Fireball Dissects DeLorean!

By Fireball Tim

Movie Car Design Master

Yeah, I dig this car. Always have since Doc Brown ran her up to 88. Why? I mean, it doesn’t really drive all that well, kinda dorky lookin’, and only came in one color.

Well, because it was just damn cool. That’s all. And it deserved to be immortalized in film. (I did a tuned version below, but the original sketches are by Andy Probert) Lots of versions were done for the Back to the Future films, and all of them were cool. But a flying Delorean? THAT was sick. Every now and then I like to dissect a movie car because movie cars are like actors, only they don’t get insulted when you give them constructive criticism. They don’t pout when they get their lines wrong and they don’t throw tantrums… for absolutely no reason.

A little while ago I went to DMC and got a full on tour of the shindigs. yeah, DMC is back. You can get a brand new 1984 Delorean for only $50K. (Yeah, let me just whip that outta my ^$#”, yo.) But at any rate, Back to the Future or not, the car is rock n’ roll. Check out the episode below and tell me that you don’t want one. More photos after the jump.

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Posted at 2:15 pm in Back To The Future, DeLorean, fireball tim

Comments

retroman
Jul 12, 2009 at 7:22 pm

There were some Deloreans that were painted from the factory and 3 were even plated in 24k gold, but most buyers prefered the bare stainless steel to paint. True, Deloreans had a weak powerplant capable of little more than -you guessed it- 88mph. The ones in the B2F movies had Porsche engines to make them move. All in all though, I still think that the Delorean was the hottest car of the ’80s, not just because of the movies, but because it looks freaking awesome.

2200822
Jul 12, 2009 at 7:16 am

Back then,if they had used the car in a Star Trek movie instead,,perhaps the scientist community would have at least tried to make it really fly.

boywithGT
Jul 11, 2009 at 2:44 pm

Didn’t say one thing about the engine.
Unacceptable.