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A De Lorean/American Express promotion planned to sell one-hundred 24k gold plated DMC-12s for $85,000 each to its gold card members, but only two were sold. One of these was purchased by Roger Mize, president of Snyder National Bank. VIN #4301 sat in the bank lobby for over 20 years before being loaned to the Petersen Automotive Museum of Los Angeles. It has black rather than the saddle brown interior and an automatic transmission.[27]

The second gold-plated DMC-12 is located at the William F. Harrah Foundation/National Automobile Museum in Reno, Nevada. [28] It is the only one of the three gold cars to be equipped with a manual transmission, has 1,442 miles and a VIN #4300.

There exists a third gold-plated car with 636 miles that carries the VIN plate for the last production De Lorean, #20105. [29] This car was assembled with spare parts that were required by American Express. All necessary gold plated pieces were on hand with the exception of one door. After gold plating another door, the car was assembled. This door does not precisely match the rest of the car in color and grain.[30] acquired through a raffle held by a department store owned by Consolidated International. (Consolidated had bought 1,374 DeLoreans during their financial troubles and bought the remaining stock after the company went into recievership.) Held by a private owner in LaVale Maryland, it is currently for sale at the price of $250,000. Both this car and the one in Reno have saddle-brown leather interiors. This was intended to become an option on later production cars, but these two cars were the only ones to be so equipped from the factory. The insurance costs were approximately $1,000 per month (1981) and a small dent in the body could potentially cost as much as $24,000 to repair.

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