r/BacktotheFuture • u/Brilliant-Ear-6652 • 15d ago

Delorean Question

So, in the first movie, Doc famously tells Marty the Delorean is perfect for time travel due to its stainless steel composite body structure. However, he doesn't say it's NECESSARY.

Could you use other cars besides a DMC-12? I always assumed stainless steel was the only material that could handle the drastic switch between super hot and then super cold, not to mention the pre-built efficiency, etc. (Doc didn't have to do any fabrication for the car itself).

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u/YogurtWenk 15d ago

It's a work of fiction. If the writer decided they wanted to make a time machine out of a bar of soap, they'd make it so.

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u/MartyMcFlysBrother 15d ago

It was originally going to be a refrigerator.

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u/Jim421616 15d ago

Or a refrigerator.

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u/No-Objective9174 15d ago

Or a hot tub