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DeLorean: The Car, The Man, The Company.

Welcome to my page.

This is my DeLorean page. I thank Bellsnwhistles.com for their graphics, AOL user DeLorean31 for his D pics, Tamir Andon likewise and Chris Martin for his HTML tutorial site!

Remember this music? It is, of course, the Back To The Future theme tune!

The DeLorean DMC-12: A gleaming stainless steel car with a V6 engine. I want one. I currently don't have as many pics as I'd like L.
DeLoreans can be modified in various ways, such as painting them (sacrilege unless absolutely neccesary), bigger engines, twin turbos, brightwork (Chrome bumpers etc.) and 'go faster' stripes. You name it, it's been done (apart from cutting the roof off and making it convertible, coz that would kind of smeg the gullwing doors). There are red D's blue ones, green ones, BTTF ones (Back To The Future), there's even a green BTTF D. Me, I just want a stainless steel Back To The Future DeLorean with twin turbos, chrome exhausts and all other piping, and maybe a few lights and yellow-tinted flash-tubes in the wheels and boosters that light up and flicker past a certain speed (88 mph of course. I'll also have bumper stickers that say 'According to my calculations, once this baby gets past 88 miles an hour, you're gonna see some serious shit!') and make it look like the wheels are sparking and glowing hot and the boosters are, well, boosting. I will also remove the DMC logo and replace it with red-tinted clear plastic one with lights behind that switch on with the headlights. So, if you're on the motorway in the dark and a gleaming silver car shoots past you (yeah, I know the speed limit is 70mph, but who sticks to it? You get beeped at for being in the middle lane at 70mph...!) with glowing wheels, flashing boosters and an illuminated DMC logo in five or ten years time, you know it's me!!

The DeLorean was concieved by John Z. DeLorean, who was president of General Motors' Car & Truck department. John had wanted his car to rival the Porsche 911, the car which inspired it's rear-engine layout. The DeLorean's original plans included an ERM chassis (Elastic Resonance Moulding) and four wheel drive, but Lotus, who were hired to finish the car, didn't think so, giving the car a monocoque chassis and rear wheel drive.
I want to get some BTTF pictures, so if there's anyone out there who can help, please e-mail me!

A 4x4 DeLorean. This D would be cool if you lived in the countryside. . . What the hell! It's cool anyway! I only have one question though: How do you close the Gullwing doors once you've got out?!? LOL!!

A novel idea: A DeLorean towing a DeLorean trailer J

What a shame this DeLorean Limosine is only a computer mock-up. . . I know that I'd hire it out! LOL!

I don't know about you but I wouldn't want to be towed by this way cool D towtruck. . .J!

This DeLorean belongs to AOL user DeLorean31

The following DeLorean pics are from the DeLorean site of Tamir Andon

Back To The Future.

Say the word "DeLorean" and people think of Back To The Future.
In BTTF III, the DeLorean time machine is destroyed, and Universal Studios used an actual DeLorean and they really DID hit it with a train (as far as I know).
The DeLorean is a perfect car for a time machine because, presumably, the paint would be vapourised by the momentary flash of intense heat created when a car travelled through time, leaving the car vulnerable to rust. As the -12 has no paint anyway, this wouldn't be a problem :). Another problem with having the DeLorean painted would be the extreme cold the actual temporal displacement produces. This extreme temperature difference would probably cause paint to flake away if it wasn't vapourised, again causing the problem of rust. And anyway, like Dr. Emmet L. Brown says; If you're gonna time travel, why not do it in Style! The Flux Capacitor is the thing that powers the DeLorean through time. The layout for it came to Dr. Brown when he had a Newton-esque experience- except it wasn't an apple falling, it was him! After many years and his family fortune, Doc Brown had done it. In true scientific style, Einstien, Dr. Brown's dog was the first animal to travel through time, jumping one single minute into the future! Later, the Doc and a friend of his, Marty McFly travelled to 2015, where Biff Tannen secretly steals the DeLorean and travels back in time to 1955 and gives his younger self a sports almanac which makes him very rich and in control of the police and most other public services, so, when Doc and Marty return to 1985, they find it is a total wreck, an alternative one which they must then correct by going to 1955 and stopping Biff giving himself the Almanac...!

