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one reason why I've been not recording so many Geek Therapy radio episodes. The
other reason, and I can say this in front of the world now we
are in the kind of safeer zones, safer time per that I can say
this with more reasonable comfort. I'm going to be a daddy again. We
are going to welcome Sun number two into the world. He is expected in
May of twenty twenty four. We have not decided on a name yet,
but my first son, Riker, is very excited. We are thinking of
names for Sun number two. Do in May of twenty twenty four. I
am very excited, obviously, I am just over the moon. My wife
is pregnant again. This is something we plan for, this is something we
wanted. It's not a surprise. But every pregnancy is a miracle. I
mean, there are billions of babies born. Of course, we all know
that, but like the odds, if you look at it, if you
study conception, every child coming to term and being born is threading an almost
impossible mathematical needle. It's one reason why we have so not to get too
graphic here, but we have men have so much sperm and women release so
many eggs, but men have like millions and billions of sperm per per per
episode. I should just say, but even the mathematics on that are astronomical
that you actually bring a baby to term. So we are having our second
child in May of twenty twenty four. I'm trying to keep these episodes evergreen.
But that's just I'm recording it in late twenty twenty three expecting a new
son, and I'm just thinking, I'm just like, how am I how
things are gonna get hectic? Things are hectic right now, my son turned
three years old. With one child, it is hectic with my wife,
who God blessed is struggling with with pregnancy number two in terms of nausea and
health and everything. It's a bit of a challenge right now. And I
can only imagine once we add another child with a four year old, Rker
will be four by the time, no no, no, no, no
no no, Rker will be like three and a half years old or so
when the baby number two comes along. And just bear with me, y'all
say a prayer for me, my goodness, send me good vibes, whatever
you want to do, whatever you believe or don't believe in, just be
thinking of me next spring when I have two children, an infant and a
three and a half year old. Just bear with me. I'm asking for
some slack now in how often I release these podcasts and just keep all these
spinning plates spinning. But I am very, very excited for that. There
is something I wanted to talk about in this episode. I'll remind you my
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much testosterone on the Hamburger side of the family tree, and it is not
done yet. There's no shortage of heirs to the family name on the Hamburger
side. And the segment or segments coming up, I want to talk about
something, you know, what's been on my mind for weeks and or perhaps
months, Not just baby stuff, but you know a geek subject that is
DeLorean. DeLorean in its multiple facets, the cluster f that is DeLorean.
And from an owner's perspective, I've owned my deal, I've won my Dolorean
since July two thousand. What's my kind of perspective on it? That?
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Okay. So there's something that's been on my mind for the past few weeks,
if not months, and I've really been kind of struggling with how I
even want to approach it. And I just came to the decision today that
maybe I don't need some sort of fleshed out angle to approach this next subject
and just speak on it, maybe just stream of consciousness, talk about it
from the heart, raw, you know, with no preconceived notions, nothing
written down, nothing, kind of like the way I want to guide the
conversation. I just need to It's almost like I need to vent to you
about something, vent to you about a geek subject. It's not terribly important,
but you get what I'm saying. That is the DeLorean Motor Company,
or just let's just because it's a cluster, f because it's a quagmire.
Now, let's just call it DeLorean Delorian cars in all their different iterations and
facets. I thought, and maybe I'll try to get him on in a
future episode to maybe get his opinion on it. But I talked to Matt
Farrah a few times from the Smoking Tire. By the way, y'all should
all be subscribe to the Smoking Tire podcast. It's a frigging if you're a
car enthusiast, if you're an automotive enthusiast, awesome. Matt Farra is a
writer for Motor Trend. He has the Smoking Tire YouTube channel. There's a
good chance that probably most of you listening to this radio broadcast or even the
podcast have come across Smoking Tire videos across social media or YouTube. Matt Farrah
is awesome. Sometimes I have to go back and edit some swear words because
I don't censor them beforehand. I don't censor anybody, but I will make
it ready for FCC airing. So I'll let them say the F bombs and
the S bombs and whatever they want to say, but I am going to
beep it out for the air at least. So anyways, Matt fair I
wanted to get his opinion on I don't have him on the show right now,
but I have had him on in the past handful of times. I
want to talk to him since he did own a Deloi. He's automobive,
automotive enthusiast. Obviously he has had a DeLorean in the past. He's a
good person to kind of bounce these ideas off of. So I'll work on
getting him, possibly for a show coming up. But I want to speak
to the DeLorean quagmire myself just now, so I guess I'll start off here
as as an owner. So I have had my DeLorean DMC twelve, a
nineteen eighty three DeLorean DMC twelve, And for the window shopper, just tuning
in, not knowing what they're listening to right now. This is geek Therapy
Radio. The Deloorian is the car that they used in Back to the Future's
that has the goal wing doors. It's stainless steel. There's a whole lot
of myth and rumor and just misconceptions about it, but that's the car.
