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Only in Los Angeles...

blu67

blu67

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...can you find THIS parked on the side of the road... :thu

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The funny thing, as much as I am in Los Angeles, I do see them often out and about.

Hang out there enough and the abnormal becomes normal, that is, until someone points it out. LoL
 
I was at Nifty 50's a few months back and there were several of those cars there but the one I saw were just stock cars without all the back to the future stuff stuck on them.
 
I saw 12 of them at the Corvette museum in Bowling Green this summer, I didn't have my camera but I could see them in the parking lot from the road so I made a quick stop to check them out. They were various types from bone stock to heavily modified but none were "Back to the Future" like that one.
 
"lethal289" said:
Wow, a brand new one is only $57,500 :puk
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That's actually several thousand cheaper than when they were (originally) brand new when you calculate it from today's dollar value into that of 1981/82 dollars! The 57.5k converts over to 23k in 81/82 dollars. They sold new then for 25k. Personally, I wouldn't give you 10k for one...in TODAY'S dollars. They were junk! Yeah, they were cool to look at, but the assembly quality, engineering and materials were cheap, cheap, cheap! To each his own though.

For those that don't know, the guy in TX bought up every new spare part he could lay his hands on when DMC went under. He was one of the only suppliers of spares for years. He figured out he had enough parts/pieces to assemble "brand new" cars. He then got the licensing and started "manufacturing" "new" DeLoreans. IIRC the main difference between the originals and these "new" ones are the frames. The original frame was subject to corrosion. The new frame is the same design, but made to be more corrosion resistant. I don't recall whether it's a change in the actual metal used, coatings, or both.
 
There's a big misunderstanding about what engine was used (don't know if the "new" ones are still using it). It was primarily a Volvo engine, though it's not known as a Volvo engine...confused?!! The engine was a joint development project between Volvo, Renault and Pugeot. Volvo was pretty much lead developer. The transaxle was indeed Renault though.
 
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