http://jalopnik.com/cars/woodward-dr...008-291730.php

Oh my god.

I must have it.

 

yea, but will it have 2 keys of peruvian flake in the spare tire?

 

Spare tire? What's that?

 

It will have 2 keys of peruvian flake instead of a spare tire...you need something to do while waiting for a tow truck.

 

You want gold? You got gold.

 

I wonder why on their Woodward pictures they didn't show the "back to the future" car? Was their flux capacitor broken.

 

Funny.
On the way to the hotel Saturday morning, I passed a caravan of Deloreans heading to Woodward. Sadly, I didn't have any other Xfires with me at that point.

A buddy of mine's father-in-law is a certified Delorean Tech. He says that they are poor, poor cars (to say the least). The latest one he had in the shop was essentially coming apart (due to the glue/adhesive that holds a lot of the car together losing its grip after 20+ years).

The old ones are cool to look at, dogs to drive. I'd like to see a new one though.

 

pretty damn funny.

 

Interesting...when I went to a track day at the California Speedway earlier this year there was a fleet of Aston Martin's. A guy who claimed he was one of the design engineers said they had the cars there for a select group of high rollers that they were flying in to "wring them out on the track."

He told us that there were NO welds on the car. Everything was held together with adhesives...

 

DeLorean's are basically made of stainless steel...hence the reason they aren't painted. Stainless Steel is just this side of impossible to weld. It's far cheaper to glue them together than it is to weld them!

 

yeah UuUuU I want to go back to the future again.

 

They are dogs, it's a shame though, Smokey Yunick and Delorean where plotting together to design a more powerful motor, but old Smokey gave up the Ghost before anything could be created, which would have been interesting to see what they would have made.

 

maybe some of you Delorean fanatics would enjoy this... http://www.amazon.ca/gp/offer-listin...7890448&sr=1-1

 

Well, they are mainly GRP (closely modeled on the Lotus Esprit) with a skin of stainless steel bonded over it, that's why they ended up so heavy! Stainless isn't really that difficult to weld either, you can TIG or MIG it just like mild steel, but bonding is cheaper like you say.

 

please don't use the word Esprit,
on a duhlorean thread.

 

Mig or Tig work ok...just point out some Mig or Tig welding on the body of a car...

Pretty much all car bodies are Resistance welded (spot welded). Spot welding Stainless steel is very tricky and usually has pretty dire results. The currents you have to use to get a satisfactory weld, (4* square root of the Governing metal thickness) are so high that the electric bill from 2 months of production would cost more than a years worth of adhesive.

Incidentally, I'm a weld consultant, mainly to the automotive industry.

 

Yes, there is virtually no TIG or Mig, if any, on a modern production car, with the exception of some of the suspension components, but I have seen it on older and low volume shells; my '80 124 spider has various panels attached by short runs of MIG, and the front footwells on my 911 has seam welded pressings for the corners. I was just commenting that it is not impossible to weld stainless, which is what you seemed to imply.

 

Not impossible...but VERY cost prohibitive.