D sighting today at airventure oshkosh wi.

[DMC5180]

It's pretty rare for me too see another D in the wild. I was pleasantly surprised to see VIN 5756 parked in a (Volunteer's only) Parking lot at EAA Airventure Oshkosh WI today as I was leaving. I just had to snap a few pics to see if anyone on here knows who it might be.

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Mark D. This is in your old stomping ground. Do you know who this is? Or does anyone else on here know who this is?

[Mark D]

Nice sighting!

This car belongs to Matt Hissem who is a friend of mine that lives in Appleton, WI. He just picked up his car last year:

http://dmctalk.org/showthread.php?8023-DeLorean-For-Sale-Freemont-MI-05754&p=118302&viewfull=1#post118302

and has spent the past 7-8 months pulling the body from the frame to repair rust issues. He recently got the car back together and is driving around enjoying it. He also installed a set of lowering springs in the front and made a few other upgrades. The crumple tube on his car had quite a bit of rust so he built a new one from scratch using the old one as as template. I was pretty impressed with his fabrication skills.

I'm assuming he's at EAA with his Mercury space capsule replica that he's built...it's on display somewhere at the event.

http://dmctalk.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=29322&d=1406817376
http://dmctalk.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=29321&d=1406817376

He's registered on DMCTalk but I don't think he's on much.

[Dangermouse]

It's pretty rare for me too see another D in the wild. I was pleasantly surprised to see VIN 5756 parked in a (Volunteer's only) Parking lot at EAA Airventure Oshkosh WI today as I was leaving. I just had to snap a few pics to see if anyone on here knows who it might be.

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Mark D. This is in your old stomping ground. Do you know who this is? Or does anyone else on here know who this is?

5754, I assume, based on the vin plate and Mark's link?

[Mark D]

Yeah that must have been a typo. The VIN is 5754 as shown in that photo of the dash plate.

[DMC5180]

Yeah that must have been a typo. The VIN is 5754 as shown in that photo of the dash plate.


Yep Typo. Too bad I didn't know his story before now. I just got back from the show again today he was parked in the same spot as yesterday. Unfortunately I won't be heading back up there this year. 2 days was enough, my feet are killing me. I did not go into the NASA building this year, therefore I did not see the capsule. That's a Bummer.

[DavidProehl]

Looks like Matt's car is now a time machine:

http://www.postcrescent.com/story/news/local/2015/03/19/menasha-man-builds-back-future-time-machine/25020289/

[Mark D]

Yup!

http://dmctalk.org/showthread.php?11612-Time-Machine-Makes-Front-Page-News-Appleton-WI

[DavidProehl]

Yup!

http://dmctalk.org/showthread.php?11612-Time-Machine-Makes-Front-Page-News-Appleton-WI

Sorry for the double post! I did a google search of the forum looking for other threads, nothing had come up. Must not have been indexed yet. Should have just looked at recent posts.

[Mark D]

No problem, it actually was nice to go back and remember this thread.

[mluder]

That's parked? It looks like he abandoned ship in the middle of the lot. :hysterical:
Talk about exposed and out in the open. Well... I guess he doesn't have to worry about door dings.

Cheers
Steven