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Great Scott! DeLorean owner gets speeding ticket for going 88 mph
« on: May 31, 2017, 03:46:33 am »
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A California man who drives a DeLorean, the famed car from the “Back to the Future” movies, got a ticket recently for going 88 mph, the speed that allowed the car in the movies to travel through time.

New DeLorean owner Spencer White was driving on a freeway near Santa Clarita, CA, with his mother when he realized he was driving 85 mph.....

http://www.kltv.com/story/35543892/great-scott-delorean-owner-gets-speeding-ticket-for-going-88-mph?utm_content=buffercbc0e&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer


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Re: Great Scott! DeLorean owner gets speeding ticket for going 88 mph
« Reply #1 on: May 31, 2017, 03:59:28 am »

Unless the mechanicals have been upgraded, 88 is fairly near top speed.
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Re: Great Scott! DeLorean owner gets speeding ticket for going 88 mph
« Reply #2 on: May 31, 2017, 04:03:25 am »
Quote from: truth_seeker on May 31, 2017, 03:59:28 am
Unless the mechanicals have been upgraded, 88 is fairly near top speed.


Thank you! and that's the 'by the book' top speed too. For such a beautiful car, they put in a totally crap engine.
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Re: Great Scott! DeLorean owner gets speeding ticket for going 88 mph
« Reply #3 on: May 31, 2017, 04:07:26 am »
Quote from: AbaraXas on May 31, 2017, 04:03:25 am

Thank you! and that's the 'by the book' top speed too. For such a beautiful car, they put in a totally crap engine.

It was a POS Renault motor if I recall that barely made 120 HP.
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Re: Great Scott! DeLorean owner gets speeding ticket for going 88 mph
« Reply #4 on: May 31, 2017, 04:19:22 am »
Quote from: Frank Cannon on May 31, 2017, 04:07:26 am
It was a POS Renault motor if I recall that barely made 120 HP.

there have been some beautiful LS1 swaps though.
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Re: Great Scott! DeLorean owner gets speeding ticket for going 88 mph
« Reply #5 on: May 31, 2017, 04:25:38 am »
Quote from: AbaraXas on May 31, 2017, 04:19:22 am
there have been some beautiful LS1 swaps though.

LOL. I see people are doing that. I sure would be nervous putting 400+ horsepower into a poorly build vehicle like that.



Had a moronic buddy that got a high compression Olds 455 shoehorned into a '76 Pontiac Sunbird back in HS. He dove it about a week until you couldn't close the doors anymore. The whole damn car twisted with that much torque. That was funny as hell.
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Re: Great Scott! DeLorean owner gets speeding ticket for going 88 mph
« Reply #6 on: May 31, 2017, 12:28:06 pm »
Quote from: Frank Cannon on May 31, 2017, 04:25:38 am
LOL. I see people are doing that. I sure would be nervous putting 400+ horsepower into a poorly build vehicle like that.


Had a moronic buddy that got a high compression Olds 455 shoehorned into a '76 Pontiac Sunbird back in HS. He dove it about a week until you couldn't close the doors anymore. The whole damn car twisted with that much torque. That was funny as hell.

I think every HS had a brother of that moron enrolled.


71 vega w/454
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