De Lorean EuroTec

Heres my new purchase

a late 81 Delorean with 17,000 genuine miles on the clock.

its been sat for a good few years, and has been painted silver sometime in the early 90's.

ust shipped it over from Virginia






















Allways loved them since I was a kid, and finally been in the situation to buy one, its one of my top cars, I only need to get a
Ferrari F40, then I will have owned all the cars I've ever wanted ha ha

the Delorean is on its way yesh yesh















and then back at my garage

So, i thought i'd strip the paint off







wing stripped..





scrape scrape scrape...






sand sand sand....




scraper on the left, sanded on the right...





Dents found in the roof, and holes punched, so the filler would stick... nice :S




dent in drivers door, holes punched in too :S





I also took the windscreen out too as it was cracked

Under the bonnet, its been sprayed with bed/trunk liner, but its scraping off ok to show the origional gloss black




most of the paint is stripped, just the right hand rear quater panel to do




gave the rear wing a quick buff up to see what it looks like







also lowered the front end much better indeed, needs to go lower all round though I recon








All the paint is gone now, just gotta strip the front and rear bumpers, and paint them up

Lowered all round now, need some shorter shocks or even maybee coilovers for the rear, they are threaded top mounting and an eyelet on the bottom. 40cm from top mount to lower bolt hole is what I need, maybee some vw beetle front shocks?

the front end still needs to come lower I recon, to give it a better stance.











TVR seats in there for now, they are really comfortable oh yesh, but I still like the idea of some ally kirkey seats in there

I've been putting the dash back together, as it was sorta together, but nothing plugged in, or bolted in fully. Thankfully its all complete and in pretty much mint condition



you can see the wiper stalk is snapped, but I got another one to go on






My mate Hannah, has been scraping off the spray-on trunk liner under the bonnet too.








Heres the fuel tank out, its full of crap, and I keep putting off cleaning it. stinky gone off petrol thats got hard bit in it :S







I found a bit of damage under the spray on bed liner, it had been fibreglassed over pretty badly, so I got the angle grinder out, ground it down, and a skim of filler









This is how low the car is now I'm not actually crosseyed, I was being silly and hannah took the pic... I didnt realise :S

Wow! Quite a project! Like the look, love the TVR seats! Are you brushing the stainless / filling the holes yourself?!

Looks great Rob, thanks for uploading all the pics
Brilliant job

Awesome job, Rob! Great pictures

Yeah, i'll be welding up the holes and getting the dents out myself

apart from the passenger side door/roof.... the lower door is mint, but the roof has been hammered in by the bodyshop so the filler would stick,
Ideally i could do with finding a door with the lower half wrecked, so i can cut the upper skin off it and replace mine. anyone know of any wrecked doors about?

Yeah i really like the TVR seats, i bought them cheap off a mate, they were in pretty bad condition, but steaming and reworking them got them looking pretty good. I might get them dyed a bit darker to match the rest interior.

Can't resist this one: That's Great Scott!