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Back to the Future pushes DeLoreans back into production
Associated Press
August 21, 2007
In a nondescript warehouse in east Texas, mechanic and entrepreneur Stephen Wynne is bringing a rare sports car back to life. If he succeeds, he almost certainly has Michael J. Fox to thank.
A quarter century after DeLorean Motor Co. began making its glitzy, $25,000 two-seater - an operation that collapsed after two years - Mr. Wynne's outfit plans to bring the vehicle back into production at a 40,000-square-foot factory in Humble, Tex.
The creation of automotive engineer John DeLorean, DMC eventually made fewer than 9,000 cars, distinctive for their gull-wing doors, stainless-steel exterior and rear-engine design. An estimated 6,500 remain on the road.
Despite DMC's flop, the car has persevered, gaining notoriety largely as the time machine Mr. Fox drove in the blockbuster 1985 movie Back to the Future and its two sequels.
"There isn't a day somewhere in the world that Back to the Future isn't playing as a rerun," said Mr. Wynne, president of the new, privately held DeLorean Motor Co.
Mr. Wynne formed the company in 1995, when the bulk of his business was working on original DeLoreans. Still, he needed a name, so he went for the original. He even called John DeLorean, who wished him luck.
A dozen years later, Wynne hopes to parlay the car's celebrity into a niche production business that begins hand-making two DeLoreans a month some time next year.
Already, the operation will take an existing DeLorean, strip it to the frame and rebuild it for a base price of $42,500.
Mr. Wynne bought replacement parts from an Ohio company, Kapac Co., which had acquired the original inventory when DeLorean failed. In 1997, when Kapac wanted out, Wynne bought the supply for himself.
The base price of a new DeLorean is expected to be $57,500 - roughly the same price a 1981 DeLorean would have cost in today's dollars.
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Time Travel Machine Outlined
Charles Q. Choi
Special to LiveScience
LiveScience.com
Mon Aug 20, 11:55 AM ET
A new concept for a time machine could possibly enable distant future generations to travel into the past, research now suggests.
Unlike past ideas for time machines, this new concept does not require exotic, theoretical forms of matter. Still, this new idea requires technology far more advanced than anything existing today, and major questions remain as to whether any time machine would ever prove stable enough to enable actual travel back in time.
Time machine researchers often investigate gravity, which essentially arises when matter bends space and time. Time travel research is based on bending space-time so far that time lines actually turn back on themselves to form a loop, technically known as a "closed time-like curve."
"We know that bending does happen all the time, but we want the bending to be strong enough and to take a special form where the lines of time make closed loops," said theoretical physicist Amos Ori at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa. "We are trying to find out if it is possible to manipulate space-time to develop in such a way."
Many scientists are skeptical as to whether or not time travel is possible. For instance, time machines often are thought to need an exotic form of matter with so-called "negative energy density." Such exotic matter has bizarre properties, including moving in the opposite direction of normal matter when pushed. Such matter could theoretically exist, but if it did, it might be present only in quantities too small for the construction of a time machine.
Ori's latest research suggests time machines are possible without exotic matter, eliminating a barrier to time travel. His work begins with a donut-shaped hole enveloped within a sphere of normal matter.
"We're talking about these closed loops of time, and the simplest kind of closed loops are circles, which is why we have this ring-shaped hole," Ori explained.
Inside this donut-shaped vacuum, space-time could get bent upon itself using focused gravitational fields to form a closed time-like curve. To go back in time, a traveler would race around inside the donut, going further back into the past with each lap.
"The machine is space-time itself," Ori said. "If we were to create an area with a warp like this in space that would enable time lines to close on themselves, it might enable future generations to return to visit our time."
Ori emphasized one significant limitation of this time machine—"it can't be used to travel to a time before the time machine was constructed." His findings are detailed in the Aug. 3 issue of the journal Physical Review D.
A number of obstacles remain, however. The gravitational fields required to make such a closed time-like curve would have to be very strong, "on the order of what you might find close to a black hole," Ori told LiveScience. "We don't have any way of creating such strong gravitational fields today, and we certainly have no way of manipulating any such gravitational fields."
Even if time machines were technically feasible, the gravitational fields involved need to be manipulated in very specific, accurate ways, and Ori said his calculations suggest any time machine could be very unstable, meaning "the tiniest deviations might keep one from working. We need to explore the problem of stability of time machines further."
Theoretical physicist Ken Olum of Tufts University in Medford, Mass., who did not participate in this study, was skeptical concerning how this new model claimed to sidestep prior theoretical objections to time travel.
Still, Olum noted, "It's important if it's right—that there really is some kind of loophole. So this should be scrutinized very closely." The point of such work, he added, was to "expand the bounds of what's possible, what kind of things we can have and what kinds of things we cannot have."
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A dozen years later, Wynne hopes to parlay the car's celebrity into a niche production business that begins hand-making two DeLoreans a month some time next year.
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Already, the operation will take an existing DeLorean, strip it to the frame and rebuild it for a base price of $42,500.
To me hand-making something and rebuilding something are 2 different things....so which are they doing?
Do you have to supply your own car?...From what I got from the article he is just restoring the cars which makes him hardly article-worthy. There are plenty of auto restorers that work on way cooler cars....
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... & in the event you humans could somehow contort time (even though you can't get the concept of the 5th. dimension & nonlateral plane down)... what's is to stop me from going all the way back to the beginning of time & ho slapping the p*ss outta Eve & telling her to keep her *ss away from that f*cking tree??
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... & in the event you humans could somehow contort time (even though you can't get the concept of the 5th. dimension & nonlateral plane down)... what's is to stop me from going all the way back to the beginning of time & ho slapping the p*ss outta Eve & telling her to keep her *ss away from that f*cking tree??
ok....whatever you said about the 5th and all that jazz...but im all with you when it comes to slapping eve in the next millenium
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There was just an article on this in our local paper today. I guess he is going to refurbush some and build some complete ones out of NOS pieces. They can only make around 500 new ones because they only have so many doors and no way to make new ones. The rest of the pieces are NOS or new stuff that is supposed to fix the poor wiring and other shortcomings the original had...
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i dont kno..