DeLorean time machine | Futurepedia | Fandom powered by Wikia Main article: World's first temporal displacement Doc and Marty stand in the fire trails left behind by the DeLorean on the first test. Doc Brown revealed his creation to his friend Marty McFly at Twin Pines Mall , in the early morning of October 26 , 1985, and for its first test, Doc sent his dog Einstein one minute into the future. The sequence of events that followed were as so; after Doc revved up the engine to 65 mph while braked, he released the brake sending the car towards Doc and Marty. A faint glow developed at the front of the car and then engulfed the vehicle. The coils lit up, internal circuits glowed, and the flux capacitor fired rapidly. Suddenly the car seemed to explode just before it hit Doc and Marty. Fire trails then scorched the pavement where the vehicle would have passed through, completing the temporal displacement sequence. Marty: "Jesus Christ, Doc. You disintegrated Einstein!" Doc: "Calm down, Marty, I didn't disintegrate anything.

The molecular structure of both Einstein and the car are completely intact!" Marty: "Well, where the hell are they?!" Doc: "The appropriate question is "When the hell are they?" You see, Einstein has just become the world's first time traveler. I sent him into the future! One minute into the future to be precise. And at exactly 1:21 A.M. and zero seconds we will catch up to him and the time machine." — Doc and Marty after the time travel experiment. For Einstein, the trip was instantaneous, but to Marty and Doc they had to wait exactly one minute to catch up to Einstein in the timeline. In the meantime, Marty asked why a DeLorean was used. Doc explained that it needed some style and implied that the stainless steel construction of the car helped it in temporal displacement. But Doc didn't fully explain why because the watch he was wearing at the time beeped, warning him that the DeLorean's return was only seconds away. The car suddenly appeared where Doc and Marty were standing and screeched to a halt as a frozen shell. Supercooled from traveling through time, the gullwing door was troublesome for Doc to open while using his hands.

Inside the car, Einstein was unharmed, much to the surprise of Marty. Doc then showed Marty the interior and its controls. "First, you turn the time circuits on. This read-out tells you where you're going. This one tells you where you are. This one tells you where you were." —Doc Brown While inputting dates on the keypad, Doc used July 4 , 1776 (the date the American declaration of Independence was signed) and December 25 , 0000 (the date of the birth of Christ) as examples, before inputting "a red-letter date in the history of science, November 5 , 1955 ". From there he left the cockpit of the DeLorean and reminisced about the past, particularly about Old Man Peabody owning the land that is now Twin Pines Mall and his pine tree farm . "My, things sure have changed. I can remember when this was all open land as far as the eye can see. Old Man Peabody owned all of this. He had this crazy idea... about breeding pine trees." —Doc talking to Marty "Holy shit!

Let's see if you bastards can do 90." —Marty McFly Soon after a new pellet of plutonium was inserted into the time machine, the Libyans who he stole the plutonium from intervened in a Volkswagen and shot Doc dead. Marty ran into the DeLorean to try to escape the Libyans. Marty accidentally turned the time circuits (still set to 1955 ) on while shifting, and as he avoided being destroyed by a rocket-propelled grenade , he sped up to 88 and entered temporal displacement . Suddenly, Marty went from a mall parking lot in 1985, to a field in 1955, and the DeLorean crashed into a scarecrow and then the Peabodys' barn. A radiation suit -clad Marty trips as he leaves the DeLorean. "It looks like an airplane... without wings." —Otis Peabody For a moment, Marty was stunned, and the Peabody family ran from their house to the barn to investigate. Believing that the vehicle was from another world, they screamed in horror as Marty lifted the gullwing door and stepped out, dressed in a radiation suit .

Marty was almost shot from the buckshot of Otis Peabody's shotgun , and ran back to the safety of the time machine, floored the accelerator, and smashed through the doors of the barn. After escaping from Peabody's shotgun, the car ran over one of the two pines that Peabody had been growing. This was the first effect of Marty's trip into the past that would alter the future (the "Twin Pines Mall" would become the "Lone Pine Mall"). The DeLorean at Lyon Estates in 1955. Marty pulled the DeLorean onto a highway that ran by the future site of Lyon Estates . He immediately stopped and viewed the undeveloped land stretch far out into the distance, questioning whether or not it was a dream. A meter in the DeLorean indicated that it was out of plutonium , and the car shut down. Marty failed to get it running again and decided to hide the DeLorean behind the Lyon Estates sign, covered by a few shrubs, and walked the two miles to town . "It works! Ha ha, it works!

I finally invented something that works." —Young Doc Brown After convincing the 1955 Doc that he was indeed from the future, Marty and Doc went back to the site to recover the time machine. Doc opened the door and turned on the flux capacitor which he had envisioned after his fall earlier that day. The DeLorean was driven back to Doc's garage where it was hidden under a dropcloth until the night of the thunderstorm, November 12 . On the 12th, Doc brought the time machine to Courthouse Square in downtown Hill Valley, and started working on the cable assembly that would harness the impending lightning strike. Arriving late, Marty was briefed by Doc, just as the storm moved in and took down a tree. Marty drove the DeLorean to the starting line at the Bluebird Motel , and inserted a tall connecting hook into the flux capacitor. He then waited for the alarm to go off while Doc reconnected the cable, and decided to reset the controls to arrive 11 minutes earlier than scheduled. With that, the engine suddenly died, and left Marty trying to restart it. Marty finally (and unexpectedly) succeeded in restarting the engine after head-butting the horn in frustration, and took off.

The DeLorean reached the cable just as the lightning struck, and Doc made the connection, sending the time machine back to 1985. In 1985, Red the Bum was awoken by the sonic boom of the DeLorean, followed by the sound of a crash at the Town Theater . Marty jumped out of the icy time machine to check out downtown and to verify that he had gotten back to the future, and back to his normal year of 1985. Returning to the car to save Doc, Marty tried to drive off and the engine died once again. This was the last time in the trilogy that it had done so. The Libyans passed him on the street, and Marty ran back to the mall. There, he saw the first DeLorean make the jump to 1955, with the terrorists' van crashing into a photo booth . Originally believing he was too late, Marty was in grief, then surprise. Doc recovered, and revealed that he was wearing a bulletproof vest , having read the warning letter that Marty had written 30 years earlier. The DeLorean lifts off, bound for 2015.

