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Doc Browns Biography

Dr. Emmett Lathrop Brown Biography - An American resident of Hill Valley, California. He was the inventor of the DeLorean time machine. He is the world's third time traveler (after Einstein and Marty McFly), the second to travel forwards in time (after Einstein), the first human to travel forwards in time, and the second human to travel through time (after Marty) - Read his ‘Past’ ‘Present’ and ‘Future’ here !

A scientist by trade, Doc was a "student of all sciences" who spent much of his time inventing.[4] He was the son of Judge Erhardt Brown (whose birth name was Erhardt Von Braun) and. He usually had a pet dog – in 1955, his dog was named Copernicus after Nicolaus Copernicus, the third in a line of pets named after famous scientists,[5] and by 1985 his dog was named Einstein after Albert Einstein.

Dr. Emmett Lathrop "Doc" Brown is the brilliant, wild-haired, and eccentric scientist who, after dedicating his life to scientific pursuits, invents the world's first functional time machine—a modified DeLorean powered by the Flux Capacitor. Driven by an intense curiosity about the space-time continuum, Doc often pulls his young friend, Marty McFly, into historical mishaps. From escaping Libyan terrorists to navigating the paradoxes of 1955 and traveling to the futuristic 2015, his life is a continuous pursuit of discovery. Though he warns vehemently against altering the past, Doc ultimately finds his destiny and true love, Clara Clayton, while accidentally stranded in 1885, proving that the future is what you make of it. "Great Scott!"

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Dr. Emmett Lathrop Brown - American resident of Hill Valley, California.

Biographical information

Date of birth : 1920 (novelization)

Age (1931) 11 (novelization) Age (1955) 35 (novelization)
Age (1985) 65 (novelization) Age (2015) 95 (novelization)

Physical description

Gender Male

Hair color Brown (1931), Blond (1955) White (1985)

Eye color Brown

Behind-the-scenes information

Played by Christopher Lloyd

"Ah! What did I tell you!? EIGHTY EIGHT MILES PER HOOOOOUUUR!!! "

—Doc Brown's exclamation when the DeLorean time machine's test is done

There was no use getting too high, he reasoned.

At sixty-five, he was one of the nation's most talented and unheralded inventors. In fact no one except Marty McFly even knew of his accomplishments, but that didn't matter. Soon all that would change. His lifetime of struggle, of being the recipient of ridicule, would suddenly turn golden. "

"Great Scott!"

—Doc Brown's famous exclamation and catchphrase

"If my calculations are correct, when this baby hits 88 miles per hour, you’re gonna see some serious shit. "— Doc Brown demonstrating the time travel experiment to Marty

He was the inventor of the DeLorean time machine. He is the world's third time traveler (after Einstein and Marty McFly),

The second to travel forwards in time (after Einstein), the first human to travel forwards in time, and the second human to travel through time (after Marty), and is the deuteragonist.

A scientist by trade, Doc was a "student of all sciences" who spent much of his time inventing. He was the son of Judge Erhardt Brown (whose birth name was Erhardt Von Braun)

His dog in 1955, was named Copernicus after Nicolaus Copernicus, the third in a line of pets named after famous scientists, by 1985 his dog was named Einstein after that Albert Einstein.

Doc's role models were scientists, as evidenced by the names of his dogs and the portraits of Isaac Newton, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Edison, and Albert Einstein found in his laboratory (which were on his fireplace mantle in 1955).

Emmett's father - Erhardt Von Braun, was born in Germany, but sought a better life in America. He left home with nothing but the clothes he wore, despite his father's disapproval, and arrived in Hill Valley, California in 1908.

At age 11, Doc discovered the works of his favorite author, Jules Verne. From that point, he decided to dedicate his life to science. About a year later, Doc tried digging to the center of the Earth, inspired bythe 1864 novel Journey to the Center of the Earth.

Personality and traits

Doc is a highly brilliant, quirky scientist who is passionate about science but is quite crazy, almost to be a point of being pretty nuts, as he has taken part in actually stealing plutonium, and having terrorists come after him.

Despite his quirkiness, Doc does care about those he's close to. He's kind-hearted, supportive, encouraging, and plays as a positive mentor to Marty, to a point of actually being quite paternal.

Though Doc is incredibly clever and inventive, he could be absent-minded at times and was regarded by many of Hill Valley's townsfolk as abnormal or as a nutty mad scientist.

As such, he had few friends (the only known friends were his dog, Marty McFly, and Marty's girlfriend Jennifer Parker). Because of this, Doc was often seen as a loner.

However, Doc cared about the people he was close to. Doc did not believe in "love at first sight" until he ended up meeting his future wife Clara Clayton in 1885 since he did not see how such a feeling worked.

As a scientist and a time traveler, he takes his job very seriously. Doc often worked through the night on his inventions and could become obsessed with little things.

He would always try to use a big word rather than a small one if one is available – for example, he referred to a dance as a "rhythmic ceremonial ritual".

He could also be a showoff with his knowledge, as when he saw a dinosaur tooth and identified it as a "third incisor from the apex of the dental bridge".

Doc often used the phrase "Great Scott!" as an exclamation. He also liked jazz music, Jules Verne novels, and Westerns.

Green was his favorite color, one that he found soothing. Although he had a perchance to gamble, he would never use time travel for that reason.

Doc did not usually drink alcoholic beverages since he had a tendency to pass out after just one drink, especially when that drink was whiskey.

He was allergic to all synthetic fabrics.

Doc sometimes went to great lengths, even illegal acts, that would allow him to complete his projects.

He cheated Libyan terrorists out of an unspecified amount of plutonium, and would have died as a result had Marty not intervened.

A Match Made in Heaven?

Emmett and Edna, then in a heavily romantic relationship, began collaborating on a "revolutionary" new invention for Emmett's display at the Hill Valley Expo, the Mental-Alignment Meter, which is designed to measure a person's likes and dislikes in order to gauge their mental condition (with Emmett himself being measured as a "Model Citizen"), when Emmett's friend reappears again while Emmett is visiting the barber shop.

By 1943, Emmett Brown was a professor at the California Institute of Technology. He left his class by telling his students to work on the Jacobian conjecture, knowing that since he didn't teach a math class, they'd be thoroughly occupied.

Emmett is then offered a job on the Manhattan Project.

While working at the institute Leslie Groves noticed Doc's enthusiasm, and his wild hypotheses, including those on time travel, which he called Emmett's "flights of fancy".

However, Groves was impressed with Emmett and believed that if anyone could invent time travel, he could.

After the Manhattan Project

During the 1950s, Doc worked as a professor of physics at Hill Valley University. He dated a woman named Jill Wooster, the Dean's daughter.

She told Doc that she liked Jules Verne and they both went to Pismo Beach. One day Dean Wooster and his cohorts Cooper and Mintz told him that he must participate in one of three projects: the Edsel car, chemical warfare, or Xerox (which Doc pronounced "X-rox").

At some point in 1951, Doc saw the science-fiction movie The Day the Earth Stood Still.

Thirty-four years later at Twin Pines Mall, he remembered the scene where Michael Rennie as the alien humanoid Klaatu stepped onto Earth for the first time.

Doc's family had amassed a large fortune that Doc had inherited by the 1950s. It allowed him to finance his projects and afford his lavish mansion on Riverside Drive.

Also at some point, Doc made several inventions of varying quality, including the brain-wave analyzer, the Static-O-Matic electric hair chair, the automated flapjack maker that used an experimental sawdust pancake batter, and the K-9 cateteria that used an experimental sawdust dog food.

Early time travel experiments

Doc, aged 41 in 1955

On November 5, 1955, Doc came up with the idea of the flux capacitor, which is what made time travel possible, as it dealt with the excess flux energy that was amassed when traveling through time.

The idea came to him in a vision he had after being knocked out after slipping off his toilet while standing on it to hang a clock, and hitting his head on the edge of the sink.

Later that decade, he attended the American College of Technical Science & Complicated Math to earn an additional degree, where he was roommates with Walter Wisdom.

By the 1960s, Doc utilised his ideas of flux compression to develop a time machine that was capable of sending objects through time, but only during the lifespan of the device.

The time machine, known as the temporal field capacitor, was only useful for sending objects into the future. Sending an object even a few minutes into the past caused a buildup of flux energy.

If an object was sent any further back than that, the arrival of the object would overheat the capacitor and start an electrical fire.

On October 24, 1962, Leslie Groves and Colonel Lomax visited Doc, on behalf of the United States military, as they were looking for a way to travel back in time to prevent the Cuban Missile Crisis from ever occurring.

Doc told them about his invention, as he needed funding for his other inventions. He later had worries that he could be ushering in an arms race through time, coupled with his regrets about ushering in the nuclear arms race of the Cold War through his participation in the Manhattan Project.

The next day, he wrote himself a letter about his plans, and purposefully sent the letter back several months in the past, to August 1, when he knew that he and his dog, Copernicus, would be safe asleep in his fireproof garage.

The Brown family mansion burned down. The military personnel came and left in the new timeline without ever talking to Doc, as they considered him an insurance thief, as the official result was inconclusive. Doc used the insurance money to fund the rebuilding of the temporal field capacitor, as well as his future inventions.

The invention of the temporal field capacitor was a necessary step towards a working time machine, as it showcased the problem of the excess flux energy when traveling to the past, which was solved by the flux capacitor.

After Doc had received the insurance money for his family mansion, he built an improved version of the temporal field capacitor called the temporal field generator Mk II.

Like the original, it could only send objects through time during the time period in which the device had been turned on. However, it improved upon the original device in that it could transport larger objects through time.

It could also send objects many years into the past without causing an electrical fire. However, Doc was careful not to use this device too much, as one test nearly resulted in the destruction of the fabric of reality.

After the Cuban Missile Crisis had ended, General Groves and Colonel Lomax sought out another scientist to research time travel. Marcus Irving was given a lab and government funding to try to develop the necessary technology.

Doc still had to use up most of his family's fortune to fund the creation of his first fully working time machine. By the 1970s, Doc moved to his garage and sold the rest of his estate to developers.

Some time prior to 1972, Doc's father died. Doc's mother then married a man named Carlton Ellsworth. After Carlton died, Doc's mother moved to a house in Hill Valley, and Doc helped her move in.

The DeLorean time machine

When Marty McFly was either 13 or 14, on October 2, 1982, Emmett found that he had snuck into his laboratory. Seeing how Marty found him not to be the mad scientist that others were claiming, and impressed that he was able to overcome the traps that he set up to keep people away,

Doc gave him a part-time job to look after the lab, as his lab assistant and feed his dog Einstein.

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Since he no longer needed to worry about his garage, Doc was able to work on experiments in his secret lab. Doc didn't reveal the location to this lab to anyone, including his assistant. He even went to extreme lengths to keep it a secret, registering the building under his birth name, Von Braun.

In September 1984, Doc purchased a DeLorean DMC-12 and a non-working pinball machine, which were advertised in the classifieds section of the August 11 issue of the Hill Valley Telegraph by Robert and John respectively.

He also purchased another DeLorean DMC-12, apparently as a backup, as he did not modify it as he had the other.

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Doc finally finished installing his time machine into a DeLorean sports car in 1985, using plutonium to power it, and was killed by a group of Libyan terrorists who had given it to him.

The Libyan deal was that they had wanted him to make them a nuclear bomb. Doc had made a fake (non-functioning) one out of used pinball machine parts and kept the plutonium for the time machine.

Doc's overconfidence would prove to be his undoing as he said the Libyans were too dumb to discover they were duped. Presumably the Libyans attempted to detonate Doc's bomb for a terrorist act, and when it was a dud they realized the truth.

Doc posing as Marty's uncle.

Fortunately, Marty, who had witnessed the first time travel experiment, was accidentally sent back to 1955, where he tried to warn the 1955 version of Doc about the terrorists.

Over the course of the week, Doc posed at Marty's uncle and avoided any discussions with Marty about his own future.

Just minutes before the Hill Valley Thunderstorm reached downtown on November 12, 1955, he came across the warning letter Marty had written him.

Doc ripped it up just as lightning struck down a tree on top of the cable. Then Marty tried to shout it to Doc when he was on top of the tower but then the bell rang so Doc told him to get in the time machine. After a race to reconnect the cable,

Doc successfully sent Marty back to the future by harnessing the energy from a bolt of lightning as it struck the Hill Valley Courthouse's clock tower at 10:04pm.

Sometime after these events, Doc decided to take the risk, taped together Marty's warning letter and discovered the truth about that night in 1985. When 1985 rolled around again, Doc wore a bulletproof vest for protection.

After dropping Marty home, Doc went 30 years into the future, to August 8, 2015. At first, he believed that the time machine must have malfunctioned, as he could see no evidence of advances in science or fashion.

However, he soon discovered he had stopped at a 1980s car expo, where he entered his DeLorean and won first prize, 10% off a hover conversion at Goldie Wilson Hover Conversion Systems.

In order to cover the cost of a Mr. Fusion reactor and the hover conversion, Doc traveled to 1938 to purchase several near mint copies of Action Comics #1, which he sold at Southby's Auction House in 2015 for 2.5 million dollars.

To accommodate this money, he set up a bank account under the false name of 'Leroy Brown'. Financially set for the future, Doc took off from Courthouse Square in the upgraded flying DeLorean.

The Mr. Fusion reactor eliminated the need for plutonium, and allowed the time machine to operate off of ordinary household garbage.

It is not known exactly how long Doc remained in the future. While there, he got an "all natural overhaul" to his body which added 30 or 40 years to his life, and made him look younger. After presumably following up on his promise to look up Marty's future self, Doc discovered that Marty's son, Marty Jr., was to go to jail for committing a crime by accompanying Griff Tannen, an event which would end up destroying the McFly family. Doc soon returned to 1985 to pick up Marty (and Jennifer, who happened to be there) to take them to 2015.

TIME TRAVEL

The DeLorean time machine initiates time travel.

" Now, on October 25, 1985, he [Doc] was ready for fulfillment. He had worked out every element of his time-travel theory until it was perfect.

By the end of the century, scientists and historians would be using his device to explore the future and past, and through this exploration, work to improve the present.

His view of time as a dimension was summed up in the simple explanation he once gave to the editor of the Hill Valley newspaper.

"I think of time as spherical and unending," he said. "Like the skin of an orange. A change in the texture at any point will be felt over the entire skin.

The future affects the past and present, just as the past and present affect the future." /

"But the past is over and done with," the editor replied. "How can it be affected?" / "That's just my point," Doc Brown had retorted. "The past isn't over and done with. It's still there. And once we find a way to penetrate it, we'll be able to change things that may happen tomorrow."

The editor didn't buy it, but he printed the interview anyway. Residents of Hill Valley either ignored the article or complained that valuable space had been wasted printing the ravings of a madman. / Such unfavorable publicity once hurt, but now that was all behind him. "If all goes well..." he murmured as he began to prepare for the evening's work. "

—From Back to the Future by George Gipe (quote, pages 26 and 27)

Time travel was the process of traveling through time, and was done with a time machine.

Early experiments

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On November 5, 1955, Doc Brown came up with the idea for the flux capacitor after slipping and bumping his head while standing on his toilet to hang a clock.

The idea came to him in a vision he had after being knocked out. This device would be the key towards making time travel possible. Doc drew up a schematic diagram showing an inverted Y-shape with wires and stated "flux compression".

He also performed some mild calculations on the paper.

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The DeLorean after its first trip.

By 1985, Doc Brown had finished his DeLorean time machine, which was the first time machine capable of transporting living beings through time.

It utilized the flux capacitor, as well as a nuclear reactor that used plutonium pellets to generate 1.21 jigowatts of electricity. This allowed it to break the time barrier in what was called temporal displacement.

It travels along the space-time continuum, bringing the occupant safely to any point in time, but not in space. The original DeLorean time machine could only arrive at the same location from which it departed.

The first successful test of the DeLorean time machine occurred at :

1:20:00 am on October 26, 1985 at the Twin Pines Mall. Doc sent Einstein one minute into the future. After the successful test, he planned to travel to 2010. However the Libyan terrorists managed to track Doc down, and shot him.

The first successful Time Travel Experiment

Marty McFly, while trying to outrun the terrorists, accidentally traveled to November 5, 1955, the day that Doc came up with the idea for the flux capacitor. He accidentally prevented the moment that his mother and father fell in love, which made a ripple in space-time, and led to his brother and sister slowly fading out of existence as the ripple caught up to the dates of their birth. Marty, being the youngest, was effected last.

Since he was also a time traveler, a time bubble was formed around him when he entered the past, which also temporarily protected him from the ripple effect.

Marty had to convince his father, George McFly, to stand up to the high school bully Biff Tannen, in order to convince his mother, Lorraine Baines, to choose him rather than Biff. The plan succeeded, and on November 12, 1955, the couple fell in love at the Enchantment Under the Sea dance, as they did in the original timeline.

Marty gave Doc's 1955 counterpart a letter warning him of his death; however, Doc tore it up. Ultimately, Doc's 1955 counterpart was able to hook a cable up to the clock tower on the Hill Valley Courthouse, which was struck by lightning that night.

The lightning rod on the DeLorean hit the cable at the moment of the lightning strike, powering the nuclear reactor and successfully sending Marty back 1985, ten minutes before he left.

In the new timeline, Doc revealed that he taped the letter back together, and wore a bulletproof vest, enabling him to survive the shooting. Doc left Marty at home that night, and accomplished his original goal, by becoming the first person to travel to the future.

The next morning, Marty woke up to discover that more things had changed in the new timeline. Due to his newfound courage thanks to Marty's guidance, George McFly was a successful writer, and his mom was more confident in herself. Biff no longer rode on George's coat-tails, forcing him to write reports for him to advance his career. Because of this, Biff now ran his own auto detailing business, and George was a client. Marty now owned the 4x4 truck that he had dreamed of owning, and had made plans to go with his girlfriend to the lake.

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While in the future, Doc discovered that Marty's son was framed by Griff Tannen for the robbery of the Hill Valley Payroll Substation. This set up a chain of events that led to the imprisonment of Marty's daughter, as well as her suicide.

Doc traveled back to October 26th, 1985 to pick up Marty, just as Jennifer and Marty were going to head to the lake, so he could help fix the future for his children

They traveled to October 21, 2015. Marty posed as his son, and he succeeded in stopping the robbery. Griff Tannen and his gang instead crashed into the Courthouse Mall, after chasing Marty on hoverboards around Courthouse Square, and were arrested.

However, before they headed back to 1985, Biff Tannen stole the DeLorean time machine. He took a Grays Sports Almanac, detailing every sporting event from 1950 to 2000, back to 1955 to make his younger self rich.

Biff gave his 1955 counterpart the almanac. After spending time in 1955 revisiting his youth, Biff traveled back to 2015, dropping the DeLorean off where he left it. However, his actions in the past had caused him to no longer live to be an old man, and he began to fade from existence. Marty and Doc went back to the DeLorean with Jennifer and Einstein, so they could go back to 1985, not knowing that Biff had changed the past.

They found themselves in a nightmarish alternate reality where Biff controlled Hill Valley, Marty had been sent to a boarding school in Switzerland, and Doc was committed to an asylum. Doc found the handle of Biff's cane in the DeLorean, and realized that Biff had stolen the DeLorean to change time. He spotted the almanac in Biff's pocket in an old photograph he found at the closed Hill Valley Public Library, and realized that he had taken it from 2015 to the past to make himself rich.

Marty then went to Biff Tannen's Pleasure Paradise Casino & Hotel to find out the moment where he got the almanac. After getting the information, Doc and Marty traveled to November 21, 1955. They had to be careful not to let their younger selves see them, as there were now two versions of both of them in that time period. They were able to successfully get the almanac back and burn it. However, the DeLorean was struck by a bolt of lightning in the air, and was sent spinning on its axis up to 88 m.p.h. Due to the malfunctioning time circuits, it was sent back to January 1, 1885 with Doc inside.

A Western Union man showed up, giving Marty a letter that his office had received seventy years ago with instructions to deliver it to Marty at his exact location on November 12, 1955. Marty discovered that Doc ended up in the Old West, and that he had left the DeLorean in the Delgado Mine.

While retrieving the DeLorean, Marty discovered Doc's tombstone at Boot Hill Cemetery. With the help of Doc's 1955 counterpart, he was able to fix the DeLorean, which needed repair due to the lightning strike as well as decades of disuse while buried in the mine.

When Marty traveled back to 1885 to save Doc, he discovered that Doc fell in love with a woman named Clara Clayton. Doc ultimately ended up saving her life with the hoverboard that Marty had kept from 2015. Marty traveled back to 1985, and the DeLorean was destroyed by a diesel locomotive upon its arrival. Doc and Clara remained in 1885.

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Trying to return to the 20th century

Doc was happy in 1885, as his job as the town blacksmith allowed him to conduct scientific experiments, but he didn't have to worry about being tempted with altering the space-time continuum.

However, Clara wanted to travel through time. She had seen her mother struggle with fighting her rebellious nature to present herself as a proper 19th century housewife, and she didn't want that life for herself.

While Doc had found a happy life in the past, she wondered if she would have been happier in his time period, where she would be allowed by society to pursue her interest in science.

When Doc and Clara had their two sons, Jules and Verne, Clara saw how happy he was reading them stories and telling them tales of his adventures. She didn't want to upset his happiness, but she was becoming less happy herself as time went on, as his stories made her want to travel to the future even more

In the 1890s, Doc began to become homesick for his own time. He wanted to visit Marty and pick up his dog, Einstein. He began to build a time machine out of a steam locomotive.

He was initially unsuccessful with his experiments to generate the amount of electricity needed for time travel.

However, he was able to use the technology from the hoverboard that was left behind to create a frictionless dynamo that was able to store multiples of the 1.21 jigowatts needed to power the flux capacitor

So, he paid some railroad workers to set up 50 yards of track and continued building the train.

In 1893, he had deemed the train finished, but feared telling Clara the news. He didn't know that she wanted to travel to the future so badly, and was worried about making her unhappy just to please him.

Clara eventually told Emmett that she knew that he was inventing another time machine, telling him that he couldn't hide anything from her. She said that she would be happy to travel to the future with him and their sons.

Doc, feeling his burden being lifted, decided that it was time to attempt to travel back to the future.

On June 12, 1893, the Brown family attempted to travel in the Jules Verne train to 1985. Doc calculated that 50 yards would be enough to reach 88 m.p.h, since he had improved the performance of the presto logs used to heat the boiler of the steam engine.

The trip failed however, as the train didn't achieve temporal displacement, and crashed.

Doc had intended to give up his quest for time travel at that point, as he was happy in the 19th century, and didn't want to put his family in unnecessary risk.

However, Clara finally told him that she had wanted to travel to the future ever since she found out about the DeLorean time machine.

Time travel wasn't just his dream, it was hers too. Jules and Verne also told him that they wanted to go as well. Since his family wanted to travel through time so badly, Doc decided to try another approach towards accomplishing time travel.

The steam time car

After seeing a steam tricycle driver driving a Serpollet steam tricycle, Doc decided to use one as a time machine.

He used the flux capacitor, the frictionless dynamo, and the time circuits from the prototype Jules Verne Train in his steam time car. He had intended to travel to 2015 to pick up everything he needed to finish the Jules Verne train.

However, the stresses of space-time and the temperature variation would wreak havoc on the cast-iron frame of the steam time car.

In addition, the car provided no protection for the driver, so Doc had to wear a diving suit when he traveled through time in the time car in order to survive.

He left his family for the future in the steam time car on August 13, 1893, and had intended to arrive back seconds after he left. The time travel was a success, however due to the 19th century parts he had to use, there was a fluctuation in the space-time continuum.

Doc ended up in 2035 instead of 2015, and didn't return home for days.

Doc's wife Clara then wrote Marty a letter letting him know that Doc was missing, and left it with the Western Union office with instructions to be delivered to Hill Valley High School in 1986.

Marty McFly got the letter, and looked for Doc in a secret lab that he was able to find, with the help of his girlfriend Jennifer.

Marty and Jennifer had no idea when and where Doc had gone, so Marty wrote Doc a letter and left it in the secret lab. Doc found it in 2035, while going back to the lab to pick up the clothes he wore in 2015

However, Doc soon found himself pursued by officer Griff Tannen, after he tried to retrieve his safety deposit box from the bank.

Tannen had been given a sage implant and a level one personality rewiring after he was released from prison.

As he was deemed rehabilitated, he became an officer of the Hill Valley Police Department. However, the new personality implant didn't work, and Griff retained his violent tendencies. He was known to disobey orders, to use excessive force, and to use equipment that he was not authorized to use, such as a flame thrower.

He was also reprimanded in the past for taking bribes

The police were after Doc as the biological scan of Doc's age did not match that of the false identity he set up in 2015. Doc had intended to travel back to 2015, to pick up the parts he needed, at a time that his false identity would still be valid.

However, Griff shot an electrical surge at Doc as he was about to head back in the steam time car.

This surge was meant to disable his bionic implants, but since Doc didn't have any, he suffered amnesia due to the jolt.

He saw Marty's letter in his pocket, and headed to the time and place that was written there, since that was his only clue as to what was happening. Doc arrived at the date on the letter, March 3, 1986, in his secret lab.

However, upon arriving there, he had no memory of who he was, and he was confused about the date and the location of which he had arrived.

He also did not recognize Marty and Jennifer. Marty and Jennifer decided to help the amnesiac Doc find the vehicle that had transported him there, not knowing which time machine he had used.

They went to the spot where Doc had crashed into a STOP sign, but the steam time car was gone. They discovered that the towing service, Lee Bros. Towing & Repair, had left a flyer with their company name, as they had wanted the owner of the car to know where it was towed.

They then traveled to the towing service, and discovered that a man who worked for the company, Jack, already had a buyer for the car. He stated that he would sell it to them instead for $300.

Since they didn't have the money, they sneaked into the lot, and found the car still hooked up to the tow truck. Knowing that they didn't have any way to get the money, Marty decided to steal the car, tow truck and all.

Douglas J. Needles arrived and threatened to smash the car, so Marty started the tow truck and sped away from Needles, who pursued him in his Ford F-150.

Marty managed to outrun Needles, who crashed into a delivery truck loaded with eggs. Jennifer and Doc, who had split up from Marty once Needles arrived, joined back up with Marty, and they headed to the Lone Pine Mall to inspect the steam time car. They discovered that Doc had arrived in 1986 from 2035.

The time parachute

Since the steam time car would be battered by the rigors of space-time, Doc surmised that it would not survive a return trip.

Thus, he had come up with a plan to travel without a time machine. He devised an idea for a time parachute, in which a person would ascend in a balloon to a distance of half a mile, and then would be released from the balloon.

The person would fall at a rate of 35 feet per second per second, and would reach 88 m.p.h. between four and five seconds. Since the time circuits, frictionless dynamo, and flux capacitor are connected to the parachute, the person, who would be protected from the rigors of space-time and the temperature variation by wearing a protective suit, would travel through time.

The time traveler would then pull the ripcord of the parachute once they traveled through time, and arrive safely on the ground in that time period.

Since the steam time car had surprisingly survived two trips, Doc and Marty knew it wouldn't survive another trip through time. Marty grabbed a radiation suit and traveled via the time parachute with Doc to September 16, 2035. There Marty hoped that they would discover what had happened to Doc, and why he lost his memory.

The time parachute was a success, and they crashed into the glass roof of the Lone Pine Fli-Drome once they arrived in 2035. They arrived in the middle of a fliderb, a hoverboard roller derby.

As they arrived in a radiation suit and a diving suit, and had crashed through the roof, the fliderb players thought they were terrorists, and called the police.

While on the run, Doc and Marty ran into officer Griff Tannen, who caught them in Bistro Twenty/15. This restaurant was themed on life in 2015, as Cafe 80's was modeled after the 1980s in 2015.

Officer Tannen recognized Doc as the person who supposedly stole the identity of Leroy Brown. Once he saw the diving suit, he realized that Doc and Marty were the two people who were the cause of the disturbance at the Fliderb.

Tannen chased them in his police vehicle while they fled on hoverboards. While they were being chased, Doc fell backwards on his board and hit his head. This shock caused him to remember everything, and he told Marty all about how he had found himself in that situation once they reached Doc's secret lab.

It seemed like the two were cornered, however Marty discovered that the machine that he had turned on out of curiosity in 1986 was actually the temporal field generator Mk II.

Although the device could only transport objects through time during the time in which the machine had been turned on, since it was turned on nearly fifty years prior, time would not be a factor. Doc donned the diving suit and went back to 2015.

The second DeLorean time machine

Marty and Jennifer found another DeLorean DMC-12 in Doc's secret lab in 1986. Although it wasn't adapted for time travel, Marty and Jennifer took it to escape the police, who had been alerted when the alarm was tripped in the secret lab.

