Technically both cars are "plastic". The body panels of both cars are
fiberglass. The Bricklin is skinned with a thin shell of acrylic. The
Delorean is skinned with a thin shell of stainless steel. Incidentally, I
had a chance to examine a Delorean in England because the company I was
working for made the exterior mirrors. I like the Bricklin better, though
I admit that a mid-engine would have been nice.
George Schiro
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> From: KTT <bubbaape@loop.com>
> To: bricklin@autox.team.net
> Subject: Interesting story
> Date: Saturday, March 06, 1999 8:38 PM
>
> I drove up to a mail box in Santa Monica at the 5th street branch and a
> scroungy lookin guy walks exclaiming 'hey thats a Bricklin.' I said yes
> it is, its a 74 (after he asked what year it was). I thought he was
> going to say hey nice car but he instead started to insist that 'thats a
> plastic car, a Delorean is stainless steel'. Thats just a plastic car, a
> Delorean is a steel car. He stated this as he stumbled on down the
> street. Remeber that he was dressed in shabby garb with unwashed hair
> wiping his nose on his arm and wore beat up fingerless gloves. I thought
> that arguing the point with him would be futile so I said adois and have
> a nice day while he sneered at me as I drove away. (This is LA after
> all, land of cretins in abundance.)
>
>
> Moral of the story, shabby disturbed cretins are into Deloreans.
> Relatively successful well adjusted folks are into Bricklins.
>
> KTT
>
>
> PS this is the only diparaging remark Ive ever had about mine or any
> Bricklin Ive ever experienced.
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