Back in Time Page #5

I truly feel that

it would not be as iconic,

Because people would say,

"it's just another car."

So the fact that it failed

made it successful.

The fact that it failed made it a piece

of movie history and American history.

Out of 9,000 made,

It's now, what, 33 years

since the last car was produced,

And over 6,500 are

probably still around.

I mean, the day after the

last pinto came off the line,

You didn't see

any of those anymore.

I thought they built that car

just for the movie.

I didn't know.

I wasn't a car guy.

Years later, I found out it was a real car,

and I was like...

"one of these days,

I'm gonna get one of those cars,

"And I'm gonna turn it

into a time machine."

I've been thinking very

seriously about getting one.

I've ridden

in quite a few of them.

There we go. There we go.

- Oh, yeah.

- I got delorean.

And it's an eagle.

That's an eagle.

- An eagle?

- That's an eagle.

His excitement is not

that exciting to me.

My yard is all dirt, like sand.

Nothing would grow there.

I tried every grass when I first

bought the place 15 years ago,

I'm from Ohio. We just make decks.

It's just what we do.

And then I thought, "hey,

I've always wanted a little putting green."

So I just laid down some cement,

got the Astroturf, you know.

And I was like, "well,

I'll just make another tee box."

And I was done at, like,

three holes, and I let it go.

And then I had to make another deck,

and then I went, "well, we'll make it six."

You know what happens. You just

eventually go, "I gotta have nine holes."

I got some charities

involved in some events,

And once

I got charities involved,

I went and looked for some

celebrities that were close by.

And Claudia wells has a store

really close to here.

And I said, "wouldn't it be cool if we

made, like, a Jennifer Parker hole?"

And she went, "hmm," and I said,

"a 'back to the future' hole."

And she said,

"okay, that will work."

And so I thought, "awesome.

"Do you know anybody else in

the movie who could be in it?"

Mayor Goldie Wilson,

don fullilove.

So they came out,

Became this massive event with them

christening the "back to the future" hole.

Ladies should go first.

Am I right about this?

- Yes!

- Absolutely. Chivalry is not dead.

- So, you're right there.

- Okay, what do I do?

You put the ball on the tee.

See the little hole

right here behind you?

Oh, this is gonna be

a long game, everybody.

And I just did it

all just for that moment,

To help with her charity,

kids in the spotlight.

And I said, "hey, do you know

anybody who has a time machine?"

And she said, "sure."

And she found a guy,

and he was gonna bring the car up,

And it ends up

That he was gonna sell his car

right when he said he would do it.

And I got freaked out,

so I looked into getting my own.

And I bought a delorean

in Memphis,

And I shipped it to a builder.

And he had

some pre-fabricated parts,

That were bought in Burbank at apex hardware

where they got a lot of the original parts.

And got it all done in time

for memorial day, 2014.

It's been crazy. And we're raising

money with every tournament we do.

So it's awesome.

It's a win-Win.

When I came on board,

they had a lot of the car begun.

They got as far, even, as making some

of those time circuits on the outside.

But all the same,

it was gonna take some detail sketches

About where

all the little heat seeks go,

And where are we gonna put

these tubes and pipes,

And how do these things

get arranged on the back?

These are made

as much for the guys in the shop

As for the guys

in the art department.

Just so it stays organized.

And the things

we're talking about,

They end up kind of

where we're hoping they'd be.

On the back of the delorean, there's a

little plutonium door that Dr. Brown opens

To load in the plutonium

he's got from the terrorists.

Well, there's this little door right in

the middle of the dodge hubcap, right?

And it has to unscrew,

so it's got kind of a bayonet mount.

So you turn it,

and the little pins index with these slots,

And then you can pull it out.

So he could put the little container

with the plutonium into the holder here,

And then the little tube with the

plutonium would drop out the bottom.

Universal put us in touch

with a product placement company.

Their job was to find partners whose

products would be put in the movie

In exchange for some cash.

And one day,

the product placement guy

And an exec from universal are in

my office, and they say, "bob..."

They said to me, "if you change

the delorean to a ford mustang,

"You'll get $75,000."

And I looked this guy straight in the eye,

and I said...

"Richard, doc brown

doesn't drive a mustang."

For a while, the delorean

was displayed prominently

At the front

of the universal tour.

And then, for whatever reason,

they stuck it in the back somewhere.

And you could only see it

when the tram drove past it

With a bunch

of other picture cars.

We would see the a-Car on the

backlot at universal studios,

And it was sad, you know.

Here's this iconic piece

of so many people's childhoods

Just sitting there

falling apart and rotting.

The car was on display outside,

And you could just

walk right up to it

And take a piece

off of the back.

And people were walking off with pieces.

It was crazy.

I was at universal

studios with a buddy of mine,

Looked at the car,

and I was like,

"Dude, I could totally build this.

I could do this."

And my buddy was like,

"let's do it!"

And I was like,

"all right, don't mess with me,

"'Cause I'll do it."

And started to research what it

meant to build a time machine.

It took four years

to build my car.

And I became known pretty quick

For being the guy that was

truly obsessed with nailing it.

I had met a lot of people who were

in the delorean cult, if you will.

The delorean fan base.

And there were a couple guys

in I.A.,

Joe Walser and terry Matalas,

in particular,

Who had their own deloreans

That they had turned into

"back to the future" deloreans.

I think bob

was rightfully disappointed

In the condition of the a-Car

And said, "something

has gotta be done about this."

The guy at the backlot

on the tour, Fred Diedrich,

He had us come up,

and we brought terry's car up there,

And showed him what

it could really look like.

We went to them and said, "look,

the delorean shouldn't look like this.

"This is a part

of universal's film history.

"And if you guys don't wanna restore it,

that's okay.

"We'll get the Smithsonian to do it,

or the Petersen car museum.

"There's a lot of places

that would step up."

And Scott said, "no, no, no, we'll do it.

We'll do it."

for me,

it was all about accuracy.

I was like, "I'm not trying

to build a time machine."

I wasn't trying to build

Joe's time machine.

I was trying to build

the time machine.

The details are as important to me

as the fact that it's a delorean.

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