DeLorean Violations on Social Media

[BladeBronson]

Im sure this falls in different places on the spectrum for all of us, between "no big deal" and seeing red. For me, I see red when photos are shared on social media of people touching or sitting on our cars. Let's use this thread to record such instances and work together (in a constructive way) to send the message to violators that it is unacceptable, and when possible, advocate for better protection to the owners. As posts tend to get taken down, please link to both the original location and upload a photo here.

I have three today:

Gold DeLorean at the National Auto Museum:
https://instagram.com/p/BUK2iVIhAvE/
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Contact the museum and advocate for greater protection: http://www.automuseum.org/contact-us

Possibly Ronnie's car from the Bay Area. He does a lot of street shows:
https://instagram.com/p/BTw8TPhB_ZN/
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A hood-sitter in Seattle:
https://instagram.com/p/BTxwxC6Dz6W/
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[bytes311]

"my secret is that the owner didn't see me do it ))" Well that's infuriating.

[BladeBronson]

Some douche sitting on Wolfgang's World Tour car
https://instagram.com/p/BUZsjQeAjkO/
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[Michael]

Instagram: Where attention whores go after facebook wears thin

[BladeBronson]

Chain barrier cropped out of the photo. This isn't the first photo that I've seen of people touching or laying on the Universal Orlando car.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BUaUlh7Ahbz
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If you have the time, tweet to @UniversalORL and/or use the #AskUniversal hashtag to get their attention. Ask for better security around an already-decomposing car.

This is a photo of the chain barrier:
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com...d98404073d.jpg

[rickjames8]

Maybe I'm alone in the fact that I don't mind people touching my car. Or sitting in it - or opening and closing the doors. In fact, there's a kid at a 3D print shop that was so beyond excited to be in the presence of a real DeLorean, I told him I'd come back someday and let him drive it around the parking lot - just to blow his mind. And I will at some point. I get my own fingerprints on it every day, what's a few more?

[Drive Stainless]

I've had the guy at the inspection station try to close the door by the leading edge. I cringed!

[Lwanmtr]

While mine is still immobile in my garage, and since Im restoring to be a daily driver I've had to consider things like that..My only real worry would be people sitting on the hood. Touching, well its stainless and a lil dish soap will fix that...If they open and close the doors without me being there, then they're up to no good...as for sitting in it, yeah..supervised..driving..well Im sure whatever insurance I get will not like that one...hehe.

The only way youre going to be able to avoid people touching is it either a) hide it away in a hole and never take to a public place, or b) plug a horse fence zapper to the body panels (good for a laugh)....These are special cars and appeal to even non-car types (whether its because of BTTF or fantasies of coke powered transport, or loving shiny things)..so people are gonna gawk, touch n drool (again, easily cleaned with dish soap).

That being said..the ones who sit on a stranger's car for a picture (even them yugonatics) otta be shamed.

[DaraSue]

If you catch some instagrammer playing footsie with a DeLorean, it might be mine...
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[Lwanmtr]

Maybe that was bigfoot..I hear they like shiny things