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Delorean Time Machine Replica Up For Auction
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."
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!
Somehow I've got a feeling Steve Ballmer is going to buy that thing too.
way to fuck up a perfectly nice and rare car.
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.
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
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
Car is amazing... But I think I'll stick to my flying train...
Does anyone know the availability of replacement parts in this time-line? Willing to travel up to 15 years. Cash waiting.
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...!
you can always crank it up to 88 mph
...if you can get it to 88mph. Those things were heavy (1200kg/2700lb) and underpowered (130bhp), and the build quality was pretty poor. And yes, I have seen one in the flesh.
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He was neither Irish, nor a junkie. He was an American of French decent, and was charged with conspiracy to traffic cocaine, and aquitted due to the cop's obvious attempt to entrap him.
Shame the designer was a junkie ;[
Actually, he wasn't a junkie, he was accused of dealing cocain but was aquitted on all charges because he was entrapped.
IMHO, the real shame is that such a great designer didn't pair up with a great business manager who could make his ideas successful rather than a footnote in automotive history.
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If you're in your mid-20's, this car probably means somewhat as much to you as it does to me... I basically have to have that. However, what happens when it gets wet? What if I time-travel and hit a pothole at the same time? That wasn't an issue in the valley, but in the Midwest it sure is! :(
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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!
...and that the CEO was a thieving bastard and swindled the .gov.uk out of so much money. But yeah, the DMC-12 is nice :-).
The 80's are calling. It wants its fanboy back. Good thing you have that delorian there McFly. :)
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This guy obviously banged his head in the toilet.
This thing is clearly a chick magnet
Maybe if you filled the cup holders full of chicken feed.
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I own a Delorean and let me tell you this car is in no way, shape or form a chick magnet.
That's the trouble with time travel, the probable development of a predestination paradox to irritate with outdated hype.
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Actually, he wasn't a junkie, he was accused of dealing cocain but was aquitted on all charges because he was entrapped.
This guy is right. John DeLorean got teamed up with someone who he thought was going to fuse a large amount of cash into his company in order to save it (after his original loans by the royal family were spontaneously and unfairly called.) He had no idea that this guys plan was for him to sell coke in order to get the money.
DeLorean attempted to back out, but the man threatened his daughters life. With this in mind, he agreed to go through with the deal. Only at this point did the true facts come out. This gentlman was ACTUALLY a very over zealous cop who did all of this deliberately.
Entrapment.
DeLorean was (very appropriately) acquited of all charges.
Thanks Slashdot, now everry nerd will be watching this. There goes my chances of snipering it on the cheap....
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That I can't find anyone selling a flux capacitor. 1.21 Jiggawatts? Where the hell am I going to get that kind of power? I mean sure, that lightning rod thing works, but it gets so damn messy every time, PFFFZZZZTT, let alone the scratches on the paintwork and the need to travel during a storm. Pain in the ass, that. Mind you, they might throw in a few plutonium cores, then I'll be hapy. Although let's face it, the damn Libyans are a problem too. Always chasing me with freaking rocket launchers. In hindsight, it's probably more trouble than it's worth.
if it weren't for Back to the Future, i swear they would have all been melted down. i heard the manager of the plant was skimping on materials to finance white powder for his nose at the time... but thats just all rumour.
Actually, according to the link you provided, it wasn't John Delorean (the CEO) that swindled the money out of the UK, it was Arthur Andersen, the U.S. accounting giant that handled DeLorean accounts.
The Delorean had so many problems with tariffs and shipping and just a mess that many of the 9,000 cars they made sat in parking lots waiting to come to America.
To call John Delorean a thieving bastard is to not understand everything that happened. John DeLorean has stayed out of the limelight. He's been entangled in about 40 legal cases stemming from his company's bankruptcy. He personally declared bankruptcy in September 1999. He was evicted from his house in 2000.
So much for the "thieving bastard".
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At inopportune moments, the engine might not start. Especially at around 10:04pm on dark stormy nights.
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Forget thrust, drag, lift and weight. Airplanes fly because of money.
"If my calculations are correct, when this baby hits eighty-eight miles per hour... you're gonna see some serious shit."
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from IMDB, trivia about the Delorean Time Machine:
# The time machine has been through several variations. In the first draft of the screenplay the time machine was a laser device that was housed in a room. At the end of the first draft the device was attached to a refrigerator and taken to an atomic bomb test. In the third draft of the film the time machine was a DeLorean, but in order to send Marty back to the future the vehicle had to drive the DeLorean into an atomic bomb test.
