Re: [DML] Your first DeLorean purchase II

["Ben Maxwell" <ben@xxxx>]

I'm with Dick on this one... with one caveat... SOME of the best 
maintained Ds are the higher mileage ones... We've all seen 12k cars 
that have rotting fuel systems and crappy coolant systems. It's all 
case by case... quite a few knowledgable buyers are looking for 
higher mileage versions because they know that all the updates have 
been performed and the vehicle's "made it this far."

Case by case...

ben
06976
nearly 70k... and starts true every time.



--- In dmcnews@xxxx, Dick Ryan <deloreanbiker@xxxx> wrote:
> 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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