Later, Jennifer drove it when chasing after Marty, who stole the tow truck that had the steam time car hooked up to it, and was trying to outrun Needles. At the parking lot, Jennifer ran towards the DeLorean when she spotted an incoming vehicle, but stopped when it turned out that it was Doc.

Doc had purchased a Mr Fusion in 2015, and had brought the time circuits and flux capacitor from the time parachute. He installed all of these devices into the spare DeLorean, and Jennifer and Doc headed to 2035 to rescue Marty.

When they had arrived, Commissioner Wilson had arrested Griff Tannen. She had also arrested Marty for his actions at the Fliderb, and told him that he'd likely get the same sage implant and personality rewrite that Griff Tannen had received.

Griff broke free and attempted to run them all over when Jennifer and Doc arrived in the DeLorean and knocked his hovercar out of the way. Marty got into the DeLorean and Jennifer attempted to outrun the police, who were in pursuit, along with Griff Tannen.

Doc informed Marty and Jennifer that every person in 2035 wore a suit outfitted with a hover technology protection that acted as a force field and made them bounce when hit.

Knowing that the people would be unharmed, Jennifer sped full speed into a crowd of people. As the bouncing pedestrians blocked Griff's view, he did not see the sewage reclamation project ahead, and crashed into it. Jennifer sped up to 88 m.p.h and traveled back to 1986.

She informed Marty that the steam time car, minus the equipment for time travel, was in the back of Marty's truck.

Marty walked Jennifer home, then Marty returned to his own home. Before Doc left, he gave Marty a bag containing several canisters, telling him to leave a note in Doc's secret lab if he ever needs help.

The Jules Verne train

Doc picked up Einstein, and they both traveled from 1986 to August 14, 1893, hours after Clara dropped off the note addressed to Marty at the Western Union office.

Later in the 1890s, Doc was able to successfully complete the Jules Verne train, using the technology he brought back from 2015. He then traveled to October 27, 1985.

There, the Brown family met up with Marty McFly and Jennifer Parker in the most likely place that they might be at that given time, the site of the DeLorean's destruction.

He introduced his family, and explained to Jennifer how the fax that showed that Marty had been fired in 2015 disappeared after Marty chose not to drag race Douglas J. Needles in 1985.

The future hadn't been written yet, so he told Jennifer and Marty to make it a good one. He also gave Marty the picture that was taken in 1885 of Marty and Doc in front of the clock that had yet to be installed in the Hill Valley Courthouse.

Marcus Irving's time machine

In January 1986, the United States government terminated the funding of Marcus Irving's time travel research, as his time machine wasn't complete since the final step had eluded him for the past 24 years.

When trying to learn more about the government's research into time travel, Irving discovered that he had not been their first choice for building a time machine. Irving became jealous of Doc Brown being their first choice, and also angry at Brown for denying the offer and causing him to waste 24 years of his life.

Thus, Irving set out to gather information on Brown. Upon reaching Doc Brown's lab at 1646 John F. Kennedy Drive, he discovered it to be deserted. He conducted more research and learned of a close friend and assistant of Brown's, Marty McFly.

Hoping to find out just how much success Brown had had with time travel, Irving went to Marty's house, only to see Emmett Brown in the DeLorean time machine reach temporal displacement, at the moment Doc left the canisters with Marty and Jennifer.

At this point, Irving decided to try and contact Brown, leaving a message in Brown's second laboratory. On April 14, 1986, he came face-to-face with Marty McFly, who was also looking for Doc in an attempt to find out why his memories did not reflect the current timeline. He informed Marty that he had built a partially working time machine using a Yugo, and warned him that his conflicting memories could mean he could be erased once the current timeline caught up with itself.

Marty sent a message to Doc, who arrived shortly afterward. While Doc and Marty were talking, Marcus secretly removed the tires from the DeLorean, and used Doc's flux capacitor to solve his problem with flux energy, which was the final step needed for time travel.

He was afraid of altering time too much, so he had spent years driving around with the flux capacitor in his trunk, worrying that someone might steal it from him.

Eventually, he decided to travel into the future to make himself rich. Since he was afraid of altering time too much, he decided to only time travel in "baby steps", so he could better prevent any major changes to the timeline. He decided to take 2008 technology back to 1997 in order to make himself rich.

By this point, he had upgraded his Yugo with steel panels to help with the dispersal of flux energy. He also upgraded the tires, as the polymers used in 1980s rubber tires aren't suited for the rigors of the space-time continuum.

Once he began his plan, he realized that he could be confronted by Marty and Doc at any time, as unlike himself, they were time cowboys who weren't afraid to travel many years into the past and future, making large changes to the time stream.

Irving searched the internet for pictures of Marty and Doc from the 1980s. He then used those pictures to build several doppelgangers using futuristic parts and sent them back to 1986.

Several of the Marty doppelgangers appeared soon after Irving had stolen the flux capacitor and kidnapped Marty. They tried to kidnap Doc as well, but he escaped in the DeLorean.

It was still able to fly despite lacking tires, since the hover technology in the rims were untouched. One of Marty's doppelgangers held onto the DeLorean while it was in the air. This surprised Doc, as he thought that it would be very unlikely that Marty could have survived such a trip.

Doc explains that they can't just go back and stop Marcus from taking the flux capacitor, since the effects on a time traveler aren't instant, pointing out that it took a week for Marty to begin to fade from existence in 1955. Marcus and Doc could get in a reverse time race, with each vehicle going further back in time to try to prevent the other from making changes.

Marty realizes that his fear of being all alone is what drove him to find Marty in the first place. They decide to take Marcus to his younger self, traveling in the DeLorean back to 1986.

In 1986, Marcus Irving is traveling in his Yugo GX, happy that he has taken the flux capacitor. Marty and Doc arrive from 1997 in the DeLorean, followed by the older Marcus in the Yugo.

The temporal duplicate DeLorean

On May 14, 1986, a DeLorean time machine arrived at Doc's garage, six months after Doc's original DeLorean was destroyed.

This DeLorean was a temporal duplicate, which had been created when the original DeLorean was hit by lightning in 1955. While the original DeLorean was sent seventy years in the past, the temporal duplicate DeLorean was sent seventy years into the future.

Doc traveled to the future and discovered that DeLorean. He was able to get it back from Griff Tannen before he caused damage to the time stream

As it was an exact duplicate of the original DeLorean, it had all the additions that the original DeLorean had when it was hit by lightning in 1955.

It also had some additions that Doc had made since then, including an automatic retrieval system which would send the DeLorean to the future to retrieve Marty in the event that Doc didn't use the DeLorean for an extended period of time.

Marty played a tape of Doc explaining this feature, and realized that Doc was in trouble. He traveled to June 13, 1931 to rescue Doc. Things didn't go as planned, and Doc was erased from time due to Marty accidentally causing a young Emmett to fall in love with and marry Edna Strickland. Doc never created the time machine, so he wasn't able to get the rejuvenation treatments that extended his life

Marty was able to convince the alternate Doc from this timeline to repair the time machine. This Doc, who went by the name Citizen Brown, traveled back to 1931 with Marty to try to fix the timeline.

As they arrived at a later date then they had intended, Citizen Brown repaired the time circuits of this DeLorean, which were unstable. He used flux emitters to calibrate the time circuits to ensure that the DeLorean arrived at the right time

When Marty proved that Edna was the arsonist who burned down the Hill Valley speakeasy, the timeline was repaired. Young Emmett never married Edna, so Citizen Brown faded from existence.

Edna Strickland stole the DeLorean and accidentally headed into the past, while trying to avoid Officer Danny Parker. Marty gave young Emmett a newspaper clipping from 1986 and told him not to look at it until he was awarded the key to the city.

At that point, Doc arrived in 1931, as he had received the key and then understood who had given him the newspaper clipping. This Doc had arrived in a different DeLorean, which was from the new timeline, so it didn't contain the modifications that Citizen Brown had made.

Once Hill Valley faded from existence, they realized that Edna Strickland had seriously damaged the time stream at some time in the past. Marty's great grandfather William McFly, told them about an old woman named Mary Pickford, who he thought would know about the town that used to be there.

It turns out that Mary Pickford was actually Edna Strickland, who had traveled back to 1876 and accidentally burned down the town when she tried to set fire to the Palace Saloon. After she gave them the date of the arson, Marty and Doc traveled to July 17, 1876 to stop her.

Doc used flux overrides to control the flux emitters on Edna's DeLorean. They were able to remotely control her DeLorean, accelerating to 88 mph before that DeLorean faded from existence once the time bubble protecting it popped and time caught up with itself.

When Marty and Doc returned to 1986, Doc revealed that, unlike the original timeline where the bank was foreclosing his lab due to his absence, he and Clara live part time in 1986. He also explained that he went to 1931 to investigate Marty's family lineage so that he could give Marty a book on his ancestry.

The new DeLorean

Also in 1991, Doc Brown built a new DeLorean. This DeLorean had many improvements, including audio activation of the time circuits, and spatial displacement. This feature, which Doc also installed into the Jules Verne train, allowed it to travel to any place on Earth at any time period.

This DeLorean also had the ability to transform into a suitcase, which prevented it from being stolen and allowed it to hidden more easily. (As seen in the Film Ready Player One)

By 1991, Doc improved upon his temporal field experiments with the remote control mail delivery time machine, which could send objects through time, beyond the lifespan of the device.

When the Brown family were visiting the Pyramids of Giza in Egypt in 1000 BCE, a spear damaged the flux capacitor of the Jules Verne train.

The time train was sent to 1692 in Salem, Massachusetts. Doc used the remote control mail delivery time machine to send a scratch and listen postcard to 1991 to let Marty know the situation.

Marty used the new DeLorean to travel back to September 23, 1692 with a spare flux capacitor. He crashed in a lake, and another addition that Doc made to the new DeLorean was revealed when an inflatable device was automatically triggered, bringing the DeLorean back to the surface. After several days, Doc was able to repair the train, and they were able to take both the Jules Verne train and the new DeLorean time machine back to 1991.

In 1992, Doc Brown's old college roommate, Walter Wisdom, hosted a children's television show about science. Doc's son Verne was a fan of the show, and tried to talk to Walter Wisdom backstage.

Once Wisdom found out that Verne was Emmett's son, he sought to find out if he had made any more inventions that he could steal.

He found out that Doc had realized his vision for time travel, and stole the new DeLorean. He tried to pass it off as his own design and reveal its existence on live television, but Doc was able to reveal that he was a charlatan and thief by proving that he knew everything about the inventions that Walter Wisdom stole, while Wisdom himself knew very little.

Additional time travel without a machine

Like Doc's time parachute, his son Jules devised a similar plan. After traveling from 1991 to August 5, 1926, Jules discovered his father, who was a child at the time, was going to be in a barrel going over the Upper Yosemite Falls while movie producer D.W. Tannen filmed it.

To keep his father safe, Verne Brown took his place in the barrel, and Jules put a spare flux capacitor inside. As Doc had improved time travel at that point to allow for travel through both space and time, once the barrel reached 88 m.p.h., it was sent safely towards land.

Unspecified DeLorean time machines

Doc used a DeLorean time machine several times after he returned from 1885. It's unknown which time machine was used in these instances, but since they appeared similar to the original DeLorean, they were likely either the second DeLorean, the temporal duplicate DeLorean, or a new time machine.

On May 15th, 1986, a future version of Marty arrived outside Doc's garage in a DeLorean time machine.

In 1988, Doc traveled to Orlando, Florida on May 1, 1990 to visit Universal Studios Florida. He was able to have an experience beyond that of usual theme park visitors, as he was able to actively participate in the rides

In 1989, in Hill Valley, California, two young men discovered and stole a DeLorean time machine and used it to travel to 2015. They asked a police officer where they could find pizza, and she pointed them to a Pizza Hut restaurant.

In 1991, Biff stowed away in a DeLorean time machine when the scientists from the Institute of Technology traveled to 1955. Biff stole this time machine and traveled to the future and the past, while being pursued by time travel volunteers in an 8-passenger DeLorean remotely piloted by Doc Brown.

Non-canon or disputable information ends here.

Doc traveled to 2045 or beyond, where he witnessed the devastation caused by a nuclear holocaust which was accidentally triggered by an overload of the Mr. Fusion network by a signal sent out by Griff Tannen's ThingMeme social media application.

Doc successfully traveled from 2015 to an unknown point the past to prevent the the Mr. Fusion, hover conversion, food hydrator and self-tying shoes from being available by 2015.

Changing the future

Doc warns Marty about Griff Tannen.

Doc devised a plan for Marty to pose as Marty Jr. (since the father-son resemblance was uncanny), as well as to prevent the crime from occurring. Unfortunately, Doc failed to realize that since he used the sleep inducer in Jennifer, there wasn't enough power to knock out Marty Jr. for a full hour, thus complicating the plan.

Nonetheless, Marty is able to improvise, causing Griff and his gang to crash into the Hill Valley Courthouse. The changes to the timeline became apparent as the newspaper displaying tomorrow's article changed from Marty Jr.'s arrest to Griff's.

As they prepared to go back to 1985, Doc then discovered that Marty had bought a sports almanac to take back to 1985 with him.

Doc lectured Marty about abusing time travel for financial gain. But before he could adequately dispose of the almanac, they spotted two female police officers discovering an unconscious Jennifer.

By analyzing her thumbprint, which didn't change over the years, they simply assume her to be the Jennifer of 2015. Doc devised a plan to get Jennifer after she is dropped off at her future home. But he then feared that if she ran into her future self, then she'd either faint from shock or cause a paradox that would destroy the universe.

Unknown to Doc or Marty, Biff Tannen overheard the conversation and later stole the DeLorean and the Almanac while Doc and Marty were rescuing the Jennifer from 1985 from the future McFly family house in Hilldale, an housing estate.

As expected, when both Jennifers encountered each other, they both fainted from shock. As they carried the unconscious 1985 Jennifer back to the DeLorean, Doc declares that when they get back to 1985, he'll destroy the time machine, seeing as it's brought nothing but disaster and misfortune. That way, he can focus on the other mystery of the universe: women. Doc even regretted that he would never fulfill his dream to see the Wild West. Ironically, both dreams would be fulfilled once Doc was accidentally sent back in time a few days later.[11]

Note: The following section is considered non-canon or is disputed in canonicity.

The Actions of the Alternate Doc Brown in Hell Valley

When the elderly Biff Tannen brought the sports almanac from 2015 back to 1955, he had quickly managed to amass a great fortune.

By 1973, Biff had begun to buy up all the land in Hill Valley, which would soon become known to its residents as Hell Valley. George McFly turned the Hill Valley Civic Committee into a secret committee dedicated to stopping BiffCo. Unbeknownst to anyone in the Civic Committee, Emmett Brown was their silent benefactor.

When George McFly was secretly murdered by Biff Tannen, and Biff married his widow Lorraine Baines McFly later that year, Doc Brown began to work even harder on his time machine project.

He allowed the rumors about his madness to spread so that he could work under the nose of everyone in Hill Valley, including BiffCo.

Doc had come up with a time travel chamber built from a 1952 Sears Coldspot refrigerator. Since the only way to reliably get power was to hack into the city's power grid, the 1.21 Jigowatts necessary for time travel could not be sourced. Instead, Doc cut some corners in order to allow it to function.

The 465.3 megawatt capacity of the power grid would be converted to flux capacitance energy, which would send the time traveler to the date set on the time circuits displayed on a meter inside the chamber door.

The limitations of using less than half of the energy needed to properly power the chamber meant that there was only four hours of flux energy available before the time bubble protecting the time traveler would burst.

This would cause the time traveler to fade from existence in the past and re-appear back in the chamber in the present.

After Biff had Terry murdered for trying to break into the safe in Tannen Manor in 1983, Biff had his stepson Dave McFly forced out of town, Doc revealed himself and his time machine to the remaining members of the Hill Valley Civic Committee.

Stanford S. Strickland recalled a time that, while he was attending Hill Valley Elementary School, Biff was going to be sent to a military academy in Idaho after assaulting other children for the third or fourth time. He remembered the date, May 16, 1946, as it was the day after he celebrated his birthday

Doc connected the chamber to the power grid, and used his JVC camcorder to capture the moment. Stanford S. Strickland, wearing a suit that his father owned, stepped into the chamber and disappeared into the past.

The remaining members of the Hill Valley Civic Committee unhooked the chamber and put it in a truck to get away before Biff realized where the blackout occurred.

Mr. Strickland arrived in the past. He walked to the school, and witnessed Biff picking on a smaller child. George McFly stuck up for the child, and Biff punched George, causing his nose to bleed.

Lorraine Baines informed a senior teacher, Miss Hodges, about the bullying, just as the younger Strickland apprehended Biff, calling him a slacker.

The elder Strickland tried to stop Miss Hodges from intervening, but he was surprised to find out that she was the one who wanted to ship Biff to Idaho, and his younger self stopped her as he believed that Biff could become a good student with the proper guidance.

as Hill Valley High School burned down in 1979 and wasn't rebuilt until at least some point after 1985). He blamed himself for everything and didn't want to interact with anyone.

The committee decided that the best attempt to stop Biff would be to prevent him from being born, by stopping the wedding of his parents. The only problem was that no records were available before 1950, since everything was lost after Biff bulldozed the Hill Valley Courthouse to build his casino and hotel.

Goldie Wilson realized that they would be able to determine the date by going to the Biff Tannen Museum inside Biff's casino.

Upon arriving at the museum, Doc Brown was required to buy a cigarette and hold it in his hand, due to the museum's "smoking required" policy.

He was already disgusted by the museum, but he pressed himself to go on. He learned that Biff's parents, Myra Benson and Kid Tannen (going by Thomas Tannen after being released from prison), married at the Hill Valley Church of the Heather on December 6, 1936.

Doc went back to the committee, and they developed a plan. Doc would arrive at the wedding, and object to the marriage, stating that the bride is already married to his son "Melvin", and that he thinks that she is pregnant.

The committee then travels once again to the power grid, where the chamber is hooked up. Doc enters the chamber, disappearing into the past, and the city's power goes out again. This time

Biff demands his gang to stop whoever is causing the blackouts.

In 1936, Doc takes a taxi to the church. He is about to object to the wedding, when he hears a baby crying. When the babysitter calls him Biff, Doc realizes he made a mistake. Myra had become pregnant earlier that year. Kid wanted her to have an abortion, but she wouldn't do it, as it was illegal, and she felt that her mother would kill her if she did.

Kid and Myra married simply for the purpose of making it seem like Biff wasn't born out of wedlock. The two parted ways immediately after the wedding, and neither parent wanted Biff. Because of this, Kid's mother, Gertrude Tannen, took custody of him. Before he left his son, Kid gave Gertrude a forged birth certificate that stated that Biff was born on March 28, 1937.

Doc planned to come up with a "Plan C" once he arrived in 1983; however, the chamber was now in BiffCo, as the other members of the committee were caught by the Hill Valley Police Department when they couldn't unhook the chamber from the power grid. Biff wanted to know what the refrigerator did, and why it took so much power. Doc refused to tell him, and was committed to Mental Ward B at the Hill Valley Hospital. Sometime prior to 1985, Doc was given a lobotomy, and was placed in permanent residency in the County Asylum.

Non-canon or disputable information ends here.

The Actions of the Original Doc Brown in Hell Valley

Doc, Marty and Jennifer arrived back in 1985 only to discover that history had been altered.

To make sense out of all the madness, Doc went to the local library, which was boarded up and shut down, and 'borrowed' some newspapers.

As he deduced, Biff had taken the time machine and given the sports almanac to his younger self somewhere in the past, who then became a millionaire by placing bets on the chronicled sporting events. As a result,

Biff's wealth had led to a total alteration of Hill Valley to Biff's wishes and supposed alterations to the entire world's history (such as Richard Nixon still being in office and the Vietnam War still being fought in 1985). In this version of history,

Doc has been committed to a psychiatric ward since 1983 (he was committed on the same day he won his award in the "proper" history). Doc visited his other self at the asylum, hoping that they would be able to put their heads together to find a solution. Unfortunately, Doc's 1985A self had been lobotomized, and could no longer be communicated with. Since this had prevented this universe's Doc Brown from building the DeLorean Time Machine, this would also be an example of a Grandfather Paradox.[12]

Once the time bubble burst, Doc, Marty, Jennifer and Einstein would be erased from existence.

Biff also married Marty's mother Lorraine in a sham marriage after Biff killed Marty's father George McFly, of which Biff was never convicted due to corruption in Hill Valley's police force (where Biff literally "owned" the police due to his wealth and/or powerful influence).[11]

Doc perceived this alternate reality as proof how time travel can be abused and why the time machine had to be destroyed, after they corrected the timeline.

Marty suggested that they go back to the future to stop 2015 Biff from stealing the time machine, but Doc shot down that plan, for they'd only be going into the future of this reality. After Marty is able to discern that 2015 Biff went back to November 12, 1955, the same day he returned to 1985,

Doc commented that date either has some cosmic significance for the whole space-time continuum or an amazing coincidence.

Doc and Marty headed back to 1955 to correct the timeline, and while Marty tracked down Biff to get the almanac from him, Doc attempted to make repairs to the time circuits, which kept resetting the Destination Time setting to January 1, 1885.

Doc also advised Marty to wait until old Biff gives his younger self the almanac so that he could go back to the future with the DeLorean. Unfortunately, Marty was locked in Biff's garage when Biff of 2015 gave 1955 Biff the almanac.

Doc commandeered a bicycle to rescue him, only for Biff to leave for the Enchantment Under the Sea dance, with Marty still in the back of his car. While making his way back to the DeLorean, Doc came by his past self preparing for the past Marty's return to the future. He gave his younger self a few pointers before walking away to avoid being seen.[11]

Ultimately, Marty succeeded in retrieving the almanac. Doc then started the DeLorean to fly to his position. Marty called Doc over the walkie-talkie, stating that Biff's gang is about to jump his past self singing Johnny B. Goode.

Doc advised Marty to covertly stop them otherwise his past self wouldn't make it to the clock tower, thereby resulting in a paradox.

Marty was successfull in protecting his younger self, but lost the almanac to Biff as he was leaving the gym.

Doc picked up Marty and stealthily tailed Biff as he was driving home. They are able to once again snatch the almanac before having Biff slammed into a manure truck for the second time. After that, Marty burned the almanac, setting history straight.

However this success was quickly followed by Doc, in the DeLorean, being sent back 70 years to 1885 when a bolt of lightning struck the DeLorean. Simultaneously, a temporal duplicate DeLorean was created and sent forward 70 years to 2025.

Once in 1885, Doc set himself up as a blacksmith while trying to fix the DeLorean, but had to give up as suitable parts to repair the DeLorean's destroyed microchip would not be invented until 1947, with the invention of the transistor.[4] He buried the DeLorean in the abandoned Delgado Mine on the outskirts of town and wrote a letter to Marty to be delivered just minutes after the DeLorean was struck by lightning. The letter was held by Western Union for the

next 70 years, and given to Marty in 1955.[11]

In the Old West

Marty received the letter and ran to 1955 Doc, who had just sent the younger Marty back to the future. Marty and Doc uncovered the DeLorean and repaired it, but his orignal pet, Copernicus discovered that in 1885, Doc would be murdered by Buford 'Mad Dog' Tannen, ancestor of Biff.

Marty headed back to September 2, 1885, the day after Doc wrote the letter and five days before Doc's death, to save his friend (Doc of 1885, who had been born in Timeline 2, is not aware of his impending death.

Doc of Timeline 7, born more than 30 years after the 1885 death of Timeline 2 Doc, has seen the tombstone in 1955. Given that the ripple effect does not alter a time traveler's memory-- Marty's memory of his impoverished life is not replaced by memories of growing up in altered timelines -- Doc of 1885 would not know what would happen in the days ahead.[4]

Marty located Doc, and once again Doc had to make repairs to the time machine after it ran out of gasoline (hard to come by in 1885) and accidentally blew out the DeLorean's fuel injector as an effect from using an unusually strong bottle of liquor from the Palace Saloon as a substitute for gas.

While making a plan to use a train to push the DeLorean to 88 mph, Doc saved a woman, Clara Clayton, from falling over a ravine after a rattlesnake spooked her horses. They fell in love at first sight, much to the despair of Marty who saw Clara as a distraction.

Doc and Clara danced at the town festival on September 5, where Marty managed to save Doc from being shot by Buford Tannen. Doc and Clara spent the rest of the night looking at the stars with her telescope and discovered that they both loved Jules Verne. They then had their first kiss that night.[4

Later, Doc realized he would have to leave Clara behind when he went back to the future with Marty on Monday. He said goodbye to her and told her the truth about where he came from. Naturally, she did not believe him and slapped him.

Broken-hearted, Doc went to have a shot at the Palace Saloon, where Marty found him next morning (Monday) with the same shot. After drinking the shot, he immediately fell down drunk. Marty and Chester the bartender managed to revive

Doc with an extremely spicy concoction called wake-up juice which included tabasco sauce, however it took until Buford Tannen arrived for his duel with Marty out in the streets.[4]

Doc was taken hostage by Buford's gang after a failed plan to escape the saloon, however, Marty manages to save Doc from being killed just in time for the Marshal Strickland's deputy to arrest Buford and his gang, which caused the image on the photo of the tombstone to erase. Afterward, Doc and Marty hijacked ("borrowed", as Doc says) a train to use to push the DeLorean up to 88 miles per hour.

Clara reappeared, having seen everything and realized Doc was telling the truth, but nearly fell off the train. Doc managed to save her, with help from Marty's hoverboard (a piece of technology from 2015), but got left behind with Clara in 1885. Marty managed to get home, but the time machine was destroyed less than a minute after his arrival, meaning he could not go back to rescue Doc and Clara from the past.[4]

Finding a way home

Over the next 8 years, Doc and Clara married and had two sons, Jules and Verne, named after their favorite author.

Doc began to build a new time machine, this time using a steam locomotive.

By 1893, the new time machine was complete. Doc and his family attempted to travel to the future, but in an unexpected turn of events, the train was unable to do so.

Doc considered giving up, but was inspired by a steam tricycle to build a smaller, temporary time machine - the steam time car.

He planned to travel to 2015 and pick up hover technology to upgrade the train back in 1893. Anticipating that the vehicle would fall apart after its first temporal displacement,

Doc devised the time parachute as a backup plan, which used the time circuits from the steam time car as a backpack that would allow the time traveler to fall to temporal displacement. Doc promised his family that he would return safely, and set the time circuits for 2015

Amnesia and reuniting with Marty

Immediately after arriving, Doc crashed into a person, who bounced away as a result of their personal forcefield. This was the first clue that something was not quite right, and after exploring some more.

Doc realized that he had overshot and missed 2015, instead time traveling to 2035. Surprisingly, the steam time car had survived the trip, and Doc hid it for later use.

He visited his lab to change into more contemporary clothes (though still 20 years out of date), and noticed a note left by Marty McFly dated March 3, 1986. The note specified that Doc had never returned to 1893, which confused him, as he was in no such danger.

Seeing no cause for concern, he headed into town to withdraw money. The bank account had been set up under the alias 'Leroy Brown', but improvements in security technology meant that the bank identified his true genetic age, and concluded that he could not be the same Leroy Brown.

Now wanted by the police, Doc ran back to where he had hidden the steam time car, officer Griff Tannen of the police force in pursuit. Griff sent out a signal designed to incapacitate mandatory futuristic head implants, but since Doc had never had them installed, it damaged his memory instead.

Dazed and confused, Doc remembered the date he had seen on the letter - March 3 1986 - and managed to reach temporal displacement.

Still unsure of his surroundings, Doc crashed into a STOP sign, and left the steam time car there while he returned to his secret lab.

He set off a trap on his entrance, alerting a surprised Marty and Jennifer, who had been investigating his 'disappearance' after receiving a letter from Clara.

They realized that he could not recall his identity, and helped him retrieve the steam time car from a junkyard that it had been towed to in his absence.

Having read the last time departed readout, Marty decided to return to 2035 with Doc, to find out what had caused him to lose his memory. They used the time parachute to go to September 16 2035.

Doc and Marty decided to rest at Bistro Twenty/15, as it provided at least some degree of familiarity compared to the otherwise alien era.

Unfortunately, Griff was also present at the bistro, and recognized Doc as the criminal he had chased earlier. Doc and Marty quickly returned to Doc's secret lab, where Doc fully recovered his memory and attempted to find a way to escape 2035.

Marty noted a machine in the center of the room, which had been humming and charging ever since he activated it in 1986. Doc realized that this was the Temporal Field Generator Mk II, which allowed one occupant to return to any hour between its activation and the present.

Having no choice but to leave Marty behind, Doc traveled to 2015, where he collected supplies for converting the half-finished DeLorean time machine into a working one. He then traveled once again to 1986, arriving at the mall as Jennifer witnessed his previous self and Marty depart via time parachute. He managed to finish the new DeLorean within a few hours, and returned to 2035 with Jennifer.

