DeLorean Is Coming back.... - Page 3 - PeachParts Mercedes-Benz Forum

Ara T. · #1 08-23-2007, 03:50 AM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8RJLPlWEsI Panteras are badass

LUVMBDiesels · #2 08-23-2007, 06:04 AM

This has got me thinking... The one I coveted back in the day was the Lotus Esprit Turbo.

A guy near me has a '75 Panterra... that car IS bad @ss! He has hopped up the Ford 351and it can take just about anybody in the area.

vwbuge · #3 08-23-2007, 07:54 AM

Johnhef · #4 08-23-2007, 08:32 AM

The three cars used for Back to the Future had no engine mods added. Only horrible sound effects

they had to raise the back end of the car for the mall scene in the first movie to get it to spin the wheels.

no other engines were ever installed from the factory other then the PRV6. anything else you see is all done afterward. The band I played with back in 2004 was invited to play at the DeLorean Car Show in Pigeon Forge Tennessee that year. They asked us to learn to play Huey Lewis' and the News' "Back in Time" for the event, go figure

. 118 cars from all over the country were there, quite a sight.

Medmech · #5 08-23-2007, 06:27 PM

There are faster cars than Ferrari but nothing feels or drives like a Ferrari (period).

Ara T. · #6 08-23-2007, 07:37 PM

That Ferrari in the that youtube video looked like a wallowing pig of a W123 compared to the Pantera, I wonder if it was stock and the Pantera very much upgraded.

Medmech · #7 08-23-2007, 07:57 PM

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Originally Posted by Ara T.

That Ferrari in the that youtube video looked like a wallowing pig of a W123 compared to the Pantera, I wonder if it was stock and the Pantera very much upgraded.

For starters the Pantera had stock 310hp put against a '73 365 and it might be a different story.

Ara T. · #8 08-24-2007, 03:04 AM

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Originally Posted by Howitzer

For starters the Pantera had stock 310hp put against a '73 365 and it might be a different story.

I was just commenting on how the Ferrari seemed to be having trouble negotiating the cones when the Pantera just sliced through them, not power.

Seemed rather the opposite of truckinnik's story

Carleton Hughes · #9 01-28-2008, 12:11 PM

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Originally Posted by Ara T.

I was just commenting on how the Ferrari seemed to be having trouble negotiating the cones when the Pantera just sliced through them, not power.

Seemed rather the opposite of truckinnik's story

And you were expecting?

Hatterasguy · #10 01-28-2008, 01:29 PM

He is a good story teller.

450slcguy · #11 08-23-2007, 09:27 PM

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Originally Posted by Mistress

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20378293/ thought you'd like this. why did the DeLorean get thrown in jail? It kept trying to suck up the white lines...

JD was a good guy. I use to see him in town all the time, lived up the road apiece. I remember going to garage sale at his estate years ago, he had alot of his personnel auto books for sale, should have bought a bunch but didn't.

His former estate was absolutly gorgeous, now turned into exclusive country club for big time exec's owned by the Donald.

Johnhef · #12 08-24-2007, 12:09 AM

I never got to meet him but I did meet his daughter, she was pretty cool.
I'm at home now- finally got to read the article. Thats pretty cool, I met Stephen Wynne at that same show, and I had knew Jim Espey from a few years before when he still lived in Phoenix before he started working for DMC. They had a "2005 DeLorean" on display, with a lot of the modifications that I presume they are incorporating into these rebuilt models they plan on producing. the $57K or whatever theyre charging for them is less than the 'other' company out in California that have been restoring and reselling DeLoreans for years now for around $60K.

I couldn't find my pics from that event, but here are some other people took there:

interior of "2005" model:

Legend Industries Single Turbo setup:

and the only factory twin turbo model ever produced: