My Delorean
This is my ultimate dream car, the one I've wanted since 1st grade...the Delorean DMC-12.
The most interesting aspects of this car include a stainless steel body, a low, wide frame and of course, the infamous and oh-so-characteristic gullwing doors. Of course, controversy surrounds this car, and being an owner, I'd like to dispel some of the common misconceptions people have about them. But first, a little personal history.

After long years of wishing, dreaming, hoping, and praying, I finally got the chance to own a Delorean. It's a 5 speed manual transmission, grey leather interior, w/ 47,000 miles on the odometer. Plus the engine is in perfect running condition and it's 100% original. In a word, it's incredible.

I was in the market for a car at the time, and I had $12,000 to spend. I was about to plunk it all down for some mundane sedan of some type, when my friend Phil called. Now, it is well known among my friends that I am a complete Delorean nut, always have been. Phil worked at a car dealership, and he informed me that someone had actually traded one in towards the purchase of an Audi...I went over there the next day to take pictures of the sucker, and man was it awesome. I even got to fulfill one aspect of my dream that day...to open the door and sit down in the driver's seat. Needless to say, I bonked my head on the door as I got out!

Anyway, to make a long story even longer, I got the crazy idea to actually buy the car. I test drove it, and miraculously it ran perfectly. After a few weeks, the car was mine, and I was living the dream, finally!

COMMON MISCONCEPTIONS

John Delorean is a crackhead!
No, he's not. Due to a lot of random bad luck, such as the cars being mishandled during shipment to the US (they were made in Ireland), and other general glitches, the car's worth declined in the eyes of the public, rather unjustly. Mostly though, the Delorean was doomed saleswise because of it's LUDICROUS price, $35,000, which is expensive even by today's standards...and why would anyone buy a Delorean for that much when they could get something like a corvette that went twice as fast for half the price? The Sad Truth is that starting a new car company from scratch ain't easy, folks, and word has it there were a lot of big wigs in the industry who saw to it that it would be impossible for Mr.Delorean.
Smelling an opportunity, the government poised a trap for Mr.Delorean by inciting a Cocaine deal, to intice him into trying to break the law to save his beloved company. It worked, and he was arrested...but walked scott free, because the word for this is called ENTRAPMENT, and is in itself Illegal, but nevertheless Delorean's reputation was ruined.

They're made of Aluminum!
No, they're made of Stainless Steel...which doesn't rust. It's quite incredible, actually.

They go 1,000 miles per hour and are not street legal because of this
Yes, someone actually tried to tell me this once. The truth is, the Delorean's stock engine can't push it past 87 or so miles per hour, but as I say to everyone, it's not about speed...it's all about style.

You Can't Find Parts For Them!
Actually, parts are easy to aquire. For one thing, when the factory went under, a small firm bought up all the spare parts and is slowly selling them off. Since there only 8,000 cars were made, and only 5,000 of them are still out on the streets, the spare parts remain abundant. Plus every once and awhile some poor sap will get into a major accident and have no choice but to sell the good parts of the car off bit by bit. Additionally, upgrades and parts that are better made are actually being manufactured, and those which cannot be manufactured are usually easily replaced. Mr.Delorean may have made a few bad decisions, but the man really knew his shtuff when it came to cars.

You can't park next to any other car, cause the gullwing doors will hit them!
This isn't true. See, the doors hinge from the middle of the roof, not the edge...in effect, the doors actually require 1/2 the clearance of a regular car, which means that I can squeeze into smaller spaces that normal cars would have to skip past.

The following joke is VERY funny: "Does it come with a flux capacitor?"
No, this joke is neither funny nor original. I have heard it roughly 935732967486707543 times since I got the car in 2001, and the number goes up and up.