GULLWING CHATTER BY DAVID KNUDSON Our cars, once again, will be hyped around the world as the cars of the future The as yet unnamed sequel to Back to the Future is slated to start shooting in February with a release projected for late Fall or early Winter. And, yes, Michael J. Fox will star again. Although the story line is still “under wraps,” in the sequel Michael! will be traveling, instead of back to the past, into the future with his gizmoed DeLorean To go back a moment in time ourselves, for you members who are not B.T.TF to Mr. Spielberg for the first flick. (At that one up for peanuts and change.) Spielberg's crew proceeded to saw up most of them for use as camera cars, The story goes that they tried and tried to get the show to accelerate into the future with its tire spinning and smok ing. But, as any Association member knows, a DeLorean's tires simply won't leave rubber. They finally gave it up, jacked it up, spun the wheels and faked the whole thing, Well, in spite of it all, the movie was incredibly successful and Spielberg added several million more to his checking ac Steven Spielberg's Amblin Productions is at it a aficionados, a total of six cars were sold you could pick count DELOREAN WORLO/WiNTER 1989 "PAGE 17 Get Ready For “BACK TO THE Returning to the present, the show car sat outside at Uni versal Studios and became one of the attractions on their tour package for a couple of years. It was ravaged by the elements and who know what else. So, when it came time to make the sequel, there was surgery to be done Stephen Wynne, one of the Owners of DeLorean One picks up the story from there, “We're taking the cars, one by one, and putting them back in shape for the new movie Some of them have been stored and others haven't “The show car is particularly bad because they left it out side with gasoline in the tank. The fuel pump sealing ring is rubber so the combination of fuel and exposure literally ate the sealing ring away things to be “There are some other Jone on the cars, but that was the most dramatic. Never leave fuel in a DeLorean if you store it After talking to Stephen, I realized the difference between a true DeLorean techie and the rest of the world. Ninety- nine-and-nine-tenths-percent of the world is interested in the cinematics of the movie; the guys that are really into this car are concerned about fuel tanks and door adjustments and those whatchamacallit switches. for one, don’t care much about the movie or the switches, So lynch me! (MORE GULLWING CHATTER PAGE 19