Doc then plotted means of powering the car, including having his horses try to reach 88 mph out in the desert, they only made 20-30 mph. Suddenly, Marty went from a mall parking lot in 1985, to a field in 1955, and the DeLorean crashed into a scarecrow and then the Peabodys' barn. To afford this, he traveled back to 1938, and bought several copies of Action Comics #1. Doc recovered, and revealed that he was wearing a bulletproof vest, having read the warning letter that Marty had written 30 years earlier. Marty finally (and unexpectedly) succeeded in restarting the engine after head-butting the horn in frustration, and took off. Immediately, Marty was stunned to see a modern locomotive barreling towards him, and escaped from the DeLorean just before it was destroyed by the train. Doc explained that it needed some style and implied that the stainless steel construction of the car helped it in temporal displacement. Similarly to Sonic CD, there is a trophy for the PS3 exclusive game Ratchet and Clank (Future): a Crack in Time called 88 MPH, though the action for doing so is by preventing a time travel rather than travelling through time.

In the game Sonic CD (4th generation iPhone/iPod Only) there is an achievement called "88 miles per hour".

In the first script of Back to the Future the time machine was shaped like a refrigerator. Marty had, by now, been attending Hill Valley College, and he visited the Brown family regularly. He then waited for the alarm to go off while Doc reconnected the cable, and decided to reset the controls to arrive 11 minutes earlier than scheduled. The cutout Collector Card for the toy DeLorean Car (Modified Engine) (top right-hand corner) on the rear packaging of Funrise Inc.'s Back to the Future Part II three-vehicle pack. A meter in the DeLorean indicated that it was out of plutonium, and the car shut down. There, it awaited the locomotive. The coils lit up, internal circuits glowed, and the flux capacitor fired rapidly. When Doc came to, he had a vision of the flux capacitor in his head, and drew a crude schematic diagram as well as scrawling some hurried calculations. In Grand Theft Auto V, there are several power stations which have the label "Danger: 1.21 GW", also referring to the amount of electricity needed. Marty jumped out of the icy time machine to check out downtown and to verify that he had gotten back to the future, and back to his normal year of 1985. Supercooled from traveling through time, the gullwing door was troublesome for Doc to open while using his hands. On the 12th, Doc brought the time machine to Courthouse Square in downtown Hill Valley, and started working on the cable assembly that would harness the impending lightning strike. When Doc and Marty arrive at her residence in the newly created 1931B, the vehicle is a rusted hulk of metal on Edna's property. Note the car's tires are intact. In the meantime, Marty asked why a DeLorean was used.

Flying at a high altitude, the DeLorean was nearly hit by an airliner in the sky. The DeLorean reached the cable just as the lightning struck, and Doc made the connection, sending the time machine back to 1985. After it had passed by, Marty gazed at the time circuits and flux capacitor in shock just as they flickered on and then off for the last time. This was the last time in the trilogy that it had done so. On the night of September 6, Doc placed the car onto the track. Doc Brown revealed his creation to his friend Marty McFly at Twin Pines Mall, in the early morning of October 26, 1985, and for its first test, Doc sent his dog Einstein one minute into the future. Doc made use of his upgraded time machine by adding garbage to the Mr. Fusion as fuel. This automatic retrieval feature allowed the DeLorean to return to a set time and location of Doc's choosing.[3]. Marty was almost shot from the buckshot of Otis Peabody's shotgun, and ran back to the safety of the time machine, floored the accelerator, and smashed through the doors of the barn.

While in the future, Doc decided to give the DeLorean a now standard hover conversion. The engine sounds came from a Porsche but the engine was never replaced with a Porsche engine and kept stock. The capacitor was constructed afterward and completed in 1985. Doc and Marty stand in the fire trails left behind by the DeLorean on the first test. Coincidentally, the final version of the time machine was composed of stainless steel, from which many refrigerators are made of.

Marty ran into the DeLorean to try to escape the Libyans.

An unused photo of Doc and Marty uncovering the DeLorean inside the mine.

