Re: [DML] Your first DeLorean purchase II

[Dick Ryan <deloreanbiker@xxxx>]

I've kept quiet on this subject, but Les' comment
about not buying a DeLorean with extremely high
mileage cannot go unchallenged. I don't know what is
considered "extreme", but some of the very best and
most reliable DeLoreans out there have been driven 60
- 100,000 miles and more. (Considering how many D's
never seem to get driven, that might qualify as
extreme.) 

Next Wednesday I will hop in my D and drive it To CA
for the third time this year and this trip will be
nearly 3,000 miles before I get home. I have no more
worries about car trouble/reliability in my D than I
do in my Grand Cherokee. 

I have several friends in the DeLorean Touring Society
who have high mileage cars. Placed side-by-side with
almost any "low mileage car" they would be the better
buy and the same or even higher price. 

Why? Simple. Those of us who really drive our cars
are more likely to keep them in perfect repair. When
ANYTHING begins to be suspect in my car, it is fixed. 


Bottom line: Generalizations about which cars to
avoid and which to go after are like all
generalizations - - they are guidelines, not hard and
fast "do's and don'ts".

Dick Ryan

--- Les Huckins <jhuckins@xxxx> wrote:
> Guess I overlooked the obvious, sorry. Don't buy
> one with dents, don't
> buy one with a cracked windshield, don't buy one
> that needs to be
> upholstered, don't buy one with trashed louvers or
> facias, don't buy one
> that's not been driven for 15 years, you will be
> facing a money pit.
> Buy one that has been well taken care of and driven
> with some regularity
> but not with extremely high mileage. That's
> reasonable isn't it? I
> freely admit that a pristine '81 is vastly superior
> to a trashed '82 or
> '83, I assumed that was a given. As to the "book"
> borrowing it works
> just as well as buying it, I said read it, not buy
> it, I borrowed the
> copy I read. You need to know what's in it.
> 
> You're on your own now, good luck!
> 
> 
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