They arrived back at the secret lab in time to stop Marty from being arrested by Commisioner Wilson. With Jennifer at the wheel, the three of them escaped Griff, and finally traveled back home to 1986.

Doc drops Marty and Jennifer off at the McFly residence. He gives Marty a bag of canisters, telling him to leave a note in one of them in his secret lab if he ever needs help. He then departs for August 14, 1893, where Clara, Jules and Verne are happy to see him safe.

He informs them that he only arrived a day late because wanted to make sure that Clara would write the letter that got Marty's attention about his disappearance. He has brought Einstein with him, who happily jumps on Clara, as Doc hugs his sons, Jules and Verne.

The anniversary present

On September 7, 1893, Doc was still working on upgrading the Jules Verne Train to a hover-converted version.

Clara reminded him that the date was their anniversary, and offered him a gift. Doc, realizing that he had not bought anything for her, hastily retreated to the DeLorean time machine and traveled to 2017, unaware that Verne was hiding in the vehicle.

In 2017, Doc left the DeLorean to find a suitable gift for Clara, eventually purchasing a copy of Jules Verne's 'The Lighthouse at the End of the World' from Blast from the Past. But as he prepared to leave, he noticed that Verne had come with him to 2017.

Searching for his lost son, Doc discovered that he was safe, and had managed to prevent a robbery while he was gone. Despite Verne's irresponsible behavior, Doc was proud of his son for preventing a crime.

Arriving back in 1893, Doc gave his present to Clara, and received his own gift: a notepad and a fountain pen, ironically intended to stop Doc from forgetting important dates.

Note: The following section is considered non-canon or is disputed in canonicity.

The Brown family eventually moved back to the 20th century and by 1991, Doc had set up the Institute of Future Technology. He also invented an 8-seater DeLorean, which came in handy after Biff stole the time machine again, and visitors to the Institute, sitting in one of these 8-seaters, had to help Doc chase Biff through time.[15]

On April 22, 1990, Doc arrived at St. Terra Hospital in Anytown after Mother Nature became ill due to the heavy pollution on Earth. Once there, he shared knowledge of the details causing her illness and what could be done to help her with Doogie Howser and several other doctors on staff.[16]

Also by 1991, Doc, Clara, Jules, and Verne lived in a farmhouse outside Hill Valley with Einstein. The family, along with Marty, traveled through time in both the Jules Verne train time machine and the new DeLorean (which from the outside looked identical to the old one, but was drastically different inside).[17]

21st century

Emmett Brown as rendered in the style of The Simpsons for a video in The Simpsons Ride during 2007.

Little is known of Doc in the 2000s and 2010s, prior to time travel. Assuming he aged normally in one timeline, he would have been into his 90s and almost 100 by 2015.

After his initial trip to the future, however, he explained to Marty that he went to a clinical rejuvenation clinic, replacing, amongst other things, his colon and spleen. This most certainly would have extended his lifespan some.

Doc may have spent some time in the 2000s with his wife Clara and sons Jules and Verne, although the family never settled on one decade, instead choosing to spend their lives in multiple decades, moreover the old West. In 2006, his Institute of Future Technology was replaced by another building.[15]

Non-canon or disputable information ends here.

Although he was usually careful about being discreet with the DeLorean, he referred to the time machine as a time machine in public, leading Biff Tannen to use it without Doc's knowledge in an attempt to alter history.

In 1985, he flew land-based vehicles with hover conversions during the daytime, with no consideration of the possibility of people seeing him.

Writer Bob Gale has denied the rumor that the name Emmett Lathrop was derived by spelling the words "time" and "portal" backwards.

He and Robert Zemeckis simply chose names that sounded good and were out of the ordinary, as a contrast with the common last name "Brown".

The "L" in Emmett L. Brown's name stands for "Lathrop", it has been speculated that this may have been his mother's maiden name, although there is no evidence for this.

The novelization and screenplays states that he is 65 in 1985, although an episode of the animated series claims he was born in 1922. In Back to the Future: The Game, Emmett is 17 in 1931, which means that he was born in 1914.

"Christopher Lloyd says that his model for creating the character was actually the conductor Leopold Stokowski, with the hair that way, and the big, broad gestures. Doc Brown walks around like he's conducting the orchestra of the world." - Bob Gale In addition, Albert Einstein was an influence to the character.

Doc's family was presumably from the German Empire or Austria-Hungary.

First Citizen Brown's balding and spectacled appearance in the game looked similar to Christopher Lloyd's real-life appearance as in the 2010s.

Robert Zemeckis, co-writer/director of the films, has suggested that during the early 1940s, Doc worked on the Manhattan Project (which could explained the reason why the Libyan terrorists specifically picked Doc to build them a nuclear weapon), though this is never mentioned on screen.

Lloyd, in the 2009 documentary, said that he had an offer for an off-Broadway theatrical production at the same time that he would be filming Back to the Future, and debated whether to appear on stage, or portraying Doc Brown.

Doc owns a clock that is shown at the beginning of Back to the Future Part I that shows an old man in a jacket and a hat hanging on to the minute hand just like the 1955 Doc later on in the movie and also resembled Harold Lloyd (no relation) in "Safety Last".

If one looks very closely at each time Doc is shot by the Libyans, the second time has a very obvious difference to show that he didn't really die.

The first Doc (with no knowledge) gets fired upon so much, he literally balances on one foot before toppling over backwards. The second Doc (with the foresight to wear the vest) merely waves up his arms and then falls backwards using his arms for some cushion.

Strangely enough, the first time Doc is shot by the Libyans, there is no blood at all, when it should have painted Doc's van (one could conclude he had the vest because it could have been a predestination paradox.

However, one likely explanation is that when Doc first died, he was sent recoiling by the gunfire and landed on the parking lot pavement, thus any blood could have seeped there.

However, the film producers likely did not want to focus on blood as that was not that crucial to the plot, only that Marty must now go back in time to warn the younger Doc. Other likely explanation is not wishing to jeopardize their overall family-friendly image of the film by risking it getting rated "PG-13" or "R".

Christopher Lloyd got nominated for Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor for Doc (BTTF1).

The brief "Hi" that Doc and Lorraine give each other, after Lorraine follows Marty to Doc's garage (besides being the only time in any of the three films that Christopher Lloyd and Lea Thompson share a scene), is the only time that Doc directly interacts with any member of the McFly family, aside from Marty, on-screen.

Doc did also incapacitate Marty McFly, Jr. with his sleep inducer in 2015, but this was only mentioned and never seen.

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Back to the Future Fashion

The clothing and accessories that people wear are a distinctive part of the popular culture. Clothing styles change not only with the time period, but also communicate one's social class and occupation. Those who don't dress appropriately are often viewed as outcasts or rebels, or at the very least, odd and out-of-place, so Marty McFly's clothing proved to be an endless source of embarrassment for him during his adventures, in spite of Dr. Emmett Brown's attempts to be prepared.

They generally had three options when they traveled from one time period to another:

They purchased and changed clothes after arriving in a new time period
They tried to find appropriate clothes for their destination before traveling
They neglected to change clothes and just endured the awkwardness of attracting attention.

Note: Outfits are described here under the time periods the clothing came from, which were not necessarily when they were worn.

Back to the Future Fashion

Outfit 1: Marty McFLY

This Marty McFly outfit is probably the most iconic of them all.

Everything from the vintage wash denim jacket and faded dad jeans, to the orange puffer vest, looks as good now as it did back in ’85.

Trainers

They’re the overwhelmingly popular Nike Killshot 2 which was originally released in the ’80s and saw a surge in interest when it re-released in 2009, and subsequently in 2014 in collaboration with J.Crew.

Denim Jacket:
Quilted Vest:
Tennis Sneakers: Nike Killshot 2 (They’re the overwhelmingly popular Nike Killshot 2 which was originally released in the ’80s and saw a surge in interest when it re-released in 2009, and subsequently in 2014 in collaboration with J.Crew)
Aviator Sunglasses: RayBan
Retro Calculator Watch: Casio

Marty

"Life preserver" First day of school in 1955

Marty wore a red and gray jacket (that he took off in the school cafeteria), white shirt with light blue rectangles, brown pants, brown loafers (slip- on shoes), and had hair tonic in his hair.

"Darth Vader"

The day of the skateboard chase – Marty wore the same red and gray jacket, this time with a black shirt with red chain link pattern, brown pants and Converse Chuck Taylor All-Star shoes.

"That zoot suit"

Marty wore a gray wool suit, a white shirt and narrow red tie, that afterwards he called a “zoot suit”. "Get yourself some 50’s clothes ... something inconspicuous!"

—Doc to Marty

Marty in his "inconspicuous" disguise.

"Something inconspicuous"– Marty chose an “inconspicuous” outfit to cover his basic outfit; he added a black felt fedora hat, black leather jacket and dark sunglasses. When Biff confronted Marty, he referred to the outfit as "that stupid disguise".
After getting to Biff's car, Marty took off his sunglasses. At the Enchantment Under the Sea dance, Biff's gang member Match wondered how he changed his clothes so fast. After being knocked down by a door as his other self ran through it, and when Biff stole back the almanac, Marty was forced to abandon the fedora, which had fallen off his head. When taking Doc back to his mansion, Marty put the jacket and Nikes by the fireplace, along with the letter, so they could dry off.

At the Delgado Mine – Marty wore the same clothes as the day of the skateboard chase, and added a tan overcoat.

Marty's 1955 western outfit

"Clint Eastwood never wore anything like this" – Doc prepared Marty to travel to 1885 with a pink and blue shirt with long, yellow fringe running along the chest, back and sleeves, under five embroidered atomic model designs on the front and back of his shoulders, a red bandana around his neck, red corduroy pants, an ornately tooled belt with golden sunburst buckle, white Nike sneakers, and carried along a white cowboy hat and boots that were too tight.

Outfit 2: Biff Tannen

Oh Biff — the mild mannered, charismatic antagonist of the Back To The Future trilogy.

Contrasting shirt tie combo, for the pants I tailored wool (herringbone) trousers. And for the shoes, black leather with white soles to complement the shade of the knit tie.

· Bomber Jacket: (alt) Grey

· Charcoal Wool Trousers

· Black Oxford Shirt

· Grey Knit Tie

· Black Minimalist Sneakers

Outfit 3: George McFly

The timid George McFly

· Harrington Jacket: ASOS

· Olive Corduroy Pants: Everlane

· Grey Oxford Shirt: Everlane

· Black Frame Eyeglasses: Warby Parker

· Navy Suede Chukka Boots: Thursday Boot Co.

Outfit 4: Emmett Lathrop ‘Doc’ Brown

Doc Brown, the effervescent inventor of the first time machine, built out of a DeLorean sports car.

Often in a state of shock and awe, Doc had some questionable outfits throughout the series.

· Khaki Trucker Jacket: Flint and Tinder (alt)

· Slim Fit Alpha Khaki: Dockers

· Stripe Polo Shirt: Amazon Essentials

· Suede Sneakers: Koio

“…your future hasn’t been written yet. No one’s has! Your future is whatever you make it. So make it a good one!”

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Clothing in 1985

"C'mon, I had to change! You think I’m going back in that-- that zoot suit?"

—Marty

Basic outfit –

During most of his adventures, except when he changed clothes in 1955 and 1885, Marty wore Guess blue jeans with black 3/4" suspenders, a red t-shirt, lavender ("purple") Calvin Klein underpants, and white Nike Bruin shoes with red swoosh and backtab

(no word Nike on them until he visited 1885) with gray socks (changed to white socks when he visited 2015).

School outfit –

From Friday before school through his first day in 1955, Marty added a Guess Marciano two-tone blue denim jacket with an "Art in Revolution" button, a Fender P-Bass pin and a white checked Shah Safara shirt to his basic outfit.
He accessorized this with a Casio CA50W digital watch on his left wrist, a silver Aiwa model HS-P02 Walkman, and mirrored Zeiss aviator sunglasses with a sweatguard in the morning.
"Life preserver" – From the evening at Twin Pines Mall through his first day in 1955, Marty added a dark orange Class-5 bubble down vest to his school outfit.
Tales From Space – Doc gave Marty a yellow full-length radiation suit for protection when loading the plutonium. Due to the similarity of his outfit to that of a space alien on a comic book cover, his outfit scared the Peabody family and an elderly couple driving past Lyon Estates in 1955.
"Darth Vader" – Marty wore the yellow full-body radiation suit, a hair dryer from Doc Brown's suitcase tucked into a belt, and held his Aiwa portable stereo cassette player.

Doc Brown

"Devo outfit" – Doc wore a white full-length radiation suit, over a green print shirt, white undershirt, black pants and orange Nike Vandal high-top shoes. He also had a watch on his left arm, and digital stopwatch on a lanyard around his neck.
Train shirt – While in 2015, Doc changed back to 1985-style clothing, a yellow Hawaiian shirt with a cartoon train pattern and brown cargo pants, expecting to return Marty, Jennifer and Einstein back home right away.

Jennifer "Hey Mom, nice pants" -

Jennifer wears a blue vest over a white shirt and has pink flower pants.

Other distinctive clothing of 1985

§ Dave wore a uniform for his job as a Burger King restaurant server.

§ George owned a suede jacket.

§ Biff wore a green warm-up outfit on Saturday; a purple warm-up outfit on Sunday.

Clothing in 1955

Biff

"Biff" - On Saturday, Biff wore a red short-sleeve pullover shirt.

School - At school, Biff wore blue jeans and a shirt with a checked red and white pattern.

For the rest of the week, Biff wore a grey jacket, a white T- shirt and black pants. He added a black shirt and a white tie for the Enchantment Under the Sea dance.

Lorraine

"You’re so ... thin" –

On Saturday, November 5, Lorraine wore a pink and purple plaid dress which had a rounded collar, a matching belt around the waist, and a pink bow at the neck. She also wore white socks.

School –

At school, Lorraine wore a blue blouse with a silver brooch and a purple pencil skirt. She also wore her hair in a bun.

"I think you'd look better wearing nothing at all"

On Saturday, November 12 at Ruth's Frock Shop, Lorraine wore a pink knitted sweater, saddle shoes and a novelty black cotton giraffe-print circle skirt which Biff lifted up to expose her panties once outside the shop.

"Well, lookee what we have here"

At the Enchantment Under the Sea dance, Lorraine wore a pink strapless dress, bought with Babs at Ruth’s Frock Shop, which she covered with a white sweater. When she leaned over in the car, Biff was able to see down the front of her dress.

Doc

On Saturday evening, Doc wore a silver robe with black lapels, white shirt, and white knit tie, and dark pants. During the rest of the week, he wore a long white laboratory coat, and put on a pair of green safety goggles when demonstrating the clock tower model. The following Saturday, as he tried to connect the electrical cable, Doc was wearing shoes with Velcro closures that had not yet been invented,[5] although he might have found them in his future counterpart's suitcase.

Other distinctive clothing of 1955

§ Milton Baines wore a coonskin cap, popularized by Disney’s Davy Crockett films.

Clothing in 2015

"First, you have to get out and change clothes."

—Doc to Marty upon arrival in 2015

Doc in his 2015 yellow coat.

Doc Brown

* Marty in his future son's outfit.

"Marty, you’ve got to come back with me"

Doc appeared in Marty’s driveway wearing a long yellow coat, a red shirt with Japanese symbols (no undershirt), silver wraparound glasses with internal video display, and a plastic transparent necktie.

Train shirt – (See: 1985 Doc Brown)

Marty

"You're the spitting image of your future son" –

* Marty Jr.’s outfit and Marty’s disguise consisted of an auto-adjusting and auto-drying jacket (though Marty Jr.'s jacket was broken on the left sleeve), blue jeans worn inside-out (Marty only turned his pockets out), white socks, white Nike MAG power-lacing shoes and a color-shifting lenticular baseball cap.

Marty Jr. wore a white t-shirt with a logo featuring a plus and minus sign. 47-year-old Marty wore a brown business suit over a light brown shirt and brown and yellow multiple ties with rising sun motifs.

Biff

Biff's outfit consisted of a red quarter zip sweatshirt and black, white and green plaid pants.

Griff

Griff's outfit consisted of a helmet with sharp metal spikes, a black-ribbed light green jacket over a black chainmail shirt, black pants and black boots adorned with a sharp metallic rhinoceros-like horn.

Marlene

Other distinctive clothing of 2015

§ Multiple ties worn by Terry, Goldie Wilson III and Marty Sr.

Clothing in 1985A

Lorraine

Lorraine Baines McFly, aged 47, in 1985A clothing and breast implants.

"You’re so ... big" – Lorraine Baines McFly wore a black, belted pant suit with patterns of multicolored dots, and high heeled shoes. The blouse had a low neckline revealing her breast implants.

Biff

Although Biff was fabulously wealthy as a result of his cheating with the almanac in 1985A, his sense of dress was still tacky as the Biff of the original timeline. His outfits were gaudy and ugly, with gold chains and bright blue blazers, giving him the appearance of a lounge lizard. After coming out of the hot tub, Biff wore a blue bathing robe over black swim shorts.

Other distinctive clothing of 1985A

§ Biff's bodyguard Match wore a white cowboy hat.

§ Biff's goon 3-D no longer wore his nominal 3-D glasses as the 3-D movies fad had long since faded by 1985. However, unable to part with the nickname, he wore aviator sunglasses which he had custom made, the left lens to be red and the right lens to be blue.

Clothing in 1885

"You can’t wear those futuristic things in 1885. You shouldn’t even be wearing them in 1955."

—Doc Brown at the Pohatchee Drive-in

Marty

"Clint Eastwood never wore anything like this" – (See: 1955 Marty)

Marty's 1955 western outfit plus hat.

"You sure look like Seamus McFly" – Same as "Clint Eastwood never wore anything like this" (see: 1955 Marty), with a straw derby hat[6]

"Some respectable clothes and a fine hat" – Most of the week, Marty wore a long, blue workshirt, brown jeans, and a brown sarape over long underwear, with a brown flat-topped hat, and boots.[7] The outfit was very similar to the one Marty saw Clint Eastwood wearing in A Fistful of Dollars.

"Go ahead, make my day" – One morning, Marty woke up wearing his long underwear with a half-fastened drop seat, and put on his hat and gun belt to practice in front of the mirror.

Behind the scenes

1955

Bob Gale said that costume designer Deborah Scott found nearly all the clothing for the film in the studio’s wardrobe department; they didn’t have the budget for her to make many original items.[8]

Lea Thompson found the pink dress uncomfortable to wear and even more uncomfortable to dance in, and would walk around the set in the 1950s corset bra and crinoline underskirt to avoid wearing the dress, and once even shocked her mother when she visited her on the set. But despite that, she still hung on to one exemplar of the dress that was given to her, and helped out with the filming of the second movie when the original dress had been lost, and she provided it herself.[9]

The black fedora Marty wore as apart of his 'something inconspicuous' disguise was made by the Stetson hat company, especially for Michael J. Fox.[10]

2015

Costume designer Joanna Johnston said she was terrified at the prospect of designing the clothing of the future, making costumes for the cast and 150 extras from scratch, since Bob’s concept did not have a basis in anyone else’s work. For a future society in which men and women are truly equal, the clothing styles would exaggerate the difference between the sexes. She decided to use a very wide variety of fabrics in bright "but not fluorescent" colors.[11]

1885

Costume designer Joanna Johnston was already familiar with the clothing for the period, having worked on the movie Tess, but found that most of costumes that were made for the Westerns of the '40s, '50s and '60s lacked the authenticity she was looking for. After further research, she created clothing for the main characters and as many as 500 extras based on the original clothing patterns she found.[12]

Back to the Future is being cited as a key fashion inspiration, it will come as no surprise to any fans of the film or, indeed, of fashion.

So much so, in fact, that Eastpak is reissuing the original rucksack Marty travelled through time with this season, sold exclusively at Selfridges (although if you have a DeLorean, you are advised to time-travel and buy one of the 80s originals, as Eastpak is certainly not selling them now at 80s prices).

Marty rocking double denim and high-tops

Marty himself has been something of a hipster template for a while now: the double denim, the checked shirt, the high-tops. If only Marty had arrived in east London 2014 as opposed to Hill Valley 1955 (and, later, 2015 and 1885), he would have fit right in and instantly sparked a sleeveless parka revival.

As for the other characters,

Lorraine Baines (later McFly, then Tannen) has, waist up, a proper Alexa Chung look going on, with her Peter Pan collars and demure little jumpers.

Biff Tannen's sports jackets are definitely in style, for men and women, while George McFly's thick-rimmed glasses have been a fashion staple since the dawn of time (maybe alittle exaggeration there)

As for what Back to the Future fashion pieces the biggest vote has to be for Lorraine's wacky 1955 hairstyle, in which her hair zigzags across her forehead

And honestly? Yeah. The clothing is superb. It doesn’t feel costume-y or try hard like The Great Gatsby or Gangster Squad; in BTTF, the period looks are natural yet interesting, feeling cool but dated.

As this film was made in the 80s, that the period they were parodying (1950s) wasn’t that historical. It was like (literally) looking at pictures your parents wore and checking local thrift stores for clothing ideas.

This all probably contributes to why Hill Valley in 1955 feels real and not filled with some wise-cracking gangster with a down-on-his-luck shoeshine kid.

Clearly, there is a huge difference between menswear in 1955 and 1985, but there are just things that make the 1950’s stand out when compared to other eras, but the 1950’s was a remarkably different than the 1940s.

In this post war time, you had the first inklings of true casual style. Instead of sportcoats as sportswear, you had dedicated garments like Hollywood jackets.

Shortjackets with point collars and bomber styles were extremely popular to wear when you were off work or just a youth.

Jeans and converse were the new go-to for casual pant/shoes, though a few still wore pleated

Hollywood waist gab slacks and derbies. And let’s not forget the explosion of prints (tiki and atomic) and tone-on-tone variations that made sportshirts truly “sporty”.

People today call it the Bold Look for tailoring (due to the heavy shoulder pads and dropped button stance) and Rockabilly for casual style. Either way, it’s pretty cool.

Good examples of the fun casual shirts in the 1950s.

Short jackets of all kinds were common, this time done with fun details.

Great shirts and an epic trouser to boot.

Ties in the 1950’s were more about abstract vertical designs. Some were slim, others were wide.

Leisuire jackets were all the rage.

BTTF gets all of this right, presumably by the use of true vintage (since the patterns and designs are really specific) as according to the wiki, they only used whatever was in Universal’s costume warehouse.

However, warehouses could definitely still make good reproductions! We’ll never know what is true vintage or not, but I’m leaning on the use of true vintage pieces since would only be 30 years old and wouldn’t be hard to source and get in decent condition.

Marty McFly

We all know Marty McFly’s epic 1985 look. Denim jacket on slim high waisted jeans, with a solid colored crewneck under a button up shirt; we also can’t forget the life preserver and white/red Nike Bruin sneakers. It’s a classic outfit that isn’t actually out of place today, since you could wear it at a Halloween costume or as a generic dude in LA (maybe lose one of the layers though).

That period paved the way for “non-traditional” garment mixing that ushered in the current way we approach casual style. Since this is only 15 years from the period of overalls with oxfords or puffers and military chinos, it’s no surprise that wanna-be rocker Marty McFly would also wear something as weird.

However, as we saw in the movie, he stuck out like a sore thumb when he was accidentally sent back in time to 1955. Luckily with a rich heir like Doc Brown as a friend, Marty is able to get some period accurate clothes and fit into this iteration of Hill Valley.

Marty’s first look for a new day in 1955 is a damn good one: every piece is so great. Firstly we can see the two-tone leather-gab jacket with a point collar. Two-tone jackets were popular as youth novelty wear. I’m pretty sure the one in the film is a reproduction, but if you found that as vintage it would be worth a lot.

Underneath the jacket, Marty has a block motif sportshirt that he’s rolled up his sleeves a la James Dean. Patterns like this are what make this era’s shirts so much fun.

He has white socks and penny loafers!

With the shirt, he finishes this perfect 1950’s casual-youth outfit with (presumably) pleated hollywood waist slacks that seem to be made of some silk or rayon blend. providing crunchy/shiny texture that fits in with the era’s obsession with patterns and atomic themes.

Overall, it’s a great uniform to do: sportshirt + high rise trousers + casual jacket. Marty wears the look well, with everything fitting perfectly. In fact, this vibe not only informs some of the looks you can see at Inspiration LA It may not be atomic or tiki, but alohas are certainly in full force in today’s spring/summer. Even the thin belts are coming back.

They need to make prints like this again!

When Marty gets into the epic skateboard chase, he retains the two-tone jacket but brings in a new shirt and pant combo. The shirt, now a red/blue piece with a wild diagonal stripe mixed with oversized squares is an EPIC one. Its a bold pattern, which again makes the 1950’s unique in it’s choice of casual patterns. It just has that retro appeal that I think would look great under a sportcoat, if there were just makers that had it (since a true vintage one would no doubt be expensive).

Note here that he’s now wearing some straight cut blue jeans. It’s different than his slightly acid-washed ones from the 80s, mainly in how it drapes. They’re not overly wide, but moderate, ending with a cuff. They look how I want my jeans to fit with proper drape. Again, Marty kills it.

At some point, Marty swapped his Corteze with black converse. Looks very 50’s when worn with cuffed blue jeans.

Another fun gab sportshirt that is worn untucked with a white undershirt base layer.

Note the two-tone coloring. Very 50’s.

His last major 50’s look is a sportcoat-trouser combo, worn to the Enchantment Under the Sea Dance. We don’t really get a good look at the full cut or details, so we’re left wondering if this is a true 50’s jacket (or designed like it) or something from the 1980s that they tried to pass off.

The choice of odd trouser, a charcoal grey fleck Again, this was a time of exploring fabrics and cuts in the realm of tailoring, and while illustrations may keep everything clean, photographs from the era showed that the youth always had a mishmash of things. It’s probably because they didn’t have dozens of trousers to begin with.

The wide cut may be inspired by the zoot suit (Marty does reference it in the film, but zoot suits were more of a 40s thing IIRC), but he rocks it all the same.

Since you get to see it in full force (along with white socks and black two-tone derbies) while he’s playing the guitar, perhaps it’s his way of exuding that rebellious rocker chic in 1955. He certainly stood out amongst the crowd!

Doc Brown

We don’t really get to see much of Doc Brown’s attire until Marty goes to visit him in 1955; Doc is just in a white jumpsuit in the Lone Pine Mall.

When Marty visits him, Doc seems to wearing a variation on what we’d expect a well-to-do heir would wear at home. A pink shirt (the 1950’s loved color, if you couldn’t already tell) and a white single stripe tie are fun nods to the fact that he’s an adult, but you get the affluent charm with an epic silver dressing gown.

With a scale-esque texture and it’s moderate black satin peak lapels (echoed by the pocket piping), it definitely has that post-war fun vibe.

When Doc goes with Marty to Hill Valley High to check out Marty’s parents, Doc has on a very typical “casual man” outfit. The tiki shirt is a no brainer at this point, but note the cool gab jacket he has on.

It’s definitely some form of leisure jacket with modest lapels, patch pockets, and a fun little monogram on the patch. Jackets like this were casual but they clearly took after the classic sportcoat design; it looks smarter than simply wearing a leather jacket or gab short jacket.

Also take note of his straw fedora (I don’t think it’s technically a panama hat). Instead of the traditional black band, he instead has an abstract design as a ribbon, which was a common trend in the 1940s-1960s for straw hats. It also just makes the hat much more casual, which is one of the reasons why it’s hard to wear fedora-type hats often.

Flecked trousers. The 1950s loved fleck.

A checked asymmetrical sportshirt with a yolked pocket flap.

Look at Doc’s weird shirt! Super cool and novelty style that was popular in the late 40s-50s. Finding one today would be rare and expensive.

Doc Brown’s last outfit in 1955 is hard to make out, as he wears an balmaccan style rain coat for the climax, but his polo-style shirt deserves some recognition. Like so many other pieces we’ve seen, the shirt features a fun print, consisting of red and black squiggles.

The shirt has a contrast collar/placket and cuffs, which again fits in with many of the stylistic choices of the era. I’m not sure if I would wear it today, but more brands should definitely take a page out of the era and make something “new”!

Marty’s dad, at least this version of him, dresses like a dweeb because he is a dweeb. It’s supposed to be 1985, where RL and other mall clothes are in full swing, and yet he dresses like a caricature of a 1960’s accountant.

Short sleeve shirt, repp tie, pen pockets, and browline glasses, all contribute to it. I mean I’ve worn socks and shorts together, but I don’t think it looked this bad.

I mean, it makes sense since the film is portraying George as someone who is unlucky, who gets bullied, and gathers no respect.

A flecked short jacket.

In 1955, George McFly actually dresses pretty decently! He’s not exactly sticking out like a nerdy sore-thumb. Like Marty, he wears a few different sportshirts and short jackets, though in comparison, they’re much more plain. George could also benefit with a better fit, but it’s not terrible. At least in most cases.

