For those of you who don't know, Chris Harding runs the DeLorean Cars workshop and I thought it was about time I posted photos of his car. Mike's photos at the docks in Southampton made me think that one of the cars in the background may well be this one. Chris bought it through DMUK several years ago - he wanted a project car and that's what he got! Not content with the usual restoration, Chris soon realised he didn't like the car being wrong-hand drive, nor did he like the original engine. He also decided to include a digital dashboard from a Vauxhall Carlton, for reasons known only to himself.
For those who might ask "why?" - the answer is that the liners were leaking and rather than rebuild the entire engine, or even fit a Volvo equivalent, Chris decided he may as well go for better fuel economy and better performance (230hp as standard) for a donor engine that cost less than the parts required to fix the original.
That was until he realised that the only manual 3 litre Vauxhall Omegas ever sold in this country went exclusively to the police... getting hold of a flywheel proved tricky.
Due to a change in his own circumstances, the car has sat for the best part of 3 years, but he keeps threatening to get back to it one of these days. When I stop landing other work on him all the time