Doc returned to downtown to start the DeLorean up, and drove Marty back to his home in Lyon Estates. Doc told Marty he would go roughly 30 years into the future, "a nice round number". Doc backed the DeLorean up with enough room to reach 88 mph on the street and vanished in three sonic booms. To the future The next morning, Doc returned to the house. Marty had discovered that his life had changed for the better. His visiting girlfriend Jennifer Parker , and he, were interrupted by the sonic boom and wind blast. The newly upgraded DeLorean knocked over some trashcans, and a futuristically-garbed Doc emerged from the vehicle. Doc made use of his upgraded time machine by adding garbage to the Mr. Fusion as fuel. Plutonium was no longer needed after the trip to the future. Doc told Marty and Jennifer of their future family, and the trouble that occurred (or would occur) with their children. Marty: "Hey Doc, we better back up. We don't have enough road to get up to 88." Doc: "Roads? Where we're going we don't need...

roads." — Discussion between Doc and Marty in the DeLorean before takeoff The DeLorean, after having received a hover conversion in the future, lifted off the ground and its wheels folded providing thrust. The rear louver then propelled it forward down the street, and Doc turned the car around to get the speed needed to make temporal displacement. This entire sequence was witnessed by Biff Tannen in the McFly driveway. The time machine entered October 21 , 2015 , then descended through the clouds into a busy skyway , nearly in the wrong lane of multilevel traffic. Doc pulled off onto an exit ramp to downtown Hill Valley. He landed the DeLorean in an alleyway, just outside Courthouse Square, then left while Marty completed his mission to save Marty, Jr. After Doc recovered Einstein from a suspended animation kennel , he pulled the DeLorean out into the open, where Old Biff saw it, and eventually put two and two together to realize that they were time travelers. Biff steals the DeLorean. "Flying DeLorean? Haven't seen one of those in...

thirty years" —Old Biff Biff followed Doc and Marty in a taxi cab, and while the DeLorean was parked outside Hilldale , Biff stole it and went back to 1955 to hand the Grays Sports Almanac (that Doc had thrown away) to his younger self, thus altering history . In a matter of minutes, Biff returned the vehicle in the same position; however, he was feeling the effects of changing history. In pain, he left the silver-colored bag and receipt for the almanac, as well as the top of his cane which broke off in the DeLorean when he doubled over. Getting out of view, Biff slumped to the ground and faded from existence behind a parked car. Doc and Marty, unaware that anything had happened, returned to the time machine with Jennifer and headed back for 1985. An alternate history "Imagine that this line represents time. At some point in the past, the timeline skewed into this tangent creating an alternate 1985. Alternate for you, me, Jennifer and Einstein...But reality for everyone else." —Doc showing Marty 1985A on a blackboard.

By this time it was too late to prevent the changing of the timeline. Flying at a high altitude, the DeLorean was nearly hit by an airliner in the sky. The time circuits began to malfunction as well, indicating 1885 temporarily. After discovering the truth behind the alternate 1985, Doc and Marty left Einstein in Doc's garage, and Jennifer at her house, where time would alter around them pending a change in the past. They traveled back to November 12 , 1955, the date that Biff revealed to have been the day he had gotten the almanac. Doc hooks onto the pennants. Doc parked the time machine behind the same sign that Marty hid it the first time in 1955. Marty notified Doc of his status with Biff, and after some repairs, Doc jumped into the DeLorean to pick him up at Hill Valley High School . As Doc left Lyon Estates, the car had hooked onto some of the pennants on the sign. Doc and Marty followed Biff in his car, and hovered over him, until Marty thought of using the hoverboard to get closer.

Marty grabbed the almanac after some fighting, but was faced with being in the middle of a long tunnel from which to escape. At the end of the tunnel, Doc dropped the string of pennants that he had hooked onto earlier, and Marty grabbed the rope in time to prevent himself from getting run over by Biff (who crashed, for the second time in a week, into a manure truck). Returning to Lyon Estates to destroy the almanac, Doc lowered Marty onto the ground, but deemed it unsafe to land the DeLorean in the storm. Marty successfully burned the almanac in a pail, reverting all effects that had been created by 2015 Biff. The celebration was short-lived; lightning struck a tree close to Marty, who warned Doc about getting struck himself. In the next instant, however, lightning struck the DeLorean as feared, spinning it up to 88 mph (thus creating the fire trails in the shape of backward 9's), scrambling the circuits, and sent Doc and the DeLorean to January 1 , 1885 [1] Less than a minute later, a man, representing Western Union , appeared on the rainy street and handed Marty a letter.

The letter , from Doc, had been held in their possession for over 70 years, with instructions for delivery to that exact position, at that exact moment, to that exact person — Marty. Marty ran back downtown, arriving just moments after his other self was going back to the future, and after the temporal displacement, he encountered the 1955 Doc, who then fainted. Marty: "OK, Doc, just calm down. It's me. It's me! It's Marty!" Doc: "No, it can't be you! I just sent you back to the future!" Marty: "Yeah, I know. But now I'm back. I'm back from the future." — Marty to Doc before Doc exclaims "Great Scott" and faints. The DeLorean inside the mine. The letter, read the next morning by Doc, stated that the DeLorean was buried in the Delgado Mine , and provided repair instructions on fixing the time circuits with 1955 parts. At the Boot Doc and Marty uncovering the DeLorean inside the mine. Hill Cemetery , outside the mine, Marty and Doc stumbled onto older Doc's tombstone from 1885.

It was now Marty's mission to save Doc in the past, and bring him back to the future as well. Doc replaced the rotting tires with fresh whitewall tires , and replaced all the broken components with 1955-era vacuum tubes and other electronics. He also put gas in the tank of the car, since 1985 Doc had to drain all the fluids from the car, including the gas, before putting it into long-term storage. The Old West The DeLorean encounters a tribe of local Indians. "Marty, you're just not thinking fourth-dimensionally. You'll instantly be transported to 1885 and those Indians won't even be there..." —Doc's instructions for Marty at the Pohatchee 1955 Doc and Marty set up at the Pohatchee Drive-In Theatre , far away from town, so that Marty's arrival would not be noticed by residents in 1885. Doc set the time circuits to the day after his 1885 counterpart sent the letter on September 1 .