What George does make a habit of doing is wearing his sportshirts fastened all the way to the top. Now this was done back in the day, but based on photos and illustrations, sport collars were definitely best worn open.

It’s a nerd thing to do that came back in the mid 2010s as the “air tie” and always results in the wearer looking “closed up”. And since George is a nervous guy with no friends or confidence, it works perfectly.

I like the checked cloth and red buttons.

In one scene, George actually wears a two-tone Hollywood Jacket! Like with Doc’s ivory jacket, these are meant to be a casual-yet-tailored approach to casual wear. You’ll see that the cut and design are similar to a chore coat’s, just with shoulder pads and “formal” cloth.

George’s brown gab short jacket has shoulder pads and is a size or two too big for him. Also see how he’s got his shirt buttoned all the way up.

An interesting cotton short jacket with a wider collar and hand warmer pockets. Very cool.

George goes all out for the dance, mainly because it’s his big moment to “save” Lorraine. A white dinner jacket and black tie is hard not to separate from James Bond (or Casablanca), and its actually the first time George wears something that fits him well. It’s still in the 1950’s aesthetic, so he has padded square shoulders, a low button stance, and closed quarters.

When we return to good ol’ modified 1985, accounting-nerd George has been replaced by a true chad version. There are no short sleeve shirts and browline shades here. Instead, he has a very 80s biz-caz outfit consisting of a moleskin blazer, vibrant red polo, and pleated slacks. It’s not bold, but since this is a “normal” outfit, it contrasts against George’s first appearance.I also love the aviators for max 80s cool.

Biff Tannen

Biff. When we first see him, his commandingly bold 70’s outfit just screams like a guy who peaked in high school and still bullies others. Which is definitely true.

It’s such a weird look that actually has some prep vibes to it, mainly with the use of a navy brass button blazer and plaid odd trousers; I think I may even see a white braided belt.

1985 Biff actually dresses rather “normal” for the era, though he stands out for his boisterous character and sheer Kingpin-like aura.

It’s all just sportshirts, white crewneck tees, and jeans, nothing to write home about. but with it just being done with jeans and sneakers, it feels boring, mainly because its an easy way to do a 1950s look. It’s easy to replicate, but don’t forget that a sportcollar makes a world of difference; a regular standing collar wouldn’t achieve the same effect.

I guess the point is that Biff is just a regular old bully, contrasting against George’s plain looks that utilize jackets and Marty’s much more interesting take on the era.

Biff’s jacket of choice is a bomber style one that has black contrasting collar and cuffs. Can’t you see how popular two-tone clothing was in those days? Like Marty’s leather jacket, this one also ends around the waist, but instead of it just being a plain bomber design, Biff’s jacket has decorative front pleating. Don’t ask why, it’s just for show.

Like with the shirt patterns, I wish we also had more vintage-inspired jackets like this!

A black shirt and bold tie? I guess stereotypical prom style was a thing even in 1955.

Others

Strickland has a bowtie and suit, but if you look closely, the suit is very 80s with wide shoulders, open notch and low buttoning point.

In 1955, he has a suit that clearly has more weight and features a fun shadow stripe, a common thing for vintage suits.

Ivy style isn’t really in the film other than the committee deciding on the band. 80s ivy is just like 70s ivy tbh: just a more exaggerated and bold version of 60s ivy.

Goldie Wilson also wears a bar motif sportshirt, though with the wide collar, it might be from the 40’s. That makes sense, since he might not have access to current fashions.

Lorraine’s dad wears a car coat (an overcoat with a shorter length). He has a fedora, which gives him an “adult” look. Not sure if the trouser fit is right though.

As can be expected, Lorraine’s dad has a gab sportshirt. The shorter collar points and higher buttoning point is period accurate to the 1950s.

So much great stuff here, from the faded, cuffed denim and saddle shoes to the absolutely epic novelty knitwear. I’m very glad that the youth have a variety of style!

Striped shirts are what kids wore back then, not flat caps, plus-fours, and suspenders.

Biff’s gang all have variations on casual style. Is that a knit tee I see? Wish we could see the ribbing!

More variety in style here and it all looks period. Love the kid’s pastel blue pleated pants, the red sweater, and what I think is a Cub Scout uniform. Check out that tiny brimmed hat!

Marvin Berry and the Starlighters all wear 50’s silk dinner jackets with their quintessential square shoulders and low button stance. Instead of bowties, they have matching continental bow ties.

Great short jacket.

Conclusion

BTTF is a great example of a movie that makes 1950’s clothing seem accessible and easy. There isn’t a big focus on tailoring, which probably makes it much more palatable. Instead, we see casual 50’s, rockabilly-esque style, which informs a lot of the heritage-Americana that is so easy for guys to wear. Sportshirts and cuffed jeans should get you through the most of it.

The real way to make it interesting is by checking out how Marty does it. Instead of plain shirts, he wore fun patterns that made his attire stand out among the others. It might be vintage and dated, but I certainly love the personality they bring to an outfit, especially since today you can refine it by wearing with loafers or a sportcoat instead of on its own.

Bonus points for those epic two-tone jackets (or leather jackets in general). I’m not sure if the world is ready for the return of hollywood jackets, but after the rise of chore coats and safaris, maybe there’s room for it.

Overall, I think a lot of guys who are searching for a more interesting way to dress can take some cues from this. BTTF did a great job and since it didn’t go too crazy (note the lack of flat caps, which if included would just be inaccurate), it comes off as classic and actually wearable.

I love this movie and I hope you enjoyed this dive into the costuming

Always a pleasure,

Ethan M. Wong

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References

1. ↑ http://www.bttf.com/forums BTTF.com Message Board

2. ↑ http://www.bttf.com/forums BTTF.com Message Board

3. ↑ http://www.bttf.com/forums/topic.php?tp=38901-I+FOUND+IT%21+This+is+like+finding+the+holy+grail...+I+have+found+the+Marty+McFLy+Vest%21%21%21#

4. ↑ BTTF III novel, p. 38, 39

5. ↑ Velcro 50th Anniversary : Timeline, see "1985".

6. ↑ BTTF III novel, p. 73

7. ↑ BTTF III novel, p. 98, p. 205

8. ↑ Feature Commentary with Bob Gale and Neil Canton, Part I, at about 1:10.

9. ↑ Gaines, Caseen, We Don't Need Roads: The Making of the Back to the Future trilogy, p. unknown

10. ↑ http://www.icollector.com/Back-To-The-Future-2-Marty-s-Something-Inconspicuous-Fedora-Michael-J-Fox_i20788290

11. ↑ Klastorin, Michael, and Sally Hibbin, Back to the Future: The Official Book of the Complete Movie Trilogy, p. 71-72.

12. ↑ Klastorin, Michael, and Sally Hibbin, Back to the Future: The Official Book of the Complete Movie Trilogy, p. 60-61.

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Our Sinclair C5's in the Queens Platinum Jubilee Pageant 2022

OUR SINCLAIR C5'S IN THE QUEENS PLATINUM JUBILEE PAGEANT 2022

A once in a lifetime amazing experience being part of the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee Pageant ……….. !!!

Our Sinclair C5’s were accepted to represent part of the 1980’s ‘ ACT II: THE TIME OF OUR LIVES ‘

The day before the Pageant we delivered our 2 Sinclair C5’s to the security check area. The Police were very friendly and helpful and gave our vehicle and 2 C5’s a thorough check. Once we cleared security we collected our passes to access all areas before heading off to the Horse Guards Parade. This is where all of the vehicles for the pageant were being held ( I was in my element seeing all theses vehicles close up).

The atmosphere had excitement in the air, everyone was super friendly and helpful and looking forward to the fantastic show being held the following day.

Once we gave the C5’s one last clean we we headed into London to take in the sights and sounds of the big city.

As you can imagine we didn’t get much sleep. We had to be up early to head off from the hotel back to Horse Guards Parade for 8.45am.

The sheer amount of vehicles, celebrities, performers, and police was unbelievable. It was such and amazing vibe, everyone was super excited to be part of the once in a lifetime event.

Horse Guards Parade - Queens Platinum Jubilee - Act II Time of our lives Buses

Here’s where I would like to thank the entire team at ‘ Platinum Jubilee Pageant ‘ for their excellent communication, information, webcasts and amazing Staff

Anna Dancing outside Buckingham Palace - at the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee

11.00am the Pageant Team took us on a guided walking tour of the route (this alone was very special to see London’s famous landmarks without any traffic. With people already lining the streets they were waving and cheering as we went past, certainly an amazing feeling…..

So it was 3pm when we left Horse Guards Parade, which was buzzing with excitement loud music playing out from the various show vehicles, and performers.

We were parked right next to the ‘Decades’ Buses, so were able to watch all the the celebrities go by which was absolutely amazing.

So our time had come….. and we set off behind the Only Fools and horses Robin Reliant !

I cannot describe the atmosphere from both the performers and public, it was such an occasion that words really cannot describe.

We did have ‘The Time of our Lives’ and enjoyed every second from Driving down Whitehall, past the Cenotaph, through Admiralty Arch down the Mall filled with Union Jacks as far as the eye could see.

Then came into sight (through the tens of thousands of people lining the mall) Victoria Memorial in St James Park and the massive stage that was built over it, with the Royal Box being located opposite.

Here were turned right with Buckingham Palace in clearview and gave the Royal Box a ‘Sinclair C5’ wave as we passed by !

As you can imagine we are so ecstatic at this point we head on down Birdcage walk to return to Horse Guards Parade.

Mark and Anna at The Mall Queen’s Platinum Jubilee Pageant

Sinclair C5’s behind Only Fools and Horse Robin Reliant - Queen’s Platinum Jubilee Pageant

The Pageant Team then arranged for all the Performers to follow the buses back down the Mall to watch the Finale at Buckingham Palace and the ultimate highlight to see the Queen ! So managed to get a perfect place just a few people back from the main stage !

This was the view ……

The Mall Queen’s Platinum Jubilee Pageant

Back to the 80’s with Mark in the Sinclair C5 at Horse Guards Parade for the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee Pageant

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As a Classic Car enthusiast to meet him was another top highlight of my day.

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Mini Jeep ATV 4x4 - Willys Jeep Mini Replica -1941 (Coolster)

One of the coolest Toys you can buy in 2025 …. the Mini Jeep this amazing little ATV sit in between 1/2 and 1/3 scale model of a 1941 Army Jeep. This 125cc single cylinder can take two adults across a vast array of terrain at speeds of upto 40mph with an estimate MPG of 80

Mini Jeep Petrol Driven micro 4x4 - 1941 WIllys Style Coolster Mini Jeep — 1941 WIllys Style Coolster Mini Jeep

Mini Jeep ATV 4x4 Style Willys 1941 1/2 Scale Petrol 125cc 3 Speed

What is a Mini Jeep ?

These amazing vehicles sits at just over 1:3 scale, they are fully working petrol driven models of a WWII Jeep. Able to fit two adults quite comfortably, built for off-road use using Coil spring suspension.

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What engine does a Mini Jeep have ?

They have either a 125cc and 150cc engines

Capable of speeds up to 37 mph.

4 Stroke single cylinder.

3 Speed forward 1 Reverse

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How fast does a mini jeep go ? 37 mph

Driving Review :

lets start out with the fun factor which is 10 out of 10 !

Having a little petrol engine under the hood, linked to a 3 speed forward 1 reverse semi -automatic (so no clutch to worry about) gives you the options of using a very low 1st gear for off-roading in deep mud, hill climbing etc. Gear 2 is still perfect for off-roading while still giving the torque required to plough through most terrains.

Moving into 3rd gear gives you the top speed of 37.5mph, when using the amazing little vehicle on the road. Off Course it mainly geared for off roading, so those deep knobbly tyres will make road use nosier, and in the wet (on tarmac) caution should be taken and it does make it a little slippy !

But the great thing is you could purchase another set of wheels to use road tyres when not plugging through rough terrain.

The Steering wheel is adjustable in reach so most adults (I’m just under 6ft) can get comfortable behind the wheel.

Let’s talk about on the road first …..

Mini jeep bonnet with army decal — Mini jeep bonnet

Mini jeep grill - 125cc Petrol driven 4x4 for adults and children — Mini jeep grill

It comes with front and rear lights, indicators, rear reverse light, horn, seatbelts, additional fuel tank, spare wheel, windscreen, handbrake and disc brakes.

So it has nearly all the necessary Road Legal equipment bar :

A fog light
Hazard warning flash
Roll over cadge.
And if you’re in the U.K a MPH speedometer (Kmh only, and this is highly inaccurate, so would be best to purchase a GPS Speedometer)
Also it has an a optional Speed limited for those younger drivers out there

In some states these can be road legally, and the 37.5mph top speed comes in handy to keep up with traffic.

As there is no sound proofing, a helmet makes driving this on the road a lot more comfortable and it can get noisy, but that’s part of the fun !

Off-Road those two first gears really do make getting through most terrains very easy, the knobbly tires get stuck into the deepest of mud conditions and seem to make the whole experience very exciting, and certainly brings on many smiles per mile !

Coolster is owned by an American based Company who distribute these mini ATV / Golf carts

Mini Willys Style Jeep Specification :

1 : 2 Scale
Mini Jeep engine 125cc Engine 4 stroke, 154fm, XinYuan
Features : Reverse light, Neutral light, Horn, indicators (with audio alarm) reverse light, Spare wheel, Army style Gas Can,
Transmission 3 speed with reverse
Drive Type : Chain : 530H 153l
EPA approved Carb
Petrol 1.06 gal
Tire size : 18x7-8
Oil capacity : 0.8L Air cooled motorcycle oil with clutch additive
Battery 12v 9A
Coil Suspension Front / Rear : Dual Arms with swingarm rear

125cc Petrol driven 4x4 Mini Jeep - Willy’s Style in forest — Jeep Mini Willy’s Style in forest

Mini Jeep 125cc Willy’s style jeep WWIi — Mini Willy’s style jeep WWIi

The windscreen does fold down, so again this makes getting through trees, and branches a lot easier as there’s no risk of damage

Mini Jeep buying tips

These do not come completely fully built out of the box, (unless your buying from a dealer) like Coolster.

So if your buying new or 2nd hand this is what you need to check :

Front Suspension strut bolts are tight

The exhaust bracket and exhaust bolts are tightened, whilst we are on this subject check the exhaust manifold bolts are tight

Check wheel Hub bolts are tight

Check wheel nuts (although overtightening can strip the thread)

Check steering rack bolts are tight

Check steering ball joints bolts are tight

Check handbrake works

Check Disc brake are functioning correctly

Check steering column, and steering wheel bolts

Check all suspension bolts,

Check the fuel line is secure (as clips are not very strong)

Check Rear axle bearings are greased (there is a grease nipple) but apparently they come dry

Check chain is lubricated

Check body security as the bolts can and do rust

Army Jeep - Mini 125cc - 4x4 ATV — Mini jeep - Coolster

Army Jeep Mini 125cc petrol driven dashboard — Jeep Dashboard

Mini Jeep ATV Petrol Engine — Mini jeep engine

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Mini Jeep gross weight 330.7 / 363.8lbs

Mini Jeep Weight capacity 264.6lbs
Disc Brakes front rear
Electric start with Key
Fully working lights, indicators, horn and speedometer
Speed limiter function (can be added)
Shock Absorbers
Fold down windscreen
Parking Brake
Leather Seats
Safety Belt
Spare Wheel
Spare Fuel Tank

Army Jeep 1941 style mini 1/2 scale — 1941 style mini jeep

Army Jeep - Mini jeep dashboard — Mini jeep dashboard

Mini Jeep Dimensions

Width :

950mm

Height :

950mm

Length :

1950 mm

Ground Clearance :

9.84 inches

Mini Jeep 125cc Spare wheel.jpg — Army Mini Jeep - Spare wheel

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Future Upgrades

To Install a bumper mounted winch

4” Jeep Spot lights

K&N Air filter

Snorkle

GPS Speedometer and Tachometer

Fuse Box

D Rings on bumper

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Great Scott !!! How to generate 1.21 Giggawatts (Jiggawatts) with Mr Fusion ...... in the DeLorean Time Machine

Sending you Back to the Future ! But how could Doc Brown invent, design, and build a Time Machine out of a DeLorean ? …. And could it be possible in the Future ? We explore the science behind this amazing Si/Fi Stainless Steel Car

🤯 1.21 Gigawatts: The Fictional Power of Time Travel

The phrase "1.21 Giggawatts" (often pronounced "jigowatts" in the film) is one of the most iconic pieces of fictional scientific jargon in cinema history. It represents the minimum power threshold required to activate the Flux Capacitor and initiate a temporal jump in the DeLorean Time Machine.

For your blog on "Is Time Travel Possible," this figure offers a perfect starting point for discussing the power problem of real-world theoretical physics.

What is a Gigawatt?

In real-world physics, a gigawatt (GW) is a unit of power.

The Breakdown: The prefix 'giga-' represents a factor of 109, or one billion. Therefore:
1 GW=1,000,000,000 Watts
The DeLorean's Requirement: 1.21 GW is 1.21 billion watts. This unit measures the rate at which energy is being transferred or used at a specific moment.

How Much Power is 1.21 GW, Really?

To put Doc Brown's requirement into perspective, 1.21 GW is an enormous amount of power, equivalent to the continuous output of a major electrical infrastructure:

Large Power Plants: A single, large modern nuclear or coal power plant typically produces power in the range of 1 gigawatt (GW).
Homes and Lightbulbs: 1.21 GW could power over 10 million 100-watt light bulbs simultaneously.
Vehicles: It would take the peak power output of thousands of modern sports car engines to reach this figure.

The Real-World Connection: Lightning

Doc Brown famously states that the only natural source capable of producing 1.21 GW is a bolt of lightning. This is where the film's science surprisingly aligns with reality:

MetricDeLorean RequirementReal-World Lightning BoltPower (Rate)1.21 GW (Gigawatts)A typical lightning bolt's peak power is often in the GW to TW (Terawatt, 1000 GW) range.Energy (Total)Not explicitly stated (implied to be short pulse)Total energy is relatively low (∼5 billion Joules) due to its short duration(microseconds to milliseconds).

The key takeaway is that lightning provides the necessary power pulse—the instantaneous rate of energy—to trigger the Flux Capacitor, even if the total sustained energy is not what a power plant would produce over an hour. This high-power, short-duration pulse is exactly what's needed for the fictional device to momentarily rip a hole in the space-time continuum.

The extreme power requirement of 1.21 GW serves as a brilliant cinematic shorthand for the kind of exotic energy source that theoretical physics suggests would be necessary to overcome the barriers to time travel.

We all know what Doc Brown said in the first movie.

"I need a nuclear reaction to generate the 1.21 gigawatts of electricity I need".

Hill Valley Clock Tower - Lighting strike Credit : Universal Pictures Amblin Entertainment

GREAT SCOTT !!! HOW TO GENERATE 1.21 GIGGAWATTS (JIGGAWATTS) WITH MR FUSION ...... IN THE DELOREAN TIME MACHINE

Your Built a Time Machine ….. Out of a DeLorean ! ….. We explore the science behind Doc Browns amazing Time Machine, starting with what is 1.21 Gigawatts and how can you generate that kind of Power …….

Great Scott! Marty: What? What the hell is a gigawatt?

1.21 Gigawatts was pronounced (on set) as it were spelled with a "j", as in jigawatts (or jigowatts)..

So, how much is 1.21 gigawatts you ask?

Well, a gigawatt is equal to one billion (10 9) watts or 1 gigawatt = 1000 megawatts.

A watt is a unit of power.

Your typical 100 watt incandescent light bulb draws 100 watts of energy, so 1.21 gigawatts would be able to light over 12 million 100 watt light bulbs. 1.21 gigawatts is also equivalent to 1,621,400 horse power

How does the plutonium in the BTTF car generate 1.21 gigawatts in less than a couple of minuets?

Well the meaning of power (the watt is a unit of power). Power refers to the rate at which energy is produced. Power can be one of several things. The most often way to describe it is the change in energy in a certain amount of time.

1 watt = 1 joule per second where a joule is a unit of energy. Horsepower is another unit of energy where 1 hp = 746 watts.

(roughly equivalent to the amount of energy it takes to lift a medium large apple 3 feet)

If energy is measured in units of Joules, and the time interval is in seconds the power would be in Watts.

What about the giga? Giga is a prefix for units that typically means 10 to the power of 9.

This means that 1.21 gigawatts would be 1.21 x 10 to the power of 9

This means producing a given amount of power in a limited amount of time is not an important problem.

If you have a battery that can store only 1 joule of energy : but will discharge in a nanosecond the power output will be a gigawatt, but only for that nanosecond.

A large marine battery can store 8 megajoules and could theoretically produce 1.21 gigawatts for .066 seconds.

Nowhere in the movies is it stated for how long the 1.21 gigawatts needs to be produced, but we can estimate an upper limit based on the properties of lightning.

A typical bolt of lighting contains about a gigajoule of energy and lasts for .2 seconds.

The dynamics of how the lightning was used to power the flux capacitor indicates that it was directly powered by the lightning and no storage battery was involved. We can therefore deduce that the maximum energy needed to create a temporal shift is 1.21 gigajoules/sec X .2sec = 242 megajoules.

We now have two ways to power the flux capacitor:

The Flux Capacitor Credit : Universal Pictures Amblin Entertainment

1) Feed it directly from gigawatt capable generator or

2) Use a lower power generator to charge up a 242 megajoule battery.

A currently available 242 megajoule battery weighs a little over 200 pounds and is the size of a standard blue home recycling bin.

While this type of battery is not rechargeable and cannot deliver all of it’s energy in .2 seconds it gets us in the ballpark of what is needed.

On the other hand there are no gigawatt generators currently available that could fit in a container sized truck , much less a Delorean.

We therefore conclude that in standard mode the flux capacitor is battery powered for the .2 seconds or less it is in use and the plutonium generator does not need produce 1.21 gigawatts.

A micrometer-sized circulators that can be fabricated on a microchip.We figured out how to integrate magnetic flux quanta — the smallest units of magnetic field — with microfabricated capacitors and other superconducting circuit elements, so that ti… — A micrometer-sized circulators that can be fabricated on a microchip.
We figured out how to integrate magnetic flux quanta — the smallest units of magnetic field — with microfabricated capacitors and other superconducting circuit elements, so that time-reversal symmetry can be broken.
This led to our new circulator proposal. As with conventional circulators, there is a magnetic field present. But because we can use just one magnetic flux quantum, our design can be microscopic.
See the design similarity: (left) the fictional flux capacitor from the movie and (right) a schematic representation of the proposed circulator. Tom Stace/Screenshot from Back to the Future, Author provided
We’ve nicknamed the device the quantum flux capacitor as its circuit diagram has a passing resemblance to Doc Brown’s mythical invention (which are for sale, sort of).
Sadly for history buffs, our design won’t help much in your DeLorean time machine: it doesn’t reverse time. But its magnetic field does break time-reversal symmetry as advertised and we expect these devices will find applications in future quantum technologies.
Even sooner, they may help in high-bandwidth communications environments like mobile phone base stations in very dense populations, or for ultra-high sensitivity radar where every photon of the electromagnetic field counts.
www.theconversation.com

If we allow for a 24 hour recharge time for the battery then the generator only needs a continuous output of 2600 watts. No problem for an eccentric genius.

Paul Grimshaw - IT Architect in the Computer Industry (1983-present)

How many AA batteries would it take to generate the 1.21 gigawatts of electricity needed to send Doc Brown’s Delorean back to 1985?

Let’s see, you can squeeze around 5A at 1V out of a decent NiMH AA cell, so that’s 5W.

To get 1.21GW you would therefore require 242,000,000 cells

NiMH AA batteries weigh around 30g per cell, so 242 million of them would total 7,260 tonnes!. With cabling that’s around the weight of a modern Navy Destroyer ship.

AA batteries are 14mm diameter and 50mm long. Allowing a little room for cabling, you can squeeze 100 batteries in 1000 cubic cm (1 litre).

So for 242,000,000 cells you would need 2,420 cubic metres. That’s about the size of 10 double decker buses.

So probably not the most practical of options.

Instead, ironically, capacitors would be a much better idea for powering a flux capacitor.

Not just any old capacitors, but some of the capacitors capable of outputting the highest powers as listed here:

SERIES CMX - Self-Healing Energy Storage Capacitors

The 3330CMX2205 looks particularly suitable, each one capable of outputting 100,000A at 3,300V.

So just four of these could generate a colossal 1.32GW - that’s more than enough to send Doc to 1985 AND power his heated car seats at the same time.

Weighing in at 49kg each, four of these capacitors weigh a mere 196kg - let’s round up to 200kg with some mounting brackets. Spacewise, the bank of four capacitors occupy 0.66 x 0.41 x 0.56m, so these would fit comfortably in the trunk, with room for a set of golf clubs to spare.

Did anybody spot the name of the capacitor manufacturer in the link? Yep, it’s General Atomics. So it may not be Plutonium, but it’s still Atomic powered!

Just the job. To be fair, these capacitors can only output this level of power for a fraction of a millisecond, but I’m pretty certain that’s more than enough time to get back to 1985 as long as the car is going fast enough.

Also they would be ideal for recharging by lightning ready for the trip back. As you can see in the picture, they even have a convenient warning on the front not to handle the lightning whilst it’s running through the cable.

On a slightly more serious note, capacitors are commonly used to provide very high power short duration energy bursts. One example is at the US National Ignition Facility, where they have 4,000 capacitors similar to those above, in this case to power their laser.

The energy stored is again released in a fraction of a millisecond, but this time at a power exceeding 1 TeraWatt. That’s a thousand times that used by Doc, and it exceeds the peak electricity demand of the entire US.

Scott Soloway - Degree in math and physics but majored in pinball

Paul Grimshaw - IT Architect in the Computer Industry (1983-present)

The lower thrust fusion rocket produces 187.1 GW of power. Ten of these plants would power all industry on Earth.

How Do You Get 1.21 GigaWatts For Your Time Machine?

Is that a large amount of power?

Yes. Just for comparison, the nuclear power reactors in a Nimitz Class Aircraft Carrier produces 194 megawatts (1.94 x 108 watts).

Or perhaps you would like to compare this to the flying S.H.I.E.L.D. Helicarrier. With my calculations, I get a power requirement of 317 gigawatts.

First look at the DeLorean Time Machine Credit : Universal Pictures Amblin Entertainment

What Does Doc Brown Even Mean?

How much power does it take to travel through time?

Well, Doc said 1.21 gigawatts.

If I want to calculate the energy required for time travel, I will need the power (given) as well as the time.

How Long Does it Take to Travel in Time?

That's actually looks like a stupid question. Oh well. Let's take a look at the actual real life footage of the time machine (from the historical archives).

Time travel is possible if you get the car up to 88 mph.

Is this car going 88 mph? Is there any way to tell? Oh, yes. Yes, there is. All I need to do is to look at this car (a DeLorean) and use – video analysis. The clip isn't perfect, but I think it will give a good enough estimate. I can scale the video using the wheel base of 2.413 meters.

Time Machine being chased by VW Camper Van in Twin Pines Mall Credit : Universal Pictures Amblin Entertainment

Here is a plot of the position of the DeLorean in the first time travel (with the dog in the car).

The slope of this line puts the car's speed at 56.7 m/s (127 mph). Yes, that is faster than 88 mph. I'm not sure why the one frame repeated. Also, there could be a problem with my scale since it was rather difficult to see the car. Here is the next time the car gets to a speed near 88 mph (when Marty first goes back in time).

DeLorean Time Machine - Flux - in Twin Pines Mall Credit : Universal Pictures Amblin Entertainment

DeLorean being struck by lighting Credit : Universal Pictures Amblin Entertainment

Well that's not good. This give a speed of 29 m/s (65 mph). For this video, the car isn't quite up to 88 mph so this seems ok. I guess I should look at the last time travel speed (when Marty goes BACK TO THE FUTURE). Oh, actually there is not a good shot to analyze there. Oh well, the second shot is close enough to 88 mph, that I will just stick with that.

What about the time interval? For the first test, I looked at the time from just when the car started to shoot sparks until it "exploded".

This gives a time of 4.3 seconds. But wait !

What about the case when a lightning bolt is used to power the car? For that case, the time machine is only getting power for at most 0.46 seconds. So, there are two different time intervals for two different trips through time.

Time Travel Energy

Now that I have the power AND the time, I can calculate the required energy. Let's just do it (for both time interval estimates).

That's not so bad. I have an energy range with the high end just a factor of 10 higher.

Now, how do you get 5 x 108 - 5 x 109 Joules?

Doc Brown's first choice was to use plutonium. Although he didn't give too much of the details, I guess he was using Plutonium-239. Pu-239 is radioactive, but I don't think that's how it gave energy in this case.