Pages using duplicate arguments in template calls, The Secrets of the Back to the Future Trilogy, Ratchet and Clank (Future): a Crack in Time, Back to the Future: Untold Tales and Alternate Timelines, Back to the Future: The Game - Episode 1: It's About Time, https://backtothefuture.fandom.com/wiki/DeLorean_time_machine?oldid=61133. After convincing the 1955 Doc that he was indeed from the future, Marty and Doc went back to the site to recover the time machine. Just before its destruction, the DeLorean can be seen to have parts from every time period it has been in. Marty ran back downtown, arriving just moments after his other self was going back to the future, and after the temporal displacement, he encountered 1955 Doc, who then fainted. In pain, he left the silver-colored bag and receipt for the almanac, as well as the top of his cane which broke off in the DeLorean when he doubled over. Doc then showed Marty the interior and its controls. Marty pulled the DeLorean onto a highway that ran by the future site of Lyon Estates. Sonic's way of time traveling is similar to Back to the Future.

A radiation suit-clad Marty trips as he leaves the DeLorean. This was Doc's way to return without the aid of the DeLorean. Doc told Marty he would go roughly 30 years into the future, "a nice round number". From there he left the cockpit of the DeLorean and reminisced about the past, particularly about Old Man Peabody owning the land that is now Twin Pines Mall and his pine tree farm.

He also put gasoline in the tank, since 1985 Doc had to drain all the fluids from the car, including the gas, before putting it into long-term storage. On November 5, 1955, Doc was standing on the edge of his toilet, while hanging a clock in his bathroom. The DeLorean encounters a tribe of local Indians.
Upon removing the arrow, Marty accidentally tears a hole in the fuel line of the car.

While inputting dates on the keypad, Doc used July 4, 1776 (the date the American declaration of Independence was signed) and December 25, 0000 (the date of the birth of Christ) as examples, before inputting "a red-letter date in the history of science, November 5, 1955". Back in 1985, the DeLorean traveled along the railroad tracks for about a mile until it came to rest on the track outside Hilldale. Soon after, Doc built additional DeLoreans for use by the Institute of Future Technology, with the original being placed on display right outside the building. But Doc didn't fully explain why because the watch he was wearing at the time beeped, warning him that the DeLorean's return was only seconds away. He sold them for $2.5 million in 2015, and flew off in the newly converted DeLorean.

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The letter, read the next morning by Doc, stated that the DeLorean was buried in the Delgado Mine, and provided repair instructions on fixing the time circuits with 1955 parts. Copyright © 1992-2020 To Be Continued, LLC. Inside the time machine was also a walkie-talkie from 1985A. The car suddenly appeared where Doc and Marty were standing and screeched to a halt as a frozen shell.

One version of the DeLorean was stolen by Edna Strickland who took it back to 1876 to light Beauregard Tannen's half-finished saloon on fire, accidentally burning down Hill Valley and the DeLorean in the process.

After escaping from Peabody's shotgun, the car ran over one of the two pines that Peabody had been growing.

He pays it no mind as he is chased out of the cave by the bear living there at the time, and fell down the hill and landed on the property of his Irish ancestors.

Parzival uses the DeLorean to win the race that is the first challenge and then speeds through the battlefield in the car during the final battle. The celebration was short-lived; lightning struck a tree close to Marty, who warned Doc about getting struck himself. Doc and Marty's plan was to hijack, or borrow,  the locomotive, and take it to an unused spur that ran to Shonash Ravine, where it would push the car before running off the end of the track. Creator Fate Marty had discovered that his life had changed for the better. In the animated series, the DeLorean is supposedly rebuilt, regardless of what Doc said about the dangers of time traveling. Upon following Einstein's clues to the source of the time machine, Marty drove it back to 1931, where he found Doc in jail for allegedly blowing up a speakeasy. 1955 - 1985 The Wolfram|Alpha computational knowledge engine defines a "delorean" as a unit of power equal to 1.21 jigowatts, and uses 88 miles per hour as a benchmark for comparing speeds. Doc parked the time machine behind the same sign that Marty hid it the first time in 1955. Doc received a strong alcohol concoction from the town bartender, Chester, that he hoped would have a similar effect to gasoline, but instead, blew the fuel injection manifold out. Less than a minute later, a man, representing Western Union, appeared on the rainy street and handed Marty a letter. The Official Site for the Back to the Future™ Trilogy, Build the DeLorean - Eaglemoss Collections, Eaglemoss Collections: Build the DeLorean, OUTATIME: Saving the DeLorean Time Machine (2016), Back to the Future: The Ultimate Visual History (2015), We Don't Need Roads: The Making of the Back to the Future Trilogy (2015), Back to the Future Almanac 1985-2015: Official Collectors Guide (2014).