Re: Want to dive DeLorean dump site.

["jtrealtywebspannet" <jtrealty@xxxx>]

Before anyone goes jumping into the water you might want to find out 
what the legal ownership status of the dies is. Even if they are 
recoverable and can be used you may have no right to touch them. 
Pictures would be great if you did dive and at least located and 
mapped them. To actually use them would require renting press time 
(EXPENSIVE!!!) as the presses to use them are BIG. It would also 
require purchesing tons of stainless steel sheets (you aren't going to 
make just 1 or 2 of these things) space to store all of these parts 
after you make them, transportation, scrappage, cost of money etc. To 
actually make new parts you are in the hundreds of thousands of 
dollars range if not millions. I do not think it would be an 
economically viable enterprise even if you could get the dies for 
free. There are other ways to duplicate stainless steel panels if you 
don't need large #'s made.
David Teitelbaum
vin 10757


--- In dmcnews@xxxx, id <ionicdesign@xxxx> wrote:
> has anyone read this article on the DML about where the dies are? 
they were not dumped
> in the water they are anchors.
> http://www.dmcnews.com/Resource/bodydies/bodydies.html
> 
> mark
> 
> therealdmcvegas wrote:
> 
> > Pretty much, I'm sure that everyone here would like to see the 
dies
> > recovered. However, over the years here on the DML, and elsewhere,
> > there is one question that remains unasnwered about the dies: Who
> > owns them as of right now? In short, recovery of the dies would be
> > great, but I would hate to see all that effort go into raising 
them,
> > only to have someone else lay claim, and take them. A bit more
> > research needs to go into this before any action is taken.
> >
>