Just bought a DeLorean today!!!

[91 zeee]

Welcome and congratulations. Who's did you buy? The Vin will tell you quite a lot.
We need more D's in Richmond.

Steve, I bought it down in Chesapeake. It was owned buy a guy who happened to get it in some sort of business deal, but he knows virtually nothing about the history and has no records. I would love to figure out who owned it. Picked it up last night; here is a pic on the way home:
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[91 zeee]

What does your VIN get you?

It used to indicate whether you were on a vendor's blacklist or not. Thankfully Special Ed is gone and took his silly lists with him.

You can share it here with us. It's not anything overly secret. Usually just a way to identify your car from all the other ones that are identical. Identical like snowflakes that is.

The number itself will tell you where in the overall chronology yours was built. That then gives you what your car (VIN) likely looked like when it left the factory. Meaning, while there were really only two options (manual or automatic trans, and black or grey interior), many things evolved over the years of production. Hood styles, wheel colour or spoke thickness, radio manufacturer, whether your door pull handles were loose or built into the door panel, location of the antenna, etc. There is quite a bit of variation if you are going to get into the weeds of it. Many of us do considering that owning a DeLorean borders on a bit of a sickness, or passionate hobby perhaps. We introduce ourselves like you might at an AA meeting anyway.

Your VIN can also help you figure out if any of the safety recalls for the car were done by the factory (typical on late cars, not so much on early cars). So too for which alternator your car has. Early ones were determined to be less than ideal so they switched part way through.

None of that is as good as just getting very familiar with your own car by inspecting it closely, inside and out and definitely from underneath. You'll benefit from making note of differences in your snowflake, especially if someone got creative with extra wiring or modifications to add something like cruise control or a thumping stereo or to try and fix something they didn't know how to fix properly. Don't forget that for about a decade in the mid 80s to mid 90s, there was no Internet nor good access to the spare parts inventory and so car conditions suffered as a result.

You can type your four (or five) digit VIN into the search bar on this forum too and see what comes up. Could be your car was owned by someone already on this forum. That's likely the best bet for the most info. Current info anyway. The DeLorean museum stuff is nice for showing at events, but is only going to tell you about the car's first days. If the car didn't come with service records when you got it, they will be hard to come by. You may get a vendor that recognizes your VIN to share some records with you if your car was taken to their shop, but that is really hit and miss. Rob from PJ Grady's seems very willing to do this for an owner when he has something to share.

Oh, and before any grammar police get you, VIN stands for Vehicle Identification Number. So saying VIN number is a little redundant, right? Like it's saying the same thing twice, get it? Like repetitive, you see? Like unnecessary, oui? Besides, you sound like a damn fool when you say it wrong (just kidding... prepare yourself for random BTTF references at about any moment in time from now on).

Congrats on getting your car and welcome aboard.

I just posted the last 5 of the VIN (you're right...not VIN 'number' ... I can't find anything...if anyone else can, please let me know. Thanks

[91 zeee]

Welcome to the wonderful world of Delorean...Here, have a cookie. As has been said, its kinda like an online AA meeting here...hehe.
Did it run when you got it?

For mechanics, definately try and find Delorean specialist near you...Im lucky to have DMCNW just 40 miles from here, so thats where mine will be going.

Whats the VIN?

I just posted the VIN a few minutes ago. No, it doesn't run at the moment. Battery is out and it hasn't been started in about a year. Supposedly a year ago it was running and driving. I have a lot of work to do ...

[Jonathan]

I just posted the last 5 of the VIN (you're right...not VIN 'number' ... I can't find anything...if anyone else can, please let me know. Thanks

Here's a start...

http://www.citizenkidd.com/dmc/pages...asp?start=1607

[Rich_NYS]

Picked it up last night; here is a pic on the way home:
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I still enjoy seeing trailer pics, it reminds me of my trip home with 10372:

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Great feeling, eh?

The car has a nice stance, looks like it could be Euro-spec height.

Got any pics of the undercarriage?


Enjoy!

[Dangermouse]

Nice.

Dk grey wheels.

Black Manual, I assume??

Sorry but that VIN seems to have been off the grid for a while

How did you acquire the car? I mean - was it listed for sale somewhere?

[dodint]

Nice.

How did you acquire the car? I mean - was it listed for sale somewhere?

Steve, I bought it down in Chesapeake. It was owned buy a guy who happened to get it in some sort of business deal, but he knows virtually nothing about the history and has no records. I would love to figure out who owned it.

[SProfita]

Congrats on the new ownership! You will love driving it!

[Dangermouse]

Thanks for those quotes, but they don't state whether it was listed for sale anywhere, or whether he bought it from a friend of a friend, or at an estate sale, or in exchange for a goat, or whatever.

Sometimes how an owner comes by a car can be quite a story in itself.

[91 zeee]

Thanks for those quotes, but they don't state whether it was listed for sale anywhere, or whether he bought it from a friend of a friend, or at an estate sale, or in exchange for a goat, or whatever.

Sometimes how an owner comes by a car can be quite a story in itself.

Actually it was at a business. A friend of mine was there for a class, saw it, knew I had always spoke about them and asked the company if it was for sale. They said it had sat in their warehouse for 5 years; sure... they'd sell it. I called the company. Asked for the history (which they really did not know anything) and I bought it.

They have had it since 2011. The county sticker and state tags are 1991 (which means it's been off the road since 1991). I ordered the origin document and window sticker from the delorean museum today...I guess I will contact the first owner and start working my way up.....