The original DeLorean Motor Company is an automobile manufacturer formed by automobile industry executive John DeLorean in 1975. It is remembered for the one model, it has produced the distinctive stainless steel DeLorean DMC-12 sports car featuring gull-wing doors. The DeLorean DMC-12 shot to worldwide fame in the Back to the Future movie trilogy as the car made into a time machine by eccentric scientist Doctor Emmett L.Brown, although the company had ceased to exist before the first movie was made. The Orange county Register reports the DeLorean Motor Co. was making a business out of restoring the DMC-12 sports car. Recently, it has been getting more requests to outfit DeLoreans to resemble the car from the 1985 movie "Back to the Future."
DeLoreans with their stainless steel bodies and gullwing doors, were built in 1981 and 1982 before the original company collapsed. The brand's now owned by DeLorean Motor Co.of Huntington Beach. General Manager Cameron Wynne says "Back to the Future" has been a huge part of his business. Company mechanic Danny Botkin has built six movie replicas so far at about $45,000 each. The company's also working on an all-electric version, although it won't need the 1.21 gigawatts required by doc Brown's car. In collaboration with DMC, Nike released a limited edition DeLorean Dunk shoe with an estimated production of 1,000 pairs at a suggested retail price of $90. At the point a former DeLorean Motor Cars executive offered to modify and register the cars so that they could be used in the UK. These modifications are included in
- Different seat belt units fitted.
- The fitting of Rubbolite tail light clusters with a built-in foglight function. The fog is a legal requirement in the UK.
- The fitting of a foglight switch to one of the center console dummy switches.
- A custom-made tail light surround and number license plate bezel.
- Swapping the front turn signal lenses for ones of a different, more rounded style.
- Swapping the rear side marker lenses for amber ones.
The current DeLorean Motor Co.was started by Wynne's father, Stephen Wynne. He bought the original company's remaining parts. The parts, including 1,000 gullwing doors, fill 40,000 square feet which as 3,700 square metres of warehouse space in Houston,And then Seven years ago, DeLorean began re-manufacturing the sports car using donors cars that are stripped and fitted with remaining or remanufactured parts. We have constantly customers calling us that have had their cars in storage for 10,20, 30 years, and they want to get rid of it, Cameron Wynne said. But the DeLorean isn't resting on its laurels. The company, which has a handful of locations nationwide and one in the Netherlands, is working on an all-electric version. The company wants it to travel 100 miles i.e. 160 kilometres on a charge and accelerate from 0 to 60 mph ( o to 96 kph) in under 5 seconds. However it won't need the 1.21 gigawatts of electricity required by Doc Brown's version.