According to the "Material Receiving Cards" for these plastic door guides, the factory had only received 208 complete sets of these guides as of Dec 16, 1981. Those wouldn't have lasted very long befreo being depleted and then they would have had either to go back to fitting the metal guides at either the factory or later in the states at the QAC. James Espey DMC (Texas) http://www.delorean.com --- In dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Marv Hein" <marvhein@xxxx> wrote: > > While attending a car show with the AZ-D this past weekend, I noticed > that the doors on my car have plastic caps around the latches. > > Dan Fox believes the plastic parts were introduced on the 1983 cars. > Sure enough, of the 10 D's we had there, all 1981 and 1982 cars had > metal parts. The 1983 cars had plastic. > > Here's my mystery. I have 1982 VIN 10820 with plastic parts > that "shouldn't be there." > > Dan's car is 100 behind me (10920) and has the "correct" metal parts. > The parts have different numbers of screw holes, so it seems other > parts of the door are different too. Both cars were built in Dec. '81. > > Any ideas on this curiousity? > > Marv > #10820 > AZ-D > To address comments privately to the moderating team, please address: moderators@xxxxxxxxxxx For more info on the list, tech articles, cars for sale see www.dmcnews.com To search the archives or view files, log in at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dmcnews Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dmcnews/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: dmcnews-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/