The Curious Birth, Death, Resurrection, and Afterlife of the DeLorean

(via Popular Mechanics) It’s at the beginning of Back to the Future, about 20 minutes in, when Marty McFly first sees a four-wheeled hunk of metal—outfitted with a flux capacitor—back out of a smoke-filled trailer. Turning to Doc Brown, McFly exclaims, “Wait a minute, Doc. Ah… are you telling me that you built a time machine… out of a DeLorean?” Now 30 years later, the DeLorean is preparing to time travel once again. This is the story of the DMC-12 and its legacy, a story even stranger than the car itself.