{"id":199232,"date":"2007-08-22T23:13:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-23T04:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/08\/22\/anyone-got-a-spare-flux-capacitor\/"},"modified":"2007-08-22T23:13:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-23T04:13:00","slug":"anyone-got-a-spare-flux-capacitor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/08\/22\/anyone-got-a-spare-flux-capacitor\/","title":{"rendered":"Anyone Got a Spare Flux Capacitor?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that the car made famous in <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">back to the future<\/span>, the De Lorean, <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/gadgets\/back-to-the-past\/delorean-confirms-new-cars-to-roll-out-in-08-291801.php\">is re-entering production next year<\/a>, albeit in a hand built form.  At $58K, it&#8217;s pretty cheap for a handbuild (and cheaper than the original adjusting for inflation), and it might actually succeed, if just because they are shooting for lower numbers (about 2\/month) for success than the original, which was intended for mass production.<\/p>\n<p>The company that&#8217;s doing this, which sells refurbed De Loreans right now, has about 200 of the original engines on hand, though one hopes that they can coercesome more horsepower out of it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/img514.imageshack.us\/img514\/5923\/deloreanmotorcompanyvg1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px;\" src=\"http:\/\/img514.imageshack.us\/img514\/5923\/deloreanmotorcompanyvg1.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that the car made famous in back to the future, the De Lorean, is re-entering production next year, albeit in a hand built form. At $58K, it&#8217;s pretty cheap for a handbuild (and cheaper than the original adjusting for inflation), and it might actually succeed, if just because they are shooting for lower &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[962,1108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-40yrs","category-auto-industry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199232"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199232\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}