They renamed the shop "DeLorean One" and opened a second garage in Houston in 1987.
Delorean died in March, 23 years after his sports car venture bit the dust.
Though the film immortalized the DeLorean DMC-12, DeLorean the man had faded from the limelight.
DeLorean positioned his cars as safer and more "ethical" than those produced by GM.
The British band Neon Neon devoted its entire 2008 album, Stainless Style, to DeLorean.
At least four movie projects--some backed by DeLorean's children--are making the rounds in Hollywood.
DeLorean was an honor student, ran track and wrote a humor column at Cass Technical High School.
None of this adulation would have surprised DeLorean himself, who built 9, 000 DMC-12s before his FBI bust.
"People like the car for the car, " emphasizes Stephen Wynne, the 54-year-old CEO of DeLorean Motor Co.
Next month Mattel's Hot Wheels DeLorean edition will begin its fifth product run in the past year.
In March Wynne sold his first DeLorean franchise to a customer in Florida whom he's known for years.
With its brushed stainless steel shell, gull-wing doors and low, wide profile, the DeLorean was an exotic creature.
Not possessing Doc Brown's DeLorean time traveler, we'll have to use our brains and instincts to discover the answers.
Wynne has also licensed the DeLorean image and logo to Sony for use in the videogame Gran Turismo 4.
Like all DeLorean mechanics, Wynne had been buying replacement parts from Kapac Co.
Unfortunately, the crystal is still a long way from the Mr. Fusion-powered, time-traveling DeLorean that we truly desire.
Last November Nike's 6.0 Dunk SE DeLorean sneakers sold out online in minutes.
They want a toy rather than a serious car, and the DeLorean packs just enough nostalgia to seal the deal.
Wynne discovered that while DeLorean Motor was still tied up in Chapter 11, registration of the company name had lapsed.
Talkshow host Johnny Carson, a DeLorean investor, was among the first to be seen pootling around LA in his DMC-12.
Headroom inside is limited, but the car is 6 feet wide with ample legroom (good enough for the 6-foot-4 DeLorean himself).
While in California Wynne heard that a company called Kapac had DeLorean engineering data and thousands of spare parts lying fallow.
Against all expectations--and possibly common sense--the DeLorean is back in limited production, and with it has come a boomlet in DeLoreaniana.
At 135hp the DeLorean is less peppy than the average family sedan.
Let's fire up Doc Brown's DeLorean time-traveler and return to 1976.
Stephen Wynne, the head of DeLorean Motor Company, thinks so.
The ban on Andersen, imposed in the wake of the DeLorean car scandal in Belfast, was lifted soon after Labour came to power in 1997.
In 1997 he bought out Kapac's stocks for under a million dollars and by 1999 was the proud owner of all DeLorean branding rights and subsidiaries.
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