DELOREAN DMC-12 COUPE 1983 - FULLY RESTORED BY PJ GRADY -RHD

We proudly present this rare and beautiful RHD DeLorean DMC-12 Coupe, finished in Brushed Stainless Steel with contrasting Grey Leather interior trim.

Originally supplied to the USA as many DeLorean's were, this example was exported from DMC Midwest in Illinois back to the UK in 2019, the car then went to Chris Nicholson at PJ Grady renowned DeLorean experts for a full restoration.

After a considerable amount of time and money was spent on the car it was completed in 2022 this included carrying out a conversion from LHD to RHD (a nod to the 3 RHD cars produced by the factory). The owner then used the car sparingly before putting the car into storage, in 2024 was then sent to Iain Tyrell Classic cars in Cheshire for a service and some additional work to be carried out.

All 3 RHD cars produced at the factory had the registration number prefix of AXI, this fine example is supplied with registration number AXI 1983 marking the year of its production, this was added by the current owner at a cost of £2500.

The car is supplied with a full photographic library of the full restoration as well as a presentation book by PJ Grady. Two sets of keys plus the wallet key.

The DeLorean Story is quite remarkable, DeLorean DMC-12 became and remained famous as the time-traveling car in the "Back to the Future" movie, but the actual automobile was infamous for years before Marty McFly stepped inside one in 1985. And, though the fiction is better remembered today, the real story of the DeLorean is just as dramatic.

First of all, DeLorean was a real person: John Z. DeLorean, who was breathlessly covered by the 1970s press as a renegade General Motors exec who bucked the corporate establishment and set off on his own, and then shared his remembrances of the automaker in a book. A few years later, however, it became clear that he wasn’t out of the auto game, In 1977, DeLorean said that he was hoping to go into business producing his own sports car. Though he estimated at the time that he could have the car ready by the next year, it wasn’t until 21st January 1981 that the first DeLorean DMC-12 was produced.

Months before the cars would be available, it was clear that DeLorean was going big, for the holiday season of 1980, the American Express catalogue advertised a DeLorean plated in 24-carat gold going for $85,000.

Shaped like a flying wedge, the entry to its luxuriously appointed interior is through gull-wing doors that tilt up instead of swinging out.

By October of 1980, seven people had put down a deposit on a golden DeLorean.

Though the 1980 car market wasn’t exactly solid gold, the lavish DeLorean style didn’t stop at the cars themselves. A 1983 book later charged that John DeLorean ran up expenses on the company even after it was clear the cars wouldn’t be a big hit. In April of 1981, he bought a new house in what was then one of the largest residential real-estate deals in New Jersey history. But by the time the company hit its first production anniversary, it was in trouble. In October of 1982, DeLorean closed.

DeLorean was charged with cocaine trafficking after FBI informant James Hoffman solicited him as financier in a scheme to sell 100 kg of cocaine worth approximately $24 million. DMC was insolvent at the time and $17 million in debt. Hoffman had approached DeLorean, a man whom he barely knew with no prior criminal record, and DeLorean was able to successfully defend himself at trial under the procedural defense of police entrapment. The trial ended in a not guilty verdict in August 1984, by which time DMC had filed for bankruptcy and ceased operations. But it was too late for the car. Only about 9,000 of the cars were ever produced.

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