Marty hesitated to drive at the screen because of a wall with Indians painted on it; but as Marty reached 88 mph, the 1955 wall was gone, but was replaced with real, 1885, Pohatchee Indians, who chased after the DeLorean, which Marty hid in a bear cave . Marty avoided the Indians, and the U.S. Cavalry that was chasing them, but discovered that an Indian had shot an arrow into the engine of the DeLorean. Upon removing the arrow, Marty accidentally tears a hole in the fuel line of the car. He pays it no mind as he is chased out of the cave by the bear living there at the time, and fell down the hill and landed on the property of his Irish ancestors. The DeLorean was recovered by Doc, but there was no gasoline available in 1885 to replace the fuel that had leaked out. [2] Marty wasn't concerned as he stated Mr. Fusion could refuel the DeLorean. Doc said that was impossible as the engine always ran on gasoline and Mr. Fusion only powered the flux compacitor and the flight circuits.

Doc then plotted means of powering the car, including having his horses try to reach 88 mph out in the desert, they only made 30 mph. Doc received a strong alcohol concoction from the town bartender, Chester , that he hoped would have a similar effect to gasoline, but instead, blew the fuel injection manifold out. This left only one available option: pushing the DeLorean up to 88, which came in the form of a locomotive . Doc and Marty's plan was to hijack, or borrow, the locomotive, and take it to an unused spur that ran to Shonash Ravine , where it would push the car before running off the end of the track. On the night of September 6 , Doc placed the car onto the track. There, it awaited the locomotive. Their plan was successfully enacted on September 7 , and though Marty was sent back to 1985, Doc and Clara Clayton remained in the past. The DeLorean reached temporal displacement just before hitting the buffer at the edge of the ravine; however the train crashed through and landed into the ravine in a large explosion. The DeLorean is destroyed by a locomotive.

Back in 1985, the DeLorean traveled along the railroad tracks for about a mile until it came to rest on the track outside Hilldale. Immediately, Marty was stunned to see a modern locomotive barreling towards him, and escaped from the DeLorean just before it was destroyed by the train. After it had passed by, Marty gazed at the time circuits and flux capacitor in shock just as they flickered on and then off for the last time. "...Well Doc, it's destroyed... Just like you wanted..." —Marty standing at the remains of the DeLorean Marty and Jennifer, who had remained on her porch, both went through the wreckage. Then, peculiarly, the railroad crossing's bells sounded and its gates went down. No trains were to be seen. Just then, the Jules Verne Train appeared, and blew Marty and Jennifer back several feet. This was Doc's way to return without the aid of the DeLorean. After introducing Marty and Jennifer to the two new members of the family, Jules and Verne , Doc handed Marty a gift — the photograph of them standing in front of the clock — and gave some words of advice before leaving to times unknown.

"Your future hasn't been written yet! No one's has! Your future is whatever you make of it. So make it a GOOD one!" —Doc to Marty and Jennifer Marty: "Where ya going Doc? Back to the future?" Doc: "No, already been there!" — Doc and Marty during the final scene of Back to the Future Part III Just before its destruction, the DeLorean can be seen to have parts from every time period it has been in. Inside the time machine was also a walkie-talkie from 1985A. Rebirth of the DeLorean Note: The following section is considered non-canon or is disputed in canonicity. Six months after the destruction of the DeLorean, another DeLorean time machine, nearly identical to the one used previously by Marty and Doc, appeared outside of Doc's garage . Upon following Einstein's clues to the source of the time machine, Marty drove it back to 1931 , where he found Doc in jail for allegedly blowing up a speakeasy .

Doc told Marty that the DeLorean he had been driving was a temporal duplicate , created when the DeLorean was struck by lightning ; the original going seventy years back to 1885, and the other version seventy years forward to 2025 . Doc went forward in time with the Jules Verne Train , recovered the second DeLorean, fixed it up, and began traveling again. Doc also installed a program that would activate upon Doc not returning to the vehicle within a certain length of time. This automatic retrieval feature allowed the DeLorean to return to a set time and location of Doc's choosing. [3] Around 1991 , Doc Brown and his family returned to Hill Valley in the Train and settled down in the present. Marty had, by now, been attending Hill Valley College , and he visited the Brown family regularly. The DeLorean was rebuilt with added features, including a new audio receptive series of time circuits, submersible capabilities, a pincer, and having the ability to fold into a compact suitcase-sized box (which still weighed as much as the car at 2,796 pounds [4] ).

The greatest improvement to the DeLorean was the addition of spatial displacement , which allowed the car to travel not only through time, but through space. Soon after, Doc built additional DeLoreans for use by the Institute of Future Technology . In 1931A The DeLorean time machine burned out after Edna burnt down Hill Valley . One version of the DeLorean was stolen by Edna Strickland who took it back to 1876 to light Beauregard Tannen's half-finished saloon on fire, accidentally burning down Hill Valley and the DeLorean in the process. When Doc and Marty arrive at her residence in the newly created 1931A , the vehicle is a rusted hulk of metal on Edna's property. 2200s By the 23rd century in an alternate timeline, Vandar , who ruled the Imperial Planets had time travelers from various continuums brought to him to learn about different histories so that he could avoid any mistakes that would cost him his empire. Afterwards, he took the time machines as a keepsake, with the DeLorean eventually shown in his collection.

[1] [2] The passenger(s) of the DeLorean during this time was unspecified. [5] The timeline was undone thanks to the combined efforts of the crew of the USS Enterprise and the Legion of Super-Heroes . [6] As such, the DeLorean and the passenger(s) were freed from Vandar's grasp. Non-canon or disputable information ends here. Behind the scenes A rack of vacuum tubes and other components strapped to the hood replaces the time control microchip. Model 3D from the DeLorean. The cutout Collector Card for the toy DeLorean Car (Modified Engine) (top right-hand corner) on the rear packaging of Funrise Inc.'s Back to the Future Part II three-vehicle pack. In the animated series, the DeLorean is supposedly rebuilt, regardless of what Doc said about the dangers of time traveling. In the first script of Back to the Future the time machine was shaped like a refrigerator. The idea was scrapped, for fear of kids climbing into and becoming trapped in refrigerators. Because an abandoned refrigerator can become an inescapable trap for a small child, laws in most nations require that the door be removed when such an item is disposed of.

