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Each new DeLorean owner received a letter from John Z DeLorean thanking them for their purchase and although I don’t have the actual letter for this particular car, the sample here is close enough
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Fellow DeLorean owner Alistair Vanstone put me in touch with an eBayer in 2008 who had bought the original factory Window sticker for VIN 5255 on eBay around 4 years earlier and was now relisting it. I secured it for $25 and have carefully stored ever since. The high quality scan to the left is how well it has survived
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DMC Houston has the record of the orignal buyer and shows that VIN 5255 was initally sold in Florida. When I bought the car in 2002 it had been imported to the UK in 2000 from Arizona. To this day, I still have no knowledge or history of the car from 1981 to 2000. Considering it only had around 6000 miles on it when I bought it then it would suggest it spent many of its years as an investment rather than a daily driver
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Many of the workers at Dunmurry would leave ‘cave paintings’ on the underside of the roof section of the gullwing doors and for my car a well known Scottish pop rock band featured
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