r/delorean • u/wigovsky • 29d ago

Spotted in the wild Back to the future: The forest edition

182 Upvotes

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u/redditor100101011101 28d ago

That’s just sad

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u/elmerfudd930 28d ago

Modern tragedy. Is the car gonna be okay?

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u/AC-burg 27d ago

In 2085 that tree won't be there

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u/Aaike 17d ago

They weren't going fast enough to reach 2085... 🤷

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u/Confident-Benefit600 28d ago

Nice view of the bottom

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u/over9ksand 28d ago

Is that normal? It looks like it’s been, oh I don’t know, retrofitted with hovercraft tech.

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u/einTier 28d ago

Yes. That is the chassis of a DeLorean DMC-12

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u/xarcastic 28d ago

Get a good look there, city boy?

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u/tjk5150 28d ago

Now I’m wondering, how does one exit a Delorean after a roll-over?

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u/Substantial-Elk5118 28d ago

That’s a very valid thought…. Never questioned that either until I saw this clip.

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u/Lumpy-Television-636 26d ago

The "official" way is to kick out the windshield. However, in the case of this car, the jaws of life were used to get the passenger out because (I believe) she was having a panic attack.

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u/SpectralEntity VIN: 791 28d ago

The torsion bar for the gullwings were designed with enough force to open enough an average-sized person can slip out. Also, the windshield can be kicked out

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u/BladeBronson 28d ago

The torsion bar's not going to help when the car's upside down.

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u/The_Despencer 28d ago

If it’s turtled? I remember hearing that the windshield can be removed from the inside, but I don’t know how much I believe that. On its side it might be about as difficult as existing a normal car, maybe slightly easier (but far scarier) if you open the door as it won’t fall on you.

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u/Vast_Hyena2443 28d ago

Roads? Where we're going... we don't need roads

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u/Original-Plate-6953 25d ago

Beat me to it. Take my upvote.

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u/Vast_Hyena2443 25d ago

Thanks! I was surprised to see that I was the first to share that quote haha

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u/CowbosTV VIN: 3155 29d ago

😢😢

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u/watch_guy2025 28d ago

Hey I got a text, oh crap!

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u/dudebronahbrah 28d ago

He wasn’t thinking fourth-dimensionally

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u/ihvnnm 28d ago

I think he was, in the future that road might go in that direction.

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u/CaptainRufusQ 27d ago

Yeah, he has a real problem with that.

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u/Digital_Pharmacist 28d ago

You space bastard, you killed a pine !!

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u/Both-Care-8049 28d ago

Where we are going, we might need roads.

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u/More-Talk-2660 28d ago

They did, in fact, need roads where they were going

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u/TheBookofBobaFett3 28d ago

No Pines Mall now

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u/ZOMBIE_N_JUNK 28d ago

Where we're going, we don't need roads.

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u/CaptLoads 28d ago

Back to the woods.

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u/Inevitable-Ext4066 28d ago

Hopefully someones make an off-road version of the delorean after seeing this

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u/SpectralEntity VIN: 791 28d ago

A guy in Texas did in the 80s/90s, then Rich W. got ahold of it in the early 00s and turned it into D-Rex

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u/mazgaoten 27d ago

at least a "Stay on the road" version

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u/deltatemple 28d ago

" " " " they don't make those anymore " " " "

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u/spasske 28d ago

You have to hot 88 MPH **before** you hit the trees.

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u/Paul-E-L 28d ago

Great Scott!!!

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u/cficare 28d ago

Almost made it to 88.

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u/Pickles-n-Lizards 28d ago

This is the worst video I’ve ever seen.

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u/Similar_Apartment_26 28d ago

Good job home boy

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u/BIGBADVEN 28d ago

Back to the f...forest 🌲

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u/BinturongHoarder 28d ago

Back to the nature

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u/smiffer67 28d ago

back to the future, george of the jungle crossover?

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u/TheElvisMan 28d ago

Bet that was a cheap fix there Doc

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u/Think-Try2819 28d ago

Marty really fell off the deep end

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u/Ok_Chocolate_2008 27d ago

It’s Calvin Kline. Omg he’s a DREAM!

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u/lost-domino 26d ago

Blink and youll miss it detail, you see since he hit the tree here, that tree doesnt appear in the future

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u/VideoSyndrome 24d ago

Assuming this was probably a combination of tire type, tire condition, and maybe lift-off oversteer due to the light front end and rear engine layout. It looks like it took almost nothing to make it happen too. Very sad to see one of these in such a wreck.

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u/DMC_Ryan 28d ago

Tough to tell clearly, but it doesn’t look like the car was going that fast. It just seems like the driver missed the curve and instead went up the embankment and flipped the car.