DeLorean for 17year old

[Senatorpack@xxxx]

Go For it! I hate to say, however the possibility of ownership several 
years from now could diminish & limit you several ways...marriage, business 
venture, death, divorce, mortgage, etc., etc. Owning a DeLorean can be a lot 
of fun.

First ask yourself these two questions...

1) Do I want a flashy, exotic, car so that women swarm & gather around me to 
ask me for a ride?

Yes...buy something new & something else.

No...please keep reading.

2) Do you want to restore & work on a very interesting car?

No...buy something new & something else.

Yes...please proceed.

There are several of us that purchased our cars before our twenty-first 
birthday, it can be accomplished.

If a DeLorean is what you want, and you have the wherewithal to maintain 
the car...purchasing the car is easy...maintaining the DeLorean is expensive 
and similar to a high maintenance "significant other." 

The car needs a lot of love and attention. When the car is ignored it 
starts to act cranky & temperamental...then you need to go shopping & spend 
some more money on it to calm everything down...sometimes hundreds often 
thousands...just like my ex-girlfriends.

If I can offer one piece of DeLorean advice is to buy a car that you are 
comfortable with. It does not matter if the car sat in storage for twenty 
years or if the car was completely restored. 

You will learn a big lesson in Responsibility in all aspects of your life 
owing the DeLorean. However, wanting to own a DeLorean is very, very 
different from actually owning a DeLorean. It will really test your 
responsibility.

Before you decide to purchase a DeLorean, ask yourself if you want to 
really get to know the machine in an in-depth manner...intimately get to know 
the car?

To restore the car, work on it, spend lots of money, spend lots of time, 
really get to know what you are capable of mechanically, emotionally, and 
last but not least financially.

If you buy a machine that has been completely restored from the ground 
up...you will work on it, spend lots of money, spend lots of time, really get 
to know what you are capable of mechanically, emotionally, and last but not 
least financially.

Still interested?

Start buy talking to owners in your area. Look at their cars, look at 
cars that are driven everyday or regularly...take pictures & make notes.
Look at show quality DeLoreans...take pictures...lots of pictures of 
DeLorean cars. Then look at the cars for sale in your area. Take lots of 
pictures...make notes and compare the photographs that you have taken. You 
will see a big difference in all three cars...
The pictures and your notes will help you develop a list of what you feel is 
necessary to make a DeLorean that you have discovered safe, reliable, and 
enjoyable. This will help you develop a budget...unless money isn't an object.

In addition, there are the USA DeLorean specialists. They all offer 
DeLorean cars for sale with a Warranty for a mileage and time period. The 
cars are beautiful and reliable. If I was planning to purchase a DeLorean for 
the first time, knowing what I know now about the cars, I would purchase a 
very clean, updated DeLorean from the DeLorean specialist.

Best Wishes,
Michael Pack