I can't help thinking...
...that a Delorean that could actually time travel would net a much higher price...
Doc Brown may have used his tool kit on the car many a time, but the DeLorean from Back to the Future is now going under a different kind of hammer. The time-travelling vehicle is up for auction later this year, wealthy fans of the film series will be excited to know. While seven cars were used over the course of the trilogy, …
I have one question... does it drive? I mean, how cool would it be to pull up outside your local fish & chip shop in that car, wearing a white coat and with electric-shock hair, and placing an order for "That 'cod and chips' that you did so well when I was a kid, please".
Dry ice optional.
I've seen at least one clone in the UK. People have bought old Delorean cars, stuck a load of silver spray-painted model kit bits to the bonnet and driven them to conventions and such like. Much like people by old Robin Reliants, spray them yellow and slap on the Trotter's Independent trading decals, make some pocket money showing them at conventions and school fetes.
Very nice and it's the version with the improvised "circuit" on the bonnet and retro wheel set, this just makes it more desirable.
I wonder if you get the train wheels that were used at the end of BTTF 3 too?
Admittedly the BTTF DeLoreans have to be one of the most iconic movie cars, right up there with the "Bullet" Mustang, [original] Batmobile, Mad Max Ford Falcon XB "Interceptor", Herbie and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang to name just a few of the most iconic movie mobiles
As most care lovers know, the DeLoreans were horribly unreliable and underpowered too. BTTF made the DeLorian "cool" and the Flux Capacitor and wind up alarm clock additions absolutely made us forget the just how pants the original cars were
It's good to know that some of the BTTF DeLoreans are still in good hands after all these years and hopefully the BTTF 3 version will end up in a collection being cherished as it so rightfully should be..
Thanks El Reg for helping us oldies keep track of our four wheeled icons..
Was that amount of dish customary in 1955 or did the Doc get his rims reversed before applying that fetching shade of brown and those whitewalls? Perhaps he was having calliper interference problems. It must have been tricky finding any wheels at all with a metric stud pattern in the US back then.
After going to all that trouble he could have chopped an inch or two out of the springs at the same time. :-/
So you object to the how they pronounced Gigawatt, then proceed to completly mis-spell fusion as n-u-c-l-e-a-r.
Then there's the small detail that the pronounciation used in the film is actually not only acceptable, but the officially prefered version.
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gigawatt
http://lamar.colostate.edu/~hillger/si-prefixes.html
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http://wheels.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/04/08/you-say-gigawatt-i-say-jigowatt/
No, the soft 'j' sound was a mistake in the script and has entered US folklore ever since.
Here in the US and Canada, we say gigawatt with a hard 'g' as in dog and gigabyte.
I have only ever heard the soft 'j' sound in BTTF.
The DMC DeLoran is a rubbish sports car:
Fibre glass body with thin easily dented stainless steel skin that also parts company.
Underpowered.
The whole exercise was a scam on the British taxpayer. I was there at the time and remember the mad amount of money he got because he claimed it would create loads of jobs in West Belfast. It never got anywhere near the target.
Nice comedy film.