Category: Miscellaneous

While showing my car at a local car show, someone stopped to talk about the car, and was asking a lot of detailed questions. Sure enough, he’s a writer for RoadKill.com! The writer, Eric, asked about writing an article on the car. In September, we got together after several emails. We did a photoshoot, and an interview. In November 2016, it was published!

Check it out: http://www.roadkill.com/great-scott-hung-delorean-national-laboratory/

Roadkill has become one of my favorite shows. It is a big honor that there’s an article about my car, and me, on Roadkill.com!
Thank you, Eric!

My original carpet was looking ratty, and my car was also missing the board below the carpet. I decided to make a new board that would replace the carpet. It also needs cutouts for the strut bar that I use in the trunk. I traced a friend’s trunk board:

Then, I cut it out with a jigsaw. I cleaned up the cuts with a rotary tool, and roughed up the surface with some sandpaper:

Next I coated it with Duplicolor Undercoating. The undercoating didn’t spray evenly, and I got some globs in random places. I ended up purposely making more globs, trying to even it out and complete the look:

Not bad for the cost.

My taillights were cracked, and dull from a decade of neglect and abuse in the hot Georgia sun. The removable piece from one taillight was even melted from a bulb!?!?


  
I had become jealous of the glassy, perfect appearance of the taillights on other Deloreans. So I found a good deal on some used, but good condition taillight housings. They don’t appear faded, and only have light surface scratches:

Newer taillights before cleaning:

To clean them, I would fill them with hot water, and drain them, removing all the dirt and bugs.
Cleaning Tip: You can clean all the grooves between the lenses with an old toothbrush, which should not scratch the plastic.

After a soap and water cleaning, they looked better. Some light surface scratches visible

After some buffing with Meguiar’s PlastX, any dirt has now been removed, and the scratches are gone. They really pop!

The polish really removes any deep dirt. The white terrycloth towel used to be clean.

Old housings on the left, newer on the right:

With new taillight housings costing $300, I saved some money, and I’m very happy with the results. As for my previous taillight housings, I might try to sand off any imperfections, and black them out. That should cover up the cracks. If they turn out nice, I would swap housings whenever I felt like it.

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My wife and I are proud owners of a new house with a 3 car garage. Now we can keep all our cars garaged at home, and no more paying to store the D in a friend’s garage during the winter. The third bay was sectioned off for the previous owner’s workshop. I kinda like it: