Location: Houston, TX
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I'm sure you mean you have now driven the car over 200,000 miles, right? Not rolled it over manually while off the car.Originally Posted by Jason
Because if so, wow, you deserve credit, and an honorable mention in the DeLorean Registry! You might well be the third highest mileage DeLorean (that we know about). So far, only 14 cars have over 100k miles (that we know about), yours being one of them.
Thomas
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Location: Fresno, CA.
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My VIN: 16409
16409 has 145,000+ miles. So you can add another car to that list! I bought it with 97k miles.
Chris Miles
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1983 Grey Manual, VIN #16409, Fresno, California
Location: Yardley, PA
Posts: 246
My VIN: 16795
Yes, those are driven miles. Mostly by me. The car had 28k or so miles on it when I bought it.
Location: Houston, TX
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Ok, these have been updated.
Anyone else care to join the 100,000+ mile club?
Thomas
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Location: West Sayville, N.Y.
Posts: 1,350
My VIN: 005058 000927
Club(s): (AZ-D) (DMA) (DOA) (DCUK)
I have a customer named Iris Kurzban who (unfortunately) moved to Florida last year who had 219,371 miles logged when she left N.Y. a year ago last July. She insist's she'll call back in a half hour with current mileage though I told her it wasn't necessary. It is probably the best documented Delorean ever as we performed all service work (except state inspections) on this car from 1984 till 2014 and have her service records from the selling dealer as well (Cold Spring Imports in Long Island, N.Y.). Their first service R.O.was on 8/11/82 at 1751 miles. Our service file on the car begins on 1/18/84. just before the previous Christmas she had gotten the car stuck in a snowdrift and spun the splines off the rear outer axle. C.S. Imports ordered the part but told her they didn't have time to install it. They didn't even seem to mind when I rolled up with our flatbed to take it away. She picked up the repaired car on 1/27/84 and I didn't know if I would ever see it again. Three days later her 16 year old daughter was driving the car home from school and crashed the car hard fortunately without any injury's though. The car sustained major damage (1/30/84) which amounted to $10,500- worth of work. You get a better understanding of the severity of this hit with the knowledge that at the time our (my at the time) labor rate was only $30- an hour. After two other smaller fender benders and many snowy L.I. winters along the way it is still driving on the original frame which I straightened after the '84 accident. The car runs strong despite the fact that it never got washed or pampered except when it was here for service. The car has also had its original engine replaced and two auto transmissions (one with diff. one W/O). She just called back....it has 219,983.6 as of now. Please advise as to where she stands in the mileage rankings as she'd get a kick out of knowing if she has the record for an original owner.
I also have another customer of thirty years (Surprisingly also a woman) who moved down there the same year and now resides 12 miles away from Iris.
My last customer of thirty years or more may also be moving down there in a year or two. At this point I'm asking myself what the hell is going on here?
Another kind of cool factoid is that years later when the dealer principal of C.S. Imports decided to retire in the late 80's he called me and I bought his Delorean inventory of parts. He had been my father's sales manager back in the sixties and left our dealership to start one of the first Japanese (Mazda I think) car dealerships on Long Island. We joked about how I used to call him "Old baloney nose" back when I was the dealer's brat son hanging out in the new car showroom with a school chum or two. Ahhh the good old days!
Rob
Last edited by PJ Grady Inc.; 12-06-2015 at 01:47 PM.
Location: Fresno, CA.
Posts: 1,401
My VIN: 16409
You can add "Gray" interior to my car's record.
Chris Miles
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1983 Grey Manual, VIN #16409, Fresno, California
Location: Fresno, CA.
Posts: 1,401
My VIN: 16409
Rob, in your experience, how many miles can a properly maintained PRV accrue before it requires a rebuild/replacement. Also considering no major overheating problems.
Chris Miles
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1983 Grey Manual, VIN #16409, Fresno, California
Location: Houston, TX
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This is great info, Rob, thanks for providing that history. I love these kind of stories (I don't know why, call me crazy cuz I'm sure many think keeping up with our car stats is silly, but hey).
Anyway, would you be at liberty to provide the VIN of the 219k mile car in Florida? If not already on the list, this car would have the 3rd highest mileage (that we know of), bumping 16795 to 4th (sorry Jason), (and DeLorean World Tour cars not included). As far as an original owner, she may well be 1st, but unfortunately I'm not tracking original owner cars (maybe something to consider). The other two cars are: 10694 (BTTF Team Fox at ~400k-[last reported]) and 4915 (370k miles).
Cool stuff!
Thomas
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Done.
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Location: West Sayville, N.Y.
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My VIN: 005058 000927
Club(s): (AZ-D) (DMA) (DOA) (DCUK)
She agreed it was OK so #006646 a grey interior (of course with that VIN) automatic.
BTW Ed Bernstein claimed to have a half million miles on his automatic but I can't verify it and he was a vendor so I don't know if you would count that car anyway.
Rob
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