DeLorean spotted

[red rocket]

On the ride home the other night, I looked over and in the next lane was a DeLorean in all its stainless steel glory! It was in decent shape too. I noticed that both the driver's side and passenger side windows had little cutouts, trimmed in black rubber gasket, almost like a window within a window. Does anyone know what the purpose of these are? Does it have something to do with the gull-wing doors?

It's funny that I saw the DeLorean, because just a couple weeks ago I bought the Back to the Future trilogy on DVD and watched all the movies. It was so funny to see the DeLorean with big whitewall tires in the third movie!

[oakley]

The purpose of those little windows are they are the ones that go up and down the big windows are stationary. A freind of mine used to own one a few years ago so when I got a ride in it seemed weird that the little windows were the only ones that moved. Felt a little boxed in inside the car.

[red rocket]

Originally posted by oakley
The purpose of those little windows are they are the ones that go up and down the big windows are stationary. A freind of mine used to own one a few years ago so when I got a ride in it seemed weird that the little windows were the only ones that moved. Felt a little boxed in inside the car.

Wow - that's pretty bizarre. Maybe they couldn't get the mechanics to work for the entire window to go down on a gull wing door. Those little windows are tiny! I could see why you'd feel boxed in. Kinda like the old Pontiac Fiero.

[Doug]

The Subaru svx is like that. I wouldn't mind a delorean as a collector car.

[Kitt]

Originally posted by Doug
I wouldn't mind a delorean as a collector car.

Yes you would :thumbs: PITA to keep fixed and keep going even when they were fairly new

[Doug]

Originally posted by Kitt
Yes you would :thumbs: PITA to keep fixed and keep going even when they were fairly new

Thats why I said collector car. Not daily driver:thumbs:

[RAMAIR1]

Some guy in the town wwhere I work has one of those heaps. Just saw it on Saturday. Granted they had really cool styling for the early 80's, but they were awfully slow. I don't know, I was just never very impressed with them. I guess it used to be kinda cool to see one here and there, it's just old to me now. To each his own I guess...

[DavidScott77]

Hopefully it wasn't going 88mph, or it would have gone "Back to the Future" :D

[RAMAIR1]

Originally posted by DavidScott77
Hopefully it wasn't going 88mph, or it would have gone "Back to the Future" :D

Is that what that crazy flash of light and flaming skid marks were? That and a license plate spinning around were all I saw...:rolleyes:

[red rocket]

Originally posted by DavidScott77
Hopefully it wasn't going 88mph, or it would have gone "Back to the Future" :D

Now that's funny! Speaking of slow, I think they only had 165 HP engines.

[Mystery8]

Originally posted by DavidScott77
Hopefully it wasn't going 88mph, or it would have gone "Back to the Future" :D

It's near impossible to hit even 70 in those things...they weigh a TON and then some.
You could be going downhill and hit 73. ;)

Weren't they designed by some major drug dealer...multi billionaire drug dealer? Or some mafia guy? Lol

I know they didn't last long on the market!

[antirice]

Originally posted by Mystery8
It's near impossible to hit even 70 in those things...they weigh a TON and then some.
You could be going downhill and hit 73. ;)

Weren't they designed by some major drug dealer...multi billionaire drug dealer? Or some mafia guy? Lol

I know they didn't last long on the market!

yeah, John Z. DeLorean

and if you look at the door while its open (read: up) the door is curved, so you wouldn't be able to have the window go down into the door frame