I'm sure that there will be other responses, but no, Barris did NOT build the Time Machine for Universal Studios. He never even touched the car. Even on the BTTF DVD it states that Barris did NOT build the BTTF car, yet he continues to make the claim. And since there is no one with the legal power to stop him, he continues doing so. Barris claims he's built lots of cars that he hasn't. In fact, some of the most famous "Kustoms" he has were not built by him at all, but rather his deceased brother. Barris is known to go to movie studios and license movie cars that the studios are not actively marketing/profiting from, such as the BTTF franchise. He in turn licenses products based off these cars, and then takes in the profits himself. Not that there is anything wrong with that, except he starts passing off bogus cars as the real thing, and makes false claims that he in fact built them. He's been sued in court for other fraudulent cars as well. Years ago some car collector bought was he thought was one of the original Batmobiles from the 1960's TV show. Turned out it was a clone car built from a 1973 Toronado and couldn't possibly have been an original car. The guy sued the museum, but it turned out they had been lied to by Barris who lied about in the car in the paperwork. The guy won. Another myth is that the "Black Beauty" from the Green Hornet was built by Barris: FALSE again! http://katoman.com/green%20hornet%20folder/black_beauty1.htm On this site too you'll even see that he shows that the Monkee's GTO wasn't built by him either. And what's interesting is that since it's begun to come to light that he is in fact NOT responsible for these cars, I've now noticed that he's taken them off of his website. I'm sure however that if you check out archive.org, go back and you can see them all there. -Robert vin 6585 "X" --- In dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "David Teitelbaum" <jtrealty@...> wrote: > > It's amazing the places references to the Delorean pop up. My son gets > RC Driver magazine. In November's issue there is an interview with > George Barris. In it he claims to have built the Delorean Time > Machine. Not the first time I have heard him claim that but I always > believed Universal jobbed it out to someone else. I guess it is easy > to believe because of all of the other movie cars he has been involved > with. > David Teitelbaum > vin 10757 > To address comments privately to the moderating team, please address: moderators@xxxxxxxxxxx For more info on the list, tech articles, cars for sale see www.dmcnews.com To search the archives or view files, log in at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dmcnews Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dmcnews/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dmcnews/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:dmcnews-digest@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx mailto:dmcnews-fullfeatured@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: dmcnews-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/