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6 unusual facts about DeLorean DMC-12


Alligator Sky

His "Alligator Sky" self makes an appearance at the end of the music video for "Deer in the Headlights" where he is nearly run over by himself driving the DeLorean (from Back to the Future) after coming to the year 2015.

Art Kane

Art Kane is credited in the book Stainless Steel Illusion for the photograph of John DeLorean with the DeLorean DMC-12 sports car that was the basis for the only magazine advertisement ever created by DeLorean Motor Company.

Ernest Cline

Cline, a huge fan of the Back to the Future film series, owns a 1982 DeLorean DMC-12 sports car that has been modified to look like the time-travelling vehicle from the films.

Cline also revealed that the competition's grand prize would be a 1981 DeLorean.

Ready Player One

Cline also revealed that the competition's grand prize would be a DeLorean.

Vanity plate

This can be used as a comical element, as "Outatime" in the DeLorean DMC-12 time machine featured in the science fiction film Back to the Future.


Humble, Texas

DeLorean Motor Company (DMC), manufacturer of the DeLorean DMC-12, a sports car made famous by the movie Back to the Future, has its only remaining private factory based in Humble.


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DeLorean Motor Company

The DeLorean DMC-12 shot to worldwide fame in the Back to the Future movie trilogy as the car made into a time machine by eccentric scientist Doctor Emmett L. Brown, although the company had ceased to exist before the first movie was made.