The DeLorean Lives On, Back In This Future

[KamaAina]

https://www.yahoo.com/autos/the-delorean-lives-on-back-in-this-future-124236103.html

In 1985, a movie came out showcasing a hot actor and a cool car. Michael J. Fox crushed the role of “Back To The Future” protagonist Marty McFly, and in the movie-trilogy-process immortalized the DeLorean DMC-12, a stainless steel, gull-winged automotive comet that burned bright and flamed out fast....

Thirty years after the first BTTF movie hit screens—its final moments featuring “Doc” Brown the mad scientist returning from the then impossibly distant date of October 21, 2015, aboard a flying DeLorean—the unmistakable sports car enjoys a second life thanks to a Texas company that has dedicated itself for decades to its preservation.

“There’s no question that the phone’s been ringing a lot more lately due to the anniversary year,” says James Espey, vice president of DeLorean Motor Company, which bought the original company’s name when it acquired the bulk of the factory’s parts and esoterica a few years after John Z. DeLorean’s dream died in 1982.

“We get people asking about renting a time machine,” says Espey, referring to DMC’s movie-version of the DeLorean, complete with glowing appendages and Mr. Fusion insta-energy maker strapped to the rear deck. “Some folks ask if we have the hovercraft conversion worked out. Well no, not yet.”

[frogmarch]

1. I love steampunk!

That's what BTTF really is - mid-80s steampunk.

On a StarTalk video, Neil deGrasse Tyson explained what the Back to the Future trilogy got wrong. He said that as an example, the future showed lots and lots of FAX machines because in the 80s, FAX machines were just catching on, and im the movie, the future was swarming with them. Instead of having one FAX machine, Marty had three (or more?). Tyson said that what futurists get wrong is that "they tend to focus on extrapolating from what is, instead of imagining what might come in out of left field."

Okay, but that's part of what makes BTTF fun...the steampunk.

[KamaAina]

2. In the opposite direction timewise.