Shipping Wars featuring VIN 16128 and its picky owner!

[Chris Burns]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Yi2q7xR-RCk

[Delorean Industries]

Ugh why would you bring this up. This is ancient. Let it die.

[Nicholas R]

Things like this never die! Heck, about a month and a half ago I watched the Monster Garage DeLorean Hovercraft episode from 2003. These shows never disappear.

Speaking of which, do we have a listing of links to TV shows that focus on DeLoreans? It seems like there have been a lot in the last couple years. Might be nice to have a repository, especially for any of the episodes that can be viewed online.

[DMCVegas]

Don't know of a specific database per se where the DeLorean is the focus, but here is the archive of movies and TV shows that at least show one somewhere.

http://www.imcdb.org/vehicles_make-De+Lorean.html

[BladeBronson]

What the... http://www.imcdb.org/vehicle_345587-...C-12-1981.html

[DMCVegas]

What the... http://www.imcdb.org/vehicle_345587-...C-12-1981.html

That is a modified DeLorean from the old TV show, Hardcastle & McCormick. Plot aside, one the the main stars of the show was a Manta Mirage kitcar with a Porsche 914 drivetrain. The problem was that one of the stars of the show, Brian Keith, was having a great amount of diffuclty sliding in and out of the car. So for seasons 2 & 3 they purchased a DeLorean and modified it to look like the Manta. I believe they just chopped-off the front pontoon, and cut the fenders and quarter panels. Then they grafted the fiberglass kit car sections in, and removed the side glass and cut the doors all the way up to create T-Tops.



The big question I have here though, is how did they convert the wheels to 5-lugs? Spacers? Or entirely new hubs?

Some pretty decent pictures here:
http://www.jayohrberg.com/Hardcastle_and_McCormick.html

A couple of construction photos here:
http://uniquemoviecarslasvegas.com/photos.php

That's the hero car though. There was also a stunt vehicle as well, but I think it was just a shell over a tube chassis, and not another full DeLorean conversion. Almost makes me wonder if that DeLorean stunt car chassis & drivetrain might not have been the basis for the BTTF Mark III Time machine

[Jonathan]

Don't know of a specific database per se where the DeLorean is the focus, but here is the archive of movies and TV shows that at least show one somewhere.

http://www.imcdb.org/vehicles_make-De+Lorean.html

Saw at least a couple they missed, namely music videos for Honeymoon Suite's New Girl Now and also Matt Mays' Tall Trees. Also a quick glimpse in the 80s movie The Manhattan Project.