[DML] Re: Dr. David's Delorean
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[DML] Re: Dr. David's Delorean



I've never heard of any of the cars being converted to electric for the movie. I think one car was sacrificed in order to be connected to a hydraulic boom for hovering shots, and eventually ended up on the sound stage for the tour, but I never heard that rumor. But more to the point, why would someone drive a car on a sound stage? The whole point is supposed to keep everything as stationary as possible. Even if you did need sound effects, that's what Foley artists are for.

I doubt that any one except the studios owns the original movie cars. Not that a situation like this could ever be impossible, but after reading the story of the Black Beauty, and seeing how other studios deal with originals and replica cars from movies, I do seriously doubt anyone has their car on loan. Sounds more like confusion of facts where someone ends up telling me DeLoreans had helicopter engines, and were built in Utah again...

-Robert
vin 6585 "X"



--- In dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, doctorDHD@... wrote:
>
> The eLectric DeLorean stirred up a lot of talk recently after the Battery  
> Beach Burnout show in Jupiter, Florida.
>  
> Most of it is of course just funny nonsense stuff about how fast it could  go 
> in the quarter mile if it had 1.21 jigawatts, but here is one response I  
> found very interesting.  It says that one of the DeLoreans used in the BTTF  
> movies actually was electric powered.  Any truth to that?
>  
>  
> Message: 11
> Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2009 15:19:37 -0800
> From: Peter  Gabrielsson <peter.gabrielsson@...>
> Subject: Re: [EVDL] Dr.  David's Delorean
> To: Electric Vehicle Discussion List  <ev@...>
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> 
> The Delorean in the movie wasn't powered  by 1.21GW it was actually
> 1.21 JigaWatts so the whole discussion is kind of  meaningless ;). A
> more interesting fact was the one of the Deloreans  used  in the movie
> was electric, powered by a DC motor. It was used on  the sound stage
> and as such could not have a internal combustion engine  poisoning
> everyone.
> 
> >From what I've heard, it was converted by Rich  Elgin here in Monrovia,
> CA. He's also supposed to still own the title to the  car which is on
> display at universal.



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