# GREAT SCOTT! I rode in a frickin' Delorean **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 11, 2007, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-scott-i-rode-in-a-frickin-delorean/415274 "2007-08-11T19:02:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![ASAKMOTSD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/919ad9/32.png) [@ASAKMOTSD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ASAKMOTSD)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2007, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-scott-i-rode-in-a-frickin-delorean/415274/21 "2007-08-12T01:40:42Z")
Personally, I am holding out for the flying train… ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2007, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-scott-i-rode-in-a-frickin-delorean/415274/22 "2007-08-12T03:02:22Z")
Just sitting in a DeLorean isn’t enough - it has to be rigged up to look like Doc’s Time Machine to make it worth the geekiness quotient. ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2007, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-scott-i-rode-in-a-frickin-delorean/415274/23 "2007-08-12T04:22:33Z")
[QUOTE=GuanoLad] Just sitting in a DeLorean isn’t enough - it has to be rigged up to look like Doc’s Time Machine to make it worth the geekiness quotient. [/QUOTE] I’ll agree there. Had it been totally tricked out down to the time circuits, flux compactor, and the plutonium fuel receptacle, i would have had to have an oil change… in my pants. We we’re going to drive it around the Lakeside Mall parking lot in front of JC Penny’s at 1:16 am just for shits, but we’re in our 30s. And tired. Besides, they don’t have a Photomat either. ---
**Author:** ![VenusProbe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/e495f1/32.png) [@VenusProbe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VenusProbe)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2007, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-scott-i-rode-in-a-frickin-delorean/415274/24 "2007-08-12T05:20:49Z")
What you need for that is [this one.](http://www.dmccal.com/_2901_bttf_delorean.html) (Flux Capacitor not included) ---
**Author:** ![Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e480ec/32.png) [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2007, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-scott-i-rode-in-a-frickin-delorean/415274/25 "2007-08-12T05:54:38Z")
Not to bring some…reality into this, but… …I was born in 1981. ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2007, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-scott-i-rode-in-a-frickin-delorean/415274/26 "2007-08-12T15:57:57Z")
[QUOTE=Least Original User Name Ever] Not to bring some…reality into this, but… …I was born in 1981. [/QUOTE] Not if I went back in time, bumped your dad outta the way of you grandfather’s speeding vehicle and your mom fell in love with ME! ok… that was kinda creepy. And Heavy. ---
**Author:** ![Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e480ec/32.png) [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2007, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-scott-i-rode-in-a-frickin-delorean/415274/27 "2007-08-12T19:38:53Z")
That’s _really_ heavy, Doc. It smells, though. It smells like…like manure… ---
**Author:** ![Millit\_the\_Frail](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/51bf81/32.png) [@Millit\_the\_Frail](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Millit_the_Frail)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2007, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-scott-i-rode-in-a-frickin-delorean/415274/28 "2007-08-12T21:41:16Z")
[QUOTE=Least Original User Name Ever] Not to bring some…reality into this, but… …I was born in 1981. [/QUOTE] Yeah, same here. I really, really want the 1981 model. Once, for the World’s Largest Scavenger Hunt (I used to help run it, maybe I’ll do a thread on it someday), my friends and I turned this guy’s car into a fake BTTF Delorean, complete with a light-up flux capacitor. We used a bunch of cardboard and a TON of aluminum foil. Good times! There were photos on the web, but I can’t find them now. ---
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2007, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-scott-i-rode-in-a-frickin-delorean/415274/29 "2007-08-12T22:47:03Z")
Coupla years ago I drove by one in the lot of a small garage in Mamaroneck, NY. I did a violent and illegal U-Turn to get to it. Asked to see it. The inside was a disaster, but the guy said, " yeah, it turns over. I think." The inside was oogey enough that I didn’t ask to sit in it. But, about…hmm… 15 years ago I shot a job for family-owned set of car dealerships on Route 4 in NJ. ( Rt. 3? Rt. 4? ). You know, dealership after dealership with the same family name. We’re setting up and I walk about back where our camera truck is and a DeLorean pulls in. A smarmy kid of about 20 gets out and walks away. It was the dealership owner’s son. Bastard ! 😃 I went and grovelled and by god the kid let me get into it and start it up, thought not drive it. I want one. I’m 45. It’s time to express myself by chaneling my teenage fantasies into a car ( I know. Take a number. ) I. WANT. THIS. CAR. Cartooniverse p.s Was it U.L. or true that because of the unpainted skin, you could get rid of light scratches with just emery cloth? ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2007, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-scott-i-rode-in-a-frickin-delorean/415274/30 "2007-08-12T23:47:25Z")
Yeh. I think it’s true. My friend was talking about taking some kind of a sander to it as to rebrush the not perfectly pristine areas. But really, the stainless panels, from what I could tell still looked damn good. Another thing, he did have a vanity plate, but it didn’t have anything to do with BTTF. Mine would have been: 88MPH ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2007, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-scott-i-rode-in-a-frickin-delorean/415274/31 "2007-08-13T00:04:37Z")
