I would add that in 1970, Boss 302 Mustangs were very competitive in the Trans-Am series. The DeLorean has no competition history of any kind. In fact, the opposite is true - the DeLorean is in many ways a cartoon car because of the Back to the Future series. A fairer comparison would be to look at prices of cars contemporary to the DeLorean. For example, the early '80's Mustangs, Camaros, Trans Ams, and Corvettes are in similar price ranges. -- Mike -------------- Original message from Chris Murley <qumefox@xxxxxxxxx>: -------------- > Well the answer to this lies partly in two catagories. Performance and > rarity. While roughly equal numbers were produced originally.. The > mustang is just that, a mustang. There were a metric buttload of > mustangs produced in general, therefore when the boss 302's began aging, > a whole lot of them most likly found their way to scrap yards (with > other types of mustangs as well) before they began to be sought after. > The delorean was allways unique enough to usually not get tossed away > just because it was getting old, therefor less of them ended up as > scrap. I saw somewhere it was estimated that probably around 6000 or so > deloreans were still in drivable, or were still capable of being > restored to the point of being drivable without extreme effort. My > guess is that the 1970 boss 302 mustang is actually a heck of alot more > scarce than our D's are, so that's part of the increased value. The > other part is performance. I don't think anyone has ever bought a > delorean for it's performance aspects, aside from maybe it's handling. > Muscle cars are popular. there's no doubt about that and it's easily > proved. It's my opinion that if the Delorean had rolled off the > assembly line with an additional 100hp, demand and values of our cars > would most likly be quite a bit higher that it is. But unfortunatly, as > with most 'if' statements, there's no real way to know for sure. > > -- > > Chris > VIN# 03209 > http://badger.brazi.net/index.pl/delorean > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] 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/