It amazes me sometimes that a new car can get stashed away for future generations – I’d love to know the details about how this car wasn’t sold. Thanks to Ricky M for this great find, but you’d better hurry if you’re interested as it goes to auction June 6 at Brooklands in the UK! You can read about the auction here. This is the very last DeLorean to leave the factory in 1981 and was intended for a dealership in New Jersey. Stored until 2000 and then re-repatriated, the car is showing only 24 (not a typo) original miles! It truly is a museum piece with the original customs and window sticker still in place. The car is expected to bring 34-39 thousand pounds ($52-60,000). I know there are a lot of low mileage DeLoreans out there, and I believe you can even get a new one built from parts, but there’s only one “last” production car. Are any of our European readers interested in owning this car?
I wonder how many of these ‘investment’ Deloreans there are left. If I cared very much about these I would do some arithmetic to see whether the payoff would have beat what you could get for the money from a savings account. I’m guessing that it might be about even—if you don’t count maintenance and insurance costs.
maybe the goverment that loss all the money they invested would like to have it as a reminder! still i do hope it finds a good home. nice find
£57,000. That’s a lot of money, but cars are only original once.
I hauled a load of steel to a small metal outfit in Cleveland many years ago.(early ’80’s) While I was being unloaded, I noticed a car up on the top of a pallet racking on a big pallet under a cover. I asked the employee, what kind of car that was. He said, “have you ever heard of a DeLorean”? Sure, I said. He said, the boss bought 2, one he drove, the other he stored in the warehouse. It had 7 miles on it. So I still believe they are around.
Last one,low mileage, it’s still a Delorean. As for buying a car and liking it so much you buy a spare, urban legend has it a contractor in upstate NY did exactly that with two late MB 300SL’s. That I can understand as he supposedly drove the first SL as his daily driver. If any of these one to drive and a spare stories are true it would make a great book.