Re: [DML] Re: Middle Eastern DeLoreans?

["Chris Parnham" <chrisparnham@xxxx>]

We in UK have several ex "Middle Eastern" DeLoreans,
Tony, member 137 worked in Kuwait for many years, he writes in our current
magazine about 8 cars being imported into Kuwait, one is his, unpainted vin
11747, now in the UK, in Coventry motor museum. One a "Badly painted" red
one, and one painted metallic purple-dismantled and in boxes...this was in
the mid 80's.

We had an ex Saudi-Arabian car, very early vin, 551, currently for sale,
another ex museum car, black auto, only 10k miles, asking $15k

Yet another is vin 11746, I am told it was for an Arab Sheik, special order,
with a red leather interior,auto, special radio, and pained metallic silver,
it lives in Scotland and is "like new" and has never been used since it was
imported back into the UK some years ago.

Lastly, another Scottish car..no vin..Black Auto, ex Dubai....found dumped
at the side of the road..years ago, bought and slowly subject to total
rebuild in Saudi...bought back to UK and recently sold.

We have seen pictures of two more..can't put my hand on the details, but
both had serious SAND problems...it gets everywhere!

Chris P DOC UK

----- Original Message -----
From: "James Espey" <james@xxxx>
To: <dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, October 28, 2001 4:57 PM
Subject: [DML] Re: Middle Eastern DeLoreans?


> The original DeLorean Motor Company shipped between 50 and 80 DeLoreans to
> the Middle East (the exact number is uncertain, though there is some
> documentation in the warehouse that talks about Canadian and the Middle
> Eastern cars production figures). A supply of spare was also sent as well,
> and at what time some were in Kuwait. These were destroyed, I am told, in
> the Gulf War. No one seems to have any idea at this time what the VIN's
were
> on the cars that were sent there, though I seem to recall Chris Parnham
> telling me at one time that one or more of the cars had made it's way to
the
> UK. And the last bit of 'urban myth', supposedly one of the Middle Eastern
> DeLoreans was painted pink by the owner...anyone know anything about that?
>
> James
>
> > Message: 15
> > Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2001 14:50:48 EDT
> > From: RJRavalli@xxxx
> > Subject: Middle Eastern DeLoreans?
> >
> > This may be a weird question, but does anyone know how many, if any,
DeLoreans
> > exist in some of the Middle Eastern countries on the news recently? I
know
> > there's probably not many tooling around Pakistan or Afghanistan, but do
any
> > DeLorean vendors ever get contacted by, say, wealth folks in Saudi
Arabia,
> > Egypt or Israel? I wonder how hard it would be for owners in the
Mid-East to
> > maintain a DeLorean.
> >
> > Just curious (for some strange reason),
> >
> > Richard
>
>
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