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From what I read Pilot 20 was supposed to have the same steering wheel as the Visioneering car and those steering wheels came from Leyland trucks. I could be wrong. If I'm right though it does give you an idea of where the Visioneering/Pilot car's steering wheels come from.
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Yeah I had my doubts that the obvious recovered production wheel was original to Pilot 20. Leyland trucks huh? I'll have to look into that, I'd like to source one of those wheels.
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Makes sense; Jim Prentice said the steering column was from a Rover.Originally Posted by tjd
Edit: Found a photo of a Leyland bus steering wheel which looks about right! Obviously it's been recovered, though.
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Anyone have the link to the slew of pictures mentioned? I can't seem to find them with google.
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From this discussion:
http://dmctalk.org/showthread.php?15...nt-in-Dunmurry
eBay selling at it's best I can tell you stock Delorians and quite a bit of slugs so the Turbo is a super nice up-grade.
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Location: Hungary
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I found something I do not understand. How that can be, that by the Facebook:
Using a completed prototype chassis supplied by Lotus in late 1979, Visioneering completed the assembly of this car
By dmctalk:
Attaching a 3/4 rear view of what may be Pilot 22 (D22 on the PJ Grady UK website)
or just another view of the Visoneering Car,
and by PJGrady:
It is our belief that D22 was the very first DMC Built in Ireland.
So where this car was built?
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Not to speak for Rich W. who posted the image in the other thread. I think he was saying it could either be Pilot 22 or the Visioneering car.
Chris N. from P.J. Grady U.K. identifies it as D22, my opinion is the car pictured is actually the Visioneering car. To answer your question the Visioneering car was built in Fraser, Michigan a suburb of Detroit. D22 or Pilot 22 would have been built in Dunmurry N. Ireland.
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The Visioneering car was a hand built one off show prop, just as Proto 1 was. Neither of them was ever intended to work out technical or production details. Their only job was to look like a DeLorean.
Pilot cars are built for technical and production line testing. Many/most of DMC's were not publicly presentable. Pilot cars are typically destroyed, either during testing or after production starts.
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Thanks, this helps a lot. One more question: Was this car driveable? I don't think so, but maybe...
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According to the Detroit Free Press it was:
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