1981 DMC DeLorean with a DMC time machine Photo by Elle Alder Viewed from hindsight, this altogether unusual formula seems precarious from the start — let alone on the eve of a major recession.

The DeLorean was a commercial failure, but the car achieved iconic status thanks to its starring role in the Back to the Future films. The owner of this example has gone to extreme lengths to ...

Ken Kapalowski, whose DeLorean time machine replicates the car used in Back to the Future, climbs into his creation. HANDOUT ...

In the words of Doc Brown, “Great Scott!” “Back to the Future” hit movie theaters on July 3, 1985. A customized 1981 DeLorean DMC-12, which took audiences on joyrides to 1955, 1885 and ...

Former record producer and lifelong petrol head Phil Wainman bought the iconic DMC DeLorean PRV V6, the same model as the star of the classic 1985 blockbuster Back to the Future, in the United States.

Without Allstate, Marty McFly might never have left 1985 or perhaps would have traveled back in time in a Buick, forever disrupting the space-time continuum of the seminal movie trilogy.

The DeLorean time machine community is even smaller, with many of the die-hard “Back to the Future” fans who have built their own familiar with one another – and there’s more than you ...

Completed time machines can sell for between $150,000 to $250,000, he said. “Believe me, this is not a cheap hobby,” DeLorean time machine owner Edwin Pineda said.

A replica of a time-traveling DeLorean will make four pit stops in Western New York next week, just as BACK TO THE FUTURE: The Musical parks it at Shea's for a six-day run.