Love the gold Delorean, I have always wanted to own a couple and park it next to my fast and furious replicas, and it would be the back to the future Time Machine, and one in original, for an automaker who didn’t make it they sure have one of the most iconic vehicles every made
It was the 80s - conspicuous consumption was totally rad! DeLorean/AmEx were going to make 100 of these; only two were sold, so they stopped there, plus making the spare parts for what would eventually become this third car. So even in the 80s it was a BIT much. One of those original buyers was a real estate couple in California who were going to drive it around to promote their business, right up until they found out that no one would insure it.
there are actually 3 more, one was done in 1985... the other two were in the 90's. Home/self plated of course. The 1983 car is the only one with gold interior, it was a prototype (just dyed regular interior), so it makes it truly unique. DMC Huston has a couple other random interior pieces in blue and red, because they were going to actually put different colors in later cars (84, 85 ect)... but the brown interior was the only one with a full set completed.
I thought the three factory cars - the two actually sold and the one built from the spares - all had brown interiors, but I’ve never seen the other two in person. Some quick googling found a picture of a gold car with a black interior exactly like you said. I definitely would have put that in the video if I’d known! I was kind of hyper-focused on this specific car. I did hear about someone gold plating their own car in the ‘80s, but I didn’t know about the two in the ‘90s.
There was another owner who took their car and polished the stainless to an actual mirror... he was told he cant drive it because it blinds the other drivers, its literally a mirror. The story was told in the old DMCFourms DMCTALK... and that story was from the mid 90's.. but i have no other information or pictures. It was fastinating because it was telling stories because there was such a glut of DeLoreans trying to be sold between 83-85 that dealers were painting cars just to make them different enough from the others to sell. Remember, they were 25k (in 1981,82 @@joeangellx
BTW: that license plate holder is the same as the one I have - but mine was never installed and is from the factory. So that's a factory item, but you just never see them installed (mine was hidden under the spare tire. )
Interrelating - I don’t think I’d ever seen one before. I had no idea there were ever factory front license plates. I guess it makes sense, since some states do require them; I guess I assumed they just didn’t back then.
@@joeangellx Mark Hancheroff is correct. Front License Plate Bracket, Part Number 108025 was installed on my DeLorean when I bought it way back in February 2001. Two large holes are drilled into the front plastic bumper and a rubber plug is installed into the holes so the screws have something to hold onto. Unfortunately those two hole have deformed that area on the front bumper so to hide the deformation I always drive around with a front license plate. Plus I have a personalized plate OUTATYM so I prefer to show it off.