# The device originally considered for use as the time travel machine was a refrigerator. Director Robert Zemeckis said in an interview that the idea was scrapped because he and Steven Spielberg did not want children to start climbing into refrigerators and getting trapped inside.
# The "Mr. Fusion Home Energy Converter", which is sitting on the DeLorean when Doc returns from the future, is made from (among other things) a Krups coffee grinder.
# The script never called for Marty to repeatedly bang his head on the gull-wing door of the DeLorean; this was improvised during filming as the door mechanism became faulty.
The DeLorean time machine is a licensed, registered vehicle in the state of California. While the vanity license plate used in the film says "OUTATIME", the DeLorean's actual license plate reads 3CZV657
When Marty is trying to re-start the DeLorean in 1955 as he prepares to return to 1985, the car's headlights flash the Morse Code for "SOS".
# The DeLorean used in the trilogy is 1981 model with 6-cylinder PRV engine, and the base for the nuclear reactor was made with hubcap from a Dodge Polaris. It is incorrectly quoted as being a 4 cylinder on the 2002 special edition DVD.
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Im going to have to watch back to the future again as I don't remember the car being that ... sucky.
the DeLorean was crappiest design JZD ever put out
I'm glad someone said it. I don't have a lot of specific knowledge on the subject, but I've heard several exotic car enthusiasts say that the DeLorean was perhaps stylish, but it was a piece of junk.
I saw a guy with one in a parking lot once, trying to get his door closed. He'd slam it down, it'd pop right back up again. He was wrestling with a screwdriver in the latch. I talked with him for a few minutes, and he confirmed that yes, the car got him noticed, but it was a pain in the ass to keep going, little bits of it kept breaking all the time.
I was walking by a delorean (literally less than 8.4 hours ago) and I thought DAMN that car is small, I couldn't fit in it. There goes a small childhood dream. Thanks to that, I can't really imagine owning one.
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What happened to the cop? He shoulda been tossed in gaol (jail) himself.
Opportunity knocks. Karma hunts you down.
Since I haven't seen anything about the history of the car posted so far, here's a link to some info about the history of the Delorean Motor Company.
... that whom-so-ever buys that thingie will have a nice time with the bomb disposal squad and couple of dozens of armoured police cars and military helicopters.
Good luck explaining them that you are not a terrorist trying to take out the whole city with that HUGE car bomb... if they don't shoot you on sight, that is.
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What car is it that Biff is driving in 1955? I seem to remember being told it was a Ford '48 Ragtop, but can't remember...
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I think this Delorean might be more in line with the average /.er's budget.
I just used mine to compare with the photos of the real thing, and the attention to detail is astonishing. Whoever built that did an amazing job. I don't know about "chick magnet," but I'd say it would turn the head of any child of the 80's you'd drive by on a given street.
~Philly
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you just have to go back twice. On its way back to the future your first self runs over your recently arrived second self, the girl takes pity on you, looks after you, falls for you. Isn't that how it works?
Maybe I just watch too many movies...
Actually, it's a modified F-350 with a GE jet turbine.
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As cool as the DMC-based Time Machine is (and I have to admit, the original B-T-T-F movie is a good memory of my teenage years), the whole BB stuff just rocked. Soooo much more wacked, and so much more fun.
Now, if I can just get Kaneda's Bike from Akira...
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It was an utter pile of shit, by all accounts. Basically, they built a show car with no regard for how to make it suitable for production, and got Lotus in to make a proper car out of it. Colin Chapman took one look at it and said "right, we'll basically have to start all over again", and it was a total rush job with nowhere near enough money spent on it. It was never meant to be made out of stainless steel, so it's slower and therefore heavier than it was meant to be. The perfect illustration of what a balls-up it was is the windows on the gullwing doors - it didn't occur to anybody until very late on that the windows couldn't actually be opened because of the door design, so they had to cut out those little windows-within-windows you can see if you look at the photos on the auction page.
It says it's automatic transmission, but I distinctly remember in BTTF, Marty changes gears on the run up to the lightning wire.
The builder (an architectural designer) of this replica time machine actually only sold it at a public auction for $22,000. Less than the price of a new refurbished DMC-12. The seller is now trying to sell this car for $35,000.
