Okay, let's get this straight. Back to the Future movies: cool. Making your DeLorean into a replica of the movie car: incredibly lame. Halfway between would be a reproduction flux capacitor. If you did buy this thing, you could certainly attain full lameness by installing in in your non-DeLorean. There were talented people working in the entertainment industry to dream up those iconic vehicles of the 1980s like KITT, the BTF DeLorean and the A-Team van. Those cars have staying power with a generation of enthusiasts, but dressing up your car to match a prop is akin to putting on your C-3PO finery to go see Episode III. If you must have it for your '96 Neon, climb the stairs from your basement lair and ask your mom for $220 for what equates to a couple of lights in a box. Hey, Christmas is coming, if you jump up and down and stomp like you did in '85, you'll find this thing under the tree.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
VP @ Dec 10th 2007 5:17PM
Ouch, somebody at Autoblog is in a bad mood today. I have never seen you guys this riled up over something, not that i can blame you.
JJC @ Dec 10th 2007 5:22PM
While I don't particularly like the idea of sticking a Flux capacitor in my ride, I feel this article is very poorly written. It is written like an elementary student opinion. Talk about crappy journalism.
Snark @ Dec 10th 2007 8:54PM
It's not journalism. It's blogging.
Dan Roth @ Dec 10th 2007 10:38PM
Lighten up, Clarence. Or is it your first day reading Autoblog? Perhaps this is what you're looking for?
http://www.usatoday.com/money/autos/default.htm
nissanfreak87 @ Dec 10th 2007 5:25PM
I think someone's jealous
broosewee @ Dec 10th 2007 5:47PM
What's wrong with making your DeLorean a replica of the movie car? It's practically 90% there already.
And if anybody can get it to hover... well... i mean, there you go.
DctrDez @ Dec 10th 2007 5:56PM
I'd drive the BTTF Delorean without thinking twice. But it has to be a perfect conversion--smoke, lights, even flux capacitor and Mr. Fusion must be there.
blunckhouse @ Dec 10th 2007 6:46PM
Leave the snarky comments to Jalopnik. If automotive blogging were television, Autoblog would be the nightly news and Jalopnik would be the late show.
Jeff @ Dec 10th 2007 7:47PM
If I had a DMC-12, I'd put this thing in it an call it a day. Full-on movie car conversion is a little over-the-top, but this would give me a chuckle whenever I got into my underpowered 30-year-old tin can of a car.
Jeff @ Dec 10th 2007 7:50PM
Every Weblogs blog has snarky comments. Engadget, Joystiq, the Fanboys, all of them. If you want straight auto journalism, read Winding Road. I mean, come on, you're complaining about snarky comments in a post about A REPLICA FLUX CAPACITOR. What other kind of comments could you possibly make about this thing?
Jeff @ Dec 10th 2007 7:52PM
That second one was supposed to be a reply to blunckhouse, I have no idea what happened.
Steveboss @ Dec 10th 2007 8:28PM
Screw that, Im going screw a newcastle bottle opener to it and place it in my 944 for H20i next year.
jrejre @ Dec 11th 2007 9:59PM
There's actually a guy near me who has done this. . . or is working on it. He's got a hoverboard in there and everything. . . I thought it was cool anyway............
Josh Reiter @ Dec 10th 2007 10:57PM
What I can't stand are the people that make lame flux capacitor references in car forums and comment sections of car blog sites.
Like if someone starts a thread asking about a good turbo charger and some nerd chimes in, " I don't need a turbo because my flux capacitor pwns joo all."
Karl @ Dec 10th 2007 11:14PM
Insert gratuitous "I don't have 1.21 gigawatts to run it" joke here
Peter @ Dec 11th 2007 7:29AM
Jigawatts!
WesD @ Dec 11th 2007 10:52PM
Nope, it is gigawatts.
WillDaThrill @ Dec 11th 2007 1:08AM
Not to be a BTTF geek or anything, but Mr. Fusion is what you are talking about. It made its' debut at the end of part 1.
AltairDusk @ Dec 11th 2007 4:54AM
Taking a quick look at that picture you could make your own for around $50 easily. Breaker box and short section of PVC piping and 90 degree elbow. Small piece of plexiglass, cut the front of the box, silicone in the plexiglass. Now you just need 3 miniature CCFL tubes (cold cathode flourescent light) which can be bought quite cheaply from a computer modding website. Put them in the box, wire it up and voila!
dave @ Dec 11th 2007 10:23AM
I was actually considering buying one for my office...but damnnn, now you have me considering building one.