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Old 13 February 2020, 04:39 AM   #1
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Icon5 Back to the Future... Kind Of?

Saw this in Florida last weekend. Everyone was taking pictures of it.

Would you drive around in it? You think it's cool or did they mess up a great car should have kept it stock?





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Old 13 February 2020, 04:43 AM   #2
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Old 13 February 2020, 04:44 AM   #3
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Could just be a 70 year old hip hop enthusiast and that crap on the back is his home made sound system.

It is Florida after all.
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Old 13 February 2020, 04:47 AM   #4
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To me that car looks like a pile of junk. Never cared for that car. I can not appreciate it.
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This is my buddies car!!

He spent years doing it. And he now brings it to parties and shows.
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Old 13 February 2020, 05:28 AM   #6
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I would keep it stock as it it a very beautiful car when stock, but I get the whole back to the future thing and why someone would make it look like this.
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Old 13 February 2020, 05:47 AM   #7
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If you get pulled over going 88 MPH, you and the officer could have a good laugh.
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Old 13 February 2020, 05:54 AM   #8
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Saw this in Florida last weekend. Everyone was taking pictures of it.

Would you drive around in it? You think it's cool or did they mess up a great car should have kept it stock?





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Old 13 February 2020, 06:25 AM   #9
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What the hell is a jigowatt???!!???


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Old 13 February 2020, 06:26 AM   #10
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This is my buddies car!!

He spent years doing it. And he now brings it to parties and shows.


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Old 13 February 2020, 06:45 AM   #11
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Heck yeah i'd drive it!!!

Bet it follows the 'white lines' perfectly LOL!
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Old 13 February 2020, 07:04 AM   #12
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Wouldn’t drive it, but it’s very cool
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Old 13 February 2020, 07:58 AM   #13
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They didn’t “mess up a great car,” because it was never a great car......it did look cool though. That one is complete with Mr. Fusion and everything.
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Old 13 February 2020, 08:18 AM   #14
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..... it was never a great car. My brother bought one on a Friday and Delorean was busted with coke over the weekend. Got his money back on Monday the stealership was stuck with 12 of those things that literally sat there and rotted for 10 years.
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Old 13 February 2020, 08:20 AM   #15
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That one is complete with Mr. Fusion and everything.
Oh yeah, someone spent some serious time and effort on it... and money too. All that work to source parts, bend metal, clean install... impressive.
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Old 13 February 2020, 09:39 AM   #16
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..My brother bought one on a Friday and Delorean was busted with coke over the weekend.
I don't think your brother should blame himself.

DeLorean had a serious coke habit and your brother's money may not have had anything to do with him loading up.

I'd go with, just a coincidence.
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Old 13 February 2020, 10:20 AM   #17
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Old 13 February 2020, 10:36 AM   #18
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Heck yeah i'd drive it!!!

Bet it follows the 'white lines' perfectly LOL!
Well played Steven
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Old 13 February 2020, 10:45 AM   #19
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Love it! Who does like Back to the Future! If I liked the attention then I would drive it. I bet the owners a fun guy.

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Old 13 February 2020, 11:22 AM   #20
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Old 13 February 2020, 11:23 AM   #21
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I think it's definitely cool and I would drive it if I had it.
It would be great to have to bring to parties and shows as the owner does.

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Old 13 February 2020, 11:39 AM   #22
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Old 13 February 2020, 01:56 PM   #23
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Love it. If bros can drive in lifted pos coal burners, why not that?
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Old 13 February 2020, 03:18 PM   #24
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That exhaust cluster is a clever repurposing of IKEA shoe organizers.
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Old 13 February 2020, 11:15 PM   #25
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I will never understand why John DeLorean decided to put a Renault engine in that car. Literally anything else would have been better.
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I will never understand why John DeLorean decided to put a Renault engine in that car. Literally anything else would have been better.


It was a PRV custom design - he needed a closeby JIT supply chain and a unique fitment in the engine bay. A V6 was the decision and fabricated somewhere in France. At the time, if I recall correctly, no British firms would comply - some say due to his choice of Ireland for the factory.


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Old 14 February 2020, 02:13 AM   #27
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It was a PRV custom design - he needed a closeby JIT supply chain and a unique fitment in the engine bay. A V6 was the decision and fabricated somewhere in France. At the time, if I recall correctly, no British firms would comply - some say due to his choice of Ireland for the factory.


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Wasn't he also running into a brick wall by being sort of blacklisted by the American companies and their suppliers not selling him parts, because they went out of their way to make it impossible for any new car startup from happening.
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Old 14 February 2020, 02:39 AM   #28
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If they blackballed him it wouldn’t have mattered because he couldn’t afford the inventory of US engines required to run a factory. Engines, transmissions and large panels need to be made relatively closeby under JIT or you’re mired in capital intensive inventory stocking.

His volume was too low to fund a US-based company to custom build engines on site.


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Old 14 February 2020, 02:45 AM   #29
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If they blackballed him it wouldn’t have mattered because he couldn’t afford the inventory of US engines required to run a factory. Engines, transmissions and large panels need to be made relatively closeby under JIT or you’re mired in capital intensive inventory stocking.

His volume was too low to fund a US-based company to custom build engines on site.


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Yeah, thanks.

I remember his enormous issues and perhaps the folly of trying to start a new car company and the massive problems that entails.
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