The average driver can’t identify most common auto parts, but mention a flux capacitor, and movie buffs, auto enthusiasts and pop culture followers will immediately go “Back to the Future.”
The movie arguably breathed new life into DeLorean cars. The unmistakably stylish, stainless-steel-bodied, gull-wing-door creation of John DeLorean was as controversial as the man himself.
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