SPECIFICATIONS
DeLorean DMC 12 (1981-1983)
Manufacturer: DeLorean Motor Cars Ltd.
Production: 8583 units
Gearbox:
5 gears manual, optional 3 gears automatic.
Body: Coupé, 2 gullwing doors, 2 seats, brushed stainless steel, chassis with Y structure.

Length: 14 ft (4.27 m)
Weight: 2844 lb (1290 kg)

Weight distribution:
Front: 35%
Rear: 65%

Suspension:
Front: Independent, Assimetrical paralel arms, coil springs, telescopic shock absorbers and anti-roll bar. Rear: Independent, Longitudinal arms, coil springs and telescopic shock absorbers.
Brakes: Front and Rear: Disc.

Engine:
Gasoline, rear engine, RW Drive, OHC V6.

Bore x stroke: 91 mm x 73 mm
Cylinderada: 174 in3 (2850 cc)
Compression: 8.8:1
Power: 130 HP at 5500 rpm
Torque: 208 Nm at 2750 rpm

Numbers:
Top Speed: 130 MPH (209 km/h)
Acceleration 0-60 MPH (0-96 km/h): 9.6 sec
Acceleration 0-100 MPH (0-161 km/h): 23.2 sec
Average Consumption: 18.35 mi/gal (7.8 km/l)

Body Finish and Composition
The exterior body panels are of brushed stainless steel SS304. This steel is usually referred to as "dairy grade" because the tanks and piping used in dairy farming (and in restaurant countertops, etc) are of this grade. It can be considered "food grade" stainless. This grade of steel is softer than SS316 which is more brittle and is usually used in more industrial applications (and in knives I believe). The stainless panels have no "clearcoat" or other finish and is merely brushed. The underbody consists of a monocoque fiberglass tub on which the stainless panels are hung supported by an epoxy dipped soft steel frame with a design borrowed directly from the Lotus Espirit.
Exotic Technology
There are several aspects of the cars design and construction that are fairly advanced. The cryogenically manufactured torion bars that counterbalance the doors were developed and manufactured by Grumman Aerospace. Their function is taken for granted by DeLorean owners but the design and function is very elegant. Previous gullwing cars struggled with counterbalancing the gullwing doors. The Mercedes sports coupe tackled the problem by making the doors very light. For structural reasons, the door sills on the Mercedes therefore had to be very substantial and the sills are quite high. The Bricklin approached the problem by using pneumatically operated struts that would raise the doors using compressed air stored in its rear bumper. The doors would get pumped up at the press of a button. This approach was often slow and cumbersome. The DeLorean torsion bar counterbalances the door by storing torsional energy (in a way similar to how a spring stores energy when compressed). The cryogenic manufacturing process was necessary in order to strengthed the torsion bar for repeated operation without the bar fatiguing or breaking. In a process that I do not understand, the crystalline structure of the material was modified in the process so that the "grain" in the material would run through the bar in an optimal way. If you examine a DeLorean torion bar you will see that it is twisted along its axis several times over its short distance.
Parts Sources
Availability of parts is perhaps the largest misconception with regard to the DeLorean automobile. All the mechanical systems on the car (like powerplant and drivetrain) use standard parts and can be obtained through typical channels. The DeLorean-specific parts (like body panels and interior components) can still be readily obtained -- the factory stamped out spares for everything on the car before closing down, and you can even buy brand new stainless steel body panels for it still.

THE 24 KARAT GOLD DELOREAN!!!

Yes, you did read right. This car has been plated with 24 karat- YES TWENTY FOUR KARAT- gold. If you think that stainless steel would be a pain in the ass for fingerprints, imagine what gold would be like! I'd be scared to drive this car because if someone shunts you or T-bones you then that's well over £500,000 down the pan. Only three gold DeLoreans were ever made- one is in the lobby of a Texas bank, another is in the DeLorean museum and I don't know where the final one is.