It's the car that they used and Back to the Future it was. It
came out a production run of nineteen eighty one through nineteen eighty three, about
four thousand and eighty one's, about four thousand and eighty two's and about seven
hundred eighty threes. So I have a nineteen eighty three DeLorean DMC twelve.
The rarest of all production years I have had. I had my nineteen eighty
three DeLorean DEMC twelve since July of two thousand. For those of you who
have been who have lived in the Houston area long enough, there used to
be a classic car dealership slash museum out in Hempstead off of two ninety.
I don't know if this if the big car dealership across the street is still
there. It was Lawrence Marshall, like four GM what was it. Lawrence
Marshall had a car dealership out there. Lawrence Marshall was a football player,
I believe, but he had a car dealership out there in Hempstead off to
ninety and across the street was Lawrence Marshall like antique cars is what it was
called. This was the year two thousand, by the way, So they
had two Deloreans there. They had a pristine concours version museum quality nineteen eighty
one DeLorean in the showroom, and then they had a nineteen eighty three DeLorean
out on the lot, just rotting and baking in the Texas sun. That's
the DeLorean I bought. It had a big oil spot underneath the front of
the car which I used to my advantage because I wanted people to see it.
I wanted them to counted on their lack of knowledge on the DeLorean in
general and myths and whatever. Also just to think that the engine was leaking
oil with the engines in the back just a V six engine, not a
helicopter engine. Nothing. There was so much missive There still is a lot
of misinformation and hype and myth around the DeLorean. Anyways. Bought it for
less in July two thousand, for less than less than ten thousand dollars.
I'll just say that less than a used Honda Civic. In July two thousand,
I put a thirty five cent fifteen amp engine control fuse in it,
and I turned it on and I drove it home. I kind of limped
it home. It probably hadn't been started in years, if not months,
And I replaced a refuse for less than fifty cents and drove it home.
Five speed manual transmission. I think it probably got it up to like fifty
five miles an hour on the way home from two ninety to Kingwood, Texas.
At the time, my mom was behind me in the minivan. We
both had our hazards on and I got it home. I just did a
little bit to it, and I delivered pizza in it, got it running
nicely and which didn't really take much as a tune up, oil change.
Just running it, really, if I recall correctly, just running the darn
thing cleared up a whole lot of the issues. And I delivered pizza in
it for j Christopher's Pizza and Pasta and Kingwood. Any Kingwood listeners out there,
any North Houston listeners out there. I delivered pizza with it from like
two thousand and one to two thousand and two, two thousand and three.
In the DeLorean. That's a whole set of stories in and of itself.
But I've had the DeLorean for oh gosh, it's going to be twenty three
years, twenty it's going to be twenty four. That's crazy. July twenty
twenty four, I'm going to have owned the DeLorean for two twenty four years,
most of its existence, basically. So how does that all tie into
the curtain Deloorian dilemma? So there's basically three versions of Delorian. Now there's
the DMC Classic, there's Delorian Next Generation, which is run by John Delorian's
daughter, Cat Delorian, and there is Delorian Delorian what is it called.
It's in San Antonio, the EV, the Delorian EV, the Alpha five.
So there are three Deloorians. So there's the classic DeLorean, which is
what I own. Then there is the Delorian e V aka the Alpha five
that is going to be built and I say that with huge asterisk, going
to be built in San Antonio. And then there is Cat Delorian's Delorian next
generation, which is going to be based on a C eight Corvette, which
is actually awesome when it comes to lineage of here's why it makes sense.
Here's why Cat Delorians Delorian next generation makes a lot of sense versus the EV
DeLorean. There's nobody working on the EV DeLorean that has any remote tie at
all to the original Delriia Motor Company. A matter of fact, the president
of the new Deloria Motor company working on the EV. Uh what's his last
name? Let me look it up. I apologize, I am going to
butcher his name, just de Visee. He was. He was an executive
at Karma, remember Karma Motor Cars, the hybrids and the EV's with the
solar panels. Da da da da. He comes from a different car company.
