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By the time BTTF came out the DeLorean Motor Company had already gone bankrupt, John DeLorean's final attempt to save the company by becoming a major international cocaine smuggler (!) having failed miserably. In 1984 my dad took me and my little brother round the Belfast docks where we saw hundreds of gleaming DeLoreans sitting in limbo while the bankruptcy courts decided what to do with them. Most of the DeLoreans were unlocked and you could sit inside them as me and my brother did. Back To The Future came out the next year and the DeLorean became something of a cult car - two years too late to save the Belfast factory. What happened to all those DeLoreans in the Belfast docks I don't know but a good condition DeLorean today sells for about 30,000 USD.
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If you're interested I wrote a book sort of about the DeLorean scandal in Belfast called I Hear The Sirens In The Street. It begins, of course, with a quote from Back to the Future...
... Thursday update: ok this was pretty cute: