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16 hours ago, Dave said:

You need to get the DeLorean and the civic or our sister site future classic cars mate. Deffo not got a DeLorean in the club yet!!!! Would love to see it over there!

 

I'd like to but i don't know what your sister site is?  I have three future classics (arguably), the third being an E46 M3 Individual.

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It's a shame, because although i love all three of my cars, and the fact that the Civic is actually the rarest of the three beasties, I can see the Civic going if it comes to being impossible to support and maintain it without parts.  As i say, without parts, and having to rely on old-skool engineering and machine shops instead, for the fabrication and refurbishment of parts, this is getting firmly into the project specialist areas of classic car ownership, and without the inherent value or associated respect from wider audiences, our cars will be put under the same column as the Talbot Solara's of the world, and only a true devotee will prosper in keeping them running, but with big costs attached.  I see that there are more of my car SORN'd than on the road these days.  It would be interesting to know the condition of these SORn'd vehicles, as keeping them under lock and key and away from the public eye, even in mint condition, is not promoting the marque well for 3rd party manufacturers to take an interest in making parts for them.  If there's no customers, then there's no market, and no market means no profit to be had.  If any of these cars makes it out into the daylight again, mint or not, they are just delaying the inevitable situation those of us who use our cars regularly, are finding themselves in NOW.  I'm sorry to admit it, as much as the old girl is a firm part of my existence, if it came down to choosing which to let go of first, the M3 and the D' would remain with me.  Neither of those are rotting away already and they're both far better supported for replacement parts.  Sad, i know.  As a custodian for the MB6 VTi brand, and a long term owner of the marque, it makes me sad to think that one day, she'll have to be let go of due to nobody really caring.  Anyway, until that day, i'll do my best and continue on as I've been doing for as long as I can hold out.

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1 hour ago, noodels said:

Place I used to work buried some of them DeLoreans some 30yrs ago :-(

 

Ah yes, i think that would have been either the Wooler Hodec cast off's or the Lotus cast off's.  I think the latter.  I'm sure it was just the body tubs of what were known as the "green cars" from memory.  Those were cars which had been born and used purely for testing and prototyping purposes.  Seems like a running trend for the DeLorean history, things being thrown back to nature; as the stainless body panel dies used during manufacture are sitting at the bottom of the Irish sea after being used as fishing net weights.  Criminal!

 

Here's one of the green "mule" cars from google pictures:

 

https://goo.gl/images/C3dfHe

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1 hour ago, Rissy said:

 

Ah yes, i think that would have been either the Wooler Hodec cast off's or the Lotus cast off's.  I think the latter.  I'm sure it was just the body tubs of what were known as the "green cars" from memory.  Those were cars which had been born and used purely for testing and prototyping purposes.  Seems like a running trend for the DeLorean history, things being thrown back to nature; as the stainless body panel dies used during manufacture are sitting at the bottom of the Irish sea after being used as fishing net weights.  Criminal!

 

Here's one of the green "mule" cars from google pictures:

 

https://goo.gl/images/C3dfHe

See! I love learning new stuff about cars, never knew about the green cars etc. Find it fascinating!

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On 8/4/2018 at 4:29 PM, noodels said:

Yes the latter,

link shows them outside the engineering department. 

 

So you used to work at Lotus in Hethel (would make sense with your given location i guess).  We took took the D's to lotus in 2015.  I got to drive Lex around their text track etc.  It was great fun.

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