'81 DeLorean DMC 12

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  1. jim535

    jim535 born in a Ford

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    Silvertwinkiehobo "Everything that breaks starts with 'F.'"

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    IIRC, that supply house in Texas has tons of one fender, but only a handful of the other (I wanna say it's the RH one) because the factory closed before the fenders could be stamped out in big numbers. So, cheap-cheap on one, max dollars on the other.
     
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    Krash Kadillak Well-Known Member

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    Winning bid this AM, $20,601.......
     
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    Time travel can sometimes put dents in the body.
     
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    ModelT1 Still Lost in the 50's

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    Yes it can. You should see mine!
    This car sure looks like it was abused while sitting around.
     
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    Probably sat in someone's garage used as a shelf or bumped into by the kids.
     
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    Cars get dented - fact of life. You can't fix a Delorean dent the way you fix a Chevy dent - there's no primer and paint on the metal, so it's either replace the panel, or find a VERY GOOD dent-fixer........

    Be kinda cool to drive a Delorean, but that one fact alone is enough to scare me away from ownership....
     
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    That would be a real bummer if you're restoring one of these.
     
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    Silvertwinkiehobo "Everything that breaks starts with 'F.'"

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    For good reason. I wonder if the crew that built up the cars for BTTF put an electric supercharger on to get them to perform better, since the factory engine sucked @$$?
     
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    Silvertwinkiehobo "Everything that breaks starts with 'F.'"

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    According to a few of those posts on the first page, just about everyone repowers their DeLoreans.
     
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    The PRV V-6 was dead slow, even in it's own time, for it's displacement, and Volvo owners avoid the 760's and 780's that used it like the plague, since if it wasn't serviced exactly to the manual's intervals, it had a tendency to blow its valvetrain all over the road.
     
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