The frame is badly rusted, and little mechanical work was done to it to ensure its reliability as a driver's car. Not to mention, the electronics were in a large part fabricated by someone without an electronics degree (stainless steel incinerator, anyone?).
As far as movie accuracy, it's very close, but far from perfect. Many details were left out since this car was built to generate income rather than be accurate to the films.
There's actually some legal dispute going on right now between the seller and the builder, being that the seller is using the builder's own photos to promote the item, i.e., copyright infringement.
Most of the comments I've seen so far here about the DeLorean as a car have been pretty misinformed. Stainless does corrode, but only in an environment that lacks oxygen. The chromium forms a protective oxide that protects the carbon steel component from rusting away. Gull-wing doors on it only take about 1 foot of clearance. The engine is heavily based on the Volvo B27 and B28F and was used for many years by them. It has a reliable track record seeing as there are real timing chains, not timing belts, that are used on it, as well as a very accurate, albeit, primitive, mechanical fuel injection.
While the car itself is not necessarily practical, the concepts behind it are. Can you imagine the reduction in paint fumes released into the environment if every car built was stainless steel? Not to mention, when some jerk comes and keys your car, not only will he destroy his key, but with some sandpaper, you yourself can remove the scratch. I'll admit the car has its flaws, but nothing that can't be corrected by someone knowledgeable about DeLoreans.
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.
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If you look at the pics the design similarities are quite obvious.
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Funny thing about the DeLorean. You can't keep them in lane, they want to drive inbetween lanes (to suck up the white line.....)
Yes, they are what are referred to as "receivers". The .gov.uk had to sue them to get their JZDeLorean money back. Which they didn't manage to do.
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He also designed nearly everything that we drove in the 70s and 80s in Europe. VW Golf, Polo and Scirocco, Fiat Uno, Citroen BX, Fiat Panda, Lotus Esprit, Lancia Delta, SAAB 9000, Audi 80, Alfasud. He practically invented the "folded paper" school of auto design, those that weren't his were copying his.
did you have to post the link for buying a DeLorean? My credit cards and home equity credit line are now burning a hole in my wallet. (And I don't need the chicks, I'm happily married.)
If you wanted something with that 70's gullwing look, you could get yourself a Bricklin from Canada. Oh wait, it flopped too.
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>> Gullwing doors.
> Doors incompatible with 75% of parking spaces
Actually, this is wrong. The hinges that the doors pivot on are towards the center of the roof, meaning that the doors can actually open in TIGHTER spots than a regular car.
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I'm stunned that anyone really thought a Delorean looked good to begin with. At the time, I was interested in seeing a new car company and all that, but the car itself looked pretty crappy even for it's time. Stainless Steel was an interesting gimic and might have pre-figured all the silver colored cars we see today, but that was about it. It looked to me like it has the front end of a period Datsun stuck onto the ass-end of a Dodge Daytona.
The car from the movie was a 1981 delorean, i believe, and this one is a 1982. Pretty major detail for someone who claims he researched everything for 5 years.
Yes, OBVIOUSLY, a nerdish car isn't going to be a chick magnet. Thats what makes it FUNNY. Hello, McFly! Anyone home?
Well.. maybe. Or Maybe not. But Definitely not sort of.
Whatever happened to the clowns that were essentially turning one of these into a perpertual motion machine? Something about getting hundereds of miles per gallon by harnessing brake energy? Weren't they exposed as frauds?
-Patrick
"They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we."
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.
Also, the firm of Arthur Andersen isn't/wasn't known for their totally legal business practices...as they were also the accounting firm behind Enron.
"Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it." - John Lennon.
> stepping out of that car in your brand spanking
> new spandex Tron suite. The girls would be over
> you like bees on honey...!
Unfortunately, if you look closely, you'll see that the girls are all dressed in white and are carrying syringes. You probably won't have much time to conteplate it.
Thanks to this car, my last crash was in the future, you insensitive clod!
Sono koro, bokura wa, sore ga sekai no shinjitsu da to shinjite ita.
My 1991 Saturn does at least 110, but that's as high as the spedometer goes. It's a great car. Such a great one that I'm about to replace it with a 1995 make of the same model.
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This recreation was painstakingly researched for nearly 5 years before construction.
So were those the five years before construction of the replica, or the five years before the construction of the original?
