Andy - "DeLoreanDMC81" as he's known on the forums - shares with us his favorite car!
Well,
I'm certainly not going to lie, the only reason I wanted a DeLorean was
because of Back to the Future. When I was 5 my parents bought Back to the
Future and after seeing the time machine I was just in awe of the DeLorean.
I remember bugging my parents for years trying to get information out of
them about the car. I was so desperate to get answers to my questions I
would call and check out the libraries around my area and rent any books
they had on a DeLorean, which wasn’t many. Fortunately for me the Internet
came around and I did a lot of research and looked up quite a bit of information
about the car. Well, fast forward many years into the future, the time came
for me to seriously start looking around for a DeLorean.
I was on a mission, I wanted to get a low mileage, later model 1981 DeLorean, mainly because it didn’t have the gas flap in the hood, the radio antenna was hidden in the back engine compartment and the pull straps where built into the doors. Also I wanted to get a car that was all original, the car had to have the original window sticker, the original tires, original radio, etc… I had been looking for several weeks and was getting a little discouraged because every car I wanted to get either had a deposit on it or it had been sold like the week before.
Anyway, I just happen to be checking out one of my sites and came across a November built 1981 DeLorean with 20,900 miles, it had the original window sticker, original tires, etc… I was very excited and called the guy up and to my luck he still had it for sale, we exchanged a few more calls and few e-mails then I went up to go look at it. It was a very nice car and I actually ended up buying it for $16,500 in 2005. So after 16 patient/long years I finally had my dream car. I bought the car April 15, 2005 and it had 20,900 miles on the car and now it has 21,500 on it. I’ve taken it to several car shows and events the last few years and everyone gets a kick out of actually seeing one in real life.
The
DeLorean Motor Company produced the DMC-12 in Belfast, Northern Ireland
from early 1981 to December 1982, these spanned 3 model years, later '82s
are considered '83s. The changes between the years are very minor, early
‘81s had a gas flap in the hood along with hood grooves, the radio antenna
was embedded in the windshield then relocated to the front right fender.
Later ‘81s had the radio antenna in the rear, the gas flap was eliminated,
the hood grooves remained and the pull strap was installed into the door,
allowing the doors to close more evenly. All 82 and 83 models had flat hoods,
instead of the grooved one, and the original Craig radio was replaced for
an ASI radio.
