I recall hearing that DMC had a Mercedes gullwing at some point. Then I came across this late 1981 listing of DMCA company cars in a recent ebay ad from dmcseller
http://www.ebay.com/itm/DELOREAN-DOC...oAAOSwuYVWoTXC
Including a 1957 Mercedes Gullwing in storage, serial number A1980406500290 which should really be written 198.040.6500290
Does anyone know anything about this car; how/when it was acquired, what it was used for (presumably door investigation), when/how was it sold and where is it now?
After a couple of hours down a google rabbit hole I could only determine that it was actually a 1956 car, either titled as a ’57 or possibly it is just a type on the DMC sheet. But why would DMCA own such a rare exotic. Well, it turns out that the the average cost of a 300sl in 1978 was only $25k which would certainly have made it reasonable for them to buy it for engineering research
Reportedly only 308 coupes were built that year (out of a 1400 total for coupes and roadsters), so you would think tracking this would be easy, but no.
6500214 sold for $1.4 million
6500280 sold for $1.85 million in 2014
6500287 sold for “only” $430k during the slump in 2006
6500299 sold for $1.9M last year in a completely unrestored condition
This last one interests me. Supposedly it was in a storage facility in So. California for 30 years, last registered in 1983. Could the DMC list VIN of 6500290 be a typo for 6500299 ? mmmmm could it?
http://autoweek.com/article/car-life...e-restored-one
of course this article makes no mention of JZD, but what are the odds of two uber-rare (<300 in the world) being in storage in California?
Or is it still there???
Also in storage with the Gullwing inexplicably were examples of these two things
"Salvio Jungla" is actually a Fiat 126 Savio Jungla (note the typos) this:
Lohr FL500 is this:
now, why would DMC have these?