DeLorean Timeline

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DeLorean Timeline

OUTATIME documentary released
OUTATIME documentary released

OUTATIME: Saving the DeLorean Time Machine was release. Sources: IMDb

DeLorean Time Machine goes on display
DeLorean Time Machine goes on display

DeLorean Time Machine ‘A car’ from Back to the Future goes on display at the Petersen Automotive Museum.

Fake DMC announces “New” DeLoreans

The company that bought the leftover NOS parts from DMC factory announce that “new” DeLoreans will soon be built.   Source: FoxNews.com – August 21, 2007 – “Texas Entrepreneur Set to Start Building DeLorean Cars”

John DeLorean dies

John DeLorean died Source: IMDb

Texas-based fake-DMC purchases the NOS parts
Forbes | DeLoreanDirectory.com

“A Living Legend” – September 18, 2005 “Wynne talked a friend into investing, and in 1997 they acquired the entire warehouse and contents, in Columbus, Ohio, for less than $1 million. The retail value of those parts, Wynne says, is $35 million.”

“Back to the Future” opens

“Back to the Future” opened in the USA. Sources: IMDb

John DeLorean acquitted

Sources: Washington Post

Patent for stainless steel outer body

Colin R. Spooner receives US patent for stainless steel outer body over fiberglass reinforced inner body. Sources: “Celebrating the Impossible”, page 215 Google Patents

DMC factory closed

DMC factory closed.

John DeLorean arrested in Los Angeles

John DeLorean arrested at the Sheraton Plaza La Reina Hotel in Los Angeles. Sources: LA Times – March 21, 2005 Seattle Times – March 21, 2005


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