Posted on 01/20/2019 7:09:01 PM PST by Zhang Fei
The speedometer climbs as we race down a straightaway in Humble, Texas. As the needle edges to 60, 70, then 80 miles per hour, the 36-year-old automobile rattles and the wind whistles through the windows. Finally the DeLorean zooms up to 88 miles per hour and we feel, just for a moment, like we've gone back to the future.
Then, a series of loud honks from the other side of the road, followed by animated waving, awaken us out of our speed spell. “We get that all the time," says DeLorean Motor Company CEO Stephen Wynne, sitting shotgun. “That doesn’t happen with any other car.”
After our speed reverie, we pull back into DMC’s Texas headquarters, located in this Houston suburb. It’s a wet November day and DeLoreans line the parking lot. “It’s the only lot in the country where you see this many DeLoreans at any given time,” Wynne says.
The open garage door reveals cars in different stages of repair, some exposing their rear engine and others with their gullwing doors open, steel birds ready to take flight. In all, three dozen DeLoreans are scattered in and out of Wynne’s DMC headquarters, all in the midst of being repaired and restored to their former glory.
The DeLorean DMC-12 is more than a movie prop or simple automobile; it’s a long, strange legacy wrapped in stainless steel. That legacy, buoyed by the ongoing love for the Back to the Future films, keeps the car in the public imagination, and gave Wynne the ammunition to pursue a plan that's much more ambitious than simply getting a 36-year-old car back on the road. He wants to build a brand new DeLorean, one created in the present using the road map of the past.
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Volvo V-6 POS Engine. I had the displeasure of fixing one after it got overheated and warped the heads.
The Head bolts are Stretch & Degree Torqued. They want the entire set replaced after taken apart. The car was a trade in at the Grey Market Euro Import Dealer I worked for. The cheap bastide owner wouldn’t pay for new bolts. I told him NO WARRANTY on My work and it will be in a Legal Document if I put the old ones back in.
Coddled together off shelf parts pile to make the POS. Robbed GM,Volvo,British brakes,BOSCH and LUCAS (Prince of darkness) wiring and I forget what else..
I’m thankful that I only had to work on that one, one time.
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