Instead, I guess that there was some type of fission process that broke the nucleus into smaller pieces. Since the pieces have less mass than the original, you also get energy (E = mc2). The Wikipedia page on plutonium as the details, but let's just say that one Plutonium atom produces 200 MeV (mega electron volts) in the fission process (3.2 x 10-11 Joules).

Doc Brown refuelling the DeLorean Time Machine Credit : Universal Pictures Amblin Entertainment

Doc Brown Plutonium Case - Credit : Universal Pictures Amblin Entertainment

In a typical nuclear reactor (which probably wouldn't use Plutonium-239), this energy is used to increase the temperature of water to make steam. The steam then turns an electric turbine to produce electricity. Clearly, that's not happening here. I'm not sure what's going on - but surely it's not a 100% efficient process. I am going to say it's 50% efficient.

In order to get 5 x 108 Joules, I would need:

Since 1 Plutonium-239 atom has a mass of 3.29 x 10-25 kg, this would require a fuel mass of just 1.2 x 10-5 kg. That seems possible.

What about a lightning bolt? Could you get this much energy from lightning? According to Wikipedia, a single bolt of lightning can have about 5 x 109 Joules. That would be just perfect for the time traveling machine.

Refuelllng the DeLorean Time Machine Credit : Universal Pictures Amblin Entertainment

Hill Valley Clock Tower being stuck by lighting Credit : Universal Pictures Amblin Entertainment

But what if lightning & Plutonium for an energy sources are just difficult to get hold of ?

Maybe batteries would be an interesting way to power this machine.

How many AA batteries would you need? From a previous post,

I already know that a high quality AA battery has about 10,000 Joules of energy. In order to get 5 x 108 Joules, I would need 5 x 104 AA batteries. Of course, that assumes that I could completely drain these batteries in just half a second. Damn, those things would get hot.

Homework

Clearly, there are other questions. Here are some that I can think of.

How much space would a DeLorean need to get up to 88 mph? You can look up the time for it to get from 0-60 mph and assume that it has a constant acceleration.

At the end of Back to the Future, Doc Brown replaces the Plutonium energy source with a Mr. Fusion. Estimate how much energy he could get from a banana peel.

Mr Fusion Fuel Credit : Universal Pictures Amblin Entertainment

· If you watch all three movies in the Back to the Future series, there are several times that the car gets up to 88 mph. Use video analysis to check the speeds.

How long would it take current from the lightning strike to travel from the clock tower to the car?

Suppose that Marty is 1 second late on his start to get to the lightning wire. How much greater of an acceleration would he need to make it to the wire on time (assuming that over 88 mph works just as well as 88 mph)?

What if there wasn't a known source of lightning? What other ways could Doc get energy to power the DeLorean in 1955 (or whatever the year was)?

Assume that the energy needed to time travel was directly proportional to the mass of the object. Would the S.H.I.E.L.D. Helicarrier have enough power to go back to 1957?

Pushing the DeLorean to 88mph Credit : Universal Pictures Amblin Entertainment

Carmen Drahl Former Contributor Science

Wheres Mr Fusion ?

To get some answers, I spoke with Egemen Kolemen. He’s a specialist in the control of fusion plasmas at Princeton University, where he is an assistant professor with joint appointments at the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment, the department of mechanical and aerospace engineering, and the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory.

Egemen Kolemen, Princeton University (Credit:

Our Q&A is below, and is lightly edited for clarity.

Carmen Drahl:

Thanks for talking futuristic fusion with me, Dr. Kolemen!

In Back to the Future, the central time travel device was originally powered by plutonium, but this was replaced by the Mr. Fusion reactor.

Mr Fusion Home Energy Reactor Credit : Universal Pictures Amblin Entertainment

What’s the difference between how radioactive plutonium might generate electricity and how a fusion reactor would?

Egemen Kolemen: Radioactive plutonium produces energy by splitting up to smaller elements, which is known as the fission reaction.

In a fusion reactor, we combine small nuclei to make energy. Soon enough, we hope to move from fission to fusion technology just as Back to the Future II predicted.

This would help Doc Brown avoid troubles with the terrorists in the original movie— we use water as fusion fuel and you cannot make an atomic bomb with water!

CD: Mr. Fusion was able to generate power from household garbage— a banana peel, Miller beer, and even a beer can! What are the typical starting materials that are used in fusion reactors today?

EK: We use isotopes of the element hydrogen (known as deuterium and tritium) in current fusion reactors. There is enough heavy hydrogen fuel in sea water, H2O, to fuel the world’s energy needs for billions of years.

CD: In theory, could Mr. Fusion have been generating power by fusing together several different atoms or isotopes contained inside the garbage?

Or could the reactor only work by fusing deuterium and tritium in the garbage? In other words— could you generate energy from fusing many different nuclei?

EK: Theoretically, fusing elements lighter than iron releases nuclear energy. If a clever physicist could overcome the engineering problems, a machine like Mr. Fusion could physically make energy by fusing banana or beer which mostly consists of carbon, oxygen and hydrogen. (It would even work for a beer can made of aluminum!). This is the process that happens in the core of large stars which is the birthplace of all the heavy elements in the universe.

However, as the elements get heavier, the fusion process gets harder and requires more energy to initialize and becomes less economical. That is why we use the isotopes of hydrogen, the lightest element in the universe.

There is no physics reason why you could not fuse many different nuclei.

Stars fuse many different elements with each other.

However, just as cars are designed to run with only one specific type of fuel (gasoline, diesel, etc.) to make them more efficient and economical, fusion reactors that work on preset fuels would be cheaper and an easier engineering challenge.

CD: Mr. Fusion was the size of a coffee maker.

That’s pretty tiny compared to the typical fusion reactor—

the experimental reactor being built in France will be over 5000 tons!

What are the challenges to making fusion reactors small?

EK: The fusion process happens when two particles hit each other each other at high velocity inside the reactor.

So, the energy production in a fusion reactor grows roughly in proportion to the volume (or the number of particles inside) of the reactor.

At the same time, the energy loss occurs mostly due to the drifting particles out from the surface of the reactor. As the reactor size gets bigger, volume which grows roughly as the cube of the radius increases much faster than the surface which grows as the square of the radius.

As a fusion reactor gets bigger the ratio of energy production to losses increases making it easier to produce net energy.

We use very strong magnetic forces to be able to confine the deuterium, tritium and electrons inside the reactor. If one can build superconducting coils that can produce much stronger magnetic fields (i.e. a stronger trap) than the ones available today, a smaller machine might be possible. This is an active research topic!

Interior of the National Spherical Torus[+]

CD: We’ve all seen car engines malfunction. Could Mr. Fusion explode in a mushroom cloud destroying everything in a 250 mile radius if something went wrong?

EK: Fusion is a delicate process that needs constant control. Unlike fission reactors, fusion cannot have a runaway chain reaction. If the “engine” malfunctions, the fusion process would stop immediately. So no explosion is possible. That is one of the many advantages of fusion energy.

CD: Mr. Fusion would have to be doing hot fusion, because cold fusion is a myth, right?

EK: There is no scientifically known net energy-producing cold fusion reaction.

CD: So since you do have to heat your starting materials to extremely high temperatures to achieve fusion, how cool can we make the outside of a fusion reactor—cool enough to safely attach to a vehicle?

EK: The wall inside the fusion vessel would be hot just as the inside of the car engine. However, the reactor would have a cooling system, similar to the radiator in a car, making the outside of the reactor at room temperature. The reactor would be as safe as the car engine.

CD: We still haven’t passed the break-even energy point in nuclear fusion— where we get more energy out of fusion than we had to put in. What gives you reason to think we’ll get there?

EK: We have been running experiments on many different fusion reactors all around the world and comparing the experimental data we obtain to computed simulations of the physics process.

We have been upgrading our simulation capabilities using new numerical methods and tools and checking against the experimental data.

At this point, we can reproduce and predict experimental outcomes in existing fusion reactors. We believe that our understanding of the physics and capability to simulate processes are advanced enough to roughly predict how a reactor will behave.

Based on this understanding, we designed the ITER (International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor) nuclear fusion reactor. ITER is under construction under an international collaboration, and it is expected to come online in a decade.

We predict that we will obtain 10 times more fusion energy output as the power we put in. As with any research, we can only know the exact answer after running the machine but we try to do our best to predict the reactor behavior.

CD: Thank you for your time, Dr. Kolemen!

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Carmen Drahl

I'm an independent journalist specializing in chemistry, in particular the places where chemistry meets biology. I was a staff science writer at Chemical & Engineering…Read More

As a renewable energy source, cold fusion is potentially unlimited clean energy. But what is fusion energy, how does it work, and is there such a thing as cold fusion?

You may have heard about cold fusion, the idea that atoms can be fused together without using any significant heat or other type of energy and yet producing a great deal of energy.

This philosopher’s stone has been the object of the quest of many a modern-day alchemist, so we shall leave it to them.

Hot fusion, however, is real. It’s what happens inside the sun and other stars. Nuclei of atoms crash into each other at great speed, resulting in fusion and a great deal more energy released. Research and development into fusion energy is trying to create similar reactions here on Earth at over 100 million degrees Celsius.

The opposite of nuclear fission

Fusion energy, in a way, is the opposite of what we conventionally call nuclear energy – although fusion energy also deals with the nucleus of atoms. In current nuclear power plants, the energy comes from splitting the atom.

Fusion, as the name suggests, produces energy not by breaking atoms apart, but by fusing them together.

The real difference comes from the kind of elements involved in these processes. What we know as nuclear energy requires elements with big, heavy atoms like uranium or plutonium that can be split into smaller atoms.

However, uranium, plutonium, and their fission products are radioactive, which means that when they decay they emit ionising radiation, which in certain circumstances might be dangerous to humans.

Back to the Future Darth Vader Credit : Universal Pictures Amblin Entertainment

Fusion energy instead is based on combining two lightweight atoms – usually hydrogen. When two hydrogen atoms fuse, they create helium.

So not only does fusion energy rely on the most abundant element in the universe, its byproduct can be easily used for medical purposes, or to blow up balloons.

Try pushing two magnets together

How do you fuse two atoms?

The challenge comes from the fact that the nucleus of an atom contains positively charged protons and neutral neutrons, as you will surely recall from your physics class.

Therefore, the nucleus of an atom will always carry a positive charge. Trying to combine it with another one with a positive charge is like trying to push two magnets towards each other. They will resist. This is why fusion energy uses the lightest atoms possible. But it is still very hard.

Inside the sun, fusion occurs because the immense gravity draws atoms together, creating extreme density and enormous heat, which makes the atoms collide with each other at great speed.

The force of gravity is much weaker on Earth, because of the relatively small size of this planet, and the temperature – despite global warming – is nowhere close to the heat of the sun. So how can we create similar conditions here for fusion to occur?

Hotter than the sun

The answer is fairly obvious. To make up for our lower gravity, you simply have to create a temperature hotter than the sun.

Six to ten times hotter, up to 150 million degrees Celsius. Here on Earth this tremendous heat will create the conditions to allow the hydrogen atoms to bump into each other, resulting in fusion and generating even more energy.

Sounds easy? There are quite a few details that need to be ironed out.

First issue: where could you create such a temperature, so that the heated substance wouldn’t destroy everything it touches?

Again, the solution is simple: don’t allow it to come into contact with anything. To achieve this, Russian scientists in the middle of the 20th century developed the tokamak, a chamber the shape of a hollow doughnut, surrounded by powerful magnets.

Inside this chamber, the hydrogen gas is heated to an extremely high temperature and transformed into a plasma state.

The plasma state is one of the four fundamental states of matter, in which the gaseous substance becomes ionised – because electrons orbiting the atomic nuclei are stripped away.

The ionised matter is electrically conductive and therefore the magnetic fields can dominate the behaviour of the matter. That is where the magnets come in.

Magnets can keep this electrically conductive substance from approaching the tokamak’s walls, hovering above it. Inside the plasma, the conditions are suitable for the atoms to bump into each other and to fuse, releasing energy.

The world’s largest experimental tokamak nuclear fusion reactor – called ITER – is under construction in France, to prove the feasibility of thermonuclear fusion as a large-scale and carbon-free source of energy.

ITER is an international research and engineering megaproject involving the European Union, China, India, Japan, South Korea, Russia and the US.

If successful, the facility will turn 50 MW of power inserted into the system – to initially heat the plasma – into fusion power output of 500 MW.

A lot of doughnut

The ITER reactor will be huge:

the ITER tokamak will be as heavy as three Eiffel Towers;
the structure of the 1 000-tonne electromagnet in the centre of the machine must be strong enough to contain a force equivalent to twice the thrust of the Space Shuttle at take-off (60 meganewtons, or over 6 000 tonnes of force);
there will be 18 D-shaped electromagnets around the doughnut-shaped tokamak chamber, each of them 17 metres high and 9 metres wide, weighing 310 tonnes, the approximate weight of a fully loaded Boeing 747-300 aeroplane.
270 million degrees Fahrenheit to ignite fusion—a full ten times hotter than the sun's core.

But how could we get that enormous energy out of the doughnut and safely channel it into our homes as electricity?

This is done via the main chamber wall and a region called the divertor, positioned at the bottom of the tokamak. The divertor controls the exhaust of heat, waste gas and impurities from the reactor and withstands the highest surface heat loads. The surface of the divertor is covered by tungsten, the metal with the highest melting point (3422°C).

In 2019, with the backing of the European Fund for Strategic Investments, the European Investment Bank signed a €250 million loan to the Italian research agency ENEA to help build the divertor and tokamak test facility. The plant will test various alternatives to exhaust the huge amount of heat flowing into the divertor component of a nuclear fusion reactor.

A glorified steam turbine

Researchers continue to look for alternatives, but as it stands now the whole process of transitioning the heat to electric power then becomes rather old-fashioned.

The heat received by the plasma-facing wall and the divertor will be used to turn water into steam, which will drive a steam turbine. divertor, positioned at the bottom of the tokamak“The scientific advances towards fusion energy are not likely to occur like the apple falling on Newton’s head,” says Istvan Szabo, a senior engineer in the European Investment Bank’s energy security division. “You need many more resources.”

Szabo concedes it is possible that tomorrow someone will come up with a completely different solution to harness fusion energy, or a different answer to the need for sustainable energy to power us into the future.

“There are other ideas to compress matter and fuse atoms. For example to use lasers or mechanical compression. And maybe someone will one day solve cold fusion,” Szabo says. “But testing these will all require immense resources.

Thermonuclear fusion is furthest along the research and development phase. It offers the most hope.”

Cold fusion remains elusive—but these scientists may revive the quest

The first public results from a Google-funded project reveal renewed interest in the long-sought but controversial nuclear energy source.

BY MICHAEL GRESHKO

PUBLISHED MAY 29, 2019

Sparking a controversy

Nuclear fusion occurs when pairs of light nuclei fuse together to form a nucleus of net lighter mass, releasing huge amounts of energy as described by Einstein's iconic equation E = mc2.

Inside the sun, hydrogen atoms fuse to produce helium and energy. If successfully harnessed on Earth, fusion could provide humankind with abundant, emissions-free energy—a huge boon to efforts to combat climate change. (As a byproduct, fusion on Earth might also help to address a global helium shortage.)

But getting fusion to work on Earth is tricky, since it's hard to get two nuclei close enough to combine; atomic nuclei are positively charged, so they fiercely repel one another, a hurdle known as the Coulomb barrier.

Crossing this barrier and realizing fusion power is possible at high densities and temperatures, if the nuclei are confined for a sufficiently long time. But to achieve these conditions, scientists seem to need large, expensive machines and huge amounts of initial power.

“What nature does with the enormous force of gravity in the sun's core is what mankind has been trying to do under controlled conditions in the laboratory,” says physicist Amitava Bhattacharjee, the head theorist at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, one of the leading fusion research groups in the U.S.

“For the last 60 years we’ve been at this, and I think the progress has been enormous,” he adds. “But we still continue to have a challenge to make nuclear fusion power inexpensively available to people.”

But what if cleverly structured materials could somehow lower the energy needed for fusion? That's what chemists Martin Fleischmann and Stanley Pons at the University of Utah thought they had achieved.

On March 23, 1989, University of Utah chemists Martin Fleischmann and Stanley Pons announced their "cold fusion" device to the world—sparking a scientific firestorm.

But for many, excitement quickly gave way to skepticism. Early outside attempts to replicate the results didn't turn up massive amounts of heat, nor did the setup appear to yield many high-energy neutrons, a signature of conventional nuclear fusion.

“In March 1989, everybody jumped on this topic, even serious fusion physicists (like me),” Hans-Stephan Bosch, the head of the Wendelstein 7-X fusion experiment at the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics, writes in an email.

“However, we didn’t find any positive result confirming their claims. Therefore we finished our work, published it, and closed the topic. My impression is that most physicists and chemists did the same, regarding cold fusion as an 'interesting' episode.”

Ever since, cold fusion largely served as a parable on the perils of irreproducibility. But a small group of researchers and enthusiasts has remained convinced that the phenomenon is real and nuclear in nature, though not necessarily the same thing as fusion.

This scientific circle still does experiments and reports its results in its own meetings and journals, though it has shed the “cold fusion” name for low-energy nuclear reactions, or LENR

Small modular reactors (SMRs) are a type of nuclear fission reactor which are smaller than conventional reactors.

This allows them to be manufactured at a plant and brought to a site to be assembled. Modular reactors allow for less on-site construction, increased containment efficiency, and enhanced safety due to passive nuclear safety features.[1]

SMRs have been proposed as a way to bypass financial and safety barriers that have plagued conventional nuclear reactors.[1][2]

Several designs exist for SMR, ranging from scaled down versions of existing nuclear reactor designs, to entirely new generation IV designs.

Both thermal-neutron reactors and fast-neutron reactors have been proposed, as well as molten salt and gas cooled reactor models.[3]

A main hindrance to the commercial application of SMRs as of 2015 is licensing, since current regulatory regimes are adapted to conventional nuclear power plants and have not been adapted to SMRs in terms of staffing, security etc.[4] Time, cost and risk of the licensing process are critical elements for the construction of SMRs.[5]

Some larger SMRs require more significant on-site construction, such as the 440 MWe 3-loop Rolls-Royce SMR, which targets a 500-day construction time.[9]

SMRs are particularly useful in remote locations where there is usually a deficiency of trained workers and a higher cost of shipping. Containment is more efficient, and proliferation concerns could be lowered.[10] SMRs are also more flexible in that they do not necessarily need to be hooked into a large power grid, and can generally be attached to other modules to provide increased power supplies if necessary.

Companies that are planning new nuclear units are currently indicating that the total costs (including escalation and financing costs) will be in the range of $5,500/kW to $8,100/kW or between $6 billion and $9 billion for each 1,100 MW plant.

The smallest nuclear reactor in operation today isn't from some startup or a cutting-edge nuclear agency: It's tiny, frozen Bilibino Nuclear Plant in Chukotka, Russia, where up to four different 12 MWe modular reactors have run since 1974.16 Dec 2019

Is it legal to own a nuclear reactor?

While they might un-nerve the neighbours, fusion reactors of this kind are perfectly legal in the US

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Biography Marty McFly (Michael J Fox)

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Welcome to the definitive source on Marty McFly, the reluctant time traveler who redefined the 1980s. From his humble roots in Hill Valley, California, to his accidental, era-hopping adventures, this biography covers it all. Explore the life of the guitar-shredding, skateboard-riding, self-proclaimed "chicken" who navigated family paradoxes, saved his best friend Doc Brown, and made the DeLorean Time Machine an icon. Dive into his style, his complex family life, his relationship with Jennifer, and the critical moments that took him Back to the Future. He's more than just a fictional character—he's the timeless symbol of seizing the moment and shaping your own destiny.

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Martin Seamus "Marty" McFly

Marty was born on June 12 1968 in Hill Valley, California to George and Lorraine McFly.

He was the youngest of three children. He had a brother Dave, who was born in 1963, and sister Linda, who was born in 1965, a family of Irish descent. He has an uncle Joey, who is serving a prison sentence in 1985 and been denied parole again.

There is an implication that Marty is ashamed of his family and does not spend much time at home, preferring to hang out with Doc, Jennifer, or the guys in his band, The Pinheads.

However, Marty's relationships with his family changed after he returns from 1955, with him no longer being alienated by his parents and his father working as a local college professor and a successful novelist in the alternate timeline he inadvertently created.

Marty also meets his great-great paternal grandparents Seamus and Maggie, when he was stranded in 1885. He also meets their infant son William, Marty's great grandfather.

Seamus and Maggie McFly.png — Seamus and Maggie McFly

Through his interaction with Seamus and Maggie, Marty discovers that Seamus had a brother named Martin, thus Marty's great-great granduncle.

By 2015, Marty has married his girlfriend Jennifer and has two children, Martin "Marty" Jr. and Marlene.

Little is known about Marty's life prior to the first Back to the Future film, except for the fact that he set fire to the living-room rug when he was 8 years old (in a statement of Marty's to his future parents).

He met his friend Dr. Emmett "Doc" Brown when he was around fourteen after hearing that Brown was a dangerous lunatic. Marty, being the “red-blooded American teenager” he was, wanted to go see what it was all about for himself.

Marty McFly and Doc Brown.png — Marty McFly and Doc Brown

He found Doc’s lab and was fascinated by all his inventions. When Doc caught him, he was glad to have someone who liked his work and their friendship started there

Marty met his future girlfriend Jennifer Parker in elementary school, although they became more acquainted after the fourth grade.

Screen Shot 2021-02-09 at 18.03.49.png — Jennifer Parker and Marty McFly

When Marty was fifteen, he sneaked out of the house one evening and set off on his skateboard to meet his friends. However, his mother heard the sound of the skateboard and went after Marty in the car.

At some point, Marty became acquainted with Douglas J. Needles, who would frequently goad him into doing foolish things.

In 1985, Marty plays guitar with his group The Pinheads and likes listening to Huey Lewis and the News, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, and Van Halen. Eventually, Marty became the lead guitar player of his band and dreamed of one day becoming a rich and famous rockstar.

Pinheads Back to the Future.png — Pinheads Back to the Future

He is also a talented skateboarder and proves to be an excellent pistol shot, a skill he has honed by endlessly playing shooting games such as Wild Gunman at his local 7-Eleven.

Marty is a friendly, easy going but accident-prone everyman who can sometimes lack critical thinking skills; he is nevertheless brave in the face of danger and can be very quick-witted and intelligent.

He has shown some good and basic street fighting skills and often throws punches in hand-to-hand confrontations.

He is loyal to his family and friends, regardless of whether or not he is estranged from them. His major character flaw is his pride, which causes him to take unnecessary risks to show others that he is not a chicken.

However, during a visit in 1885, when his ancestor Seamus McFly mentions that his brother Martin was killed in an argument after someone questioned his bravery, Marty begins to re-think his stance on what other people think of him.

By 2015, Marty's life has spiraled out of control due to long-term pain from a hand injury that leaves him unable to play guitar.

2015 Marty McFly struggling to play guitar

This injury occurs in 1985, after Marty accepts school enemy Douglas J. Needles' challenge to a road race after being labeled a chicken and crashes into a Rolls-Royce.

In 1885, Biff Tannen's great-grandfather Buford goads Marty into a showdown, which Marty wins despite refusing to draw a gun against Buford. Once he returns to 1985, he remembers both this event and Seamus' advice and politely declines Needles' challenge, avoiding the collision that would have ruined his musical talents.

Back to the Future Rolls Royce incident 1.png — Rolls Royce Incident

This event shows newfound maturity as he often loses his temper when called a chicken. Over the years, Marty learns how to make his decisions on his own terms instead of being influenced by others, thereby changing his future for the better.

MEETING DOC BROWN

On October 2, 1982, Marty was playing his guitar in his garage when he was suddenly confronted by Needles and his gang, who wished to "borrow" Marty's interocitor tube.

Needles was scheduled to play with his band, The Tabascos, that night. However, he had blown the interocitor tube in his guitar amplifier.

Marty was willing to rent his interocitor tube to Needles for $5.00, but Needles replied that he would pay tomorrow when he would bring the tube back. However, Marty accidentally caused Needles to drop the tube when he forcefully grabbed Needles' arm and insisted to be payed upfront.

Marty was then told by Needles that he had to get him a new tube and bring it to the clocktower by four o'clock, or else Needles would beat him up.

Marty was initially hesitant to agree, citing his lack of money and unwillingness to steal. However, he agreed when Needles goaded him by calling him "chicken". Needles then took Marty's guitar and told him he'd give it back when he got him a new tube.

Marty went to a music store and tried to buy one, but was told by the shop attendant that all of the stock was sold to ELB Enterprises. Marty left to go to Dr. Brown's garage to ask for one, but the attendant warned him that Dr. Brown was a real nut case.

Dr. Brown set a series of traps which Marty had to overcome to gain entrance to the garage. After getting an electrical shock after using the keypad on the electrified gate around the garage, a recording stated that he was not "one to foresee" that happening.

Realizing that the wording was unusual, Marty picked up that it was a code, and punched in 1-2-4-C on the keypad. He tried to knock on the door, but no-one answered.

After deciding not to break the window, he attempted to find more clues and found a key underneath an unusual KNOW ENTRY sign. Once inside, he set off elaborately set up a series of objects that caused a chain reaction resulting in him being captured in a net. He pushed his skateboard at the reset switch, which then released the net.

Marty's first meeting with Doc Brown

Einstein, Dr. Brown's dog, then playfully jumped up on Marty, and Dr. Brown himself then entered to greet his guest. He told Marty to call him Doc, as in "What's up, Doc!", and asked him if he was here to apply for the assistant position that he said he had advertised.

Marty told him that he had, and Doc told him that he was impressed that he made his way through the traps, especially his decision to release the net with his skateboard.

Marty then admitted that he hadn't come to apply for a job, but had instead come for an interocitor tube. After Marty assured him that he hadn't intended to rob him, Doc admitted that he had never put out an advertisement for an assistant, but offered Marty the job anyway.

Doc told Marty that he threw out all of the tubes, as he only wanted the box for his Static-O-Matic electric hair chair. Marty then grabbed the tubes out of the trashcan, and went back to Needles.

He gave Needles one of the tubes, and told him that he had stolen the tube from Dr. Emmett Brown. This resulted in Needles being scared, as he knew that Emmett Brown worked on the atomic bomb, and there were rumors that he was radioactive.

Aliases

Marty has had many aliases through the Back to the Future series, usually due to encountering his relatives at some point, such as Lorraine mistakenly thinking his name is "Calvin Klein", due to it being Marty's brand of underwear.

Calvin Klein AKA Marty McFly.png — Calvin Klein aka Marty McFly

In the first film, Marty uses the alias of "Darth Vader, an extraterrestrial from the Planet Vulcan" while wearing a radiation suit in an attempt to coerce George into asking Lorraine out to the dance.

Marty McFly as Darth Vader.png — Marty McFly as Darth Vader

In Part III, Marty uses the name "Clint Eastwood" when asked by Maggie McFly and later by Buford Tannen. In Back to the Future: The Game, he uses one of the three aliases; "Sonny Crockett", "Harry Callahan", and "Michael Corleone".

Clint Eastwood (Marty McFly).png — Marty Marty as Clint Eastwood

Marty McFly as Clint Eastwood.png — Marty McFly as Clint Eastwood

Biff Howard Tannen

Is a fictional character in the Back to the Future trilogy. Thomas F. Wilson plays Biff in all three films as well as the Universal Studios ride, and voiced the character in the animated series.

Biff is the main antagonist of the first and second films. Biff's great-grandfather, Buford "Mad Dog" Tannen, fills a similar role in the third.

The character is portrayed as a tall, aggressive, dim-witted and misogynistic bully who obtains what he wants by intimidating others into doing his work for him, or by cheating.

He and his family members are shown to misuse idioms in ways that make them appear stupid and pathetic despite their intention to insult or scare. His favorite insult is "butthead".

The character of Biff is developed with a history that he was born in Hill Valley, California.

He is identified as the great-grandson of Buford "Mad Dog" Tannen, son of Irving “Kid” Tannen and grandfather of Griff Tannen.

Rather than studying in high school, he is depicted as preferring to bully George McFly into doing his homework for him while he drinks and hangs out with his friends.

Feared by most of his schoolmates, he is less brave without his gang (Match, Skinhead, and 3-D). The only person at Hill Valley High school that Biff is depicted as being afraid of, is Mr. Strickland.

Biff had been living with his grandmother, Gertrude Tannen, at 1809 Mason Street for some time by November 1955. In 1955, Biff was depicted as frequently having been seen driving his black 1946 Ford Deluxe convertible around Hill Valley.

Biffs Relationships

In 1955, Biff had a crush on Lorraine Baines who does not return the sentiments. In the original 1985, Biff's marital status is unknown as no mention of a wife was ever made in the trilogy.

