Cupholder Installation:

One thing the DeLorean (and most cars in the 1980's) lacked was a cupholder. While this seemed insignificant to me for the first few years of ownership, I got tired of wedging bottles of water between the seat and the doorsill. There had to be a classier way of using drinks in the car...

I looked at various cupholders online for boats and marine applications, and they all seemed cheap and not terribly easy to use while driving. They required you to open the holder and manually flip up the part that grips the can or bottle. I wanted something that worked in one simple step.

I found what I was looking for online, and it turns out the cupholders I liked were out of a Mercedes SL-500 and other newer Mercedes models.

This wasn't one of the cheap looking plastic holders I had seen elsewhere, and the price didn't reflect this either. Compared to other holders, this was 5 or 6 times the price.

Once they arrived, I was surprised to see that they were a little wider than I had expected (over 1 inch wide when closed). I also was having a hard time finding where to mount them. Other aftermarket holders for the DeLorean are commonly made to hang off of the passenger side of the center console. I held one of mine up to see how it would look there, and I wasn't happy. There was no way to make it hang down straight without making a bracket, and I wasn't willing to clutter up the console with them.

I held one up to the doorsill, and I was very happy with how it looked. I decided this was where I would install the cupholders. Drinks would be within easy reach, and when not used, the cupholders wouldn't stand out too much.