Cool car

[Warthog]

http://www.autotrader.com/findacar/vdetail.jtmpl?car_id=66284231&dealer_id=802386&certified=n&max_price=&start_year=1975&end_year=1990&address=05091&search_type=used&make=DEL&model =DMC&distance=&car_year=1983&ac_afflt=none&borschtid=53109090481968616916

Why are they so expensive? Is it because of the Back to the Future movies? or is just a sweet car?

Warthog

[Barney]

The DeLorean is a very cool car. http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif I saw one of those a few years ago.

Did you notice that car looks brand new and only has 7000 miles on it? That might explain the high price. http://www.sysopt.com/forum/wink.gif

[S.D.Willie]

can you afford the 1.21 jigowatts to run it though??? http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif


SD

[OuTpaTienT]

Good thing about those DeLoreans is you don't have
to worry about weaving out of your lane because
the white lines disappear as the car drives over them.

I've never been very impressed with DeLoreans. Don't mean to sound like a snob or anything, I mean they are cool lookin' cars (especially from the rear). But a stainless steel body? That just seems like a lot of extra weight to me. And they're not very fast...or very quick...nor do they handle that well.

Top speed: 130mph
0-60mph: 9.6sec.
Rear engine V6.

[Richard_Cranium72]

De Tomaso Pantera

http://panteracars.com/gallery1.html

http://panteracars.com/quarter.html

[Warthog]

Very true, Out, but up here a stainless body would be sweet http://www.sysopt.com/forum/biggrin.gif

I'm just impressed with the whole concept of the car, the doors, the stainless body, the way it looks, all that stuff.

Warthog

[Toadman]

LOL Outpatient.. Chronic case of White Line Fever.. http://www.sysopt.com/forum/biggrin.gif

[flash4master]

mmmmmm....pantera... /me drools...make mine with a 351C and weber carbs

[zskillz]

i had a budddy in high school who used to drive one of those things occasionally... it was really, really cool looking
crimson w/ white racing stripes

-Z

[tazman]

Warthog - I'm with ya! I'm just a few miles from ya in the Adirondacks and they sure are salt happy here!

Besides, I remember the whole DeLorean thing and I still think it was entrapment - tho it's not a good idea to sell drugs, let alone finance your company upon them.

ME

[jad1097]

The DeLorean was an awesome looking car. Too bad he got busted smuggling in cocaine. The price is not bad considering the cars were not mass-produced.
http://www.csmonitor.com/durable/1999/05/20/p23s3.htm


Some 8,500 DeLoreans were made (at $25,000 apiece) from 1981 to '83. But the carmaker's legacy was dimmed by charges that he'd conspired to launder money and distribute drugs to support his troubled firm. The factory was closed. Later, he was cleared of all charges.
Today, DeLorean splits his time between a New Jersey farm and New York City. Reached by phone, he said he's trying to line up financing to build a new, lightweight gull-wing car priced at $17,500. "It should do zero to 60 in 3.2 to 3.5 seconds," he says. "It's all about the weight."



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[OuTpaTienT]

mmmmm....Pantera. That's a car!

I liked this one the best: http://panteracars.com/by8.html

All chrome is blacked out. Practically looks stock on the outside. Beautiful car.

[OC Guy]

Man!Thats a sweat car!(Starts to druel while reading stats.)

[rh71]

That's funny, I'm watching Back to the Future on TNT as we speak.

[Richard_Cranium72]

I like stories like this one->>

"It is early Saturday morning in June 1990 in Muscat, the capitol of Oman. The weekend is over and I just left the house and my family for a new week of work in the desert.

Ahead of me I have three hours to drive to the city of Sohar which is situated near the border of United Arab Emirates. I am working there on a telephone expansion project."

the rest->>
http://panteracars.com/quarter.html