Coincidentally, the final version of the time machine was composed of stainless steel, from which many refrigerators are made of. At the end of Back to the Future, the alarm clock that the 1955 Doc had placed on the dashboard of the DeLorean could be seen. But in the beginning of Back to the Future Part II, it is no longer on the dashboard of the DeLorean. In 1989 , to tie-in with the theatrical release of Back to the Future Part II, Funrise, Inc. released as part of their Micro Action Super Cars series a three-vehicle pack, consisting of the DeLorean Car (Modified Engine), the Back to the Future Police Car and the Back to the Future Taxicab . The rear of the packaging featured three cutout Collector Cards which, in the cases of the Police Car and the Taxicab, gave a little more information about the vehicles than was mentioned in either the movie or the novelization. The DeLorean uses a manual transmission . Construction of the DeLorean for the films The base of the DeLorean's nuclear reactor was constructed from a hubcap of a Dodge Polara . The engine was replaced with a faster Porsche engine.

Aircraft parts and blinking lights were added for additional effects. Since all American models of the actual DMC-12 had speedometers that only read up to 85 miles per hour, a modified instrument cluster was installed, with a speedometer that reached 95. (A law from the administration of President Jimmy Carter prescribed that automobile speedometers could not read more than 85 mph with the intent that if people could not read speeds higher than that, that they wouldn't drive faster than that.) In popular culture The Wolfram|Alpha computational knowledge engine defines a "delorean" as a unit of power equal to 1.21 jigowatts, and uses 88 miles per hour as a benchmark for comparing speeds. See: " speed cheetah ". In the game Borderlands there is an achievement on the Xbox 360 version entitled "1.21 Gigawatts" which is a clear reference to the amount of electricity needed for the time travel. In the game Sonic CD (4th generation iPhone/iPod Only) there is an achievement called "88 miles per hour". Sonic's way of time traveling is similar to Back to the Future .

Similarly to Sonic CD, there is a trophy for the PS3 exclusive game Ratchet and Clank (Future): a Crack in Time called 88 MPH, though the action for doing so is by preventing a time travel rather than travelling through time. In Grand Theft Auto V, there are several power stations which have the label "Danger: 1.21 GW", also referring to the amount of electricity needed. Appearances Gallery Two of the original Deloreans fully restored. Vandar showing his collection of Time Machines to the Enterprise Crew and Legionnaires (DeLorean is near the bottom-right corner). Add a photo to this gallery Notes and references ↑ In Back to the Future: The Game it is stated that the unforeseen jump created a carbon copy that was sent to an unknown time period. The car with Doc lost its ability to fly, whereas the other one retained the trait. ↑ See Official Back to the Future FAQ , Question Number 1.20, for the filmmakers' explanation why Doc would not have used the gasoline from the DeLorean that had brought Doc to 1885. Back to the Future™ - The DeLorean The DeLorean The Music Where Are They Now?

Seven DeLoreans were used throughout the filming of the Back to the Future trilogy. Six stock DeLoreans were purchased for the production in order to convert into time machines, and a fiberglass DeLorean replica was fabricated for the flying sequences in Back to the Future Part II. Of these, only three of them are believed to have survived and exist still today. Follow Petersen_Museum The "A" hero DeLorean time machine used throughout the entire film series was painstakingly restored by Temporal FX and is on permanent indoor display at the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles, California. Follow UniversalORL The DeLorean time machine which was once outfitted for stunt work with train wheels for Back to the Future Part III is now on display at Universal Orlando next to Doc Brown's time traveling train from Back to the Future Part III. Both vehicles can be found inside the park near the Animal Actors on Location! attraction, not far from where Back to the Future...The Ride once stood (closed in 2007). Follow ScreenUsed The third remaining time machine was retrofitted with 1950's white-wall tires in Back to the Future Part III, and is now in private hands.

After filming on Back to the Future Part III was completed, this DeLorean time machine was taken out on tour throughout the country of Japan. When it was returned to Universal Studios Hollywood, it was displayed outside as part of the Studio Tour . By 2000, the car was in disarray from the outside elements and stripped of most of its time machine parts. It was briefly put on display at the Petersen Auto Museum in Los Angeles before the studio decided to dispose of the vehicle in 2003, transferring ownership to ScreenUsed — a company specializing in Hollywood memorabilia. ScreenUsed undertook an extensive, professional restoration, which took over seven years to complete. The car appeared on an episode of Hollywood Treasure before being sold in a 2011 Profiles in History auction. It now resides in the collection of a private owner in New England who periodically exhibits the car to share with Back to the Future fans of all ages. Future Facts The time machine which was hit by the train at the end of Back to the Future Part III was the "B" main stunt car used throughout the trilogy. To create this effect, the special effects crew cut up the car and frame, rigging it with explosives.

The wrecked body panels were reassembled after filming, and the DeLorean was suspended from the ceiling for a number of years at the Planet Hollywood Honolulu restaurant in Hawaii (closed in 2010). The time machine on outside display at Universal Studios Japan is decorated with props from several of the original time machines used through the trilogy. The fiberglass hover-converted time machine toured the world and was later on display in The World of Cinemagic: Back to the Future Special Effects Stage show (1991-2001) on the lower lot at Universal Studios Hollywood. Reportedly, it was dismantled when the Back to the Future portions of this show ended in 2001. Universal Studios commissioned the creation of at least four additional DeLorean time machines to promote the sequels and the opening of Back to the Future...The Ride. These time machines along with other vehicles from Back to the Future Part II were part of Universal Studios' international Back to the Future World Tour in the early '90s.

