prototype for further engineering purposes, and attract investors like 
Allstate Insurance etc. (This is not the wooden styling mock up.)
The prototype made famous on the cover of the July 1977 Road & Track, had 
the incomplete pinto steering rack from the first prototype. The second 
prototype's front end was used again to make the third and last US made 
prototype. The second and third prototype was used in the promotional 
dealership film, circa 1977. In the film there is a picture of a group of 
suspension components, non of which made it to the actual production car. 
When Lotus won the engineering contract in 1978, Colin Chapman founder of 
Lotus, had Team Lotus (racing dept.) and Lotus Cars LTD (production dept.) 
engineers' work together to develop a first class suspension and chassis for 
the Esprit S3 and DMC. (Chapman was quoted saying "this [chassis & 
suspension] is the best they have designed.")
Lotus engineering the DMC backbone chassis and Esprit S3, front and rear 
suspension and VARI underbody, evolved the DMC & Esprit into a real 
production cars far from the US built prototypes and early S1 cars.

Michael