No tie to Delriia Motor Company at all, which is not and I'm
not saying that as a knock necessarily. I'm sure he's very competent and in
all that, but it's not. There's nothing about the Alpha five that has
any kind of direct link to the original DeLorean other than it was kind of
a spin off of DMC, which of itself is not directly linked to Delorian.
It's like it's part of the cluster. It's part of the quagmire.
So that's the ev which really doesn't is not if you look at it,
it's not heritage of the Delrii motor car has nothing to do with John Delorian,
nothing about it. So Kat Delaurian with Deloorian X generation building her Delorian
hopefully if all goes right off of a C eight Corvette chassis, makes all
the sense of the world. And I will continue that thought in the next
segment because I see we're coming up to the break here. But basically,
for people who remember, John Delaurian got his start at General Motors. He
was going to be the vice president of General Motors before he decided to start
his own car company and make the DMC twelve. John Delorian invented the gto.
He invented the muscle car. That was John Delorian at General Motors.
So there's a Chevy tie in there that we'll talk about here in a minute.
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So I was talking about Delorian in the quagmire that is Delorian in all iterations
right now, and I will get to what it means for me as a
longtime owner of a Delorian. I've owned my nineteen eighty three Delorians in July
two thousand, I was talking about Cat Delorian and Delorian next generation in that
at the moment, that's kind of the most direct lineage, the most authentic
DeLorean idea, i'll call it at the moment going because it's Cat Delorian,
it's John Delorian's daughter who is spearheading this whole thing, and they want to
make the new DeLorean based on the C eight Corvette chassis, which is a
mid engine chassis. It is a Chevy slash General Motors product, which is
where John Delorian worked and where he was going to be the vice president of
before he started his own motor company. John Delorian invented the gto, he
invented the muscle car. We can argue that back and forth all day long.
But he invented the gto. Hence inventing the muscle car. Wasn't it
based off a tempest. It was like a tempe Chevy tempest with or Pontiac
tempest with a big, giant V eight motor in it. So anyways,
John Delorian, that's his heritage is very very tightly bound up in General Motors.
So the fact that Kat Delourian wants to make the continue the family name
of DeLorean motor Cars and make a new DeLorean based on a mid engined Chevy
chassis, the Corvette C eight chassis makes all the sense in the world.
That is perfectly in line with what her dad wanted. The original concept for
the original DeLorean back when it was first penn to paper in the mid nineteen
seventies, was for a mid engine and sports car. But then you have
the oil embargo, you have the EPA and everything that it was happening in
the late seventies oil crisis. All that he decided the sison was made to
move the engine to a rear mounted engine over the rear transactional and the PRVV
six was not John Delorian's first choice, but it was an abundant engine and
some specs tuned up to over eight hundred horsepower. For Lehman's versions of the
PRVV six was it was a bottom the engine itself, the base of the
engine itself. The stock engine was a very formidable, very tried and true
platform. But after the United States EPA got ahold of it and all the
restrictions. In some iterations it was eight hundred horsepower and the DeLorean DMC twelve
it was sucked all the way back to like one hundred and thirty horse power,
one hundred and twenty eight horse power and one hundred and sixty four pounds
of torque thereabouts. It was absolutely asthmatic, choked by the government, and
it was just a terrible time to build and come out with a sports car.
John Delorian. The nineteen eighty four Deloorian was going to be a twin
turbo. It was going to finally output the power John Delorian, the inventor
of the muscle car, had envisioned for it. So the fact that Cat
Delaurian wants to continue the legacy of Deloorian and build the next generation DeLorean,
complete with going doors on a Chevy Corvette C eight chassis mid engine with four
hundred sum odd horsepower close to five hundred horsepower whatever, that is exactly in
line with John Deloorian's vision. So Cat Delorean's DeLorean, the Delorian next generation
is like the most pure lineage in my opinion, just in my opinion of
the original DeLorean motor car that her father created back in the late seventies and
came to production in the early eighties. So that's that it's actually really cool.
