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Lovely condition - recent refurbished wheels? (no black cap that I can see).
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Hi Dan
I dont know if they have been refurbished.
But they do look more dark grey then other deloreans they are
more silver grey.
Is this depending on the production year??
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It's the caps that make me think they were - early cars had dark grey wheels; later, silver. There is a split with regards to VIN (someone will chime in, I'm not sure). Usually though, as I've had a few sets of wheels refurbed, the caps can be done too - might not be the case here and it matters not. The car is very nice!
Dan
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These things can get swapped around over the years.
Imagine if a dealer, 20 years ago had a couple of cars in and one had a set of scruffy wheels or dodgy tyres…he'd just swap them…light grey / dark grey…what the heck and its anybodies guess which caps he'd stick on.
In the UK I've known several folk who had had the wheels refurbished in a different colour simply because they preferred them….or it was cheaper!
It still looks a decent car…..no matter what wheel colour it has
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Kinda my point
Dan
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Congratulations on living the Dream!
Looks a very nice car, my doors went up that high too on 6237 (Previous owner put on extra long struts) but the T Panel was marking the doors so I put new 'regular' struts on soon after buying it.
As stated by Chris P and the shipping manifest posted by Dermot, your car was on the first shipment that left Belfast on Easter Sunday 1981... An Historic Day!
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