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Delorean Time Machine Replica Up For Auction

Posted by simoniker on from the j-fox-not-included dept.

PunkerTFC writes "I'm sure most of you remember the movie Back To The Future. Well, now you have a chance to own your very own 1982 Delorean, fully equipped for time travel. It has a "Flux Capacitor", "Time Circuits" and "exterior Flux Dispersion Banding". This thing is clearly a chick magnet, and if you can't get them on the first pass, you can always crank it up to 88 mph and go back in time to try it again! Seriously though, this car is amazing, definitely worth a look to see the details. Nothing has been missed, and my hat goes off to the builder."

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  1. Mr. Fusion? by grahamlee · · Score: 5, Funny

    This baby lacks a Mr. Fusion. I take it that the car also doesn't fly for use in 2015... :-(. Oh well, whoever buys it has much happy modding ahead of them!

    1. Re:Mr. Fusion? by Lussarn · · Score: 5, Funny

      This baby lacks a Mr. Fusion.
      Time to call the libyans. I'm going to send them a bomb full of pinball parts.

    2. Re:Mr. Fusion? by Catiline · · Score: 4, Funny
      No, no, no!!! The obvious lack of a Mr. Fusion is a good thing!

      It means you can beg off giving rides through time because Homeland Security has made it impossible to obtain enough Plutonium!

      With a Mr. Fusion you'd just have to give some lamer, cheap excuse....
      --
      Do you like Japanese imports?
    3. Re:Mr. Fusion? by portwojc · · Score: 5, Funny

      Well that would be an upgrade accesory kit along with the hover conversion. I'm sure if you ask nicely you can find out what year you need to visit for the update.

  2. 99% certainty the buyer is ... by Hekatchu · · Score: 5, Funny

    Somehow I've got a feeling Steve Ballmer is going to buy that thing too.

  3. good job. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    way to fuck up a perfectly nice and rare car.

    1. Re:good job. by PepsiProgrammer · · Score: 4, Funny

      At least it isnt a ricer.

      --
      "The United States has no right, no desire, and no intention to impose our form of government on anyone else." - Bush 05
    2. Re:good job. by Amiga+Lover · · Score: 5, Funny

      At least it isnt a ricer.

      Are you kidding? with that amount of neon, this is the ORIGINAL ricer!. All others are fakes!

  4. Try again? by nmoog · · Score: 5, Funny
    This thing is clearly a chick magnet, and if you can't get them on the first pass, you can always crank it up to 88 mph and go back in time to try it again!
    Sorry, but if your cup of poison is building a replica of nerd car from a movie from the 80's, then its going to take more than a few trips back in time to score with a chick...
    1. Re:Try again? by luminea · · Score: 5, Funny

      Speaking as a chick...if you've got the ability to travel back through time, let me tell you: you are hot. Dead sexy, even. Alas, replicas just don't do it for me. But it's still pretty cute...

    2. Re:Try again? by nmoog · · Score: 4, Funny

      Unless of course you go back in time to your childhood, put a pair of headphones on yourself from the past, played yourself Korn until you scared your shelf shitless and convinced yourself to smash your C64 and kick your little eating-peanut-butter-from-the-jar habbit.

      Ofcourse, if you could do that you most likely wouldnt be reading this. Best not to mess with the space time continueum I guess.

    3. Re:Try again? by D-Cypell · · Score: 5, Funny

      Well I have the ability to travel forward in time...

      Your place or mine? ;o)

  5. It has to be said,,, by ZaMoose · · Score: 4, Funny

    Great Scott!

    There. Now I've gotten that out of my system.

    --
    I wish I had a kryptonite cross, because then you could keep Dracula and Superman away.
    1. Re:It has to be said,,, by AgentUSA · · Score: 4, Funny

      There's that word again; "heavy". Why are things so heavy in the future? Is there a problem with the earth's gravitational pull?

  6. Corrections by SimianOverlord · · Score: 5, Funny

    This thing is clearly a chick magnet, and if you can't get them on the first pass, you can always crank it up to 88 mph and go back in time to try it again!