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I'd say the fact that it's essentially rustproof and doesn't need paint is pretty practical.
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True geeks get the original from Buckaroo Banzai.
built by a guy with the morals of a weasel, with money extorted from the fine taxpaying folk of Ireland.
This is insightful? The parent is a libelous liar. John DeLorean was an upstanding man. The problems with DMC were not his fault; anyone who has done even the slightest research on the subject knows this.
-Ryan, with the unoriginal sig
I wouldn't bit more than $500 for this!
It's lacking the Mr. Fusion unit!
..but does it make a trail of flames on the road?
I wonder how it's supposed to be "powered". Where's the plutonium receptacle? Actually, how was it powered in the second movie? I don't remember anything obvious.. it wasn't by any normal means, that's for certain. Dang, break isn't for another hour.. I can't wait that long to research this.
Also, from eBay: 5-speed manual transmission
But also: Transmission: Automatic
What's up with that?
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There's also a Star Wars Star Destroyer scaled for 4" figures for sale on EBay
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When I first read the title of your post, I thought you were going to make some sort of creative comparison between the Delorean and the Yamaha Vmax (which is one formidable bike).
Oh well... another day, another bitter disappointment.
BTW, You wouldn't, by chance, be the mightiest sorcerer in these isles, would you?
Even if a man chops off your hand with a sword, you still have two nice, sharp bones to stick in his eyes.
I thought that the transmission in the DeLorean in the movie was a manual tranny. Correct me if I am wrong.
Unfortunately he never got his reputation back. To many still think this poor guy is a drug dealer.
There is nothing inherently safe about liberty. That's why so many people died protecting it.
To whomever wins the auction:
Whatever you do, DO NOT travel back in time and kill the fellow who built the car!
I'd rather not have the universe collapse in on itself, thank you very much.
"Yeah, well, Dracula called and he's coming over tonight for you and I said okay."
I have to say it. Heavy.....
I want one with white-walled tires and a vacumm tube array strapped across the hood.
They can keep the cowboy clothes.
Hey, look at that hit counter go!
...for $35,000 I can get an overweight, underpowered, ugly, rebuilt piece of Northern Irish junk that won't even keep up with a base model Dodge Neon? Sign me up. Why would I ever want to buy a movie car that's actually cool like the X-Men 2 RX-8 when I could cruise in this polyester leisure suit of a chariot?
too bad, it's not the Delorean from Part 2; with the Mr. Fusion and the hovercraft conversion.
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He was neither Irish, nor a junkie. He was an American of French decent, and was charged with conspiracy to traffic cocaine, and aquitted due to the cop's obvious attempt to entrap him.
That's right. I used to have a DeLorean (rare, 1983 model, note the fuel fill door on the hood) and still have a driver's side gull wing door kicking around my garage. Lemme tell you, they're already a pain in the ass to work on - the engine is in the back and there are the little "sail windows" which give it the rough profile of a hatchback when it isn't. I can't imagine how it is to try to get at the motor with all the BTTF props on it!
Anyway, I read a lot about DeLorean. Here's the problem. DeLorean was a former Pontiac executive, and one of the creators of the Pontiac GTO.
Angered with GM, he wrote a scathing book, "On A Clear Day You Can See General Motors" in which he detailed how the first Chevy Vega tore itself in half after only 8 miles on the test track.
(The Vega and its twin the Pontiac (dis)Astre, was the predecessor to the Chevette, produced from 1971-1977, and is probably the single worst car ever made by Detroit - still not so bad compared to lots of early Japanese and Eastern European cars, though... Renault Beep-Beep Dauphine!)
DeLorean decided to make his own personal luxury car, the ethical luxury car. Stainless steel body that would never rust, best of the best materials (yeah, as a former DeLorean owner, tell me how to fix dents in the stainless steel!). By the time he'd arranged for the production (factory in Ireland for the tax breaks), it was 1981.
When the Guigaro (same styling house that did most VW, Hyundai, Audi) styled the DeLorean, it was the mid-1970s. Such a simple rectangular, clean car was unheard of.
In 1978 Ford introduced the Ford Fairmont and Mercury Zephyr, also the restyled "Fox-body" Mustang. GM introduced the super-square Impala about this time - all of these are things that we associate with 1980s cars, versus the rounded and skirted shapes of 1970s cars. All of a sudden, the DeLorean's simple clean angular body wasn't so cutting-edge.
