Currently still in the workshop: A view of a future DeLorean factory
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DeLorean DMC-12 was the star of the movie from Back To The Future. Now the company’s new owner is showing on YouTube how he wants to reproduce the car that actually failed.
Dunmorey (Northern Ireland) – Hardly any other car brand is so closely associated with movies as DeLorean with the three-part series “Back to the Future”. Economically, the stainless-steel gull wing built in Northern Ireland was a flop: overweight, poorly strong, and often with faulty door mechanisms, it built only 9,000 units in the early 1980s. But maybe the original coupe will start again after all: Stephen Wayne, a Liverpool mechanic who is now planning a re-release of the iconic coupe. In a YouTube video that can be viewed at 24auto.de, he takes movie and car fans on a virtual tour of the factory,
The Dunmurry Factory currently serves as a workshop for the approximately 6,000 copies left today. But Wynne doesn’t hide the fact that he wants to produce new ingredients from ingredients that are still in stock. He needs 2,850 items per car, of which he owns about 80 percent: about 1,000 of the famous double doors are still stocked on the shelves. He probably has the parts that are still missing to start series production elsewhere. Hopefully, it won’t be long before production begins – after all, the first announcement dates back to 2017. *24auto.de is a show of IPPEN.MEDIA
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