At first, when I heard Cat Delaurian wants to build her new DeLorean
Delorian next generation on the chassis of a C eight Corvette, I was like,
eh, that Like that gives me vibes of kit car. You know,
that gives me vibes of of I don't know, it seemed, But
at the same time, more I thought about it, took me by two
seconds to think about it, I was like, wait a second, that
makes all the sense in the world. Actually, it is. As much
as I love EV's I daily drive an EV as a commuter, as a
commuter back and forth to work. EV is great for a sports car,
I'm gonna want some some dinosaurs burning in the engine, or a renewable version
of dinosaur juice burning in the engine. And that's what the C eight Corvette
is. It's a V eight producing darn near five hundred horsepower, if not
more in some iterations. I don't know what the sting Ray produces. May
be a little bit more than that, but it's it's pure. And so
the deloreon on a GM with a V eight. Please God, please,
God in Heaven, please give it a manual trans mission. Please make that
an option. For the love of God, please please, can we have
a manual transmission in the next generation DeLorean based on the C eight. Oh
my gosh. I would probably put in a deposit, at least spiritually put
a deposit down for that version of the DeLorean, so that I'm rooting for
cat DeLorean to actually make the next generation DeLorean come to life, bring it
to market. It's way easier said than done. I have about ninety nine
percent expectation that it will not come to market and a one percent reality check
that it probably will come to market. That's just it's so hard to break
into the automotive market. Speaking of that, let's talk about the Alpha five
from the Delorian Motor Company. I've gave my piece about that. It's not
a truly authentic lineage of Delorian. Deloorian Motor Company took pre order's deposits of
the Alpha five as oh gosh NFTs and when they announced that they were going
to take deposits and NFT is basically an exchange for I don't know what the
dollar amount was, a thousand dollars deposit, whatever you get in exchange,
an NFT A non fungible transaction or whatever it's called. Basically, you owned
something digital. You own pixels. The idea is, the concept was that
you own pixels. It's not real, it's nothing based in reality. It
is pure fabrication. It's pixels on a screen, and somehow they say you
own it. And Delorian Motor Company wasn't the only entity guilty of This was
part of Bitcoin and the collapse of cryptocurrency, which cryptocurrency hasn't gone away completely.
Namptens haven't gone away, but the bubble is popped. The bubble is
popped, and everyone on Earth saw the crypto collapse and NFT collapse coming.
Everybody on Earth, with their head screwed on straight, knew that NFTs and
crypto were a bad ida, bad idea for actual future investment. Terrible.
But that's what at least partly de Lori Motor Company did with the Alpha five.
Hey buy a thousand dollars deposit on the new Alpha five whenever it comes
out, and we'll and you'll give you to you as an NFT. You'll
own this NFT, you'll own these pixels based on nothing, based on a
wish, based on nothing, no value in there for real, just based
on like faith in a monetary system, which I understand the oxymoron of that,
and our whole entire world banking system is based on faith that this dollar
bill is actually backed by gold, which it isn't. It's based on nothing.
We all have faith in it credits faith. You don't get your paychecks
in paycheck form anymore. It all just gets deposit digitally and direct deposit.
You never see it die. You can go your whole life. Now you
can go your whole year without ever touching cash. It is all just in
the cloud, so to speak. But not to get to sidetracked. Dellary
Motor Company was taken deposits and offering NFTs for it, and it was just
bad news, bad bad, bad, bad, bad bad bad news.
So now there are rumbles and I don't want you to take I want you
to research this yourself because it's ever changing. Lo and behold shocked to no
one. There is trouble in the waters of bringing the new DeLorean Alpha five
to market. Turns out it's real hard to bring a new electric car to
market, bring any car to market. It's very hard. And then when
you try to, you gave away your deposits. It's an NFTs and it's
not based on real money. There's no real money anywhere. People who'd made
deposits with NFTs or otherwise are like, hey, when are we going to
get a DeLorean Alpha five. Delri Motor Company is saying, we hey about
yeah about that, stay tuned. It's we're running into issues. There's no
way they're gonna release on time. Absolutely freaking no way. This is gonna
be cyber truck all over again. Remember when Elon Musk announced the cyber truck
in twenty nineteen for purchase in twenty twenty two. Do y'all have your cyber
trucks yet? Those of you whom deposits, have you gone to the Tesla
store or online to order your cyber truck yet doesn't exist. Turn, it's
very hard to make an EV, especially such an ambitious EV, as Elon
Musk is very very well aware of. Now what year is a twenty twenty
three, almost twenty twenty four. We don't have a twenty twenty two cyber
truck as was promised in twenty nineteen. And that is what's happening to Delriian
Motor Company with the Alpha five. It's it's vaporware at this point. There's
no idea when it's ever going to come out. If it ever comes out,
turns out it's very hard to do so cat Delaurian is up against that
challenge with Delaurian X generation. Delriian Motor Company proper is up against that challenge
of actually bringing a new EV to market. So there's a third in this
quagmire. There's a third outlier in the whole delarean story here and that is
DeLorean DMC Classic. They have just announced. It's really cool the Delory Gto.