In 1981, inflation was rampant, and the economy was doing poorly. Chrysler was on the verge of bankruptcy. When you factor in inflation, gasoline was more expensive then than it is now. People were not in the mood to buy luxury cars; people were buying Chevettes and Ford Escorts and Plymouth Reliants. DeLorean's nascent car company launched at the wrong time.
By 1983, he was running out of money. The cars were already looking dated as the simple early 1980s angular shape was giving way to the "Aerobird" shapes of the new 1984 Thunderbird, Cougar and Tempo, all premiering in the 1983 car show circuit. There was no money to restyle and retool, and DeLorean started to look for other ways of keeping the company afloat, at least for a little while.
The car had been produced with massive subsidies from the (North/South - can't remember which) Irish government. When the company finally folded (with a little over 2,000 DeLorean DMC-12 sports cars produced), the government destroyed all the stamping dies and tooling to ensure that no more DeLoreans would ever be made.
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Innocent of any criminal conduct, yes. But upstanding people generally don't get caught in sting operations. At some point, he must have realized that what was being discussed were illegal actions and an upstanding person would have backed off then.
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I actually saw one at the tokyo motorcycle show earlier this month.
You would never want to drive it, the wheel base is enormous. Oddly enough, it was one of the few bike displays that didn't have booth babes.
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Good day to you all... I had originally posted this anonymously in another thread, but realized this would be a little better.
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I'm always suprised by the response this car gets. Even months after I UNDERsold it via public auction. That was a pretty sour experience but as my wife always points out - over and done with
You can see more about this Replica's creation via its original website here...
http://members.cox.net/bk2dftr/home
This was the website I tried to get going last year as I was working on the car. In the rush to build the car I really slacked off in updating the site. Once the car was sold, I felt it would be better to assist other fans and collectors out there regarding the Delorean Time Machine, so the website above has now evolved into a new one...
http://www.bttfparts.com/board
Having built the car just last year, I can tell you that its not 100% accurate but it is very nice (probably about 90% of what it COULD be).
My next conversion will be much more accurate and have the 2015 Style MR Fusion
I truly hope you all enjoy the links and the true history of the replica...
-Gary Weaver II
Owner/Administrator www.bttfparts.com
John Delorean did have his scrapes with the law.
He went to school at Lawrence Tech, where my ex just happened to have gone and shared with me stories that have been passed down about the man.
One such story is that he typed up letters claiming to be from the power company, saying that the company had underpaid by $5 and to remit payment to a PO Box.
He sent these letters to a number of companies -- the PO box being his own personal box.
He was tried for it and levied a fine... ironically the fine was LESS than the money he made from the whole scam.
So I'm not saying the man was guilty of everything accused, but he definitely was not a total angel.
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While they're going all-out, did they stash any cocain in the seat cushions?
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The pictures make it very clear. There are 3 pedals in the car, and the shifter knob is manual.
Unless those pictures are of the "real" one from the movie, then the one up for auction is a manual 5-speed, and someone goofed up the auction listing.
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There is obstruction over both rear brakelights, those things are probably obstructing the license plate too much, and there is no front license plate. It also appears the rear view is completely obstructed with a metal plate.
Last time I checked, these suckers were 1.59 km long. If someone made one really scaled to 4" figures, then I might be tempted. But it just looks crappy. Yeah, yeah, troll, whatever
That's right. All your base.
At some point, he must have realized that what was being discussed were illegal actions and an upstanding person would have backed off then.
This proves exactly how much you don't know about what happened. John did back off. Once he found out drugs were involved, he told the guys - who were undercover FBI agents - "No deal."
Do you know how they responded? They told JZD that if he didn't follow through, they would murder his wife and his children. He didn't know they were FBI agents. He thought they were gangsters, so he cooperated. He even sent letters to his attorney before going to meet with them explaining everything, "in case they kill me." Then he meets them and lo and behold, they're FBI agents.
All of this came out in court. There were statements made by several reputable people that one of the agents in question had bragged about "bringing down someone big... someone like John DeLorean" long before any contact was initially made with him. So our own FBI screws up this guy's life - forever - because someone wants a cheap thrill. And people like you have the gall to come on a public forum 20 years later and spout off about how immoral and awful DeLorean was, without doing any research whatsoever.
He's an innocent man. Always has been.
