Time-capsule DeLorean with only 309 miles emerges

We see time-capsule cars on a pretty regular basis, but they seldom happen to be proper time-travel cars as well. Of course we're talking about the DeLorean DMC-12, an automobile whose several thousand examples were believed to be largely accounted for. So imagine our surprise when we heard about a DeLorean recently found in a storage bay with delivery mileage on the clock and a mild layer of dust on its stainless-steel body.

This DeLorean turned up recently in California when a client visited "Corvette Mike" Vietro's shop to look at a 1966 Chevrolet Corvette 427 Coupe. The client was known to have a few eccentric cars in his collection, and he asked the owner of the shop if he were willing to take anything in trade. Vietro was willing to hear what he had to offer, and the prospective buyer quickly mentioned a 308-mile DeLorean. Vietro asked him to repeat himself, and he was surprised to hear that the client indeed had a delivery-mileage DeLorean DMC-12 sitting in a storage locker.

"Of course I told him I had an interest without being too overzealous," Vietro says. "It took some time, but the day finally came when the car showed up on a tow truck with all its years of dust and cobwebs, as one would expect. I was so thrilled that he didn't wash it. He is quite meticulous, so time must have been of the essence why he didn't as least dust it off."

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