The alternate 1985 reveals that Lorraine, widowed after the murder of George McFly, ended up marrying Biff, in 1973, so that her children could live a better life.

In a video clip after their wedding, Biff is asked, “how does it feel?”, to which he replies, “Third time's the charm.” Hence, it stands to reason, that in the original timeline, Biff would have been married (and perhaps divorced) at least once and presumably, twice before.

Biff's children

By 2015, Biff has a teenage grandson, Griff, suggesting that Biff had at least one child by 1985. The animated series reveals that Biff has a son, Biff Jr.

George McFly

Was born on April 1, 1938 in Hill Valley, California. He was the only child of Arthur McFly and his Canadian-born wife Sylvia Miskin, who were living on Sycamore Street as of 1955.

His parents Arthur McFly and Sylvia Miskin were married in 1936. He was also the grandson of William McFly the first member of the McFly family to be born in the United States.

When he was 12, he nearly stood up for a friend, Billy Stockhausen, who was being bullied, but did not and has hated himself for it ever since.

In 1954, he tried reading How to Win Friends and Influence People, but the advice he gained from this book made people stay away from him even more — with the exception of Biff who, on their first encounter at high school, rubbed a hero sandwich in George's face.

George was probably bullied from a very early age, not just by Biff but by other classmates such as Mark Dixon and even by some adults including Stanford S. Strickland

He had been attracted to Lorraine for some time by 1955 (they may have met for the first time upon entering high school) but was too scared to ask her out.

Original 1955

George watching Lorraine get undressed, before getting hit by her father's car.

On November 5, 1955, George and Lorraine fell in love, when Sam knocked George over in his car due to George falling out of a tree into the road (he had been "birdwatching", watching Lorraine get undressed from the tree).

The Baines family took George into the house and Lorraine felt sorry for him. In a "Florence Nightingale" effect, she fell in love with him and they had their first date a week later, at the Enchantment Under the Sea dance.

George had been considering college but waited until the deadline to decide whether or not to send in the application. He knew his father would talk him out of it, so he likely gave up.

Original 1985

George in 1985 before history was rewritten

George and Lorraine were married on December 7, 1958, and moved into Lyon Estates, their first child Dave was born in 1963 . followed by Linda McFly in 1966 and Marty in 1968.

Despite these changes, By 1985, George stayed much the same as he was when he was 17.

He was dominated by his now supervisor Biff, most of his colleagues and even his neighbours and even kept the same hair styler.

George did not develop the courage to stand up for himself or even for his wife, which depressed her so much that she became an alcoholic, a smoker and overweight. The story of George's life would be rewritten when Marty traveled back into the past.

JENNIFER PARKER

Claudia Wells

Biographical information

Date of birth October 29, 1967

Age (1955) - Not yet born - Age (1985) 17/18 - Age (2015) - 47/48 - Age (2045) - 77/78

Physical description

Gender Female

Hair colour : Brown (Part 1), Red (Parts 2/3), Blonde (Series), Black/Pink/Blonde (Game)

Eye colour :Brown – (Green (Game)

Behind-the-scenes information

Played by

Claudia Wells (Part 1) - Elisabeth Shue (Parts 2/3)

"Jennifer was terrific, of course. He [Marty] was quite taken by her, even felt that he "loved" her in the most adult sense. She was beautiful and fun to be around and she loved his music. Yet somehow she was not quite as important to Marty as the musical experience.

Perhaps in time she would grow to be vastly more valuable to him, but for the moment Jennifer was of this world and his music was of the next. " —From Back to the Future by George Gipe (quote, page 5)

"Marty, one rejection isn't the end of the world."

—Jennifer to Marty after his audition

"How about a ride, Mister?"

—Jennifer to Marty after he returns from 1955.

Jennifer Jane Parker McFly was the girlfriend, and later the wife, of Marty McFly.

Jennifer was the world's fourth time traveler and the third human one. She was the daughter of Danny Parker Jr. and Betty Parker, and the granddaughter of Danny Parker and his wife Betty Lapinski.

Jennifer in Time Machine.png — Jennifer in DeLorean Time Machine

Jennifer and Marty seemed to be "serious" enough for him to introduce her to his best friend, local inventor Dr. Emmett Brown, whom she first regarded as eccentric and strange.

Jennifer is mostly a positive person, knowing what to say to Marty if he needed cheering up, and wondering what happy life she might have in the future.

Biography

Jennifer was born in 1967 in Hill Valley, California. She was Marty's girlfriend, having met him at Hill Valley High School, which they both attended in 1985.

Sometime before 1985, Jennifer met Marty and started dating him, eventually falling passionately in love with him. She also became friends with Doc.

Lorraine Baines McFly

Biographical information

Date of birth : 1938 - Age (1885) - Age (1955) 17 - Age (1985) 47 - Age (2015) 77 - Age (2045) 107

Physical description

Gender : Female

Hair colour : Dark Brown (in 1955/1985), Blonde/grey (in 1985A/2015)

Eye colour : Brown

Behind-the-scenes information

Played by Lea Thompson

"On Marty's right [at the dinner table] was dear old Mom, who was once very attractive and bright. Now, at forty-seven, she was overweight, drank more than was good for her and had more food on her plate than anyone else."— From Back to the Future by George Gipe (quote, page 34)

"Your father kissed me for the very first time on that dance floor." —Lorraine to Marty and Linda

"Biff! Leave him ALONE! Let him go! Let him go!" —Lorraine furiously trying to help George McFly, by attempting to pry an attacking Biff off the latter.

Lorraine Baines McFly

Is the mother of Dave, Linda and Marty McFly and the wife of George McFly. Lorraine liked the attention of boys when she was in school, and lots of them were attracted to her, including both George McFly and Biff Tannen.

Lorraine was not afraid to get what she wanted and often parked in cars with them. Lorraine could stand up for herself and the people she cared about, yet despite this she liked her men to be strong and able to protect her.

She liked thinking back to the "old days", often telling the story of how she originally met and fell in love with George. Lorraine liked to play tennis with her husband and they have been tennis club champions for the past six years by 1985. Lorraine's best friends at school were Betty and Babs, and she could often be found in Lou's Cafe gossiping with them.

Lorraine, aged 17, in 1955

Lorraine Baines was born in 1938 in Hill Valley, California, the eldest child of Sam and Stella Baines. She had five younger siblings: Milton (born 1943), Sally (born 1949), Toby (born 1951), Joey (born 1954), and Ellen (born 1956).

When Lorraine was in elementary school, she witnessed Biff Tannen punching George McFly, and told a teacher, Miss Hodges, about it.

She threatened to send him to a military school in Idaho, but a young teacher named Stanford S. Strickland intervened.

He believed that Biff could be reached with understanding and guidance, but he was proven wrong and later became a very hardened and strict discipliner.

Little else is known about Lorraine's life prior to 1955. What is known is that she had been smoking and drinking for a while, and had "parked" in cars with several boys.

As such, George was probably not her first boyfriend, Lorraine also caught the attention of local bully Biff Tannen but she never took a liking to him.

Original 1955 to 1985

Lorraine, aged 47, in 1985 before the history was changed

Lorraine originally met George McFly on November 5, 1955, when her father Sam Baines almost ran him over with his car. She felt sorry for him, before falling in love with him.

They had their first date a week later at the Enchantment Under the Sea Dance at school, which happened the same day as the famous Hill Valley Thunderstorm.

Back to the Future Prom Photo.png — Back to the Future Prom Photo

Lorraine originally had an addiction to alcohol, which she developed as a teenager and carried into her adulthood.

Lorraine and George married on December 7, 1958, and moved into Lyon Estates where they had three kids, Dave in 1963, Linda in 1965 and Marty in 1968.

By 1985, she was depressed at how her husband could not stand up for her or himself infront of people like Biff, she had also turned to tobacco smoking and drinking alcoholic beverages on an everyday habit.

She would always tell her children not to park in cars with members of the opposite sex, under the false pretense that she never did that when she was their age.

Altered history

George and Lorraine before the kiss.

Her life changed in 1955 when "Calvin Klein" showed up in town. Unaware it was her future son Marty, who had traveled back in time in the DeLorean time machine and had accidentally interfered with her first meeting with George, as Marty had pushed George out of the way of her father's car and George ran away with his bike.

She developed a crush on him. Marty knew he had to get his parents together to prevent himself, as well as his elder siblings, from being erased from existence.

Calvin Klein aja Marty McFly and Lorraine

"He's a dream!" —Lorraine Baines about Calvin Klein (Marty)

After finding out that Lorraine wanted a man who would stand up for her and protect her, these being qualities which George lacked, he came up with a plan where he would pretend to take advantage of Lorraine at the Dance, and the wimpy George would "rescue" her from him.

Marty was shocked when he found that Lorraine liked parking in cars with boys as, in 1985, Lorraine had told him that she found it terrible when girls did so.

Lorraine noticed that Marty was nervous and told him not to be in the situation of dating. Lorraine then kisses him incestuously, much to Marty's shock.

However, Lorraine stops kissing him on the sudden realization that the kiss somehow felt wrong. While still unaware of who Marty truly was, Lorraine said that it did not make sense and it felt as if she was kissing one of the men of her family, such as her grandfather or one of her brothers.

Marty clarifies her reasons of the kiss feeling wrong, assuring her that his feelings for her are purely platonic. Unfortunately, or perhaps fortunately, Biff Tannen showed up instead and tried to force his affection on Lorraine.

Biff's underlings overpowered Marty, hitting him then forcing him into the trunk of a car. Immediately afterwards, George arrived, and delivered his rehearsed lines for Marty not to get fresh.

George was then shocked that the faked rescue had become real. Biff ordered George to beat it. George was about to do so, but momentarily remembered a lesson in "standing tall" from a soda jerk at Lou's Cafe.

George then stated (albeit shakily) "No Biff, you beat it. You leave her alone!" This enraged Biff to the point he then grabbed George's left hand. After initially being overpowered, George's grimace of pain turned to one of anger when he saw a laughing Biff knock Lorraine to the ground when she tried to help him.

An enraged George clenched his free hand into a fist, then bashed Biff in the face, knocking him out, and Lorraine fell in love with the newly-confident George. They kissed for the first time that night and history was back on track. By 1985, she was much healthier and happier than she had been in the original 1985.

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21 DeLorean Facts - Click on picture to find out more !

Welcome, time travelers! This blog is your ultimate pit stop for everything DeLorean. We're diving deep into the history, design, and pop culture impact of the iconic DMC-12. From its stainless steel skin to its famous movie role, get ready to discover 21 surprising, fascinating, and little-known facts about the car that runs on dreams (and maybe a little plutonium). Whether you're a die-hard Back to the Future fan, an automotive history buff, or just curious about those gull-wing doors, buckle up! We guarantee a journey that's 1.21 gigawatts of fun.

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21 DELOREAN FACTS :

1. The DeLorean DMC-12 was the vision of automotive industry executive John DeLorean, who worked for Chrysler, Packard, Pontiac and Chevrolet before setting up his own company in 1975.

2. The car was built in Dunmurry, a suburb of south-west Belfast, with the first car rolling off the production line on January 21, 1981.

3. Approximately 9,000 were made before production halted in early 1983. Only 16 official right-hand-drive cars were ever produced.

4. The brand new 72-acre factory was claimed to have a capitalization value if $156 million. Would produce 30,000 cars per year a short fall from the 7,500 made whilst the plant was in operation.

5. The body panels weren’t painted, as they were made from the same brushed stainless steel used in the catering industry, SS304 austenitic stainless steel

6. However, 3 cars were plated in solid gold. The original plan was to build 100 as part of a Christmas 1980 promotion for American Express gold card members. Only two of the $85,000 cars were sold, but a third was also built with spare parts, in case one of the other two was damaged.

7. John DeLorean managed to design, engineer, build a brand new factory, staff it with 3000 staff, and produce a car in a record 28 months. To date this has never been replicated.

8. The official 0-60mph time for the DMC-12 in US Spec was 9.0 seconds, from the 130hp

9. The #DMC-12 was so named the because it was originally priced at $12,000. However, by the time it came to market, the car had a suggested retail price of $25,000 (optional extra was an automatic transmission for an extra $650).

10. A total of six DeLorean cars were used for the making of the Back to the Future movies, along with one built entirely out of fibreglass for scenes in which the car had to fly. Only three of the cars still exist, plus the one that was destroyed at the end of the trilogy’s final film.

DeLorean A Car - Full restored at the Petersen museum

DeLorean Train Scene - Back to the Future III - This was one of the real cars used in filming

11. The doors have space-age tech developed by the defence industry, Grumman Aerospace developed the doors' torsion bar (which helps with the lifting and lowering) and did most of the manufacturing under cryogenic conditions to ensure longevity. When not working on the DeLorean, Grumman made things like the Apollo Lunar Module and the F-14.

12. The government used DeLoreans to test airbags, DeLorean originally intended the DMC-12 to be an extremely safe vehicle -- in fact one of the top contenders for the car’s name was DSV, "DeLorean Safety Vehicle." The company even donated two of the early prototypes to the NHTSA for airbag crash tests.

13. Before starting his eponymous company, John Z. DeLorean was one of GM's brightest stars, He headed up Pontiac in the 1960s, where he was responsible for the birth of legendary cars like the GTO and Firebird, before running Chevrolet in the early 1970s and making a few enemies at GM along the way.

14. The car’s shape was penned by legendary designer Georgette Giugiaro, Even if you’ve never heard of Giugiaro, you know his other works: the BMW M1, Yugo, Lotus Esprit, and Lexus GS all came from his mind, to name just a few.

15. The chassis was engineered by Lotus founder Colin Chapman. Well, it was actually re-engineered by Chapman, because the first design used unproven techniques. The chassis shares much of its components with the Lotus Esprit, and made by GKN England

16. The engine? Straight out PR of a Volvo. DeLorean went through a couple of engine plans, including a rotary engine like you’d find in a Mazda RX-7, But ultimately, a version of a V6 developed by Peugeot, Renault, and Volvo found its way into the rear. The engine was a version of the 2.8-litre V6 that was developed jointly by Peugeot, Renault and Volvo. The Volvo varient was fitted (as this had already passed the strict U.S EPA emissions in the Volvo 260), and later the Volvo 760 (using the Bosh K-Jet tronic. Surprisingly, plutonium- and garbage-powered nuclear reactors were never taken into consideration.

17. John DeLorean had plans for a DMC 24 (Which would have been a 4 door saloon), a Twin Turbo DMC-12 with 0-60 around 5.5 Seconds.

DMC -24 1984 After the DeLorean DMC-24 project ran out of money, Giugiaro converted the full-size design proposal for the DMC-24 Sedan into a Concept 'Lamborghini Marco Polo', presented in Dec. 1982 at Bologna Motor Show.

18. The "A" hero DeLorean time machine used throughout the entire film series was painstakingly restored by Temporal FX and is now on permanent indoor display at the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles, California.

19. The DeLorean time machine which was outfitted for stunt work with train wheels for Back to the Future Part III is now on display at Universal Orlando next to Doc Brown's time traveling train from Back to the Future Part III.

20. The third remaining time machine was retrofitted with 1950's white-wall tires in Back to the Future Part III, and is now in private hands.

Now in a Private collection sold for $550,000

21. The time machine which was hit by the train at the end of Back to the Future Part III was the "B" main stunt car used throughout the trilogy. To create this effect, the special effects crew cut up the car and frame, rigging it with explosives. The wrecked body panels were reassembled after filming, and the DeLorean was suspended from the ceiling for a number of years at the Planet Hollywood Honolulu restaurant in Hawaii (closed in 2010).

Planet Hollywood Honolulu DELOREAN Screen used

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Ghostbusters Afterlife - Ghost Trap

Ghostbusters Afterlife A deeper look into the world of Ghostbusters and Ghostbusting with the Ghost Trap ! We look at yet another essential part of the Ghosbusters equipment the Ghost Trap or Moen Trap - How does it work ? We explain here……The Ghost Trap as seen in Ghostbusters 1, Ghostbuster 2, and Ghostbuster afterlife has been described as a ‘miniature Ecto Containment Unit’

It utilizes the same basic design as it's larger counterpart; a series of lasers designed specifically for the incarceration of spirits, however the overall size and power of an entity can determine how many entities can be contained in one ghost trap.

The smaller the entities, the more can be contained in the trap. But the bigger the ghost, the less spirits can be contained. When two or more ghosts are trapped together, their molecules merge and cannot be separated without releasing both.

Ghostbusters - Ghost Trap

As seen in Ghostbusters 1, Ghostbuster 2, and Ghostbuster afterlife has been described as a ‘miniature Ecto Containment Unit’

The Trap is an Electromagnetic Field Generator that is encased in an extremely strong and powerful Steel Grid and the EMF draws ghosts into the trap.

It’s connected to a six to eight feet cable, which is connected to a "Stomp-on Pedal". The Cable Wire can be worn on a tiny hook/notch on the standard issue pistol belt. The ghost trap is operated as follows, one team member holds the spirit in a confinement stream, and a second team member rolls a standard Ghost Trap under the spirit.

The operator must shout "Trap Open!" He then activates the Stomp-on Pedal, activating the first stage if the trap.

Now open is ready to receive the ghostly prisoner. The operator then presses the Stomp-on Pedal once more to activate the EMF, the ghost is then sucked into the Trap and the Trap is then closed by removal of the Trap operator's foot from the pedal.

It also runs on a rechargeable battery that lasts up to 48 Hours. So after trapping a ghost, be sure to get to the division headquarters as soon as possible, so you can contain the ghost in the Ecto Containment Unit and recharge the Trap's battery.

Safety Precautions: There are three warnings about the Ghost Trap that should be taken very seriously:

Do not look into the trap:

It is not stated what exactly would happen if a human were to look into a Ghost Trap, however it is believed by most that the glare could cause eye damage and even blindness.

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GHOST TRAP "Don't look at the trap!"

Do not overload the trap:

Ghost Traps are extremely small pieces of equipment, and can only contain a certain amount of P.K.E., even if it is from a number of small ghosts. Generally the overloaded Trap would explode, then releasing its contents. Also only a certain number of ghosts can be contained in a Ghost Trap.

Do not forget to recharge the trap:

This is extremely important, a Ghost Trap must be at 100% charge to work at peak efficiency. If a Trap is at less then 100% charge when it leaves the division headquarters then it is at risk of loosing it's charge when in operation, resulting in a similar explosion to a overload.

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Sinclair C5 - Hire - Description - What is a Sinclair C5 ?

Step Back into 1985 and Sir Clive Sinclairs Vehicle of the Future the Sinclair C5. The idea was to sell this Electric Vehicle (not a Car) which used a Lotus designed Frame with a polypropylene body. This 250w electric pedal assisted Sinclair C5 had a range of 20 miles, and a top speed of 15.5mph.

Taking you back to 1985 when a new type of Electric Vehicle was introduced on the market - The Sinclair C5 a small one-person battery electric velomobile, technically an "electrically assisted pedal cycle".

It was the culmination of Sir Clive Sinclair's long-running interest in electric vehicles. Although widely described as an "electric car", Sinclair characterised it as a "vehicle, not a car".

1985 Price : £399 (£428 delivered mail order)

Predicted sales : 100,000 in the first year

Length : 1.74 m

Total height : 80 cm

Electric motor : 250 W (0.34 hp) permanent magnet motor by Polymotor

Battery : 12 V lead-acid battery

Range : 20 miles (32 km)

Luggage : 28 Litres

Manufacturer : Sinclair Vehicles

Project cost : £12 Million

Requirements : No licence, insurance or tax required, ridden by anyone over 14

Assembly : Merthyr Tydfil, Wales

Made : 14,000

Sinclair C5 Kerb Weight : 30 kg (66 lb) without battery

approx. 45 kg (99 lb) with battery

Sold : 5,000

Accessories :

The SInclair C5 A new power in personal transport

Interesting facts –

Sinclair C5 was going to be built in the former DeLorean Motor Company’s factory, which built and sold a similar amount of DeLorean’s to C5’s. In a strange twist the C5 nearly produced the same amount of vehicles, sold units were nearly the same, and the project failed in nearly the same time frame.

A Sinclair C10 – 2 seater city velomobile capable of 40mph with a roof

A Sinclair C15 – Larger 4 seater vehicle capable of speed upto 80mph

As the C5 is an 'electrically assisted pedal cycle', no helmet, driving licence or road tax is required to drive one, so the Sinclair marketing machine included 14-year-old children in its target marketing

The Department of Transport says that the specifications of the machine meet and, in some cases, exceed the demands of legislation.

Timeline

1979 First concept

1980 British government abolished road tax for electric vehicles

1983 March Sir Clive Sinclair sells some of his share in Sinclair Research to raise £12 Million and

Forms Sinclair Vehicles. The Hoover Company were contracted to manufacture the C5 at their plant in Merthyr Tydfil

1983 Introduced legislation for ‘electrically-assisted pedal cycles’. New Legislation was

Introduced to allow 2/3 wheel vehicles with a maximum of 15mph on U.K Roads

1983 10th January Sinclair C5 was launched with mixed reviews

1985 August Hoover stop producing the C5 as Sinclair vehicles gets into difficulties. Large

Quantities of C5’s remain unsold

1985 October Sinclair Vehicles is put into receivership

1992 Sinclair Zike is released, sold 2000 unit and production ended 6 months later

2011 July Sinclair X-1 possible successor to the C5 was meant to go on sale for £595.

The Sinclair C5 - Pod Instrument lights :Left Hand LED’s show the Load on the motor - So the more you pedal it assists the motor increasing range on the battery and your fitness level.The Right hand LED’s show the Battery level — The Sinclair C5 - Pod Instrument lights :
Left Hand LED’s show the Load on the motor - So the more you pedal it assists the motor increasing range on the battery and your fitness level.
The Right hand LED’s show the Battery level

Aimed at those who travelled alone, either in cars, on their bicycles or on public transport. Sir Clive had dabbled in electric vehicle research since the early 1970s, but the 1983 legislation fitted in perfectly with the C5’s technical make-up. And so it was that, two years later, arguably the UK’s most recognised electric vehicle was born.

What were its rivals?

The only way of buying one was by mail order – the C5 arrived in a cardboard box, delivered to your door, an option which wasn’t available to other small ‘cars’.

The most conventional four-wheeled rival was the 998cc Austin Mini City E, which was almost ten times the price – at £3,298.

Other contemporary competition included the also-three-wheeled 850cc, 73.3mpg Robin Rialto 2. The larger three-wheeler promised ‘A Car You Can Afford to Get Excited About’, according to the press ads. And buyers obviously believed them, as it had a 12-month waiting list when new.

However, if we’re talking innovative disasters, the Sinclair C5 is joined by the equally cult-ish DeLorean DMC-12 as one of the biggest transport failures of the 1980s.

What motor does it use?

Due to the legislation it was designed for, the C5 was limited in both performance and weight. Motor output was stifled, too: a 250-watt ceiling was applied to vehicles in the ‘electrically-assisted pedal cycle’ category. Sinclair’s engineers took a 12V DC, 250W, 29A, 3,300rpm permanent magnet motor supplied by Italian company Polymotor to provide power for the C5.

Myth

One of the long-held myths about the motor found in the C5 was that it was also used in washing machines – this was emphatically not the case. However, Hoover engineers were trained to service the C5 as Sir Clive’s mobility project for the masses was also built in the company’s factory in Merthyr Tydfil, south Wales.

Two C5’s still in use today - 35 years on

The little white wedge easily slotted into the category of vehicle it was designed for. With a 45kg weight with battery, it undercut the imposed restrictions by 15kg. The battery was a ‘deep discharge’ unit, which meant it could be charged hundreds of times with no noticeable loss of performance. Or that was the theory anyway. The C5 is rear-wheel drive, too – just like all the best driver’s cars! – with the left-hand rear wheel powered by the electric motor.

What’s it like to drive a Sinclair C5 ?

Maybe two of the right words to describe the C5 driving experience are ‘terrifying’ and ‘fun’. Sitting above the handlebars on the thinly-padded seat, your arms reach down past your bent legs – which can, and will have to, pedal at some point – while your feet rest on the pushbike-like Sinclair-branded and grooved pedals.

You insert the ignition key into the master security switch and turn on the power.

Motor load and battery condition are shown by two LED graph displays under the aerodynamic front cowling.

Push the left-hand handlebar starter/accelerator button and you’re away.

Ignore the twisted ‘mirror’ logic, which makes you think you want to steer the way you don’t want to go, and instead relish the ‘acceleration’ offered by that 250W motor.

Braking is controlled either by un-pressing the handlebar accelerator button or by squeezing the bike-like triggers. It also has a ‘handbrake’ feature where it locks the back brake on, so leaving on inclines is not a problem.

Unbelievably, the C5 has front calliper and rear drum brakes, so comes to a stop quickly and safely, if not the most elegantly. With a top speed of 15mph, Sir Clive Sinclair’s baby doesn’t sound fast, but believe us, it feels it.

The C5 Looking as fresh as it did 35 years ago.

As a driver, you’re so exposed to both the elements and the passing traffic that bowling along at speeds of up to half of the legal urban limit feels anything but pedestrian. Which, incidentally, is another type of road user you have to watch out for?

Sinclair claimed that the C5 had the ‘same seat height’ as a family car. That was true if that car was originally from 1959 and was called a Mini. And despite Lotus being involved with the project, and Sinclair’s claims of ‘extraordinary manoeuvrability’ when it was new, the C5 certainly doesn’t handle like a sports car. It does share a low centre of gravity with the legendary cars from Hethel, but that’s where any similarities end.

Reliability and running costs

Many C5 owners reported unit burn-outs as the permanent magnet motor struggled to cope with any form of gradient; pedal assistance was very often required.

Also, C5s suffered the indignity of running aground over speed bumps, even small ones. The single gear was also a cause of complaint. Plus, there was no reverse gear, so every backwards turn turned into a multi-point negotiating nightmare.

Sinclair claimed that the C5 could be driven for five miles on one penny’s worth of electricity, or 1,000 miles for the contemporary price of a gallon of fuel.

The official range on a single charge was stated to be 20 miles, but most owners reported half that in cold conditions.

The 15kg battery could be charged to full capacity from flat in eight hours – much longer than today’s all-electric cars. Some enterprising modern-day owners of C5s swap the old lead acid battery for lightweight Lithium-ion replacements for increased range and better reliability.

One owner reports 45 miles of range from his 60Ah lithium-ion battery, which weighs half as much as the original.

Could I drive a C5 every day?

You could, but we wouldn’t recommend it. The C5 feels tiny among car-sized traffic flows. On the plus side, the C5’s turning circle was two-thirds of the original Mini’s.

Watch the original TV ad for the Sinclair C5

Original TV Advert

How much should I pay for a Sinclair C5 ?

How long is a piece of string? We’ve seen C5s on well-known auction sites for around £600. ‘Project’ C5s can start at £275, while at the opposite end of the scale, fully working and ‘restored’ C5s can be had for £800. Where a boxed ‘new’ one attracts around £1500

What should I look out for on a Sinclair C5 ?

Used handlebars are priced at around £30 online, and a complete set of wing mirrors can fetch £200. Replacement used motors can start at £55. There’s a burgeoning market in the 3D printing of Sinclair C5 parts

Should I buy a Sinclair C5 ?

If you’re a culture junkie and the idea of owning a piece of motoring history appeals, then yes, undoubtedly. Even if it will never go very far.

The C5 is such a recognisable and symbolic piece of motoring folklore, due to both its promise and failure, that it will always be a talking point.

If you’re lucky, you might even find one with all the period accessories, such as a booster cushion for those short of leg, a ‘High-Vis Mast’ (basically a metal pole with a reflective flag atop it), a second battery, side screens for increased weather protection, and a tonneau cover.

If you really want to fit in, try also to find the period ‘designer’ clothing (very stylish 1980s drama Howards’ Way), the ‘weather cheater’ poncho, and the car-like C5-branded mud flaps, turning indicator kit, and wing mirrors.

The C5 was never designed for long distances, and its limitations show when its comes to practicality.

The aforementioned weather protection (or lack of) is just one issue. Another is luggage space. The promotional videos of the time boast of a ‘large capacity boot’, but if you have more than 28 litres of luggage, then the flip-out ‘boot’ on the back of the driver’s seat will be of little use. It’s perfect for your poncho or Pac-A-Mac, though.

Sinclair C5 Pub facts

The Sinclair C5 was launched at Alexandra Palace on 10 January 1985, and the assembled throng of journalists included friend of MR and ex-Top Gear presenter, Sue Baker. With a suggested 9,000-17,000 C5s finding homes in 1985, Sir Clive Sinclair claimed that his plastic fantastic dream was the UK’s best-selling electric car until the more modern and four-wheeled Nissan Leaf overtook it in 2011 with sales of 20,000.

