I'm turning my car into a Delorean!! BTTF (COMPLETE)

justy

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• Oct 19, 2015

• #61

Re: I'm turning my car into a Delorean

2 days! Then I'm out a time!
I have a quick minute to post an update. I've been waiting for the last piece show up, some wiring to extend the EL wire. (I just recieved the delivery notification, so I'll have it when I get home. After that, I'm pretty much done! In the meantime, over the weekend I continued work on my other BTTF 2015 props.

Nike bag:



and the jacket:



I put the finishing touches on the dashboard gauges last night and installed them this morning. I also picked up a cool clock from IKEA on Saturday on the way home from my friend's wedding, It'll go nicely on the dash. I just need to figure out a way to anchor it down so it doesn't fly around. Alongside the other dashboard items is a cheap bubble compass.



And at last I attached the completed flux boxes to the car this morning. The "boxes" are attached to the "wires" with copious amounts of gorilla glue. And both are held on to the car with plenty of strong magnets. I'm quite happy with how they turned out.

 

justy

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• Oct 20, 2015

• #62

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Finally attached the flux bands. I have some tidy work to do on the internal wiring, but the essentials are there. When it gets darker I will take some pictures with the lights turned on.

 

MattgomeryBurns

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• Oct 20, 2015

• #63

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Sweet dude!

 

JasonMcFly

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• Oct 20, 2015

• #64

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Looking nice!

 

justy

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• Oct 20, 2015

• #65

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Oh, any my wardrobe of the day.

 

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Mixael

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• Oct 20, 2015

• #66

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Great work man, we are all looking forward to seeing you leave fire trails across the twin pines mall parking lot at 1:21 am

 

doppelganger

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• Oct 20, 2015

• #67

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Looks awesome. I did the same to a vw scirocco back in the early noughties. I used the neon wire for outlining some edges and a short bubble lamp as a mr fusion.Looked really good at night. Keep it up as you only have till tomorrow to get it ready. I wonder if we will all have skyway flyers when we wake up and all for the cheap price of 39 9 9 9 95.

 

justy

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• Oct 20, 2015

• #68

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I'm so excited, the 21st is tomorrow! I figure I'll keep adding onto my car, slowly upgrading parts as I get ideas in the next month or so. I'm thinking I'll have to remove everything for the winter though. Someday it may be fun to do this with a sweet delorean look alike car. Or a real delorean... haha someday...

 

justy

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• Oct 22, 2015

• #69

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The future is here! Lots of updates today! A lot has happened since my last post here's a bit of backtracking before I get to the finished project

Tuesday night, Oct 20, I stayed up late and frantically tried to finish my plan B jacket in time... Also hoping to catch a pepsi bottle, but that didn't work out so well, oh well. Guess I'll just have to make my own I worked until my fingers were tired of glue and my back hurt from slouching, so I retired to bed.

I ran to the store early in the morning on October 21st 2015 to get more glue, and happened to park next to this guy...



I thought this was a funny coincidence after the Pepsi perfect mess.



Still no pepsi perfect...

Back at home I continued gluing the drawer liner to my modifies coat. I also plasti-dipped some textured craft foam that I thought looked cool, kinda reminded me of the 80s.



The jacket isn't perfect, and certainly not symmetrical, but for a last minute plan B it isn't too bad.

 

Michael Bergeron

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• Oct 22, 2015

• #70

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This is the type of build we're all about here! Love it. Something unique of your own that's also instantly recognizable!

 

justy

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• Oct 22, 2015

• #71

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In between sessions working on the jacket, I went outside to put the finishing touches on my car while the glue was drying. These are some detail shots I snapped this morning.

Dashboard wiring, IKEA clock, and almanac. Absent: iPad Time circuits.



USB Flux Capacitor to charge the iPad. Also a velcro LED sound activated meter.


PVC Time Circuits control switch/cupholder. Various wires.



Various labels.



Outside.

 

Last edited: Oct 22, 2015

justy

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• Oct 22, 2015

• #72

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My makeshift "Rootbeer Perfect"

 

justy

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• Oct 22, 2015

• #73

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Went to lunch with my brother and friends before the screening!



My brother and I after the trilogy marathon. My other brother had to leave before we took a picture. It was soo much fun to watch these in a real theatre with an audience instead of a worn out VHS tape haha. Such good movies



And after the movie an impromptu cell phone photoshoot!





The ride home.

 

justy

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• Oct 22, 2015

• #74

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Michael Bergeron said:

This is the type of build we're all about here! Love it. Something unique of your own that's also instantly recognizable!

Click to expand...

Thanks! I've had a blast making this for sure. I love the creativity and inspiration here it amazes me every time I log on. Love you RPF!

 

Jintosh

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• Oct 22, 2015

• #75

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This is from tonight's episode of the TV series "Hereos Reborn".

88 ??!?!? Hill Valley Road ??!!!?!?

Obvious nod.

 

kruleworld

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• Oct 22, 2015

• #76

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This is hilarious. so cool.
i'm surprised no one mentioned Top Gear USA's 'time machine' (a Nissan). but i don't expect Justy will cut his doors to make them gullwings.

I couldn't do this to a car in australia, rules too strict. even a mad max car isn't legal.

 

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Mixael

New Member

• Oct 23, 2015

• #77

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Great work man. So great to see that you made it work. Love the details with the almanac, the license plates, the hoverboard, and so on. Congratulations are very much in order. Well done! Rock on!

 

IxMAGICx1

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• Oct 23, 2015

• #78

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Man, this is just too cool...too too cool...hats off to you!

 

missmturner

New Member

• Oct 23, 2015

• #79

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I applaud your creativity and ingenuity!! What an awesomely fun project! Huge thumbs up for turning a Buick into a time machine!!

 

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VaultDweller

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• Oct 23, 2015

• #80

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This is so cool