These Are The Absurdly Great Cars Of The Back To The Future Trilogy These Are The Absurdly Great Cars Of The Back To The Future Trilogy Go to permalink Last weekend, the weather in the District of Columbia was rainy, gross and cold, as it often is this time of year. So I did what any freedom-loving American man would do: I stayed inside and watched the Back to the Future trilogy. And right after Marty wandered into the 1955 version Hill Valley for the first time, this realization dawned on me: Damn, there are some seriously great cars in these movies. Advertisement Honestly, I don’t know how it took me this long to figure that out. I’ve been watching these movies since I was a kid. I think I’ve seen each entry in the trilogy more times than I’ve seen any other movie. That early exposure to Back to the Future is one of the many reasons I'm a car guy. The filmmakers could have made Doc Brown’s time machine out of anything, but they made it out of a car. And not just any car, a very cool-looking sportscar with a stick shift. What’s not to love?

But the DeLorean isn’t just the only awesome car running around the various eras of Hill Valley. If you look closely, you’ll see that there are tons of great rides in the trilogy (mainly the first two, for obvious reasons.) These are all the ones I could come up with. Feel free to add your own, I’m sure I missed some. Now why don’t you make like a tree and check out these awesome cars? 1981 DeLorean DMC-12 Advertisement Here’s the obvious pick. You can’t talk about Back to the Future without talking about John Z.’s failed masterpiece. Doc Brown says he picked the DeLorean for his time machine to “do it with some style,” and because the stainless steel body helped with flux dispersal or some such science-y nonsense. I’m just glad he picked one without the slushbox, because the stick makes it that much cooler. (Did you still have to shift gears when it was flying?) A few folks on the Internet have claimed that the DeLoreans used in Part 2 and Part 3 had some kind of Porsche motor swapped in to replace the anemic PRV V6, possibly the V8 from the 928.

I haven’t seen any confirmation of that. Anyone have any leads? I do love the fact that it ends up with whitewall tires in the third movie. Keep in mind that when the first movie came out in 1985, the DeLorean had been out of production for two years, and the car’s demise was tied to a huge scandal , so using it as the time machine was kind of a joke. Instead, the trilogy made the car into an icon, and it’s probably the main reason anyone remembers it today. Still, I love the DeLorean and I always have, even if it was unable to outrun a Volkswagen Bus in a parking lot without resorting to time travel. It had character, and character means a lot. Biff Tannen’s 1946 Ford Super De Luxe Sponsored Biff may have been one of the biggest assholes in cinematic history, but he had great taste in cars. His ‘46 Ford is a real looker, at least until it gets trashed by manure twice in a matter of days in 1955. He absolutely had it coming though.

(One of the main plot elements of all three movies was Biff and his family getting their much-deserved comeuppance throughout history.) It must have had a tricky clutch or something, since only Biff and Old Biff from the future could start it. Biff’s car also gives us a great line from Doc in the second film, when Marty suggests the flying DeLorean land on it so they can seize the almanac. "Marty," Doc says, "He's in a '46 Ford. We're in a DeLorean. He'd rip through us like we were tin foil." Classic. Doc Brown’s 1948 Packard Custom Eight Victoria Advertisement Advertisement Of course the Doc had a Packard! He’s all about style, man, no matter what era he’s in. It shows up in a couple scenes in the films, including when Marty borrows it to take his mother to the “Enchantment Under the Sea” dance. Then he comes close to making out with her, which is probably the most unpleasant experience anyone could ever have in a car.

Marty’s 1985 Toyota Xtra Cab 4x4 After Marty changes the past, his family in 1985 doesn’t suck anymore. By teaching his father to stick up for himself and go for his dreams, they all seem much better off than before. Marty even opens the garage to find his own, brand-new Toyota pickup truck, perfect for taking either of the actresses who plays his girlfriend up to the lake for the weekend. This truck is also tied pretty closely to Marty’s own fate, as it’s the truck he wrecked in a drag race against Flea from the Red Hot Chili Peppers some dude named Needles. That crash ruins his music career and relegates him to a lame middle-management job he gets fired from in 2015. Fortunately, he’s able to avoid that in the climax of the third movie . Marty lucked out with this one. That’s a nice-looking truck, and probably tough as hell too. Also, the truck that was used in the third film is getting restored , which is awesome. I have some hot news for all the Back to the Future fans out there!

Which should be all of you,… Read more Read more George McFly’s 1984 BMW 733i Advertisement Before Marty changes his family’s future, George McFly was a loser who drives a crappy old Chevy Nova that Biff promptly wrecks in the first movie. Not anymore! Imbued with self-confidence, the new George is a successful author who rolls around in a freaking E23 7-Series, one of the baddest (and most expensive) German luxobarges of its era. George is now so awesome that he has Biff detail his Bimmer at the end of the first movie, even though he has to threaten Biff with another 1955-style ass-beating to make sure there’s two coats of wax on it. Well done, McFly! Griff Tannen’s BMW 633 CSi In the future, we will all drive horribly modified BMWs! I could never figure out if Griff’s car was supposed to be what a BMW would look like in 2015, or if it was an old car he bought and then put a bunch of crap on.

I’m guessing the latter, because the tail end is primered, making it look like a work in progress. At any rate, what’s a guy like Griff — who’s even angrier and stupider than his grandfather — doing driving a classy car like a BMW? (Side note: a few years ago, Matt wrote about a guy who was restoring one of these movie cars . I wonder how that went.) The cars of the “future” are kind of hilarious when you figure out what they really are. A couple are 1980s concept cars, one is a very gussied-up Ford Probe, and one is a Citröen DS. I’ve seen those pop up in a few movies as a “futuristic” car, which is a true testament to the timelessness of the DS’ design. Oh, and in Back to the Future II's version of 2015, Pontiac dealerships are still around . Ha!

Like all children of the Back To The Future generation, we can vividly remember the moment Marty… Read more Read more Just about any car from 1955 Advertisement Advertisement One of the first signs that Marty is truly in a different time in the first film is all of the classic cars driving around. Generally, they're all awesome. The city is filled with a fantastic collection of old Plymouths, Mercurys, DeSotos, Buicks, and other marques from the 1940s and 50s. It’s a great salute to the best era of American style. Jennifer’s Dad’s 1984 AMC Eagle 4WD Wagon We only see him briefly in one scene, but the father of Marty's girlfriend Jennifer drives an awesomely American car, so it's totally worth mentioning here. The old 4x4 AMC wagon is one of the granddaddies of the modern crossover SUV. Whoever Jennifer's dad was, he had good taste in wagons. The Libyan Terrorists' Volkswagen Bus (Type 2) Advertisement Doc Brown's time machine needs plutonium to operate (until it gets Mr.

