DeLorean owners, fans and enthusiasts,

May 1st is upon us, and although much of the U.S. is still on "stay at home" or "shutdown", many of us
want to know if there will be a DCS 2020 this year (or something similar) to distract us from COVID-19.
While it would be easier to just throw in the towel for 2020, the DCS Planning Team decided to look at
a variety of options, and eventually settling on an idea the team will pursue for the Summer of 2020.

With so much uncertainty of when we can get back to normal (or a new normal), the DCS 2020 Planning Team
began looking at our possible options over the past two months, and the team has something to report.
As of today, travel restrictions are still in place internationally and future changes are up in the air.
Air travel is still limited (by number of flights available) and that will improve this month, with masks.

Federal and State COVID-19 Guidelines have been refined into Phases, but it is unclear when any specific
part of the U.S. will be in Phase I, II or III, over the next several months, so attempting to plan any
large event between now and Summer (or Fall) has become more of a guessing game than anything else. With
all of this in mind, the team has decided to replace the in-person DCS 2020 with a Virtual DCS 2020.

Virtual DCS 2020 will be unique, but it will also follow much of the same structure as an in-person DCS,
including "breakout room" presentations (with interactive Q&A after each session), either concurrently
or sequentially (may be dependent on bandwidth), as well as large group presentations or movie screenings,
which would also provide a mechanism for interactive Q&A after each presentation or movie screening).

One of the primary goals would be to have a group of VIP Guests gather at a central location, where the
presentations could be filmed and broadcast live (with a group chat tool like Microsoft Teams or Zoom),
most likely a hotel/convention center, where we could still adhere to the recommended small group details
of the Phases, while also filming/broadcasting with 3-chip cameras and plenty of Internet bandwidth.

There will also be a Virtual Car Show, which may be in two parts: Part 1 (Recorded) and Part 2 (Live).
The "Recorded" part of the Car Show would pre-recorded 1-minute video clips of each DeLorean owner's car,
which will be compiled into Part 1 of the Car Show. The "Live" part of the Car Show would show DeLorean
cars from a central location, where a group of owners would be able to meet, to show off their vehicles.

As for "Attending" the Virtual DCS 2020 event, we are considering two options: (1) Paid Invitation Option,
using a product like Microsoft Teams or Zoom Enterprise (with proper Security settings), which would be an
all-inclusive package, for interactive Q&A sessions and movie screening, and (2) Partial View Free Option
which would provide a lower resolution view of selected presentations, no Q&A and no movie screenings.

The team has been working with a few companies with the expertise fo putting on large, virtual events and
companies that can provide additional (mobile) Internet bandwidth, to a central location based event, and
although we do not have all the quotes in yet, we are expecting detailed quotes this month. Depending on
how things go during the month of May, we hope to announce a Go or No Go for Virtual DCS 2020 by June 1.

So, if you were hoping that the DCS Planning Team would be able to pull off a DCS 2020, you may be right,
at least virtually right. We are still planning to have the event during the week of August 10-16, 2020,
but we do not have all the specific dates "locked in" yet, since our most cost effective option would be
to move the entire convention to weekdays, as to not pay "time and a half" for weekend camera-man rates.

Keep checking back to this posting thread, for more details over the upcoming weeks. If the Planning Team
can make this happen, this Summer and within budget, we hope to bring your DeLorean "fix" for 2020.

Stay Safe and Healthy, and we hope to "see" many of you at Virtual-DCS 2020.

Thanks,
Rich W.

(for the DCS 2020 Planning Team)