I know this is heretical, but I like them a lot better whent hey’ve been painted. ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2007, 6:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-scott-i-rode-in-a-frickin-delorean/415274/32 "2007-08-13T06:39:06Z")
GASP! That’s like preferring a Tucker Torpedo unpainted. Hmm… or in Stainless… 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2007, 6:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-scott-i-rode-in-a-frickin-delorean/415274/33 "2007-08-13T06:53:39Z")
[QUOTE=cmyk] GASP! That’s like preferring a Tucker Torpedo unpainted. Hmm… or in Stainless… 😛 [/QUOTE] Actually, I wish [the Tucker Torpedo _had_ never been made!](http://usera.imagecave.com/tuckerfan/72custom.jpg) :eek: And I wouldn’t turn my nose up at a stainless steel Tucker '48, but I _would_ paint it! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Nars\_Glinley](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nars_glinley/32/8177_2.png) [@Nars\_Glinley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nars_Glinley)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2007, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-scott-i-rode-in-a-frickin-delorean/415274/34 "2007-08-13T14:13:43Z")
[QUOTE=Tuckerfan] Actually, I wish [the Tucker Torpedo _had_ never been made!](http://usera.imagecave.com/tuckerfan/72custom.jpg) :eek: And I wouldn’t turn my nose up at a stainless steel Tucker '48, but I _would_ paint it! 😛 [/QUOTE] Good Lord! That looks like Tim Allen tried to soup up a Riviera. ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2007, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-scott-i-rode-in-a-frickin-delorean/415274/35 "2007-08-13T15:26:35Z")
[QUOTE=Tuckerfan] Actually, I wish [the Tucker Torpedo _had_ never been made!](http://usera.imagecave.com/tuckerfan/72custom.jpg) :eek: And I wouldn’t turn my nose up at a stainless steel Tucker '48, but I _would_ paint it! 😛 [/QUOTE] Oh baby Jesus. That’s almost gruesome. Point taken. But, I hope you’re not painting your stainless cookware. ---
**Author:** ![Tranquilis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tranquilis/32/3639_2.png) [@Tranquilis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tranquilis)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2007, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-scott-i-rode-in-a-frickin-delorean/415274/36 "2007-08-13T15:42:27Z")
[QUOTE=Tuckerfan] I know this is heretical, but I like them a lot better whent hey’ve been painted. [/QUOTE] I saw one done up in Ferarri Orange, and it looked _smoking!_ If you _must_ paint a Delorian, that was a good choice. ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2007, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-scott-i-rode-in-a-frickin-delorean/415274/37 "2007-08-13T18:15:07Z")
Damn. Here’s a [24k Gold](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Gold-D.jpg) plated one that American Express made in 1981. [QUOTE=Wikipedia] For Christmas 1981, A De Lorean/American Express promotion planned to sell one hundred 24k gold-plated DMC-12s for $85,000 each to its gold card members, but only two were sold. One of these was purchased by Roger Mize, president of Snyder National Bank in Snyder, Texas. VIN #4301 sat in the bank lobby for over 20 years before being loaned to the Petersen Automotive Museum of Los Angeles. It has a black interior, and an automatic transmission.[17] [/QUOTE] Ugly as hell if’n you ask me. ---
**Author:** ![Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troy_mcclure_sf/32/4150_2.png) [@Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troy_McClure_SF)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2007, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-scott-i-rode-in-a-frickin-delorean/415274/38 "2007-08-13T20:40:07Z")
[QUOTE=VenusProbe] What you need for that is [this one.](http://www.dmccal.com/_2901_bttf_delorean.html) (Flux Capacitor not included) [/QUOTE] How the hell does one write a page about a tricked out Delorean that references _Busty Cops 4_?! ---
**Author:** ![MaxTheVool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MaxTheVool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaxTheVool)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2007, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-scott-i-rode-in-a-frickin-delorean/415274/39 "2007-08-13T22:06:44Z")
For the record, **Back To The Future** is one of the most perfect films ever made. It accomplishes what it sets out to accomplish (be a funny and exciting action movie with a bit of a message) flawlessly, and hits almost no sour notes at all. Rarely have I walked out of a theater more satisfied and happy than the first time I saw it. “No Biff… you leave her alone” ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2007, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-scott-i-rode-in-a-frickin-delorean/415274/40 "2007-08-13T23:17:44Z")
[QUOTE=MaxTheVool] For the record, **Back To The Future** is one of the most perfect films ever made. It accomplishes what it sets out to accomplish (be a funny and exciting action movie with a bit of a message) flawlessly, and hits almost no sour notes at all. Rarely have I walked out of a theater more satisfied and happy than the first time I saw it. “No Biff… you leave her alone” [/QUOTE] I couldn’t agree more. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-scott-i-rode-in-a-frickin-delorean/415274.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/great-scott-i-rode-in-a-frickin-delorean/415274.md?page=3)