88mph

I was ambling through town in my GTA yesterday with the aircon on (windows wound down ), as I pulled out of a junction there were three lads on the corner and I heard one of them say: 'no, it's a Delorean.' They obviously don't know their stainless steel from their GRP!

[mettersl]

And there was a RHD delorean in my towns carnival parade on Saturday too, I didn't see why, as it wasn't a car parade it was supposed to be the towns clubs.

Its amazing how tatty stainless can look on what was otherwise a very tidy car.

GRP any time

when i got my turbo many years ago it had an intermitant fuel pump fault, if it went over a bump it would cut out then start up again. one night it was doing it all the way across the car park at work and holding up all the other staff trying to get home. i wallked into the canteen the next morning and one guy shouted... HEY DOC WHAT WAS UP WITH THE TIME MACHINE LAST NIGHT FLUX CAPACITOR PLAYING UP. i wish i had a tener for every time somebodys cracked a back to the future joke

mmmm i pulled up at a setof lights in Downham and a well spoken gentleman pulls up and says lovely car .....i say oh thanks he follows up with.....it's a Delorean isn't it

I advised him differently and gave him a very quick history lesson

I never thought that this was a common mistake

Well if you think your having problems being incorrectly diagnosed, i have a louvered rear hatch i guess it will happen again

Si21 considerably quicker than a DeLorean

[BIG_MVS]

when i got my turbo many years ago it had an intermitant fuel pump fault, if it went over a bump it would cut out then start up again. one night it was doing it all the way across the car park at work and holding up all the other staff trying to get home. i wallked into the canteen the next morning and one guy shouted... HEY DOC WHAT WAS UP WITH THE TIME MACHINE LAST NIGHT FLUX CAPACITOR PLAYING UP. i wish i had a tener for every time somebodys cracked a back to the future joke

Great Scot! I knew you looked familiar Andy!

i wish i had a tenner for every time somebodys cracked a back to the future joke

You think you've had problems....I love the car, hate the attention they get.

The dumbest comment I hear every bloody time I'm out in a customer car "you don't see these every day, do you...?"

...actually, numnuts, I see them all the bleedin' time....

I was at PJ Grady's the other day (a unit with 8 visible DeLoreans), and someone walked in and said the exact same thing...

There was an A310 with an auto gearbox advertised a long while back. Owned by Delorean as a test mule for the DMC12 but with work by Lotus who'd done some of the initial development stuff.

It was interesting in that it connected Alpine, Lotus and Delorean together - it was in one of the classic mags a few years back up for sale, I've probably still got it somewhere. I wonder where that car is now?

Interesting bit I just found by Googlin' - see about 2/3rds of the way down.

http://www.projectvixen.com/dmcuk-archive/msg04759.html and also here http://www.dmcnews.com/faq/img/news/news24.pdf

There's a GTA kicking around in Texas somewhere with a DeLorean engine too.

That seems like the exact opposite of a sensible swap.

A DeLorean engine is certified for US emissions innit.

[Alpineandy]

There was an A310 with an auto gearbox advertised a long while back. Owned by Delorean as a test mule for the DMC12 but with work by Lotus who'd done some of the initial development stuff.

There were supposedly 6 of them that Lotus had for development work.
I think Mr Bishop has one.
IIRC Alan Johnstone has a couple (the auto and the injection ones).
He had big problems sorting the injection and as one of his businesses was a bosch fuel injection specialist, you can imagine how p155ed off he was.

A DeLorean engine is certified for US emissions innit.

Isnt the DeLorean engine essentially a Renault 30TX engine ?.
2.7 V6i
2664cc ?.

I had a 30TX when i was 18

darrenbiggs wrote:
There was an A310 with an auto gearbox advertised a long while back. Owned by Delorean as a test mule for the DMC12 but with work by Lotus who'd done some of the initial development stuff.



There were supposedly 6 of them that Lotus had for development work.

Yep that's what I understood but the auto box option was an odd one and there was some talk that it was used for a while by John Delorean.

Isnt the DeLorean engine essentially a Renault 30TX engine ?.
2.7 V6i
2664cc ?

No, it's a Volvo B28F (US spec Volvo lump) with Renault sump and crank case and ancillaries common to the 30. 2849cc with K-Jetronic, lambda and active idle control

the auto box option was an odd one

Not for the US market... and they needed a rear-mountable transaxle that didn't have "Porsche" written on it.