Re: [doc] Re: The Best Place To Buy A D?

[david sandell <davesandell@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dad is currently led under my '68 VW Beetle welding a new rear quater floorpan into it - I NEVER want to go through a body off type restore again - cost too much - I'm talking £13K to reconstruct a beetle!! - hilters' peoples car that was to be as cheap as possible!!

as far as budget goes it would be about 12K i think all in - dad is the one whos handy with a spanner - he's also an MOT tester.
colmnugent <colm.nugent@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

If this thread doesn't take up at least two pages, I'll eat my seats.

I looked for a D for about a year.  In the end, I think it comes 
down to two things:
1. Budget here and now (not what you can allocate in a year)
2. How handy are you with a spanner?  

If you can spend about £15,000 you can get a pretty much perfect car 
from the US - I got mine from DMCH and I'd recommend that route to 
anyone.  I wanted a car which needed no work and was, to all intents 
and purposes, cosmetically perfect.  Not everyone wants that or 
wants to commit that sort of money.

Another, equally good route would be to buy an imported but 'sorted' 
car from DMUK who, again, know their stuff and can get you what you 
want. Their website is an invaluable source of cost info.

Dropping below that, it's a question of the degree of work you want 
your car to have and the degrees of cosmetics you are prepared to do 
yourself (see the for sale list on the club website).  There are 
those in the club who got absolute bargains which they spent 
relatively little on and have very, very good cars.  They have the 
skills to make it happen, I did not.    

Whatever you get, it will be the best buy you ever made.

Very best of luck

Regards

Colm

--- In doc-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "davesandell" <davesandell@xxxx> 
wrote:
> 
> where do you think is a good place to buy a delorean from?
> as i'm looking at twisting my dads arm far enough to get one out  
of 
> him!
> Dave





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