Fusion, anyway!), so he acquires some in the safest and most ramification-free method he can think of: cheating it out of some pissed-off terrorists from Libya. Shockingly, the Libyans aren't too happy that the Doc ripped them off, so they come after him and Marty in a Volkswagen bus. This leads us to a great Bus vs. DeLorean chase scene, even if it's a bit unrealistic. The DeLorean hit 90 mph in a parking lot, but it still couldn't outrun an ancient Type 2? Okay, sure. That PRV V6 wasn't good for much anyway. The chase ends with Marty back in 1955 and the VW crashing into a Fox Photo stand (remember those?) No word on whether the terrorists survived the wreck, but who cares? They're terrorists, and that makes them bad people. Advertisement Back to the Future™ - The DeLorean The DeLorean The Music Creating the Time Machine When Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale first wrote the script for Back to the Future in 1981, their concept for the time machine was originally set to be a refrigerator.

Fearing that children would imitate the film and get trapped inside, they decided that not only should the time machine be mobile, but it should be a car. It was during the writing process that the DeLorean DMC-12 was gaining worldwide media attention, being one of the most anticipated new vehicles of the decade. Zemeckis and Gale soon decided on the DeLorean for its futuristic look, notably for the scene where Marty McFly crashes the DeLorean into the Peabody barn in 1955; the gullwing doors made the car look like a UFO. Future Facts: For the first film, three DeLorean automobiles were purchased for modification into the now-famous time machine. An additional three vehicles were purchased for the two sequels, and a full-sized fiberglass DeLorean replica was built for the flying scenes in Back to the Future Part II. The time machine was designed Ron Cobb, Andrew Probert , and Michael Scheffe. Kevin Pike's special effects company Filmtrix built the first three DeLorean time machines in just ten weeks. Many of the props on the time machines were electrical industrial surplus.

However, two iconic props were off-the-shelf items: the nuclear reactor was made from a Dodge Polaris hubcap, and the "Mr. Fusion" unit was created from a Krups coffee grinder. During filming when the time machine's doors were iced-down, the doors would suddenly fall and hit the actors in the head. Special effects crews had to heat the gullwing door struts with hair dryers between takes in order to keep the doors up. For Back to the Future Part III, two Deloreans were outfitted with special dune buggy chassis and high performance Volkswagen engines for scenes filmed in the Western terrain. During the scenes where the 1880's locomotive had to push the DeLorean up to 88 miles per hour, a number of these shots were filmed in reverse to keep the actors and stuntmen safe. During the scene when the time machine crashes into the Peabody barn, the digital speedometer starts to count upwards at the last moment. This is because of the design of the electrical circuit. During the filming of Back to the Future Part II, the fiberglass DeLorean was accidentally dropped close to Michael J. Fox , who was standing nearby.

The DeLoreans used in Back to the Future retained the original V6 motor. The sound effects artists changed the sound of the engine to a Porsche 928 V8. The sound of the DeLorean gullwing door opening was created from a car window regulator. It is the same sound used at the beginning of the film with Doc's automatic dog feeder. The original time machines had numeric time circuit displays only. Director Robert Zemeckis decided to change them to alpha-numeric displays during filming. Due to the time and expense involved, lithographic negatives were created from an LED display catalog. The "A" and "B" car throughout filming kept the numeric only displays (which can still be seen with a keen eye for detail). The filmmakers emphasized the homemade look of the DeLorean time machine so that viewers could believe that Doc Brown actually built the car in his garage. They didn't want it to look too sleek like Knight Rider's KITT or the helicopter from Airwolf. (Interesting enough, KITT was designed by Michael Scheffe, and Airwolf was designed by Andrew Probert .) Industrial Light & Magic created a flying DeLorean time machine for the end of the first movie.

For the second film, ILM modified the same model by adding an interior and miniature figures of Doc Brown and Marty McFly. The "B" stunt car from all three films was rigged with explosives and hit by the train when Marty returned to 1985 at the end of Back to the Future Part III. Numerous fans have spent years building and recreating their own Back to the Future time machine replicas. ORIGINAL SCREEN USED DELOREAN TIME MACHINE FROM BACK TO THE FUTURE III ON EXHIBITION | Profiles in History ORIGINAL SCREEN USED DELOREAN TIME MACHINE FROM BACK TO THE FUTURE III ON EXHIBITION There were several DeLorean cars used during the three Back to the Future moves, so where are they all? Los Angeles, CA – July 14, 2011 – Where are all the real DeLorean Time Machines that were used in the Back to the Futuremovies? Sadly, some of them no longer exist and others are in need of extensive work. Of the seven cars used over the three movies, only three original cars are thought to still exist.

Presented by Profiles in History, the famed auction house that represented the Debbie Reynolds Collection this summer, one of those screen used DeLoreans will be at Comic-Con 2011 for public viewing in conjunction with Team Fox benefitting The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research. The main goal is to give fans the opportunity to see and be photographed in the car. For a $20 donation to the Foundation you can be photographed in the DeLorean with all proceeds going to Team Fox. Profiles in History is proud to present the original DeLorean Time Machine driven by Michael J. Fox in Back to the Future III. It will be presented at booth 1605, along with several original artifacts from all three Back to the Future movies with the hopes of creating a Back To The Future “museum” experience. Along with the Time Machine will be original costumes, the Tales From Space comic, Doc’s burned toy Cadillac, Clock Tower cables, Gray’s Almanac, the Doc Brown committed/commended newspapers, a full set of all five types of hoverboards, and other rarely seen pieces of cinematic history.