This takes a DeLorean as we know it, the nineteen eighty one through
nineteen eighty three DeLorean, the classic DeLorean, and does a whole flip in.
It's a resto mod is what it is. But it uses original zero
mile crate PrV engines. Remember when I said there are PrV engines that have
been tuned up to over close to nine hundred horsepower and still holds the speed
record straightaway speed record before the Chicaanes at Lamon's. That same engine has been
tuned up. And I love this is one part of this aspect of the
DeLorean Gto that I actually love. I actually love that they keep the PrV
V six engine in there. But they understand the potential of it, they
understand the tuning capabilities of it, and they have tuned it up accordingly,
which I'll get into a little bit of numbers and speculation in the next segment.
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there. So the DeLorean quagmire, and I need to get to my personal
kind of what this means for me as an owner here in this segment because
it's the four segment and can wrap it up soon. So the Deloorian gto
is the third player in this game. So we have Cat DeLorean with Delorian
next generation with her C eight corvette based Delorian project. Then you have Delrii
Motor Company making the Alpha five e V Delorian Giant question mark as of whether
or not that'll come out in Giant question mark if Cat Deloorians Delorian will ever
come out. The third player in this Delorian game, capitalizing on this about
to pop bubble of hype in my prediction, DeLorean hype is the DeLorean gto
from Delrii Motor Company Classic or Deloorian Classic DM or Classic DMC, however you
want to call it. It's just a mess. It's a mess of Deloorian
companies right now. It's a freaking mess of Delorian companies. But the DeLorean
gto. One of my favorite parts about it is that it's going to use
the why this has the most kind of promise of something actually being delivered to
customers at some point, versus the EV versus the ca Corvette based DeLorean,
which looks awesome. By the way, the Cat Delorian's Delorian next generation caight
Corvette version of the DeLorean looks I almost said the F word straight up.
Looks freaking amazing. It looks awesome. It looks so much better than the
Alpha five. In my opinion, nothing looks better than the original DeLorean DMC
twelve though, and that's what the DeLorean GTO is the Delarean gto. Here's
the big speck that matters the engine. My favorite part about it is it
uses this the PRVV six, and a lot of you just joining the show
right now might be like that engine was a dog, blah blah blah.
I'll just reiterate that that PRVV six has been used in millions of vehicles from
all sorts of different manufacturers and has been tuned upwards of nine hundred horsepower and
still holds the speed record at La Precha Cane Laments. So Delorian Motor DMC
classic understands that the PrV is a bulletproof engine, that it can be tuned
to whatever you want it. So they are super charging it just like John
Delorian wanted envisioned. They are supercharging it to three hundred and fifty horse power,
which, let me remind you, the DeLorean DMC twelve weighs about twenty
nine hundred pounds. It weighs the same amount as the super Rubierz Toyota GT
eighty six or the Scion, the defunct Scion FRS. That's a very common
car. You see out there from Toyota's Zuzuki has their version Da Da Da.
It's it's a very popular sports car. It weighs the same amount.
The Delaurian DMC twelve weighs less than three thousand pounds. It wasn't a heavy
car. It just the engine was underpowered for what it was in original spec.
I've always said, and I may have said it on geek their periodo
before. In my opinion, having been in Deloorians that have been supercharged in
stage three and all that kind of stuff, that about three hundred, three
hundred fifty horsepower is the perfect number, the absolute perfect number in a DeLorean
that brings zero to sixty to lord between three and five seconds, four seconds,
maybe a little less than four seconds the transmission can hand. That's about
the upper limits of what the Renault transmission can handle. Anyway. I'm sure
that the DeLorean GTO transmission has been bolstered, has been strengthened. But the
engine is three hundred and fifty horse power from the PRVV six. It's a
supercharged PRVV six three hundred and fifty horse power. Of course, there's upgraded
suspension. I mentioned this is kind of a restomod, kind of situation.
The suspension is upgraded not only to cure handling issues, but also handle the
power of the engine. I'm sure that the transmission has been bolstered. The
interior has been, in my opinion, reasonably tastefully kept, kind of with
original vibes. I would say, but it's digital dash, which I'd be
okay if they kept the dash analog. But it's twenty twenty three. What
are you gonna do? Resto model? Right, So the dash is digital,
So you have review cameras, you have Apple, Carpelay, Android Auto,
all that good stuff. It's just every modern amenity of a modern car.
