Even the earlier Foxbody style has a resemblance.
Posted on 01/20/2019 7:09:01 PM PST by Zhang Fei
The speedometer climbs as we race down a straightaway in Humble, Texas. As the needle edges to 60, 70, then 80 miles per hour, the 36-year-old automobile rattles and the wind whistles through the windows. Finally the DeLorean zooms up to 88 miles per hour and we feel, just for a moment, like we've gone back to the future.
Then, a series of loud honks from the other side of the road, followed by animated waving, awaken us out of our speed spell. “We get that all the time," says DeLorean Motor Company CEO Stephen Wynne, sitting shotgun. “That doesn’t happen with any other car.”
After our speed reverie, we pull back into DMC’s Texas headquarters, located in this Houston suburb. It’s a wet November day and DeLoreans line the parking lot. “It’s the only lot in the country where you see this many DeLoreans at any given time,” Wynne says.
The open garage door reveals cars in different stages of repair, some exposing their rear engine and others with their gullwing doors open, steel birds ready to take flight. In all, three dozen DeLoreans are scattered in and out of Wynne’s DMC headquarters, all in the midst of being repaired and restored to their former glory.
The DeLorean DMC-12 is more than a movie prop or simple automobile; it’s a long, strange legacy wrapped in stainless steel. That legacy, buoyed by the ongoing love for the Back to the Future films, keeps the car in the public imagination, and gave Wynne the ammunition to pursue a plan that's much more ambitious than simply getting a 36-year-old car back on the road. He wants to build a brand new DeLorean, one created in the present using the road map of the past.
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“Why don’t you make like a tree....and get out of here!”
My neighbor’s in-laws owned one.
Was given the opportunity to drive it.
What a lousy driving/handling vehicle.
Just sayin’.
Good point, but why? They always looked like a rolling dustpan to me.
With BTTF clips, stills and inuendos, the car will sell just because of the magic of Back To The Future.
Imagine they DO use the word(s) "flux capacitor" in their advertising !!
Even the earlier Foxbody style has a resemblance.
They do look great to me so a new improved Delorean would be awesome in my opinion with or without the flux capacitor.
I think that was one of the “grabs” of the Delorean ... it was so ‘Stang lookin’
[The last one I recall seeing on the road was in Savannah about 17 years ago. It was hand painted, with brushstrokes visible from 20 feet away. Evidently it had been crashed, and instead of getting new body panels they hammered and bondo’d it back into an approximation of its original form, then painted it.]
There’s a shop just down the street from me that rebuilds and maintains them. They have a large warehouse of scrap cars and parts.
Oops, looks like owner Don Steger moved it to H.B.
https://www.manta.com/c/mmdq337/delorean-motor-center
He was offering a turbo kit for a while. I make the J&S SafeGuard knock control ignition, so in 1995, he asked me to make a version for the De Lorean’s odd fire six cylinder engine. It worked great, but he didn’t sell many kits.
If space under the hood limits to a V6 or smaller, I recommend the V4 supercharged engine I had in my Chrysler LeBaron. With the blower going, I beat a Mustang V8 off a traffic light. He grumbled he needed a tuneup, but that little V4 could boogie like a V8.
We bought the house we’re in 21 years ago. Our neighbor had a DeLorean. He loved that thing. He was a dentist, our dentist, for many years. He had a heart attack and got very sick. His son sold the car. That was about 10 years ago.
Did it also have rich Corinthian leather?
“The real question to ask is: Will the new DeLoreans come with working Flux Capacitors?”
They must have bought them up because Oreilly Auto Parts is out of stock again.
https://www.oreillyauto.com/flux-capacitor?q=flux%20capacitor
No, but the supercharger ran so hot, it burned the paint off the center of the hood.
My kind of car.
My favorite's from the Cisco Kid.
Pancho: Come on Cisco. Let's went!
I don't know. I'm not one of the 5000.
I heard about those before. Cool. We need a couple.
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