Re: [doc] Sad I couldn't make it to the NEC...

["Daniel Willis" <danielpwillis@xxxx>]

Yeah you right. Probably why I don't like concourse. To me, I couldn't care 
less whether the bolt on the left hand side of my exhaust manafold in 
original or not... what I DO care about is whether the car is healthy and 
ready to roll.. she's got to last and last and being too finicky is not the 
way to do it. 20 years of car design and improvements can be applied in 
certain aspects to the Delorean.. you aren't hurting the car - you're just 
ensuring that she lasts another 20 years.

Besides.. the DeLorean is in part, a "parts bin" car... :o)

Dan
Vin#5284 - Hana - also bored...

> From: "mgutkowski@xxxx" <webmaster@xxxx>
> Reply-To: doc-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> To: doc-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [doc] Sad I couldn't make it to the NEC...
> Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2002 10:00:20 -0500
>
> Ooh, I forgot - I have PERMANENTLY modified my headlight brackets - they
> were very rusty so I cleaned them out and painted them with black
> hammerite. Ditto my bonnet hinges which are silver, and usually anything
> I'm taking apart that's gone rusty either gets replaced or painted
> (there're increasing numbers of nuts and bolts on my car that are now shiny
> silver that were probably supposed to be black originally). You can take
> this "originality" thing too far - what I'm doing I see as good maintenance
> (and the headlights brackets do look very nice in black - if only you could
> see them :-)
>
> Martin (now bored and experiencing withdrawl symptoms)
>
> Original Message:
> -----------------
> From: Daniel Willis danielpwillis@xxxx
> Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2002 14:40:02 +0000
> To: doc-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [doc] Sad I couldn't make it to the NEC...
>
>
> Heh.. nicely said.
>
> Mod away my friend... I would but I tend to "vent" on the Calibra.. a more
> "acceptable" car to modify in my opinion. 19 inch wheels don't fit the
> Delorean anyway... :o)
>
> Stereo wise.. I with all you guys. Mine Craig works and is staying put..
> the
> reason? I never drive the bloody thing so why bother. Again, the Calibra
> gets the "system".. it's my daily drive.
>
> Exhaust wise.. hmm.. mine is stock again - I have a CAT bypass to fit but
> the rain won't ease off longer enough to do it.. but I don't see the new
> free flow as a "mod", more of a necessity! The stock system is awful and
> needs to be chucked.. had regs been different in '81 it may have been
> different anyway - remember the DeLorean was releases during an oil
> crisis...
>
> As for my interest in the car.. well, it's different for everyone. If I'm
> honest, I can still remember seeing BTTF for the first time. I had no idea
> about the stainless then. I was too young. What was exciting was the rear..
> the fans, the equipment.. it looked SO good. AND I was a lotus fan so it
> made sense. Of course the doors were (are/will always be) cool but it was
> the car's shape that I loved... when I first saw a stock delorean I thought
> "oh..." - I was young!
> Over the years I've grown and my love for the car has too.. in stock form.
> Now the BTTF car is a nice novelty.
>
> BIG disappointment was the engine.. damn that film has a lot to answer for!
> Hah...
>
> I love my car.. but if it weren't stainless.. I'd still own it. If it
> didn't
> have the doors.. don't know! (it'd probably have sizzor or butterfly if not
> gullwing anyway!)
>
> Live the dream people, drive stainless!!!
>
> Dan
> Vin#5284
>
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