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DeLorean to Come Back (Sorta)

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the my-childhood-dream dept.

Alcibaides writes "DeLorean Motor Company, a suburban Houston company that rebuilds DeLoreans, is laying plans to bring the car back into limited production. The last DeLorean rolled off the assembly line in Northern Ireland in 1982. But like Duran Duran, the Rubik's Cube and other Reagan-era icons, the car retains a following. Of the 9,000 built in 1981 and 1982, about 6,500 are still on the road, according to James Espey, vice president of DeLorean Motor."

7 of 263 comments (clear)

  1. Flux compensator? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    You are hereby excommunicated from /.

    1. Re:Flux compensator? by gEvil+(beta) · · Score: 5, Funny

      Now, what does that make Neal and Taco?

      Child molesters? Zing!

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  2. Re:Options by iknownuttin · · Score: 5, Funny
    Is the hoverboard an option? I only want one when I can get a stock hoverboard to go with it!

    No, but I understand that there's a cocaine compartment.

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  3. Re:Hopefully... by gEvil+(beta) · · Score: 5, Funny

    Leave him alone. He's just capacitating for his lack of vocabulary...

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  4. Re:Hopefully... by bomanbot · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yeah, thats it. Stupid crappy German translation ruined my joke :-(

  5. Re:Saw a discovery channel special. by wkitchen · · Score: 5, Funny

    He had enough parts made to produce a ton of cars...
    Wouldn't that be approximately one car?
  6. Re:The car retains a following by Minwee · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm sure in 1985 gasoline is available at every corner drugstore, but in this century it's a little hard to come by.