Got this today - did we all see the feature on www.dmcnews.com? Cheerio, Martin Bryan Morgan wrote: > Dear Martin, > We didn't know until yesterday there was a UK Delorean Owners site or we'd > have sent this to you first! We are a group restoring the Severn Princess, > the old car ferry that used to ply between Beachley and Aust (ie, Wales and > England) up until the opening of the Severn Bridge. > After the opening of the bridge she was sold to an Irish company, and one of > her jobs in Ireland in about 1986 was dropping DeLorean body dies overboard > as anchors for a fish farm! Photographs of this being done have been sent > to us by her Irish skipper, Capt. Brendan O'Donnell. > Thinking that DeLorean enthusiasts were probably as obsessed as Car Ferry > enthusiasts, I idly surfed around until I found a DeLorean owners club site, > (the American one came up) and asked them if they were interested. Were they > Interested? You bet! They replied within TEN minutes, and set about getting > a download of all the Sea Dumping photographs from me, which they turned > into a special edition of their magazine, including, embarrassingly, all my > emails word-for-word. I asked why our private correspondence had been > published and I was told that they were fascinated with the "quaint way you > English write". It took another email to correct the magazine story, where > I had to point out that I was Welsh not English, and that 'South Wales' and > 'New South Wales' are two different places... > Anyway, the eventual results can be seen at > http://dmcnews.com/Resourc/bodydies/bodydies.html. > Our own website with the full story from our point of view is at > http://www.severnprincess.co.uk . Look up the 'Photo Albums' section, and > from there go to 'Brendan O'Donnell's Princess' where you will see 'the > DeLorean connection' about half way down the page. There's only four of the > pics there, but if you'd like the lot this can be easily arranged, at > whatever size and resolution you'd like. > Hope this is of interest! > Yours sincerely, > Bryan Morgan > Project Administrator > The Severn Princess Restoration Group > > >From Bryan Morgan, in Border Monmouthshire, between the Severn Bridges. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > --------------------- > We've saved the last Severn Ferry boat!! Read the dramatic story of the > rescue of the > SEVERN PRINCESS from being broken up, saving a little bit of Chepstow's > maritime history. > She's moored at http://www.severnprincess.co.uk > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > --------------------- > A complete Kellys Directory of Monmouthshire for 1901 is online now! > Look it up at http://www.kellys1901.co.uk > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > ---------------------