By Leftlane Staff
Thursday, May 25th, 2006 @ 12:30 pm

The DeLorean Motor Company — whose car became the time traveling machine in ā€œBack to the Futureā€? and later fizzled in the early 1980s after churning out fewer than 10,000 cars — is still alive an well, reports The News-Press. The company is now owned by Stephen Wynne, who acquired the right to the name and the cars before founder John DeLorean died. The company now provides service to existing DeLorean, and can even build one from the ground up from left over parts for about $42,000. ā€œThe DeLorean is a very nice GT car,ā€? said president Tony Ierardi. ā€œIt’s not very fast, but now we can make it fast [...] We’ve been open for 18 months and we have a two month waiting list. There’s about 1,800 DeLorean’s between here and North Carolina.”

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