Forest green interior

[mec]

Hi All
im new to this forum but am a regular on the DCUK forum/events etc, ive owned my car for the last 3 years and i have just found out from your car records that my car had a forest green interior! i dont know if anyone can shed some light on this, whether it was a factory option or a dealer option ??? or just changed at the owners request ?
any help is much appreciated, my vin is 4395

thanks alot mike

[sean]

Welcome to the forum!

Gotta say is the first I've ever heard of a green interior.

[mec]

yep me too ! its a weird one but having said that when i 1st got the car the interior was electric blue and silver carbon fibre effect vinyl !
needless to say that didnt last very long and its back to grey again now, however it does interest me to know what it would have been like when it was new :hmm:

[Mike C.]

Hi All
im new to this forum but am a regular on the DCUK forum/events etc, ive owned my car for the last 3 years and i have just found out from your car records that my car had a forest green interior! i dont know if anyone can shed some light on this, whether it was a factory option or a dealer option ??? or just changed at the owners request ?
any help is much appreciated, my vin is 4395

thanks alot mike

Welcome to the forum!!!

I was curious as to what records showed a forest green interior. It definitely was NOT a factory option or a standard dealership option. BUT, like the painted cars, some just decided to do whatever to the cars. More than likely it was a custom job, especially with a vin as high as yours. I would love to see a pic though if anyone else has seen it.

I remember seeing pics of a red interior car someone swore was an option as well, but it was a custom job.

[nofear365]

Any pics? I'd love to see what that looks like.

[DMC5180]

Hi All
im new to this forum but am a regular on the DCUK forum/events etc, ive owned my car for the last 3 years and i have just found out from your car records that my car had a forest green interior! i dont know if anyone can shed some light on this, whether it was a factory option or a dealer option ??? or just changed at the owners request ?
any help is much appreciated, my vin is 4395

thanks alot mike

Mike,

Since you now have this car it would be appreciated if the New location was updated to the VIN list. The list shows the car in Normal, IL. Did you import the car from the US or was it a another UK owner? Btw you may want to contact the the keeper of the list and have him verify the Forest Green part. he may be able to cross reference official records. It's either an error or was custom done by the Owner and he simply added the info for VIN list updating.

[ccurzio]

yep me too ! its a weird one but having said that when i 1st got the car the interior was electric blue and silver carbon fibre effect vinyl !
needless to say that didnt last very long and its back to grey again now, however it does interest me to know what it would have been like when it was new :hmm:

When it was new from the factory it had either a gray or a black interior. Anything beyond that happened after it rolled out of the production facilities.

[mec]

hi all thanks for the replys, yea i would love to see some pics if any one has got any?
I didnt think it would be a factory option still a curious thing though, as for ownership, i bought it off another guy in the UK who imported the year before i got it, i will update the list, as i said before the interior on the car is now grey again, i will see if i can post a pic of what i was like when i first got it, in your face is an understatement ! lol

here is it when i 1st got it ...

http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j239/mec_1985/VARIOUS005.jpg

[jawn101]

hi all thanks for the replys, yea i would love to see some pics if any one has got any?
I didnt think it would be a factory option still a curious thing though, as for ownership, i bought it off another guy in the UK who imported the year before i got it, i will update the list, as i said before the interior on the car is now grey again, i will see if i can post a pic of what i was like when i first got it, in your face is an understatement ! lol

here is it when i 1st got it ...

http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j239/mec_1985/VARIOUS005.jpg

oh...god...

[ccurzio]

Yeeeeeeah... That looks awful.

[Farrar]

oh...god...

What's wrong? I think it's Smurftastic! :D

[Jimmyvonviggle]

What's wrong? I think it's Smurftastic! :D

More like a Smurf exploded in there.

[mec]

haha lol yea it wasnt great was it ! it looks like this now...

http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j239/mec_1985/delorean038.jpg

[ccurzio]

Well done. I see you're well on your way to restoring it to having a proper DMC interior, but I still see some of that blue peeking through at the passenger knee pad. :)

I assume the dash mat is covering the rest? If so, good compromise.

[sean]

here is it when i 1st got it ...


Yikes!

[pezzonovante88]

That blue is F***ED! Thank God you're restoring it back to original.

