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Childhood Ambition Realised!
« on: 22 April 2012, 06:20:47 pm »
Not only got see one in the flesh for the first time but was also kindly allowed to sit in a DeLorean!


Didn't ask where the Flux Capacitor was. I got the impression he'd been asked MANY times before  :lol
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Re: Childhood Ambition Realised!
« Reply #1 on: 22 April 2012, 07:33:58 pm »
I got to see one at the ace cafe a year or so back, like you, realising a childhood dream...

..rubbish aren't they?  :rollin
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« Reply #2 on: 22 April 2012, 07:44:26 pm »
In any other supercar, you're right, the interior would be a tad underwhelming.
For me though, this is so iconic, it could have a pair of deck chairs and be steam-powered and I would have still been like a kid at Christmas.
The electric window switches which were straight out of my 1980 Renault 5 were a bit of a let down but even the Aston DB7 had the switchgear and key from a Mondeo!
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« Reply #3 on: 22 April 2012, 10:48:41 pm »
Not just the switchgear, build quality in general was pretty dire on the one I saw; body panels only barely matching one another for example? But as you say, it didn't matter - kid at Christmas...
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Re: Childhood Ambition Realised!
« Reply #4 on: 22 April 2012, 11:34:47 pm »
when I was a very young lad a freind of my parents fitted sprinkler systems
one contract was for lotus near norwich , he took me along one day and they where working on the basic stages of the derloreen
just got to see the shell with the doors attached !
but this was before anyone had heard of them !
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Re: Childhood Ambition Realised!
« Reply #5 on: 23 April 2012, 01:10:24 am »
Looks like you steer it with a young girl's head...............
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Re: Childhood Ambition Realised!
« Reply #6 on: 23 April 2012, 08:27:52 am »
Quote from: steeeve66 on 22 April 2012, 07:33:58 pm
I got to see one at the ace cafe a year or so back, like you, realising a childhood dream...

..rubbish aren't they?  :rollin
Back in 1997 I realised my childhood dream and bought a Lotus Esprit (1988 NA in red).  Biggest heap of cr@p I've ever owned, talk about disappointment.  Looked great standing still, which was lucky because it did that a lot.
It was then that I finally stopped dreaming of shagging Michelle Pfifer, figured that would probably be cr@p as well.
Simon Green of Blue Peter fame opened the Ashby Carnival one year.  Couldn't see him as they drove him around in a DeLorean!

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Re: Childhood Ambition Realised!
« Reply #7 on: 23 April 2012, 01:37:33 pm »
Quote from: Andy Clap on 23 April 2012, 08:27:52 am
Quote from: steeeve66 on 22 April 2012, 07:33:58 pm
I got to see one at the ace cafe a year or so back, like you, realising a childhood dream...

..rubbish aren't they?  :rollin
Back in 1997 I realised my childhood dream and bought a Lotus Esprit (1988 NA in red).  Biggest heap of cr@p I've ever owned, talk about disappointment.  Looked great standing still, which was lucky because it did that a lot.
It was then that I finally stopped dreaming of shagging Michelle Pfifer, figured that would probably be cr@p as well.
Simon Green of Blue Peter fame opened the Ashby Carnival one year.  Couldn't see him as they drove him around in a DeLorean!

 :lol

i think it was Clarkson who once said that Lotus stood for 'Lots Of Trouble Usually Serious' - the Esprit does look very pretty tho, esp the early (Bond Submarine) version...
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Re: Childhood Ambition Realised!
« Reply #8 on: 23 April 2012, 02:32:06 pm »
Quote from: steeeve66 on 23 April 2012, 01:37:33 pm
the Esprit does look very pretty tho, esp the early (Bond Submarine) version...
I'm biased, but prefer the later more rounded "jelly mould" shape to the earlier angular ones.  The redesign was done by Peter Stevens, the same guy who designed the body on the McLaren F1 (bit of petrol-head trivia).

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Re: Childhood Ambition Realised!
« Reply #9 on: 24 April 2012, 01:26:14 pm »
I got to sit in one of the actual BttF Deloreans (the one with Mr Fusion on the back) at Huntingdon once, near where the old Waterloo pub used to be, there's a little car park opposite where it was brought on the back of a little flatbed.

IT WAS F*CKING AWESOME MAN!

Still, DeLoreans are a shit car, but they make a great time machine.
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Re: Childhood Ambition Realised!
« Reply #10 on: 24 April 2012, 04:21:22 pm »
Mike Brewer and Ed China imported one from the US of A, did it up, fixed it and sold it for a good profit. Wheeler Dealers on Discovery earlier this year.
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Re: Childhood Ambition Realised!
« Reply #11 on: 24 April 2012, 05:03:30 pm »
The Haines Motor Museum in Somerset used to have one.  Along with a lot other really lovely cars :)

Who is up for creating a stainless steel version of the Fazer?  I've done most of the bolts and exhaust so far, can anyone make a fuel tank?
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Re: Childhood Ambition Realised!
« Reply #12 on: 24 April 2012, 05:51:55 pm »
There was one in the Ulster Transport Museum,  obsolete before it went out on the road, eh?!
 
in the 80's there were always a couple driving around under test and they were anodised blue and red. what a sight, eh?
 
Gull Wing doors? more like Dodo's!
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