Picture of the exterior of a remote controlled DeLorean. LOS ANGELES - It may not time travel, but the DeLorean sports car is finding its way into the future.In honor of the 41st anniversary of the first production of the DeLorean DMC-12 on Jan.
21, fans of the time-traveling car may soon see the iconic vehicle traveling up to 88 miles per hour on local highways. The car nearly made a comeback in 2013 when The Orange County Register reported the DeLorean Motor Co. – the eponymous, modern-day successor to the original company founded in 1982 by General Motors executive John DeLorean – was doing brisk business transforming surviving DeLoreans into replicas of the time machine Michael J.
Fox, or Marty McFly, used to travel 30 years into the past to save his family from oblivion.Since then, many fans of the car have tried to resurrect the automotive timepiece into time machines of their own.
In 2018, a real flying DeLorean was listed on eBay.Well, it’s technically a hovercraft that looks like a DeLorean, and Marty McFly still isn’t real, but 10% of the selling price has been pledged by the owner to the Michael J.