Re: The Colorado BS thread
Have you all seen that DeLorean cars will be built and sold again starting in 2017?
Read a couple articles about it. A company bought out what remained of the original DMC company to include name, copyright, and licensing rights, "over a million" OEM parts from the '81 & '82 production runs and moved it all from Scandinavia to Texas.
Reports said the new DeLorean company projects building 300 cars with a domestically produced V6 engine and touting 300-400hp over the old Volvo 130hp engine.
Apparently this is all possible due to new legislation regarding "low production replica car companies" no longer being required to adhere to the same safety and EPA requirements of the mass-production car companies. So I guess the "new" DeLorean cars are technically "reproductions".
Early projection pricing is reported to be $100K per copy.
Interesting.
I "owned" a 1982 with ~14k on it. I sort of "inherited" it after my dad passed.
Driving that around was near dangerous. Not from the car, but from people nearly careening into you to try and look at the car :laugh:
Also, you couldn't stop anywhere without being approached by someone asking about it, asking if they could just sit in it, etc.
I was a gutless car though, and the viewing ability was craaaap. The windows only rolled down that little second piece you see on them, so if the A/C wasn't running...it was insanely hot in there. I would crack open the door and hold them at stop lights if it got too bad.
Still fun car to have, would like to get it back some day.
My Acura doesn't exactly like 2ft of snow. I've been beached 4 times within the last 24hrs.
Missing my heep something fierce right now.
We got over a foot here, and I had to use some of my wheeling experience to get my front wheel drive Corolla to work. Luckily I'm all of 3 miles away from work. Car does suprisingly well for being an '89 :laugh:
To top that off, my work closed today (University), but here I sit at work...since I don't get any bennies or paid time off until later this year