Sinclair was in the mood for more electric vehicle creation in 1992, when the Zike electric bike was released. Like the C5, production lasted just six months – and around 2,000 were sold. Nineteen years later Sir Clive was at it again with the X-1, an electric ‘sit-down’ cycle, which was to be sold for £595. However, it never reached production and the cash he needed to develop his four-seat electric car vision never was generated.

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Delorean DMC-12 - Buyers Guide - Ownership Review

A Complete guide to buying a DeLorean in the U.K. This is unbiased DeLorean Owners guide to buying, running and owning once of the most Iconic cars on the road today. Are you thinking of buying a DMC-12 if so this could be the Blog your looking for.

BUYING A DELOREAN

So your thinking of buying a unique Stainless Steel Sports car ….. ?

And your going to spend your hard earned money on a ……DeLorean ? !

Speaking from experience here I’m going to give you my honest and unbiased personal opinion.

I’m not going to talk you into it …. or out of it !

This list could you go on here, but I have tried to summarise it as brief as I can in small bite size 6 blogs , but if you want further info please do not hesitate to contact me

( mark@sandstoneproductions.co.uk)

So what experience do I have to talk about this ?

Qualified Electrical Mechanical Engineer - Car Mechanic - Automotive Electrical and Electronic systems
Being an owner for over 5 years
Rebuilt and installed PRV engine in my DeLorean
Rebuilt most of my own DeLorean and tackled some of the hardest Jobs on the car

Before we start let me just say what John Z DeLorean accomplished in just 28 months was incredible boarding on the impossible (even if the same project was tackled today in 2021 !).

His story reads like a Hollywood fictional Movie, this was a man who knew what he wanted and nothing would stop him building his own stainless steel sports car.

So 40 years on his legacy is still alive which is his testament for his company’s slogan ‘Live the Dream"‘

As John DeLorean set out he had no running prototype, no Factory, no Workers, no Money, this was something he would have to overcome in a short space of time in order to start groundbreaking for the factory in 1978, and finished it in by 1981 with the first car rolling of the line.

John Z Delorean and Cristina Ferrare with the DeLorean DMC-12

At that time it would have taken Ford 5 years to design a car, and that’s with all their current infrastructure already in place. John managed to build a brand new factory and produce a car in just over 2 years.

Today 40 years on, the DeLorean not only has old age against it, but also had many factory improvements made over the period of it’s 18 month production. Some of these updates may not have been carried out on your new DeLorean. Just for instance I met up with a DeLorean owner who’s car was just 50 chassis numbers away from mine, and the differences between the cars ware quite surprising.

Also this is a controversial issue in DeLorean ownership (you will find this out soon enough) is that I love the BTTF Films, but this subject along with DeLorean Ownership do not always mix well, and the Film can be a very touchy subject in DeLorean circles.

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I want to jump straight into the 10 part DeLorean series, where we will be covering :

Buying a DeLorean ….

So where do you start ? I have broken it down to these blogs…..

Where to buy - Variations - Bodywork - Chassis - Common issues -Interior - Engine - What to look out for - Recommissioning old engines - Maintenance Factory updates - The Drive (The experience and the public views) - BTTF Conversions - living the dream – the future

Brief Background to My DeLorean :

Whilst running ‘Classic and Supercars on the Quay’ (an automotive show in Hampshire www.classiconthequay.co.uk) my Dream Car entered the show area……the DeLorean DMC-12 !

I had to stop and talk to the owner in great detail about this Stainless Steel Movie Star.

Expressing to the owner that was my ‘Dream Car’ and would love to own one (but never thought I would be able too). He said he had recently imported one which needed a complete renovation which would take upto 16 months to complete, but after that would be up for sale.

Desperate to see it, a few days later I visited him. The day I visited he had 4 DeLorean’s on his drive and 2 available to purchase !

One was a black manual, which was on the road and ready to drive, the other a grey Auto with an immaculate interior, even the seats looking brand new. But like most DeLorean’s it had been standing for a very long time, so everything needed repairing / replacing and full refurbishment was needed.

I really wanted the grey interior and overlooked the sorry state the DeLorean was in, so the long wait began. The current owner had purchased this DMC-12 as a project to strip it down and rebuild most of it.

Then nearly 1 and 1/2 years later it was ready to collect in Late April 2016 (rebuild started late 2014)

What an amazing day collecting my DeLorean, it was still hard to believe it was mine !

It was the first time I had ever drove a DeLorean, the long stretched out driving position was and being left hand drive made the drive home even more exciting !

The very next day was my 1st Supercar Show ….. !

So let’s jump into the first part of my series on a owners review of how Buying and Delorean …..

You may not know there a a few variations of DeLorean :

Bonnet - Gas Flap

Grooved bonnet without Gas Flap

Smooth bonnet

Grey wheels

Silver wheels

Grey Interior

Black interior

Different design tweeks like Door handles moved forward of doors, different locations for the radio aerial

8 Right hand drives

The book ‘ DeLorean DMC-12 1981 to 1983: ‘The Essential Buyer's Guide ‘Goes into great details on the model variations

I’m based in the U.K so the choice of ‘on the road’ DeLorean’s are rare, but most purchased in the U.K have been restored. The the ones found in American are normally ‘Barn Finds’ with some of these DMC-12’s have been sitting around for the past 35 years or more, so this is good news for lower prices.

U.K purchase Benefits –

Strong owners club with excellent backup and support, overnight parts via DeLorean Go (good prices), with upgraded or original parts on offer.

U.K Downside …..

Prices are higher, but this takes into account they have imported the vehicle and in most cases recommissioned

USA purchase benefits

Prices are cheaper, but there are many questions to be asked :

? Is it, or was it from a dry state, if so is there any sun damage to interior

? Has it been recommissioned correctly ?

? Most barn finds have very little history

Import duty is only 5% of the cars value, (as it was built in Ireland) with total shipping costs being under £2500 and 6 weeks wait time.

There are shipping company’s that collect the car from any of the USA States then transport it to the nearest port

Collection from U.K Port with NOVA certificate, Trailer, Paperwork Plus getting it through the M.O.T here in the U.K

So I though rather than describe in length the various issues you may encounter, I would list the parts I have replaced in my 5 year ownership (bearing in mind my DeLorean had already had an 18 month refit) and covered just 3500 miles.

If you have any questions or would like advise, you can contact me at mark@sandstoneproductions.co.uk I would be only to happy to answer your questions.

Before anyone says ‘I never had any problems’ then if this is the case, Excellent ! You have chosen wisely, and ‘well done’ for finding a trouble free DeLorean. Or if it’s for Sale BUY IT !

My story is very different to this, and I currently know of at least 3 other DeLorean owners as we speak that have varying running issues, these issues spanning across years of ownership. Immediate ones that spring to mind are Idle speed - Hot and Cold starting issues, and noisy Cams.

Other factors to consider :

Do you have have garage to keep, restore / work on your DeLorean ?
Do you have a decent vehicle tool box ? (I had access to a fully equipped workshop with a full array of Snap On tools) as without this, it would have been a nightmare !
Find a mechanic that knows the PRV engine, and is happy to work on your DeLorean (there’s not many around
Body Work is best left to the expert Chris from PJ Grady
Be Prepared to get your hands dirty … !
Have to got the time to dedicate to repairing your DeLorean ?

You wouldn’t want to buy the Car of your Dreams, only to find it needs £10,000 - £20,000 of parts, labour, bodwork, interior, electrical and mechanical parts and constant repairs.

This will start to eat into your time and deflating bank account, also as the time goes on your enthusiasm starts to wane, and the project comes to a halt.

I’m definitely saying not to buy one….

It’s just when I bought mine I had rose tinted glasses on. All my common sense went out straight of the window as soon as I seen my dream car. I ignored all the basic checks (as I believed) with my DMC-12 just coming out of rebuild I would have nothing to worry about.

Blissfully unaware of how much time (I personally think around 2500 hrs to date) it would take just to keep my DeLorean on the road my journey began.

As I couldn’t find anyone to work on the car locally it was wrench time for me, so I had to learn quickly. It’s was quite unbelievable the amount of 40 year old parts that would need replacing.

The long list follows in our next blog !

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Mark Elliott 04/09/2026 Mark Elliott 04/09/2026

Back to the Future - Detailed Storyline

It all started when…

Marty: "Wait a minute. Wait a minute. Doc, uh... Are you telling me you built a time machine... out of a DeLorean?"

Doc: "The way I see it, if you're gonna build a time machine into a car, why not do it with some style? Besides, the stainless steel construction makes the flux dispersal- l…….ook out !!!"

Read the plot to Back to the Future in our Blog to the Future post today !

Teenager Marty McFly is accidentally sent from 1985 to 1955 in a time-traveling DeLorean invented by his friend, Doc Brown. Stranded without plutonium, Marty accidentally disrupts the moment his parents, George and Lorraine, first meet, jeopardizing his own existence. With the help of the 1955 Doc, Marty must play matchmaker—and get George to stand up to bully Biff Tannen—to ensure his parents fall in love at the Enchantment Under the Sea dance. Their only way back to 1985 is to harness a massive 1.21-gigawatt lightning strike on the Hill Valley clock tower. Marty succeeds, returns to an improved future, and races to save Doc's life.

#BackToTheFuture #BTTF #MartyMcFly #DocBrown #TimeTravel #HillValley #FluxCapacitor

Doc Brown and Marty McFly - Credit to Universal Picture Amblin Entertainment

Back to the Future Detailed storyline - It all started when…

Marty: "Wait a minute. Wait a minute. Doc, uh... Are you telling me you built a time machine... out of a DeLorean?"

Doc: "The way I see it, if you're gonna build a time machine into a car, why not do it with some style? Besides, the stainless steel construction makes the flux dispersal- look out!!!"

— Doc and Marty during the first test

The DeLorean time machine was Dr. Emmett Brown's most successful invention, a plutonium-powered time machinecomprised of a DeLorean DMC-12 sports car that had to reach 88 miles per hour in order to time travel.

On November 5, 1955, Doc was standing on the edge of his toilet, while hanging a clock in his bathroom. But the porcelain was wet, making Doc slip, fall and hit his head on the sink. 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. The capacitor was constructed afterward and completed in 1985.

Doc Browns Flux Capacitor - Credits to Universal Picture Amblin Entertainment

History

Doc purchased the DeLorean DMC-12 from a seller named Robert, who had advertised it in the classifieds section of the August 11, 1984 issue of the Hill Valley Telegraph.

BACK

The first test

Main article: World's first temporal displacement

Doc and Marty stand in the fire trails left behind by the DeLorean on the first test.

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. The sequence of events that followed were as so; after Doc revved up the engine to 65 m.p.h. while braked, he released the brake sending the car towards Doc and Marty.

Einstein Time Travelling Dog - Credits to Universal Picture Amblin Entertainment

A faint glow developed at the front of the car and then engulfed the vehicle. The coils lit up, internal circuits glowed, and the flux capacitor fired rapidly. Suddenly the car seemed to explode just before it hit Doc and Marty. Fire trails then scorched the pavement where the vehicle would have passed through, completing the temporal displacement sequence.

Marty: "Jesus Christ, Doc. You disintegrated Einstein!"

Doc: "Calm down, Marty, I didn't disintegrate anything. The molecular structure of both Einstein and the car are completely intact!"

Marty: "Well, where the hell are they?!"

Doc: "The appropriate question is "When the hell are they?" You see, Einstein has just become the world's first time traveler. I sent him into the future! One minute into the future to be precise. And at exactly 1:21 A.M. and zero seconds we will catch up to him and the time machine."

— Doc and Marty after the time travel experiment.

For Einstein, the trip was instantaneous, but to Marty and Doc they had to wait exactly one minute to catch up to Einstein in the timeline. In the meantime, Marty asked why a DeLorean was used.

Doc explained that it needed some style and implied that the stainless steel construction of the car helped it in temporal displacement. 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.

The car suddenly appeared where Doc and Marty were standing and screeched to a halt as a frozen shell. Supercooled from traveling through time, the gullwing door was troublesome for Doc to open while using his hands. Inside the car, Einstein was unharmed, much to the surprise of Marty. Doc then showed Marty the interior and its controls.

"First, you turn the time circuits on. This read-out tells you where you're going. This one tells you where you are. This one tells you where you were."

—Doc Brown

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". 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.

"My, things sure have changed. I can remember when this was all open land as far as the eye can see. Old Man Peabody owned all of this. He had this crazy idea... about breeding pine trees."

—Doc talking to Marty

Trapped in 1955

Soon after a new pellet of plutonium was inserted into the time machine, the Libyans who he stole the plutonium from intervened in a Volkswagen and shot Doc dead. Marty ran into the DeLorean to try to escape the Libyans. Marty accidentally turned the time circuits (still set to 1955) on while shifting, and as he avoided being destroyed by a rocket-propelled grenade, he sped up to 88 and entered temporal displacement. 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.

Frozen Delorean - Credits to Universal Picture Amblin Entertainment

VW Camper Chasing DeLorean - Credits to Universal Picture Amblin Entertainment

Lyon Estate - Credits to Universal Picture Amblin Entertainment

A radiation suit-clad Marty trips as he leaves the DeLorean.

"It looks like an airplane... without wings."

—Otis Peabody

For a moment, Marty was stunned, and the Peabody family ran from their house to the barn to investigate. Believing that the vehicle was from another world, they screamed in horror as Marty lifted the gullwing door and stepped out, dressed in a radiation suit. 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. After escaping from Peabody's shotgun, the car ran over one of the two pines that Peabody had been growing. This was the first effect of Marty's trip into the past that would alter the future (the "Twin Pines Mall" would become the "Lone Pine Mall").

Marty pulled the DeLorean onto a highway that ran by the future site of Lyon Estates. He immediately stopped and viewed the undeveloped land stretch far out into the distance, questioning whether or not it was a dream. A meter in the DeLorean indicated that it was out of plutonium, and the car shut down. Marty failed to get it running again and decided to hide the DeLorean behind the Lyon Estates sign, covered by a few shrubs, and walked the two miles to town.

"It works! Ha ha, it works! I finally invented something that works."

—Young Doc Brown

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. Doc opened the door and turned on the flux capacitor which he had envisioned after his fall earlier that day. The DeLorean was driven back to Doc's garage where it was hidden under a tarpaulin until the night of the thunderstorm, November 12.

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. Arriving late, Marty was briefed by Doc, just as the storm moved in and took down a tree. Marty drove the DeLorean to the starting line at the Bluebird Motel, and inserted a tall connecting hook into the flux capacitor. 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. With that, the engine suddenly died, and left Marty trying to restart it. Marty finally (and unexpectedly) succeeded in restarting the engine after head-butting the horn in frustration, and took off. The DeLorean reached the cable just as the lightning struck, and Doc made the connection, sending the time machine back to 1985.

In 1985, Red the Bum was awoken by the sonic boom of the DeLorean, followed by the sound of a crash at the Town Theater. 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. Returning to the car to save Doc, Marty tried to drive off and the engine died once again. This was the last time in the trilogy that it had done so. The Libyans passed him on the street, and Marty ran back to the mall. There, he saw the first DeLorean make the jump to 1955, with the terrorists' van crashing into a photo booth. Originally believing he was too late, Marty was in grief, then surprise. Doc recovered, and revealed that he was wearing a bulletproof vest, having read the warning letter that Marty had written 30 years earlier.

Doc returned to downtown to start the DeLorean up, and drove Marty back to his home in Lyon Estates. Doc told Marty he would go roughly 30 years into the future, "a nice round number". Doc backed the DeLorean up with enough room to reach 88 mph on the street and vanished in three sonic booms.

While in the future, Doc decided to give the DeLorean a now standard hover conversion. To afford this, he traveled back to 1938, and bought several copies of Action Comics #1. He sold them for $2.5 million in 2015, and flew off in the newly converted DeLorean. At some point, he discovered that Marty's children were destined to accidentally go to prison, which would eventually destroy the McFly family.

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biffTo the future

Marty: "Hey Doc, we better back up. We don't have enough road to get up to 88."

Where we’re going we don’t need …. roads …. Credits to Universal Picture Amblin Entertainment

Skyway to Hill Valley - Credits to Universal Picture Amblin Entertainment

Doc: "Roads? Where we're going we don't need... roads."

— Discussion between Doc and Marty in the DeLorean before takeoff

The DeLorean lifts off, bound for 2015.

Doc returned to the McFly residence, the morning after he left. Marty had discovered that his life had changed for the better. His visiting girlfriend Jennifer Parker, and he, were interrupted by the sonic boom and wind blast. The newly upgraded DeLorean knocked over some trashcans, and a futuristically-garbed Doc emerged from the vehicle. Doc made use of his upgraded time machine by adding garbage to the Mr. Fusion as fuel. Plutonium was no longer needed after the trip to the future. Doc told Marty and Jennifer of their future family, and the trouble that occurred (or would occur) with their children.

The DeLorean lifted off the ground and its wheels folded providing thrust. The rear louver then propelled it forward down the street, and Doc turned the car around to get the speed needed to make temporal displacement. This entire sequence was witnessed by Biff Tannen in the McFly driveway.

The time machine entered October 21, 2015, then descended through the clouds into a busy skyway, nearly in the wrong lane of multilevel traffic. Doc pulled off onto an exit ramp to downtown Hill Valley. He landed the DeLorean in an alleyway, just outside Courthouse Square, then left while Marty completed his mission to save Marty, Jr. After Doc recovered Einstein from a suspended animation kennel, he pulled the DeLorean out into the open, where Old Biff saw it, and eventually put two and two together to realize that they were time travelers.

Biff steals the DeLorean.

"Flying DeLorean? Haven't seen one of those in... thirty years"

—Old Biff

Biff followed Doc and Marty in a taxi cab, and while the DeLorean was parked outside Hilldale, Biff stole it and went back to 1955 to hand the Grays Sports Almanac (that Doc had thrown away) to his younger self, thus altering history. In a matter of minutes, Biff returned the vehicle in the same position; however, he was feeling the effects of changing history.

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. Getting out of view, Biff slumped to the ground and faded from existence behind a parked car. Doc and Marty, unaware that anything had happened, returned to the time machine with Jennifer and headed back for 1985.

An alternate history

"Imagine that this line represents time. At some point in the past, the timeline skewed into this tangent creating an alternate 1985. Alternate for you, me, Jennifer and Einstein...But reality for everyone else."

—Doc showing Marty 1985A on a blackboard.

Doc Brown - Credits to Universal Picture Amblin Entertainment

DeLorean getting struck by lighting - Credits to Universal Picture Amblin Entertainment

By this time it was too late to prevent the changing of the timeline. Flying at a high altitude, the DeLorean was nearly hit by an airliner in the sky. The time circuits began to malfunction as well, indicating 1885 temporarily. After discovering the truth behind the alternate 1985, Doc and Marty left Einstein in Doc's garage, and Jennifer at her house, where time would alter around them pending a change in the past. They traveled back to November 12, 1955, the date that Biff revealed to have been the day he had gotten the almanac.

Doc parked the time machine behind the same sign that Marty hid it the first time in 1955. Marty notified Doc of his status with Biff, and after some repairs, Doc jumped into the DeLorean to pick him up at Hill Valley High School.

As Doc left Lyon Estates, the car had hooked onto some of the pennants on the sign. Doc and Marty followed Biff in his car, and hovered over him, until Marty thought of using the hoverboard to get closer. Marty grabbed the almanac after some fighting, but was faced with being in the middle of a long tunnel from which to escape.

At the end of the tunnel, Doc dropped the string of pennants that he had hooked onto earlier, and Marty grabbed the rope in time to prevent himself from getting run over by Biff (who crashed, for the second time in a week, into a manure truck).

Returning to Lyon Estates to destroy the almanac, Doc lowered Marty onto the ground, but deemed it unsafe to land the DeLorean in the storm. Marty successfully burned the almanac in an old bucket, reverting all effects that had been created by 2015 Biff. The celebration was short-lived; lightning struck a tree close to Marty, who warned Doc about getting struck himself. In the next instant, however, lightning struck the DeLorean as feared, spinning it up to 88 mph (thus creating the fire trails in the shape of backward 9's), scrambling the circuits, and sent Doc and the DeLorean back to January 1, 1885 [1]

Less than a minute later, a man, representing Western Union, appeared on the rainy street and handed Marty a letter. The letter, from Doc, had been held in their possession for over 70 years, with instructions for delivery to that exact position, at that exact moment, to that exact person — Marty.

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.

Marty: "OK, Doc, just calm down. It's me. It's me! It's Marty!"

Doc: "No, it can't be you! I just sent you back to the future!"

Marty: "Yeah, I know. But I'm back. I'm back from the future."

— Marty to Doc before Doc exclaims "Great Scott" and faints.

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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. At the Boot Hill Cemetery, outside the mine, Marty and Doc stumbled onto 1985 Doc's tombstone from 1885. It was now Marty's mission to save Doc in the past, and bring him back to the future as well.

Doc replaced the rotting tires with new whitewall tires and, working from the schematic diagram provided with the repair instructions, replaced all the broken instruments with 1955-era vacuum tubes and other components. 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.

1885 - Back to the Future - Credits to Universal Picture Amblin Entertainment

The Old West

The DeLorean encounters a tribe of local Indians.

"Marty, you're not thinking fourth-dimensionally. You'll instantly be transported to 1885 and those Indians won't even be there..."

1955 Doc and Marty set up at the Pohatchee Drive-In Theatre, far away from town, so that Marty's arrival would not be noticed by residents in 1885. Doc set the time circuits to the day after his 1885 counterpart sent the letter on September 1. Marty hesitated to drive at the screen because of a wall with Indians painted on it; but as Marty reached 88 mph, the 1955 wall was gone, but was replaced with real, 1885, Pohatchee Indians, who chased after the DeLorean, which Marty hid in a bear cave.

Marty avoided the Indians, and the U.S. Cavalry that was chasing them, but discovered that an Indian had shot an arrow into the engine of the DeLorean. Upon removing the arrow, Marty accidentally tears a hole in the fuel line of the car. 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.

The DeLorean was recovered by Doc, but there was no gasoline available in 1885 to replace the fuel that had leaked out. [2]Marty wasn't concerned as he stated Mr. Fusion could refuel the DeLorean. Doc said that was impossible as the engine always ran on gasoline and Mr. Fusion only powered the flux compacitor and the flight circuits. Doc then plotted means of powering the car, including having his horses try to reach 88 mph out in the desert, they only made 30 mph.

DeLorean fuel tank damaged by a arrow - Credits to Universal Picture Amblin Entertainment

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. This left only one available option: pushing the DeLorean up to 88, which came in the form of a locomotive.

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. On the night of September 6, Doc placed the car onto the track. There, it awaited the locomotive.

DeLorean being pushed to 88mph - Credits to Universal Picture Amblin Entertainment

DeLorean Destroyed by Locomotive - Credits to Universal Picture Amblin Entertainment

Their plan was successfully enacted on September 7, and though Marty was sent back to 1985, Doc and Clara Clayton remained in the past. The DeLorean reached temporal displacement just before hitting the buffer at the edge of the ravine; however the train crashed through and landed into the ravine in a large explosion.

The DeLorean is destroyed by a locomotive.

Back in 1985, the DeLorean traveled along the railroad tracks for about a mile until it came to rest on the track outside Hilldale. 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. 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.

"...Well Doc, it's destroyed... Just like you wanted..."

—Marty standing at the remains of the DeLorean

Marty and Jennifer, who had remained on her porch, both went through the wreckage. Then, peculiarly, the railroad crossing's bells sounded and its gates went down. No trains were to be seen. Just then, the Jules Verne Train appeared, and blew Marty and Jennifer back several feet. This was Doc's way to return without the aid of the DeLorean. After introducing Marty and Jennifer to the two new members of the family, Jules and Verne, Doc handed Marty a gift — the photograph of them standing in front of the clock — and gave some words of advice before leaving to times unknown.

"Your future hasn't been written yet! No one's has! Your future is whatever you make of it. So make it a GOOD one!"

Doc Brown - Your Future hasn’t been written yet

—Doc to Marty and Jennifer

Marty: "Where ya going Doc? Back to the future?"

Doc: "No, already been there!"

— Doc and Marty during the final scene of Back to the Future Part III

Just before its destruction, the DeLorean can be seen to have parts from every time period it has been in. Inside the time machine was also a walkie-talkie from 1985A.

Rebirth of the DeLorean

Note: The following section is considered non-canon or is disputed in canonicity.

Six months after the destruction of the DeLorean, another DeLorean time machine, nearly identical to the one used previously by Marty and Doc, appeared outside of Doc's garage. 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.

Doc told Marty that the DeLorean he had been driving was a temporal duplicate, created when the DeLorean was struck by lightning; the original going seventy years back to 1885, and the other version seventy years forward to 2025. Doc went forward in time with the Jules Verne Train, recovered the second DeLorean, fixed it up, and began traveling again. Doc also installed a program that would activate upon Doc not returning to the vehicle within a certain length of time. This automatic retrieval feature allowed the DeLorean to return to a set time and location of Doc's choosing.[3]

Around 1991, Doc Brown and his family returned to Hill Valley in the Train and settled down in the present. Marty had, by now, been attending Hill Valley College, and he visited the Brown family regularly. The DeLorean was rebuilt with added features, including a new audio receptive series of time circuits, submersible capabilities, a pincer, and having the ability to fold into a compact suitcase-sized box (which still weighed as much as the car at 2,796 pounds[4]). The greatest improvement to the DeLorean was the addition of spatial displacement, which allowed the car to travel not only through time, but through space.

Soon after, Doc built additional DeLoreans for use by the Institute of Future Technology.

In 1931B

The DeLorean time machine burned out after Edna burnt down Hill Valley.

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. 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.

Non-canon or disputable information ends here.

Behind the scenes

A rack of vacuum tubes and other components strapped to the hood replaces the time control microchip.

In the animated series, the DeLorean is supposedly rebuilt, regardless of what Doc said about the dangers of time traveling.
In the first script of Back to the Future the time machine was shaped like a refrigerator. The idea was scrapped, for fear of kids climbing into and becoming trapped in refrigerators. Because an abandoned refrigerator can become an inescapable trap for a small child, laws in most nations require that the door be removed when such an item is disposed of.
- Coincidentally, the final version of the time machine was composed of stainless steel, from which many refrigerators are made of.
At the end of Back to the Future, the alarm clock that the 1955 Doc had placed on the dashboard of the DeLorean could be seen. But in the beginning of Back to the Future Part II, it is no longer on the dashboard of the DeLorean.
At the start of the 1990 behind-the-scenes TV show The Secrets of the Back to the Future Trilogy, host Kirk Cameron arrived in an Old West town in the DeLorean.

Construction of the DeLorean for the films

The base of the DeLorean's nuclear reactor was constructed from a hubcap of a Dodge Polara. The engine sounds came from a Porsche but the engine was never replaced with a Porsche engine and kept stock.[5] Aircraft parts and blinking lights were added for additional effects.

Since all American models of the actual DMC-12 had speedometers that only read up to 85 miles per hour, a modified instrument cluster was installed, with a speedometer that reached 95. (A law from the administration of President Jimmy Carter prescribed that automobile speedometers could not read more than 85 m.p.h. with the intent that if people could not read speeds higher than that, that they wouldn't drive faster than that.)

In popular culture

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. See: "speed cheetah".

In the game Borderlands there is an achievement on the Xbox 360 version entitled "1.21 Gigawatts" which is a clear reference to the amount of electricity needed for the time travel.

In the game Sonic CD (4th generation iPhone/iPod Only) there is an achievement called "88 miles per hour". Sonic's way of time traveling is similar to Back to the Future.

Similarly to Sonic CD, there is a trophy for the PS3 exclusive game Ratchet and Clank (Future): a Crack in Timecalled 88 MPH, though the action for doing so is by preventing a time travel rather than travelling through time.

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.

The DeLorean Time Machine appears in Ready Player One as the vehicle of the protagonist Parzival in the OASIS. 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 DeLorean is destroyed by MechaGodzilla during the final battle.

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The time circuits spin wildly, throwing the DeLorean into a temporal vortex !

Meanwhile, in the bustling metropolis of New York, a PKE meter on the Ecto-1 flickers erratically.
Peter Venkman, Ray Stantz, Egon Spengler, and Winston Zeddemore are investigating a particularly stubborn haunting in an abandoned amusement park when the spectral readings go haywire. A blinding flash engulfs the Ecto-1, transporting it through time as well.

Across the country, KITT, the technologically advanced Trans Am, races down a deserted highway with Michael Knight behind the wheel.
Suddenly, KITT's internal systems blare a warning. An unidentified temporal distortion has been detected. Before Michael can react, KITT speeds into the anomaly, vanishing in a flash of light.

The three vehicles materialize in a swirling vortex of time energy, crashing onto a dusty road in the middle of nowhere. Marty, Doc, Peter, Ray, Egon, Winston, Michael, and KITT emerge from their respective rides, bewildered and confused.

