An Illinois car restoration company found an original 1981 DeLorean car with less than 1,000 miles on it.
A Wisconsin man helped a Crystal Lake car restoration company unearth an original 1981 DeLorean in Waukesha County.The blast from the past sat in a barn, untouched and undriven for almost 20 years. The 42-year-old vehicle still has all its original parts from 1981, and it only 977 miles on it.Michael McElhattan is the owner of DeLorean Midwest, a car restoration company in Illinois. He said he got wind of the hidden treasure by a phone call all the way from New Mexico.
"He said he would go out in the barn and just look at it, cause he thought it was a really cool car," McElhattan said. "It happened pretty quick, because once I found out the car was close, and it was a low mileage car, I was excited to go take a look." The nephew of the car's original owner told McElhattan they were looking to sell the piece of history.
So McElhattan, along with his social media coordinator, Kevin Thomas, made the trip to the barn to see their dream car. When they got there, they found more than they bargained for. "We open it up, and the first thing I saw was a mouse go running across the center console," McElhattan said."The condition of the leather, the condition of the instruments cluster in the dash, and a lot of places where you see sun damage, and that"s one of the big killers on this," McElhattan said. "This car virtually has no sun damage.
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