Regular Car Reviews: 1981 DeLorean DMC-12

My dad has a DeLorean. I love it. He wants to sell it.. I told him over my dead body.

"Is it possible to feel nostalgia for something you've never experienced?" This guy is crazy and random, but he's deep.

Funny story. My co-worker had one of these a while back. Basically a daily driver. Our boss had just gotten a brand new BMW M6. We all went bowling for a company event, M6 and Delo parked next to each other. After a few sets, we step outside to smoke a cigarette. Just then, a group of kids start pointing at the cars, gawking and hollering. They walk up, breeze straight by the M6 and surround the Delorean, taking pictures and really taking pleasure in seeing the thing. They could not have cared less about the shiny new BMW. The look on my boss's face was priceless. A Delorean is pretty much an attention grabber no matter what it's parked next to. Can't say that about many cars.

I once sat in a DeLorean at a car show because the owner asked if I wanted to. The perks of being young.

TOUCH TOUCH TOUCH TOUCH TOUCH TOUCH TOUCH, SIT SIT SIT SIT, GRAB GRAB GRAB, STEERING WHEEL, MOVE AROUND, TOUCH EVERYTHING, TOUCH ALL THE BUTTONS.

I remember the first time I ever saw  DeLorean at a cars and coffee event. It had the sports almanac from Back to the future, flux capacitor-the whole nine yards. I don't remember the experience because I was too excited. I learned that can happen. 

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I owned a 1981 DeLorean with a 5-speed for a few years. It was my dream car as a kid, thanks of course to Back to the Future. But I can definitely identify with the "meeting your hero" comments in the video...my expectations for the DeLorean were brought down once I actually owned one. It's slow, heavy, drives poorly and constantly requires maintenance. Lots of little annoying things tend to fail on these cars. But it looks beautiful inside and out, and turns heads like absolutely nothing else on the road. I could park my car next to a new Ferrari at a car show, and people would pay more attention to the DeLorean. Ultimately it was worth owning for a while, just to say that I owned my dream car at one point.

The year is 2139 and humanity has rebuilt itself into a new era of efficency and speed. Silver spires go miles high, our food is grown vertically, and the world can be traversed in mere minuets. And long after the chevys and toyotas of the day have been recycled into electrical cables, there will still be that gearhead polshing the stainless steel panels and attaching a turbo to an engine that can barely power itself. For even with its flaws and failures, he shall restrore the delorean once again and take it onto the last of the non-autonomous roads. And all the people with their augmented vision will stop their day for just a moment and look, and see a machine, a scuplture, that is timeless and will last far longer than any of us.

Not sure if anyone else saw it, but the gull wings have Green and Red lights for port/starboard, just like planes/ships!

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In Belfast, Northern Ireland, we built the DeLorean about the same way we built the Titanic......just joking. The Titanic was built just fine....but the DeLorean?? Our excuse here in Belfast in 1981 was, "it's our first day". We had never built a car before....and haven't since.

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I've owned and restored two Delorean's. They are built buy 20 year old Irish men. The doors never line up perfectly. I will get another one. People at car shows would always ask..... why a delorean!? My reply was do you see all the 67 mustangs and 32 fords? They say yes! Look at how many people are around my DMC12 and look at the people around there's! I've only had the 5 speed. The PRV v6 needs all the grunt it can get! It's held to a sports car standard like lambo or ferrari but it's really in a class of its own! They are a pleasure to drive and YES THE BACK TO THE FUTURE JOKES GET VERY VERY OLD!

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The owner of that car is just awesome for actually driving his car. Most people would have a heart attack about driving their DMC when there is snow out in PA with all the salt on the roads, glad to see a owner who actually drives their car.

A C3 VETTE LURKS. I disagree with your introductory statements, Mr. Regular. You are absolutely worthy.

This is why I love RCR.  Watch any other review of the DMC-12 and they'll spend the entirety of the review talking about how its handling and acceleration don't deliver the supercar promise that its RR layout makes.  Instead Mr. Regular spends 8 minutes talking about the idiosyncrasies of the car like how the doors close or the green indicator for low beams or the horn button being in a weird place or the people at car shows that want to molest the DeLorean and only the DeLorean.  These are things I would never know about the DMC-12 unless I bought one. This is why I watch RCR.

Who noticed the little Enterprise NCC-1701-D hanging from the mirror? Both it, and the Delorean Time machine from BTTF were designed by the same guy, Andrew Probert.

"Is it possible to feel nostalgia for something you've never experienced" THIS more importantly than the humor is why I watch Regular Cars' videos. They are so perfectly atmospheric and just tear at my heart. So powerful the way he puts these videos together, great work Mr. Regular.