Back to the Future

duggiesmith · Post by **duggiesmith** » Sun Oct 31, 2010 10:38 am

Was coming home from lunch yesterday (at 1:00am this morning

) and was passed by a DeLorean at Greenbank.
Never seen one on the road before. 'Twas rather

Took me right back to the eighties.

Sanjøy · Post by **Sanjøy** » Sun Oct 31, 2010 10:40 am

Bttf is 25 years old this year

renmure · Post by **renmure** » Sun Oct 31, 2010 10:46 am

Sanjoy wrote:Bttf is 25 years old this year

I first went to see it next Tuesday

Andy G · Post by **Andy G** » Sun Oct 31, 2010 10:34 pm

i saw it yesterday afternoon on Colington Road - pointed it out to MRs G who thought it "looked old"

colintinto · Post by **colintinto** » Mon Nov 01, 2010 10:15 am

The Classic Car Club I'm Edinburgh have one, or at least they did.

Colin

ryallm · Post by **ryallm** » Mon Nov 01, 2010 11:09 am

The original DeLorean design was apparently so crap they had to call in Lotus to extensively re-engineer the thing before production. The build quailty was still supposed to be shockingly bad, but at least there is a whiff of Hethel in the chassis. DeLorean also has the distinction of being the only car company headed up by a convicted fraudster

Mark

Andy D · Post by **Andy D** » Mon Nov 01, 2010 2:28 pm

I saw it parked in Bruntsfield on saturday night.

If my kitchen is anything to go by it'll be a bugger to keep clean..

r10crw · Post by **r10crw** » Mon Nov 01, 2010 8:36 pm

Stainless does stain doesnt it?
Theres one lives just five houses up from me (which admitadly is around 5 miles away) and has sat outside all summer for me to view as I pass, lovely car IMHO. I had a run in it as a wee boy and was fascinated by the interior light, it came as a map reader on one of those flexible bendy eighties lamp thingies, just great

smee · Post by **smee** » Sat Nov 20, 2010 7:52 pm

ryallm wrote:The original DeLorean design was apparently so crap they had to call in Lotus to extensively re-engineer the thing before production. The build quailty was still supposed to be shockingly bad, but at least there is a whiff of Hethel in the chassis. DeLorean also has the distinction of being the only car company headed up by a convicted fraudster

Mark

Didn't some of the Lotus people get convicted and the company owner escaped?

Rich H · Post by **Rich H** » Sat Nov 20, 2010 8:54 pm

smee wrote:
ryallm wrote:The original DeLorean design was apparently so crap they had to call in Lotus to extensively re-engineer the thing before production. The build quailty was still supposed to be shockingly bad, but at least there is a whiff of Hethel in the chassis. DeLorean also has the distinction of being the only car company headed up by a convicted fraudster

Mark
Didn't some of the Lotus people get convicted and the company owner escaped?

Killed Colin (Heart Attack) and Delorean was jailed for drug dealing - no?

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