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It's Emmett Brown, Doc's eccentric inventor counterpart from an alternate 1985!
This Emmett, however, has never constructed a time machine. He explains that the anomaly is the result of a rogue experiment gone wrong, threatening to unravel the very fabric of time.

Our unlikely heroes, united by their unique vehicles and unwavering determination, join forces. Marty and Doc provide their expertise on the DeLorean's time travel tech.

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The Cars of Back to the Future

Explore the Cars featured in Back to the Future …!! Which cars were used in the Filming of Back to the Future 1, 2 and 3

We showcase the models used in our Blog to the Future Post

Amazingly there are 55 separate automobiles and trucks in Back to the Future that are identified in imcdb.org, The "Internet Movie Cars Database", the newest of which were the :

Studebaker

Although Statler Studebaker is seen in Part I, there is only one Studebaker seen in 1955.

Toyota

There are three Toyotas seen in 1985, in three different scenes of Courthouse Square.

Chevrolet

The imcdb.org site counts eleven Chevrolets (including four Bel Airs in 1955), nine Fords, and only

Chrysler

Only one Chrysler spotted.

Other lines of automobile noted in the film are Buick, Cadillac, Datsun (now Nissan), Divco, Dodge, GMC, Honda, Hudson, Jeep, Kaiser, Mercury, Nash, Packard, Plymouth, Volkswagen and Volvo.

Although a Pontiac dealership is shown in Part II, there is only one Pontiac in Part II

1984 AMC Eagle Wagon

(Mr. Parker's car) Jennifer Parker's father drives into downtown Hill Valley to pick her up.

The AMC Eagle is a four-wheel drive station wagon manufactured in the 1980s by American Motors. It was the first four-wheel drive crossover passenger car in America.

History

Jennifer Parker's father, Danny Parker Jr., drove an orange wood-panel 1984 AMC Eagle in 1985. Its license plate was 1J V8988.

In 1985A, the Parker residence had a wrecked AMC Hornet parked in the front yard, which may or may not have belonged to Mr. Parker, as there is the possibility that the house wasn't actually occupied by the Parker family in that particular ABC timeline.

Mr. Parker's AMC Eagle made one brief final reappearance in the Parker residence's driveway when Marty McFly drove up there in his Toyota 4x4 to wake Jennifer up, after the Grays Sports Almanac had been destroyed in 1955, restoring the timeline.

1984 BMW 733i (George's car in 1985-I)

"Marty got up [from the dining room table], walked to the kitchen window and looked out. There in the driveway was a sparkling new BMW. Next to it stood Biff Tannen, polishing diligently." —From Back to the Future by George Gipe (quote, page 244)

The BMW 733i was a model of car manufactured by BMW in the 1980s.

History

The McFly family owned a BMW 733i in 1985. This was driven by George McFly, and was the main family car. Its license plate number was 3A709T8.

Before Marty McFly went back to 1955, Biff Tannen had borrowed and totaled another car owned by George, a Chevrolet Nova, while drinking and driving (at the same time!) — thus ruining Marty's plans to go up to the lake with Jennifer Parker for the weekend.

After Marty returned to what turned out to be an altered and improved present, the car changed to a BMW, in one piece, and Biff was waxing it with the two coats of wax George liked.

1952 Buick Super (Wilbur's car)

Wilbur's 1952 Buick Super Riviera.

The Super was a vehicle manufactured by Buick from 1940 to 1958.

History

In 1955, an elderly man named Wilbur drove past Lyon Estates in a dark red-colored Buick Super Riviera, when he and his wife saw a young man in a strange yellow suit near a futuristic-looking car.

Wilbur began to slow down for the stranger, but his wife became frightened and forced him to drive on.

The Buick Super Riviera's license plate number was 4S28359.

1948 Cadillac Series 61

1950 Cadillac Series 62 (Demonstration model)

Caterpillar 12

1947 Chevrolet 4100

1947 Chevrolet Advance-Design Thriftmaster

The Chevrolet Advance-Design was a series of pickup trucks manufactured by Chevrolet from 1947 to 1955.

History

In 1955, Marty McFly held onto the back of a blue Chevrolet Advance-Design Thriftmaster pickup truck while being chased around Courthouse Square by Biff Tannen and his gang in Biff's Ford Super De Luxe Convertible.

1951 Chevrolet Advance-Design truck. - D. Jones Manure Hauling owned a 1951 Chevrolet Advance-Design truck.

1953 Chevrolet Bel Air (Sam Baines's car in 1955)

Marty McFly being hit by Sam Baines's car in 1955A.

The first-generation Chevrolet Bel Air was a car manufactured from 1950 to 1954 by General Motors.

History

Lorraine's father, Sam Baines, drove a green 1953 Chevrolet Bel Air in 1955, 1955A, 1955B, and 1955C.

Its license plate was 6S 48405 (Coincidentally, the same plates are seen earlier in the film on another car that almost hits Marty in the town square).

On November 5, 1955, Sam hit George McFly with his car when George fell down from a tree into the middle of the street while supposedly birdwatching.

In 1955A, 1955B and 1955C, Sam hit Marty with the car, because Marty tried to rescue his father. Sam had just picked up the Baines family's brand new television set with his car.

1954 Chevrolet Bel Air

1955 Chevrolet Bel Air

1955 Chevrolet Bel Air Nomad

1982 Chevrolet C-30

1974 Chevrolet Camaro

1974 Chevrolet De Luxe

1980 Chevrolet Malibu (Police car in 1985)

A Chevrolet Malibu serving as a Hill Valley Police car.

The Malibu was a vehicle manufactured by Chevrolet.

In 1985, Marty McFly, using his skateboard, hitched a ride on the back of Hill Valley Police car #5253, a Chevrolet Malibu, as he left Courthouse Square to go home.

1979 Chevrolet Nova (George's wrecked car in 1985)

"As he drew closer, Marty saw that its [the car's] front end was completely smashed, as if someone had driven it into a wall. Nearby stood Marty's father and Biff Tannen, watching in silence as the truck driver unhitched the damaged vehicle."—From Back to the Future by George Gipe (quote, page 28)

History

In the first timeline, George McFly drove a 1979 Chevrolet Nova in 1985 before he lent it to his work supervisor Biff Tannen, who totaled it while drinking and driving (at the same time!).

Biff then blamed George by claiming the car had a blind spot, and forced him to pay up to have his suit dry-cleaned as he had spilled beer over himself in the crash. The car was subsequently returned to the McFly residence on the back of a tow truck.

Marty McFly had been planning to borrow the car to take Jennifer Parker to the lake, but thanks to Biff these plans were ruined.

Lorraine used the car on one occasion in 1983 to go after Marty when she heard the sound of his skateboard as he sneaked out of the house and set off to meet his friends.

Following Marty's return from 1955 to what turned out to be an altered and improved present, George owned a BMW 733i, which Biff — who now had his own auto detailing company — was waxing with the two coats of wax George liked.

1964 Chevrolet Suburban

1946 Chrysler

1972 Datsun 1200

1974 Datsun 260Z

1975 Datsun B210

1975 Datsun B210 Coupe

1981 DeLorean DMC-12

(Primary car of the films acting as time machine) he DeLorean DMC-12 is a sports car that was manufactured by the De Lorean Motor Company for the American market from 1981 to 1983 in Northern Ireland. It is most commonly known simply as the DeLorean, as it was the only model ever produced by the company. The DMC-12 featured gull-wing doors with a fiberglass "underbody", to which non-structural brushed stainless steel panels are affixed.

The first prototype appeared in March 1977, and production officially began in 1981 (with the first DMC-12 rolling off the production line on January 21) at the DMC factory in Dunmurry, Northern Ireland. During its production, several aspects of the car were changed, such as the hood (bonnet) style, wheels and interior. About nine thousand DMC-12s were made before production stopped in late 1982. Today, about 6,500 DeLorean motor cars are believed to still exist.

Unknown Divco

1955 Dodge Coronet

1981 Dodge Ram

1950 Dodge Wayfarer

Unknown Ford Courier (or Datsun truck) (Biff's Auto Detailing truck)

Biff's Ford Courier truck stands nearby as he puts the second coat of wax on George McFly's BMW 733i.

The Courier is the name used on a variety of vehicles manufactured by Ford.

History

In 1985, Biff Tannen owned what appeared to be a yellow Ford Courier pickup truck that he used for his company, Biff's Auto Detailing.

Behind the scenes Biff's yellow truck is never seen fully on-screen at any point during the Back to the Future trilogy, so it remains unknown as to whether it was a Ford Courier, a Datsun or a similar vehicle.

1952 Ford Crestline Victoria

A Ford Crestline Victoria at Hill Valley High School.

The Crestline Victoria was a vehicle manufactured by Ford in the 1950s.

On November 12, 1955, a dark green Crestline Victoria with a white roof was parked outside Hill Valley High School during the Enchantment Under the Sea dance.

1953 Ford Customline

1984 Ford Econoline

The Econoline, also known as the E-Series and the Club Wagon, is a line of full size vans manufactured by Ford.

In 1985, an Econoline van was used for the re-election campaign of Goldie Wilson for Mayor of Hill Valley. Its license plate number was 2H67820.

1984 Ford F-350 (Flatbed carrying Marty's future Statler Toyota 4X4)

The F-350 was part of the F-Series of vehicles manufactured by Ford.

History

In 1985, a seventh generation F-350 flatbed truck carried a Toyota Hilux for Statler Toyota. Marty McFly told his girlfriend Jennifer Parker that his dream was to one day own that Toyota 4x4.

1940 Ford F-5 (Texaco truck in 1955)

A Ford F-5 tank truck parked at the Texaco service station in 1955 (in the background, on the far right).

The F-5 was part of the first generation of F-Series vehicles manufactured by Ford.

A Ford F-5 tank truck was owned by Texaco and was present at the Texaco service station in Courthouse Square, Hill Valley, in 1955.

1954 Ford Mainline

1984 Ford Ranger (First pickup that Marty skitches on)

A Ford Ranger pulling out of Burger King in Hill Valley.

The Ranger is a vehicle manufactured by Ford.

In 1985, Marty McFly grabbed onto the back of a blue Ford Ranger while riding his skateboard on the way to school.

1946 Ford Super De Luxe (Biff Tannen's car in 1955)

Ford Super De Luxe Convertible

Biff and his gang in the Ford.

" After a half block of falling rapidly behind their prey, Biff's pals turned and shrugged, looking to Biff for a new tack. / "Get the car!" Biff ordered. / The four hotfooted it over to Biff's convertible, which was parked nearby. A few seconds later, they roared off after Marty, burning rubber on the town square and disappearing in a cloud of black smoke. " —From Back to the Future by George Gipe (quote, page 177)

" "Here she is, Biff," Terry gestured proudly, "all fixed up, like new. Except we couldn't get her started." He glanced over at the eager Tannen. "You got a kill-switch on this thing?" / Tannen grinned at that. / "Nope, you just gotta have the right touch," he bragged. "Ain't nobody can start this car but me." / He climbed in the car and turned the key. The car growled to life on the first try. " —From Back to the Future Part II by Craig Shaw Gardner (quote, page 144)

Marty: "Let's land on him [Biff in the Ford], we'll cripple his car."

Doc: "Marty, he's in a '46 Ford. We're in a DeLorean. He'd rip through us like we were tin foil."

— As the DeLorean hovers over the Ford

The Super De Luxe was a model of vehicle manufactured by Ford during the 1940s.

The Ford filled with the contents of a manure truck.

The newly restored Ford Super De Luxe on display at the entrance to the Biff Tannen Museum in 1985A

Marty McFly hiding in the back seat of Biff's car.

Biff chases down a hoverboarding Marty through the River Road Tunnel.

Biff Tannen owned a 1946 model in 1955 which was a convertible, painted black with a red interior, and had the nickname "Sheila".] Its license plate number was 6H 96472.

Biff was the only person who knew the trick to starting the ignition (a push-button on the dashboard), as he explained to Terry at Western Auto, who had been unable to start the car whilst working on it and wondered if it was fitted with a kill-switch:

"You just gotta have the right touch. Nobody can start this car but me." Biff still remembered the technique in his old age — much to the amazement of his younger self, who demanded to know how this "old codger with a cane" knew how to do this.

"You just got to have the right touch. Nobody can start this car but me."

—Biff to Terry, regarding the trick to start his car.

After being provoked by Marty McFly in Lou's Cafe on November 8, 1955, Biff and his gang chased him in the Ford around Courthouse Square before slamming into a manure truck.

By November 12, Biff had the car repaired. In order to repair the damage to his car, Biff was pressured by Terry to pay $302.57 for the job, but refused payment. As he argued with Terry, both Marty and Biff's older self jumped into the Ford, with Marty hiding in the back seat. Old Biff drove the Ford back to his house and parked it in his garage before displaying the Gray's Sports Almanac.

Later that night, Marty snuck away in the back seat again as Biff drove to the Enchantment Under the Sea dance at Hill Valley High School. Biff parked the vehicle outside the door of the gymnasium and drove off in it after discovering that Marty had been after the almanac.

Biff drove the Ford towards River Road Tunnel on the way home before Marty swooped in using the hoverboard. Biff and Marty fought over the almanac outside and in the tunnel, with Biff sideswiping the wall of the tunnel with the right side of the Ford.

When Biff reached the end of the tunnel, he turned completely around and faced Marty who was still halfway inside. Biff charged the car towards Marty in the hopes of running him over, but failed when Marty grabbed a string of pennants attached to the DeLorean time machine. As Biff watched Marty and the DeLorean hover away into the night, he crashed the Ford into a manure truck again, filling his car with manure.

It’s unclear what became of the Ford after 1955, but it reappeared newly restored in 1985A where it was on display at the entrance to the Biff Tannen Museum, alongside a waxwork figure of Biff.

Trivia

During the filming of the first two films, three different Ford Super De Luxe cars were used (a 1946 car, a 1947 model and a 1948 model). The 1946 car was a black coupe, with the roof cut off, so it looked like a convertible. This car was used the most, and was also the one that got covered in manure. The other two cars (the 1947 and 1948 Fords) were used in long shot or in close-up. The 1946 car was kept by Universal after Back to the Future Part II was completed and put on display in their back lot tour, before being sold to a private collector.

Through the course of the first film, the car changes from a 1946 Ford to a 1947 Ford. This difference is noted by the fact that the 1947 Ford Super De Luxe differed from the 1946 model with the absence of the red accents on the grill and parking lights below each of the front headlights.

Another difference between the 1946 and 1947 Ford Super De Luxe is that the upholstery seating in the car changes.

As shown in Back to the Future Part II, when 1985-A Biff spoke of the manure incident from the first film, Biff states that he had "enrolled [the car] in a drag race a few days earlier". Marty correctly guessed Biff had crashed his car into a manure truck (much to the surprise of 1985-A Biff). When Biff demanded to know how he knew that, Marty lied that his father told him before he died. Also, unknown to Biff, Marty was responsible for his car being wrecked.

In Back to the Future Part II, when Old Biff gives the almanac to his younger self, the sun visors on the convertible are gone, while in the rest of the film, the sun visors are still there. The car also has sun visors in Back to the Future.

1984 GMC Value Van (Emmett Brown's van in 1985)

Doc's GMC Value Van, with the DeLorean inside, stands in the empty parking lot at Twin Pines Mall, watched over by Einstein (on the far right).

"Checking his image in a mirror, he [Doc] ruffled his wild white hair even more, perhaps perversely adding to his own reputation as a wild eccentric. He then walked to the front of the garage, opened the rear doors of the oversized step-van on the side of which was lettered DR. E. BROWN ENTERPRISES — 24 HR. SCIENTIFIC SERVICE, and peered inside. / It was, of course, still there.

Even in the sparse light of the garage, the sleek stainless steel DeLorean with its gull wings shone back at him like a giant Christmas tree ornament. How appropriate, he thought, that the vehicle which would prop mankind into the past and future should be such an extraordinarily beautiful piece of machinery. There was no doubt in his mind as he closed the doors. / "It will work," he said softly. "And I'll be famous." " —From Back to the Future by George Gipe (quote, page 27)

The GMC Value Van was a multi-step truck that was manufactured by General Motors.

Dr. Emmett Brown owned a 1984 P-60 model Value Van for his business. In 1985, he used it to transport the DeLorean time machine and the plutonium needed for the vehicle's first test at Twin Pines Mall.

It bore on the sides the wording DR. E. BROWN ENTERPRISES — 24 HR. SCIENTIFIC SERVICES.

1978 Honda Civic

1984 Honda XL 600 R

1952 Hudson

1955 International Harvester R-160

1984 Jeep Cherokee

Jeep CJ-7 Unknown (Second vehicle that Marty skitches on through Courthouse Square)

Jeep CJ-7

Marty skitching on the Jeep close to Courthouse Square.

The Jeep CJ-7 was a compact 4X4 car manufactured from 1976 to 1986 by American Motors, who owned the Jeep brand.

History

On October 25, 1985, a skateboarding Marty McFly grabbed onto a blue Jeep CJ-7 in Courthouse Square. The Jeep had no doors or roof, and its licence plate was 726 BXG. The driver was a middle-aged man, who wore a Mountain Dew baseball cap.

At the same street where Marty would accelerate the DeLorean time machine up to 88 m.p.h. in 1955 in order to return to his own time, the driver noticed there was a young man holding onto his car. Marty was late for school because all Dr. Emmett Brown's clocks were exactly twenty-five minutes slow, which is why he was grabbing onto cars.

Marty also performed a similar car-grabbing act, this time while riding a hoverboard, on a hover-converted Jeep Wrangler YJ which landed on Second Street on October 21, 2015 while he was fleeing from Griff's gang.

1953 Kaiser Manhattan

1954 Mercury Monterey

1951 Nash Statement

1948 Packard Custom Eight Victoria (Doc's car in 1955)

The Packard parked at Hill Valley High School.

The Packard was a make of car in the 1950s.

History

Dr. Emmett Brown owned a cream-colored 1949 Packard Custom Eight Victoria in 1955, which was used along with a flatbed trailer on November 5 to transport the DeLorean time machine — concealed beneath a tarpaulin — to his lab, and to Courthouse Square on the night of November 12 for Doc's 'weather experiment'.

Doc let Marty McFly borrow the Packard for the Enchantment Under the Sea dance at Hill Valley High School on November 12. The car became the scene of the scuffle between Biff Tannen, Lorraine Baines, and George McFly.

During Marty's second visit to 1955, he drove Doc home after he fainted in Courthouse Square on seeing Marty again — having only just sent him back to 1985.

After Doc restored the DeLorean to perfect working order, including installation of vacuum-tubed time circuits and new whitewall tires, the Packard and flatbed trailer were used once again to haul the DeLorean to the Pohatchee Drive-In Theater in preparation for Marty's trip to 1885 to rescue Doc's older 1985 counterpart.

The Packard's license plate number was 8N39742.

Behind the scenes

Only one Packard was used for all three films in the Back to the Future trilogy. The exact same car was also used in the 1991 film The Marrying Man starring Alec Baldwin and Kim Basinger. It is now in a private collection in Massachusetts.
1953 Plymouth Cranbrook (Fuels at Texaco service station in 1955)
1950 Plymouth De Luxe (Nearly hits Marty in 1955)
1954 Plymouth Savoy
1985 Pontiac Sunbird
1953 Studebaker Starliner
1984 Toyota Celica Supra Mk.II
1985 Toyota Truck
1984 Toyota Van
1973 Volkswagen Station Wagon
1979 Volvo 242
Cab B25

Cab B25 from the Luxor Cab Company arrives in Hilldale. The DeLorean time machine, with Marty McFly standing next to it, can be seen in the background.

The cutout Collector Card for the Back to the Future Taxicab (bottom right-hand corner) on the rear packaging of Funrise, Inc.'s Back to the Future Part II three-vehicle pack gave a little more information about Cab B than was mentioned in either the movie or the novelization — namely, its on-board 'Entertainment System'.

" The oldster [Biff Tannen] pointed a quivering finger at a sleek silver car that was just taking off overhead. / "Follow that DeLorean!" he croaked. / Follow that DeLorean? That was the sort of thing people said in old, 2-D movies! Where was this old guy coming from? / Still, a fare was a fare. Fred eased the cab out and up. " —From Back to the Future Part II by Craig Shaw Gardner (quote, page 60)

Cab B25 was a flying taxicab from the Luxor Cab Company in Hill Valley in 2015.

History

The cab was a Citroën DS driven by Fred, who drove Biff Tannen in pursuit of the DeLorean time machine to Hilldale on October 21.

It was fitted with six cylinders, and was fuel injected via a fusion turbine accelerator.[1] Cab B25 was capable of 90 m.p.h. on the ground and over 170 m.p.h. in the air with thrusters.[1] It also came with an 'Entertainment System' consisting of "200 local channel stereo, mobile phone, food, beverage and snack dispensing systems". A warning to embarking passengers, WATCH YOUR HEAD, was printed on the roof above the rear doors.

The taxicab with which the DeLorean nearly collided when it departed from Lyon Estates in 1985 and appeared in the wrong lane of Skyway C25, facing oncoming traffic, was also a Citroën DS. Whether this was Cab B25 or another cab of the same make and model remains unclear.

Behind the scenes

The Citroën DS was marketed from 1955 to 1975, so had such a vehicle appeared during the 1955 sequences in Back to the Future it wouldn't have looked out of place.

The same Citroën DS used as Cab B25 reappears later in Back to the Future Part II as one of the wrecked vehicles in 1985A.

The cutout Collector Card for the toy Back to the Future Taxicab on the rear packaging of Funrise, Inc.'s Back to the Future Part II three-vehicle pack, released as part of their Micro Action Super Cars series in 1989 (the other two being the DeLorean Car (Modified Engine) and the Back to the Future Police Car), gives additional information about the vehicle. This was not derived from any information given on-screen or in the novelization.

The taxicab is now in France where it has been owned by the company Tadico Events since January 2019, and is operated under the name The DeLorean Experience and Luxor Cab DS Taxi.

BMW 633CSi

Griff's BMW 633CSi being waxed by his grandfather, Biff Tannen.

This model of BMW was built between 1976 and 1989.

History

In 2015, Griff Tannen owned a heavily modified hover-converted version of the BMW 633CSi, which was a convertible orange and black model waxed for him (two coats, naturally) by his grandfather Biff Tannen, and in which Whitey, Data and Spike traveled with him as passengers.

Griff accidentally smashed the car's nearside taillight with his bat while swinging furiously at Marty McFly.

Whether the BMW could not be started by anyone except Griff, like the Ford Super De Luxe Convertible owned by his Grandpa Biff in 1955, remains unrecorded.

Behind the scenes

In the novelization by Craig Shaw Gardner, Griff's car is described as being "a beat-up old convertible" (quote, page 32), rather than the perfect, futuristic-looking BMW seen on-screen.

Anyone expecting to see in 2015 a futuristic, flying BMW of the make and model featured in Back to the Future Part II is going to be disappointed, as the BMW 633CSi is no longer being produced — something the movie makers obviously did not foresee.

As far as is known, BMW have no plans to produce a flying model in the foreseeable future.

Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud I

The Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud I is nearly hit by Needles' truck.

"A horn blared up ahead, followed by a squeal of brakes. They [Marty and Jennifer] both looked out the windshield [of Marty's truck] as Needles' truck swerved, barely missing a Rolls-Royce that had started out of a side street." — From Back to the Future Part III by Craig Shaw Gardner (quote, page 210)

"Jeez! I would've hit that Rolls-Royce!" — Marty

History

In the original timeline, on October 27, 1985, Marty McFly was racing Douglas J. Needles in his Toyota Hilux. He collided with a Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud I that had just pulled out of a side street and broke his hand in the crash, preventing him from ever playing the guitar again.

The owner of the Rolls-Royce pressed charges against Marty for the damage to his vehicle. As a result, Marty gave up on his musical career and spent decades feeling sorry for himself.

When Marty returned from 1885, he and Jennifer Parker encountered Needles and his gang at a red traffic light near the very spot where he would crash his truck.

However, Marty has already learned his lesson, that he should not lose his temper and act recklessly when someone called him "a chicken"; thus, at the last second, while Needles wasn't looking, he put the truck in reverse while Needles raced ahead when the light changed to green, and witnessed the Rolls-Royce nearly hit Needles' Ford F-150.

It was at this moment that Jennifer saw the words "YOU'RE FIRED!!!" disappear from Ito T. Fujitsu's fax to Marty, a copy of which she had taken from the McFly residence in 2015. The dismal events of Marty's future were averted.

A StarCar (on the far left) parked on Second Street in 2015 as a flying Jeep comes in to land.

The StarCar was a futuristic car in 2015.

History

In 2015, a StarCar was parked on Second Street when the flying Jeep landed; and Spike, Data and Whitey chased Marty McFly on hoverboards around Courthouse Square.

Behind the scenes

The StarCar was a fictional car which appeared in the 1984 science-fiction movie The Last Starfighter, and was built by Gene Winfield. The 1963 show car the Strip Star and the Spinner from the 1982 neo-noir science-fiction movie Blade Runner were also built by Winfield; both vehicles appeared in Back to the Future Part II as futuristic cars.

The design of the StarCar was inspired by the DeLorean DMC-12, including its gullwing doors. However, the DeLorean DMC-12 would not become familiar to science-fiction movie fans as Dr. Emmett Brown's DeLorean time machine until the following year.

The current whereabouts of the StarCar is unknown, but it is rumored to now be in France and been repainted red.

The StarCar was built specially for The Last Starfighter, and thus has never entered mass production.

A Texaco tank truck at the Texaco service station was a motor vehicle used by a fuel company to transport and deliver gasoline to service stations.

History

A Ford F-5 tank truck was owned by Texaco, and was present at the Texaco service station in Courthouse Square, Hill Valley on the morning of November 5, 1955, when Marty McFly was watching the attendants at work — indicating there had been a delivery of gasoline.

The tank truck was a small one in Texaco's signature color of bright red, with the Texaco star logo on the doors of the cab and the name TEXACO in large white letters along the sides of the tank.

Behind the scenes

A futuristic, flying Jeep Wrangler YJ lands on Second Street in 2015.

The Jeep Wrangler YJ was a 4X4 car manufactured from 1986 to 1995 by American Motors, who owned the Jeep brand.

History

A futuristic, flying Jeep Wrangler YJ landed on Hill Valley's Second Street on October 21, 2015.

A hoverboarding Marty McFly caught hold of a rope on the back of the car while he was fleeing from Griff Tannen and his gang, in a similar manner to when, while skateboarding in 1985, he had grabbed onto a Jeep CJ-7 in order to get to school.

Behind the scenes

American Motors stopped manufacturing the Jeep Wrangler YJ in 1995, something the movie makers obviously did not foresee.

Actuality

As far as is known, Jeep have no plans to produce a flying model in the foreseeable future.

Pulse

A Pulse on display during the Universal Studios Backlot tour.

The Pulse was a model of vehicle classified as an "autocycle" — an enclosed motorcycle with two main wheels and two outrigger wheels, one on each side. About 347 Pulse vehicles were produced by the Owosso Motor Car Company from 1985 to 1990.

It was a fairly common model of car by 2015, since at least two of them were in downtown Hill Valley at about the same time. A red Pulse was the first vehicle Marty McFly saw as he exited the alleyway opposite the courthouse, driving along Main Street from right to left. A white Pulse could briefly be seen parked in front of True Blues during the hoverboard chase.[2]

Behind the scenes

Bob Butts of Fantasy Cars leased seven Pulse cars to Universal Studios for the filming. One of them, known as #74, was originally red, but rolled over in an accident and was repainted white. This same car was later used in the films Hologram Man and Lawnmower Man II, and was modified for the television series Seaquest DSV.

O.K this is not a car but it was Griff’s 2nd mode of transport …… The Pit Bull Hoverboard

" As if to demonstrate the meaning of power, Griff tossed his hoverboard to the ground. And what a hoverboard! It was three times the size of the board Marty was riding, with twin jets in the back, and fins beside, not to mention those spikes all around the edges. In fact, it didn't look much like a skateboard — or hoverboard — at all. It looked, Marty thought, more like a chain-saw. Trapped over the pond, he had plenty of time to read the name of the board, too, written in gold letters on a jet black background: / THE PIT BULL. "

—From Back to the Future Part II by Craig Shaw Gardner (quote, page 45)

"Keep it! I got a Pit Bull now!"

—Little girl to Marty when he attempted to give her back her Mattel hoverboard

The Pit Bull was a model of rocket-powered hoverboard that was used to make extremely fast trips.

History

Unlike most other hoverboards which had to be pushed with one foot on or near the ground, the Pit Bull's two directional rockets provided enough power for travel over water. It also had three tow cables that allowed additional hoverboarders to be towed behind the main unit.

Griff Tannen was a known owner of one, but after his arrest it came into the possession of a little girl, who in turn let Marty McFly keep her Mattel hoverboard.

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