The Time Machine has been in private hands for the past 8 years, and was recently featured on the Hollywood Treasure television show hosted by Joe Maddalena. Joe and his staff will be at the booth in person to greet fans, and share these rare pieces of history. In conjunction with Team Fox, this is a rare opportunity to get your pictures taken with the original Time Machine. The Time Machine will be available for viewing during advertised Comic-Con show hours, and will be in a future Profiles in History auction later this year, with a portion of the proceeds going to Team Fox benefitting The Michael J. Fox Foundation. Previously it could be seen at the San Diego Air & Space Museum. About The Michael J. Fox Foundation As the world’s largest private funder of Parkinson’s research, The Michael J. Fox Foundation is dedicated to accelerating a cure for Parkinson’s disease and improved therapies for those living with the condition today. The Foundation pursues its goals through an aggressively funded, highly targeted research program coupled with active global engagement of scientists, Parkinson’s patients, business leaders, clinical trial participants, donors and volunteers. In addition to funding almost $251 million in research to date, the Foundation has fundamentally altered the trajectory of progress toward a cure.

Operating at the hub of worldwide Parkinson’s research, the Foundation forges groundbreaking collaborations with industry leaders, academic scientists and government research funders; increases Parkinson’s awareness through high-profile advocacy, events and outreach; and coordinates the grassroots involvement of thousands of Team Fox members around the world. About Joe Maddalena and Profiles in History Founded in 1985 by Joseph Maddalena, Profiles in History is the nation’s leading dealer in guaranteed-authentic original historical autographs, letters, documents, vintage signed photographs and manuscripts. Born into a family of antiques dealers in Rhode Island, Joseph “Joe” Maddalena learned early on how to turn his passion of collecting historical autographs into a career. Needing to support himself, Joe turned to his hobby of buying and selling historical documents as a potential way to earn revenue. On weekends he scoured old Hollywood bookstores for letters and rare books. Upon graduation from Pepperdine, Joe pursued his passion to become a full-time dealer of historical documents, and opened his first office in 1985. A lifetime member of the Manuscript Society, Joe is widely recognized as the nation’s leading authority on entertainment memorabilia and historical documents.

Profiles in History has held some of the most prestigious and successful auctions of Hollywood memorabilia, establishing itself as the world’s largest auctioneer of original Hollywood memorabilia. With an extensive network of dealers, collectors, and institutions, they are proud to play an important role in the preservation of motion picture history. Profiles in History recently broke several world records with the sale of Marilyn Monroe’s Subway Dress from The Seven Year Itch, for $5.52 Million. It was a part of the Debbie Reynolds Collection and part two of the auction will be on December 3.

Prior Profiles in History Hollywood auctions highlights include the “Cowardly Lion” costume from The Wizard of Oz ($805,000); a full-scale model T-800 Endoskeleton from Terminator 2: Judgment Day ($488,750); Marilyn Monroe’s “Diamonds” dress from Gentlemen Prefer Blondes($356,500); Luke Skywalker’s light saber from Star Wars ($240,000); Margaret Hamilton’s “Wicked Witch” hat from The Wizard Of Oz ($230,000); and The Invisible Man 1933 one-sheet movie poster ($230,000). Profiles in History’s location in Calabasas Hills, CA– virtually a stone’s throw away from every major Hollywood studio – ensures a constant flow of fantastic and rare collectibles. With an extensive network of dealers, collectors, and institutions, they are proud to play an important role in the preservation of motion picture history.

Joe Maddalena is also the host of Hollywood Treasure, a half hour show for the Syfy Channel, which follows him as he navigates his way through the intricate world of collecting showbiz and pop culture memorabilia, the second season currently airs on Wednesday nights. Bob's Prop Shop * If you wish to purchase a Time Machine, check out: We have built and sold 24 of these amazing cars for private collectors! ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - DELOREAN SPECIFICATIONS - The "Time Machine" built on a genuine 1981 DeLorean car. The body panels are made of solid stainless steel, the original engine is a Volvo V6. Here are some specifications you may need to know about the DeLorean in order to fit it inside your building or on your stage: Width: 79" Height: 60" (with Mr. Fusion attached) Weight: 3,000 lbs. Turning Circle 35 ft 10.67m Manual 5-Speed Transmission Back To The Future [1985] - The DeLorean - YouTube Back To The Future [1985] - The DeLorean Want to watch this again later?

Sign in to add this video to a playlist. Need to report the video? Sign in to report inappropriate content. Rating is available when the video has been rented. This feature is not available right now. Please try again later. Uploaded on Apr 2, 2011 Original scene from the first Back To The Future movie This is the scene where the DeLorean is introduced for the first time, serving as a time machine made by Doc Brown. Note: the scene is mirrored in order to prevent copy right issues with Universal Category Mr. Fusion | Futurepedia | Fandom powered by Wikia Marty: "Wait a minute, what are you doing, Doc?" Doc: "I need fuel!" — Marty and Doc, while Doc refuels Mr. Fusion with garbage The Mr. Fusion Home Energy Reactor (also known simply as Mr. Fusion and the fusion generator) was the name of a power source used by the DeLorean time machine . The actual unit was manufactured by Fusion Industries . Mr.

Fusion converted household waste to power the time machine's flux capacitor and time circuits using nuclear fusion (it is thought that this is cold fusion ), as well as allowing the DeLorean time machine to generate the required 1.21 gigawatts to travel through the space-time continuum . The energy produced by Mr. Fusion replaced plutonium as the primary power source of the DeLorean's time travel and flight capabilities. Mr. Fusion was first seen when Emmett Brown returned back from 2015 . He rummaged through the McFly residence 's trashcan to find a banana peel, a Miller beer can (pouring in the remains of the beer, and then dropping the can in as well), and some other pieces of garbage which he dropped into the unit before closing it. This suggests that the Mr. Fusion unit could run on pure trash. When Doc, Marty McFly and Jennifer Parker arrived in the year 2015 , a few logos are spotted for Fusion Industries on the power generators in the alleyway they landed in. The generators resembled the shape of a very small truck. Behind the scenes The DeLorean seen parked in an alleyway near a Fusion Industries power generator. Mr.