It's just you're driving a DeLorean. The bones of it are Delorian.
The bones of Deloorian weren't bad to begin with. They weren't terrible to begin
with. It was an X frame chassis from Lotus, the same chassis as
the early eighties Lotus' Spreeze. They were brother and sister vehicles. I needed
a little bit of reinforcement on the sway bar up front. You can put
a bar between the tops of the struts and get more rigidity out of it.
I'm sure that the Delarey gto addresses all these issues. I'm not a
massive fan. If you maybe i'll put it as a thumbnail of this podcast.
I'm not a massive fan of the piano, black trim, body,
trim, arrow of the car, aerodynamics of the car. Not a huge
fan of that. I wish they would have kept the X tier a little
bit more modern. I'm not, personally, in my opinion, a huge
fan of the bigger wheels, although I understand it. The bigger wheels look
like Deloorian wheels. They you know, they they're the I don't know what
you call the spoke, the spoky rims. They're bigger to handle, they
handle better, handle the engine power better, handle the handling better. So
I understand why the tires are bigger. The original car had fifteens in the
back and fourteens up front. So to any younger person listening to this right
now, just because you have fifteen inch rims on the back, the tires
were massive. In fact, the weird tires on the DeLorean what is it
fifteen? What are the dimension They're small truck tires. They're big, fat
wide radials. They're massive tires. Just because the rim is small doesn't mean
that the whole wheel is small then put you put giant tires back there because
that's where the engine is and everything like that, and then upfront you have
the smaller tires. It makes all the sense in the world. You look
at, it's visually appealing, smaller tires up front, big giant, fat
tires on the back, awesome looking. So the Dolouring Gto has rims that
are much bigger. I don't know if they match in diameter front to back.
They look from looking at it looks like they kind of do. Maybe
it's like twenties in the back and nineteens in the front, something like that,
but they're much bigger. They're modern looking rims with fat and skinny tires
on it. I don't think it helps the ascetic in my personal opinion.
I wish, you know, they could have kept it a little smaller,
a little more original. But I but I get it completely. The tires,
especially in the rear of an original Delorian, there aren't. You can
get them easily. You go to tire rack dot com and get them all
day long, but they're not a ton of options and they're not a ton
of manufacturers. That's not an extremely common tire size to get anymore. So
I understand going with a little bit more common tire size, rim size.
I get it. It just doesn't look as as great to me. But
the fact that they are keeping the DeLorean running on dinosaur juice or renewable dinosaur
juice, whatever you want to put in there is cool. It's kind of
savings. It's a muscle car by every stretch of the imagination. It's a
Supercharge B six now with manual transmissions or automatic transmissions. But like you can
still get a Delorian with part of my French kick ass power three hundred and
fifty horsepower DeLorean gto awesome. I'm gonna try my darnest to do a review
of one or do a ride along in one. I love of all three.
Of all three, I can take or leave the Alpha five ev I
really I thought i'd care about it more, but I don't. Actually,
I really hope and wish all the luck in the world. Maybe they'll have
Cat, Maybe I will try to have Cat DeLorean on the show to talk
about it. But I wish her all the luck in the world. And
bringing the Delorian next generation to market based on the C eight Corvette. But
I also like that that the Classic. Delrium Motor Company is offering the DMC
GTO with three hundred and fifty supercharged horsepower from the original engine. I think
that's awesome. I think that's really cool. What it means for me as
an owner now all the DeLorean hubbub and fluff is that DMC Classic is so
big in the breeches that I it's hard for me to get simple work done
on it. I would like to restore my car, but the lee time
is so far out because they're so busy with things that me, as an
owner, it's hard to get DMC Classic to service my vehicle anymore. I'll
have to double check on that, but anyways, it's just kind of it's
kind of made things difficult for original owners now in my experience thus far.
So it's cool all the hype about DeLorean, that there's three different DeLorean cars
now hoping to come out, and it's like, well, I've got an
original and I just want the freaking the clutch cylinder fixed, but it's hard
to do anyways. At that's the end of the show. You are worthy
of love. I say this every episode. You are worthy of love.
You're worthy of giving love, you are worthy of receiving love and listen to
me, you are worthy of your own self respect. Thank you so much
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