[mec]

yea that pic was taken about 3 months after i got the car (about 3 years ago), the passenger knee pad is grey now too, as for the dash top, i removed all the nasty colour vinyl but because of the glue used the dash wasnt it great condition but it was grey at least ! so the dash mat just tidys it up a little

[Mike C.]

haha lol yea it wasnt great was it ! it looks like this now...

http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j239/mec_1985/delorean038.jpg

Good job! Definitely pat yourself on the back for that! :D

[mec]

Good job! Definitely pat yourself on the back for that! :D

thanks ! :cool1:

[Evildeli]

Years ago, and I'm talking about right around 2000-ish, I came across a Delorean on ebay with a green interior. I thought the pics were just bad, but sure enough the owner dyed the entire interior green. He said it was (obviously) it was his favorite color. I thought he mentioned being a teacher or coach, or something. Wonder if it's the same car. How many people dyed their interior green?

[kajcienski]

I might be way off on this but didn't a few of the prototypes have a different color partial interior (like the carpet or maybe more)? I think I remember that one had a deep purple carpet... I think I saw this on a database? I would love to see some color photo's of this if they are out there!

[Dangermouse]

Mike C,

I recall that the car came with some lovely wheels also :tongue_stick:

[Jeff K]

http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j239/mec_1985/VARIOUS005.jpg[/QUOTE]

<< Insert Racial Comment Here>> LOL

[mec]

Mike C,

I recall that the car came with some lovely wheels also :tongue_stick:

it did indeed ! how did you know that ???!!!

here it is as it was before i touched anything at all ...

http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j239/mec_1985/phonepics130.jpg

[pezzonovante88]

it did indeed ! how did you know that ???!!!

here it is as it was before i touched anything at all ...

http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j239/mec_1985/phonepics130.jpg

Dear Lord. I'm going to try to forget ever seeing that. So glad the car is in good hands now.

[mec]

lol yea i think the guy who had it in illinois went a little to far with the mods,
this is a pic of the car from Eurofest last year driving round the original test track...

http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j239/mec_1985/5772119912_b011bd999f_b.jpg

[ccurzio]

It's like the goal was "how can I screw up this car as much as possible?"

In the category of it still looking like a DeLorean, this guy wins. Will-I-Am wins otherwise.

[dvonk]

Dear Lord. I'm going to try to forget ever seeing that. So glad the car is in good hands now.

+1. :lol:

[Mike C.]

lol... Mike C. Great... another Mike C. LOL! :giddy:

[mec]

Haha must be a good name a !!

[Dangermouse]

it did indeed ! how did you know that ???!!!

[/IMG]

I frequent the UK forums.

the pic I had was this one, and I could never tell whether the glass was mirrored or it is just the way the light hits it:

http://dmctalk.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=9307&d=1332848483

http://dmctalk.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=9306&d=1332848482

You've done a great job on the car Mike. I like the Eurofest pic

[mec]

I frequent the UK forums.

the pic I had was this one, and I could never tell whether the glass was mirrored or it is just the way the light hits it:

You've done a great job on the car Mike. I like the Eurofest pic

thanks alot ! yea those pics are from when the guy who i bought it off (alan) had it, the 2nd one was one of the pics in the ebay ad ! it looked ok in the pic until i got there in real life ! lol :lol:

[jawn101]

By the way, lots of nasty stuff has been said about the interior and those awful wheels... but it's only fair to acknowledge that the ground effects kit looks pretty nice. I might have gone a different route with painting over the black parts of the fascias, but the overall effect is really cool :thumbup:

It does look from your track day pic that the lower lip of the front spoiler takes some punishment though...

[mec]

Thanks for that its nice to have some feedback ! Yea the front spoiler has taken a bit of a beating ! Im in the process of repairing it again as we speak.

by the way as previously mentioned the windows were mirrored however its only the rear ones that are done now due to the UK rules on window tinting ! Grrr lol

[AirmanPika]

Well...it could be worse...

http://www.entermyworld.com/cat/custom/mem/memcurtisd.jpg http://www.entermyworld.com/cat/custom/mem/memcurtisg.jpg http://www.entermyworld.com/cat/custom/mem/memcurtis.jpg

[mec]

Hells bells !! Yep thats definatly worse ! Didnt think that was possible ! Lol

[Martyn]

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