Fusion was based from a Krups coffee grinder and was a parody of the Mr. Coffee line of coffeemakers. In an earlier script of Back to the Future Part II , the Mr. Fusion was named the Westinghouse Fusion Energizer. The ending of Back to the Future suggested that in the future, mankind's energy problems would be solved by a device that would convert any matter into energy, and that the "Mr. Fusion" (seen on the back of the DeLorean) could, in theory, someday be able to power automobiles. However, vehicles seen in Back to the Future Part II don't have a Mr. Fusion, and the Texaco service station in 2015 is still in operation. However, Fusion Industries most definitely did exist in 2015 because, in Back to the Future Part II, Doc parked the DeLorean in an alley next to a Fusion Industries generator. In Back to the Future Part III , Doc confirms that the fusion device only powered the flux capacitor and the time circuits, and that the DeLorean time machine still had an internal combustion engine that ran on gasoline . Mr.

Fusion was, apparently, was impractical for powering a car engine, which raises the question of how motorists could drive a few thousand miles from Boston to London on Hyperlane Grid 4 . Apparently the Mr. Fusion unit was capable of powering at least two time travels without needing to be refueled. This can be seen in the animated series episode 'Put on your thinking caps, kids! It's time for Mr. Wisdom!' (Walter Wisdom time travels to 127, and then to 1883 without stopping), as well as the comic 'Jurassic Biff', in which Biff does not need to refuel Mr. Fusion to leave 2015. In the novelization , Doc has to take care in 2015 to keep the DeLorean obscured, citing that many of his modifications — specifically the installation of a Mr. Fusion Home Energy Reactor — are not exactly considered "street legal". The Krups Coffee grinder model number 223A, marketed under the name Coffina, was visible in the 1979 film Alien, where it served as a futuristic kitchen appliance aboard the spaceship Nostromo.

In the final scene of Back to the Future ( 1985 ), the Krups Coffina grinder served as new piece of hardware from the future, the Mr. Fusion Home Energy Reactor, as a throw-away joke at the end of a movie that wasn't expected to spawn a sequel. Mr. Fusion's in-universe purpose was to offer a safer, more energy-efficient alternative to the radioactive and (extremely scarce) plutonium required earlier in the film to power the DeLorean's time circuits. As Mr. Fusion operated on garbage, it was clearly a futuristic, eco-friendly alternative. The Mr. Fusion was constructed by mounting a Krups Coffina grinder on top of a custom-made base made from the outer shell of a Singer magnetic disc memory core, now obsolete, which was a feature in some computers made in the 1960s. In the film, it's possible to see that the large grey window (the grinds collecting cup) along the trailing edge the unit doesn't lie flush with the housing. During the closeup (before Doc opens the fuel compartment) the control knob from the grinder is visible, including its original number markings on the control knob on the backside of the unit.

Visible also, lower down on the back of Mr. Fusion, is the Coffina's on/off switch. The grey circle behind the Fusion Industries logo is a clear-backed decal applied to the original Coffina's translucent window, which allowed a user to gauge how many unground coffee beans remained in the bean chamber. From the back it's possible to see through the clear collecting cup and see the spout where the ground coffee grains would fall from. (Visible also in the film is the top edge of the camera being reflected in the shiny 2015 barcode license plate .) The opening scene in Part II employs a few different camera angles from its Part I equivalent. As with other differences between the otherwise identical scenes , someone had the foresight to paint over the numbers on the Coffina's control knob during the Part II filming, and it became a featureless peg on the back of Mr. Fusion; the "Mr. Fusion" decals on the Part II unit had a lot less finesse than in Part I. Near the end of Back to the Future, Part III ( 1990 ), a shot of the DeLorean's back deck shows Mr.

Fusion prominently, with the translucent grey cap for the Coffina grinder apparently missing, and allowing viewers to see down into to the top of the grinder's shallow bean collecting cup. (If this were a Coffina grinder instead of a Mr. Fusion reactor, one would pour the coffee beans into the top of the unit.) The coffee grind collecting cup, the unit's lid, and the back control knob are missing, and the side window — with the Fusion Industries logo — appears to be blacked out from the inside. Fun fact: Back to the Future series producer Bob Gale has an extra Mr. Fusion unit sitting on his desk, acting as a lamp . Real Back to the Future Car Delorean DMC 12 Detail, Time Machine and Engine Walkaround - YouTube Real Back to the Future Car Delorean DMC 12 Detail, Time Machine and Engine Walkaround Want to watch this again later? Sign in to add this video to a playlist. Need to report the video? Sign in to report inappropriate content. Rating is available when the video has been rented. This feature is not available right now. Please try again later.

Published on Aug 1, 2012 Real Back to the Future car Delorean DMC-12 with full detail interior! This is one of the most epic movie car in the world, the dashboard and the time machine are so real. The operation of the DeLorean time machine is consistent throughout all three films. The operator sits inside the DeLorean, (except for the first time, when a remote control is used), and turns on the time circuits, activating a unit containing multiple fourteen and seven-segment displays that show the destination, present, and last-departed dates and times. After entering a target date, the operator accelerates the car to 88 miles per hour (141.6 km/h), which activates the flux capacitor. As it accelerates, several rails around the body of the car glow blue. Surrounded by large sparks, the whole car vanishes in a flash of blue light seconds later, leaving a pair of fire trails where the vehicle's tires will pass arriving at the destination time.

Observers outside the vehicle see an implosion of plasma as the vehicle disappears, while occupants within the vehicle see a quick flash of light and instantaneously arrive at the target time in the same spatial location (relative to the Earth) as when it departed. In the destination time, immediately before the car's arrival, three large and loud flashes issue forth from the point from which the car emerges from its time travel. After the trip, the DeLorean is extremely cold, and frost forms from atmospheric moisture all over the car's body.[1] A few technical glitches with the DeLorean hinder time travel for its inhabitants; in the first film, the car has starter problems and has a hard time turning over once stopped, much to Marty's repeated frustration.[1] In the second movie, the time display malfunctions and shows random dates, which partially cause Doc to be sent to 1885.[2] In the third movie, the fuel line rips while the car is off-road, preventing the car from running under its own power. From Wiki Hope you like it!! New videos will be coming out every week. Please SUBSCRIBE & check out my "CHANNEL" for more videos!! Thanks!! Like me on Facebook Page: Enjoy Razzi Photos:

Question: What car is used as a time machine in "Back to the Future"?
Answer: De Lorean