TimeTraveler's Guide: DeLorean History

A Blast from the Past

Warning: the DeLorean DMC-1 may not have been the most reliable time machine, but it's definitely a conversation starter.

John DeLorean, the founder of DeLorean Motor Company, was a man ahead of his time. Or was he just a bit too reckless?

With a passion for innovative design and questionable business decisions, DeLorean's cars were known for their gull-wing doors and... well, that's about it.

But little do people know, DeLorean had a secret: he was obsessed with time travel. And why shouldn't he be? It's not every day a car manufacturer gets to play with the fabric of spacetime.

So, in 1985, DeLorean invested a small fortune in a time-traveling DeLorean, which he lovingly referred to as the "D.M.C. 1".

Unfortunately, the DMC-1 had a few... let's call them "teething problems". But that's not the end of the story! There's more where that came from.

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