Childhood Ambition Realised!

[know your limitations]

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 

[steeeve66]

I got to see one at the ace cafe a year or so back, like you, realising a childhood dream...

..rubbish aren't they? 

[know your limitations]

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!

[steeeve66]

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...

[snapper]

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 !

[The Rocketeer]

Looks like you steer it with a young girl's head...............

[Andy Clap]

I got to see one at the ace cafe a year or so back, like you, realising a childhood dream...

..rubbish aren't they? 

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!

[steeeve66]

I got to see one at the ace cafe a year or so back, like you, realising a childhood dream...

..rubbish aren't they? 

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!

 

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...

[Andy Clap]

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).

[Chillum]

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.

[MarchRide]

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.

[alan sherman]

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?

[JZS 600]

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!