    Please use phrases in the story outline the average slashdotter can understand. All this talk of "chicks" and making a "pass" is incomprehensible gobbledegook to the average Slashdot nerd. Though "you can always crank it" is perfectly OK.

    P.S. The birds won't be impressed by a replica DeLorean, just like they were probably unimpressed with a glow in the dark TRON costume. Except that hacker goth chick Raven.

    --
    Meine Schwester ist sehr, sehr reizvoll - Nietzsche
  7. The good technology always dies by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    What a pity Deloreans never came into the full success they deserved.

    Stainless steel body that couldn't rust. Light, efficient and well designed midmount engine. Gullwing doors. Brilliant weighting and suspension that were 10 years ahead of what was in anything but supercars...

    The fact that so many great ideas start off in this country and are killed before they can get the success they deserve is what's driving america down the drain

  8. Yep by OriginalChops · · Score: 5, Funny

    Car is amazing... But I think I'll stick to my flying train...

  9. Replacement parts? by adamofgreyskull · · Score: 4, Funny

    Does anyone know the availability of replacement parts in this time-line? Willing to travel up to 15 years. Cash waiting.

  10. Yeah.... by HiQ · · Score: 5, Funny

    Imagine that: stepping out of that car in your brand spanking new spandex Tron suite. The girls would be over you like bees on honey...!

  11. old or new? by dragonfly28 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Is this the old one or the new one?
    To put it in different words do I have to feed it plutonium or bananas?

    If it's plutonium then it has too be overpriced, really difficult to get at your local gas station.

    But seriously, nice job man!

  12. My goodness by jabbadabbadoo · · Score: 4, Funny

    This guy obviously banged his head in the toilet.

  13. Chick Magnet by Bricklets · · Score: 4, Funny

    This thing is clearly a chick magnet

    Maybe if you filled the cup holders full of chicken feed.

    --
    Little Bricklets
  14. Re:The 80's .. by Ralp · · Score: 5, Funny

    The 80's are calling. It wants its fanboy back.

    I couldn't help but notice your sig:
    "Wait till they get a load of me!" - Joker, Batman the Movie (1989)

  15. WARNING: not for drag racing by weiyuent · · Score: 4, Funny


    At inopportune moments, the engine might not start. Especially at around 10:04pm on dark stormy nights.

  16. watching BTTF by MikeHunt69 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Im going to have to watch back to the future again as I don't remember the car being that ... sucky.

  17. Re:VMax by mav[LAG] · · Score: 4, Funny

    Those things were heavy

    Weight has nothing to do with it!

    --
    --- Hot Shot City is particularly good.
  18. Re:Hahahahah by Carrion+Creeper · · Score: 5, Funny

    I saw a DeLorean with Back to the Future trimmings on the road a few months ago. It was in Boston on Mass Ave headed north. In that direction lies MIT, where a DeLorean may indeed be considered a babe magnet.

    So in some contexts, and dependig on what babes you are looking for...

  19. no way by in4mation · · Score: 5, Funny
    This thing is clearly a chick magnet

    Seriously though, everyone knows that magnets have two poles...and this one is definitely on the repelling side. Chicks will run away so fast that not even a time machine can catch up with them.

  20. Delorean factoid by scharkalvin · · Score: 4, Funny

    Funny thing about the DeLorean. You can't keep them in lane, they want to drive inbetween lanes (to suck up the white line.....)

  21. Time travel to the futuristic time of 2015 by brocktune · · Score: 4, Funny

    So far, other than big screen flat panel TVs, Robert Zemeckis' vision of the future is not panning out. No flying cars. No Jaws 17. No hovering skateboards.

    Then again, Buck Rogers was supposed to leave on the last of NASA's deep space probes in 1987, the moon was to hurtle out of Earth's orbit in 1999, and the exploration of Jupiter's moons began in 2001.

    Of course, we still have 11 years left. But even if we get Mr. Fusion, who will control the world's supply of banana peels and Old Milwaukee cans that supply its fuel? I say to you now: No Blood for Banana Peels.