Scott Brown Tweets Pic Posing with DeLorean, Spells DeLorean Wrong
http://www.boston.com/news/2014/07/19/scott-brown-tweets-pic-posing-with-delorean-spells-delorean-wrong/rG0EMksjaVzd0AdfMojXMK/story.html
Scott Brown, New Hampshire candidate for U.S. Senate, tweeted out a photo of himself and a supporter with the supporter’s futuristic-looking, gull-winged DeLorean on Saturday. Yes, that’s the car from “Back to the Future.” And yes, he spelled the name of the car wrong.
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kirth says
A derail – that car hasn’t looked futuristic since at least 15 years ago, any more than the Avanti has. Both were cool in their day, but not the fastest or sportiest available even then. Much more advanced – and advanced looking – cars have come out on a regular basis since.
Maybe Brown is endorsing John Delorean’s business plan for funding his car company.
jconway says
I’d take a real one if I had the bread, not sure how they run though.
kirth says
You’d have to buy leaded gas somewhere. You can get it, but you seriously do not want to know what it costs. It would be cheaper to put a modern engine in, but that would make it non-original, and worth less.
stomv says
or some vintage paint, some toy soldiers, bullets, or some cheap mall jewelery. (shrugs)
johntmay says
2,700 pounds, 130 HP
In other words, looks fast but looks don’t count for much once you turn the key.
Now that I think about it, that’s the perfect car for Scott Brown.
mimolette says
It’s one of the tiny tragedies of being a grown-up that one can’t help considering things like fuel consumption, and like the way that engineering has improved over the decades, when you’re finally in a position to think about buying one of these things. I test-drove one out in Arizona some years ago, and damned if it didn’t still turn heads.
Including my own, but it was too late for me. Modern cars drive so much better, and there’s no justifying the carbon footprint for one of these dinosaurs. But I’m still a little sad about it. And even sadder that the same considerations apply to the classic 60s-era Jaguar XKE convertible.
mike_cote says
This is what I think of as Gull Wings now! Gondorian Helms.
mimolette says
I know, the DeLorean couldn’t do it either. The equally gull-winged McLaren F1, now . . . .
SomervilleTom says
John Tehan says
http://i1.wp.com/nerdbastards.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/TardisDelorean.jpgoriginal.jpg
One of my favorites!
Christopher says
I watched the trilogy again on demand earlier this year and it was interesting to compare the technology we actually have to what they movie creators thought we might have. Some things we have they didn’t think of and some things they included still look futuristic.
jconway says
2001 had a way cooler space station (with artificial gravity), a moon base (with artificial gravity) a deep space vessel (with artificial gravity) and passenger space planes. But, the USSR, AT&T and Pam Am still existed, no cell phones, no internet, and HAL took up half the Discovery so no microprocessors. And the astronauts weren’t tweeting their mission like the actual ISS occupants.
As for BFII, the cubs haven’t won and won’t by 2015. No hover bikes. What am missing that they did predict?