-Ryan, with the unoriginal sig
I should clarify that the Irish designer of the delorian was a junkie not the man that stuck the flux capacitor in.
There was no "Irish designer of the DeLorean".
John DeLorean is American.
John DeLorean founded the company. The exterior design (and what you would probably associate with DeLorean styling) was done by the very famous Giugiaro in about 1975 - pictures on their website here along with some other cars they've done; by the time it actually hit production in 1981, it was already looking a little old. The car was built in Ireland (North or South, I can't remember which) only because the government there was willing to invest massively in the DeLorean Motor Company (BTW, that's where the DMC on the grille and dashboard comes from).
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He's a Porsche guy. That's his car in I need a new Drug video
That Michael J. Fox wouldn't be able to drive it in a right line.
NO FAT CHICKS.
Any prospective buyers who might be interested on the history of the car being sold:
Should check out the discussion on the car by the original creator
And the creator and his timeline on building the car
In short, its a re-sell and the original creator is getting no credit. In fact the person re-selling the car is using copyrighted images on ebay (which is why the auction was previously pulled).
This is a dup! I submitted this same article next week.
Lost: one sig, witty, 120 chars, sentimental value. Reward offered.
Didn't this same guy do the (Lincoln-Mercury) Pantera?
Exceeding the recommended torque is not recommended.
I was reading those discussions as they happened. They do indeed capture the creator (Gary Weaver)'s attention to detail, and they also describe how he was ripped off when he auctioned the car. Mr. Weaver originally wanted $30k for the car, but ended up getting much less. The person who has the car now is selling it for at least twice what he paid for it. Something to think about if you're considering a bid.
which was about the summit of the Reagan-era cocaine glut.
I can remember gradually losing each and every one of my friends and co-workers to that coke shit. It was like pot wasn't expen$ive enough to be cool anymore, and everybody was into that coke shit, which I didn't care for and couldn't afford (while working _and_ going to school) so I wasn't cool. Coupled with Nancy Reagan's "War Against [some] Drugs" which institutionalized pre-employment drug screening (which detects pot usage for weeks while cocaine is gone in about 36 hours) and the popular myth that that coke shit was _safer_ than pot and somehow not addictive, it became actually tougher to get pot than that coke shit, and more expen$ive too! By about '88 all of my old friends (and some new ones) were all screwed up (either medically, legally, or financially) from doing that coke shit. It's safe all right.
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Throughout those times allegations of coke usage simply required no proof. A sniffly nose was enough. The guys who were into it the deepest had the greatest funding at their disposal with which to beat any rap (this was before RICO).
The coke-trafficking charges against JDL were quickly and easily shaken off, which meant no thing to his (largely coke-using themselves) potential customers, most of whom had seen their own dealers navigate similar difficulties. Today people's memories (what they have left) include John being busted and his use of that coke shit being understood implicitly to be the reason for DMC failing (_many_ businesses failed due to cocaine-influenced management). The withdrawal of funding by the Qween never got the press that the arrest did.
Exceeding the recommended torque is not recommended.
The stainless-steel body was an important component of the time travel system.
With a plastic & mild steel body, an EV1 or even a Ford Escape isn't going to do any time travel.
Though the off-road ground clearance would be essential for trips into the past.
Exceeding the recommended torque is not recommended.
You're correct that 88 wasn't randomly chosen, but if memory serves it's a reference to the movie The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Through The Eighth Dimension, of which there are several in BTTF. (Lloyd and producer Neil Canton worked on both movies.)
:)
The 88 was taken from Banzai's stylised 'BB' logo, of course both B and 8 are identical on the time machine's digital LED display
In only two days, tomorrow will be yesterday.
My other first post is car post.
tell the time traveller guy about this auction. Maybe he can bear with it instead of the watch model time machine, he has.
The character in the movie Real Genius. Or girls of similar bent.
Not that there's anything wrong with that.
If anyone is still following this auction it was originally removed for an image copyright violation. That situation has now been resolved and the auction has been relisted here... http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ewItem&item=2475620517
-Gary Weaver II
Owner/Administrator www.bttfparts.com
Seems there was some confusion with the copyrights of the photos, and ebay closed the auction.
This has been resolved and the new auction can be found here.
09F91102 no, 455FE104 nope, F190A1E8 uh-uh, 7A5F8A09 that's not it, C87294CE no. Ah! 452F6E403CDF10714E41DFAA257D313F.