Louie! Good to hear from you. Could you please e-mail me off list? I seem to have a bad e-mail address for you. Cheers, Farrar #2613 Louie wrote: > > > I've been watching the banter on this thread for some time, and could > no longer sit by and let Claude spew his uninformed misinformation. I > feel my two cents are worthwhile to this discussion since I'm one of > the very few in the online DeLorean community to total his DeLorean. I > was t-boned by a 5,000 pound all-steel Cadillac Fleetwood with full > chrome bumpers travelling at roughly 50 mph, and look what happened to > my car: > > http://www.dmcnews.com/mydmc/10115wreck2_louie.jpg > <http://www.dmcnews.com/mydmc/10115wreck2_louie.jpg> > http://www.dmcnews.com/mydmc/10115wreck_louie.jpg > <http://www.dmcnews.com/mydmc/10115wreck_louie.jpg> > > My DeLorean was hit so hard that it spun a 180. The passenger > compartment of my DeLorean was NOT affected by the collision. The car > absorbed the entire impact, and I was ~NOT~ hurt. I walked away, the > only injury I sustained was a cut on my neck, either from glass or my > seatbelt. The biggest gripe I had about the DeLorean's crash > performance was the underbody was so deflected by the impact that even > the passenger door was jambed shut; I had to crawl out the drivers > window of my car after the wreck. That simply meant that the car was > again absorbing the impact INSTEAD OF MY BODY! Everyone expected me to > never want to get in a DeLorean again after my wreck, but the opposite > was true. I was so impressed with the car's impact performance that I > wouldn't have ANY other car after my wreck. I was in a new DeLorean a > month after my wreck. I hate to fuel Claude, but I just can't let him > assault the DeLorean on something that hits a little to close to home > for me. We can all insult the car for various things, but safety I > feel, is not one of them. > > Louie Golden > Charlotte, NC 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/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dmcnews/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:dmcnews-digest@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx mailto:dmcnews-fullfeatured@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <*> 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/