My DeLorean Journal

Today I did a random search on craigslist for DeLorean, just to see if anyone had one for sale in Colorado - there were two.  The first one that caught my eye was titled "Delorean Must Sell"  There weren’t any pictures on the posting so I didn't know what it looked like but from the short description it seemed to be in good shape.  The date on the listing was Sep 8th, I thought,'There’s no way he still has this car if he’s selling it at that price' I called the number on the listing and left a message, I also sent him an email. 

I thought I could properly get a loan for it.  I didn't think that was going to be a problem. No, my problem was going to be convincing my wife that we had to buy this car.

Around 5:00, I get an email back from the guy and he says he still has it and I can come take a look at it.  He attached some pictures to the email.  I was just responding when I got a phone call from him.  I asked him a few questions about the car and set up a time to take a look at it the following day.  Up until this point I had not filled my wife in on my great find.  I told her about it and she knew it was my dream car, but had the classic response "Do we REALLY need another car?" I’ve never understood people who have 12 cars, but in this case "YES" we do "NEED" this car. (This would only be our third car, by the way). I told her I was just going to go look at it the next day and how, if the car was in good shape, it was an incredible deal!  I also informed her that if I were to get the loan and the car we could sell it at any point if the financial pressure got too great, and probably get a lot more for it!

So we both slept on it, though I could hardly sleep...