Curtis Perry Outtake: Back To The Farm
– Posted on April 10, 2020
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ONE POINT TWENTY-ONE GIGAWATTS?!!
Great Scott!!!!
And Jerry Lewis is vice president.
(Not a bad world methinks).
“Yes you better be thinking about yer future Mr. Eastwood!” “I think about it every day Ma’am!”
Once the major department stores pulled out of Twin Pines mall it was only a matter of time
This looks like it could be a screen cap from a scene of a low budget Vestron Video horror release from 1981. Starring Michael Ironside as ‘The Stranger’, Robert Donner as ‘The Farmer’, and Elvira as herself. With the soundtrack by Molly Hatchet and Devo.
The appearance of the DeLorean comprising the greatest expense in the movie.
Haha, I’d watch that!
Molly Hatchet? That idea is Flirtin With Disaster!
Few things say Molly Hatchet like a yard full of empty bottles and wrecked Ford pickups.
…and mullets. With this Coronavirus quarantine in effect, I’ll be rockin a mullet before long. Perhaps its time for me to get a junked boat and a thrashed Dodge pickup.
The stainless steel body must have been prone to fingerprint smudges. When these were new, I seen one in a parking lot with a note in window, “Please don’t touch! It feels just like your Stainless Steel kitchen sink !”
The guy must had to carry a bottle of polish and a rag wherever he went.
SAW. You SAW one.
Old man Peabody owned all of this. He had this crazy idea about breeding Ford trucks
If it wasn’t for those films, this car would be just as important as the Bricklin SV-1. Which is to say, not very.
They built about three times as many DeLoreans as there were Bricklins produced. I imagine the Bricklin was a bigger deal in Canada and the DeLorean will be remembered longer in the US and Northern Ireland. Looking at it another way, their production runs were only separated by six years, but I have only ever seen one Bricklin on the road and that was in 1995. I still see the odd DeLorean and know two people who’ve owned them in the past five years.
John Delorean had some real bonafides (until he got caught trying to do a drug deal). He was a mover-and-shaker at Pontiac with cars like the 1964 GTO and 1969 Grand Prix.
Malcolm Bricklin was/is a low-life charlatan whose biggest claim-to-fame other than the SV1 and Yugo was importing the Subaru 360. And, like any quick-buck huckster, he sold Subaru which, today, is a real player in the auto industry (which is quite a feat for anyone).
And, yet, of the two, Delorean died an ignominious death, sadly trying to sell trademarked watches from Grand Rapids, while Bricklin carries on, a few years ago trying to import Chinese Chery vehicles to the US which ended in typical, prolonged legal squabbles (Bricklin got $2 million).
Today, the 80 year-old Bricklin is trying to raise (i.e., steal) start-up funding to produce a vaporware, 3-wheel EV (the Bricklin 3EV).
DeLorean was completely exonerated on that drug bust, a shameful attempt by a career criminal named James Hoffman who struck a deal with the DEA to frame John Z on videotape in exchange for a reduced sentence for a crime he was currently serving, despite DeLorean having no criminal record or any interest in the drug trade prior to that incident. I won’t trudge through the details here but they are well documented. Unfortunately the “not guilty” verdict due to entrapment received far less press than the sensationalized arrest, and came too late to save his company.
There are lots of places out in the country here (central VA) that look just like that (minus the DeLorean of course)!
It’s the same way in SC (where I live), especially on secondary roads & near salvage shops. You never know WHAT you’ll find at those places. The DeLorean certainly sticks out like a sore thumb! The remains of the brown Ford directly left of the DeLorean could very well be a trailer now, and I know for a fact THIS a definite trend in the south!
Below is my 2nd road train attempt with the Nissan Trailer & S-10 Trailer hitched together behind my ’05 Astro, done back in November last year. As I would imagine–with further proof towing my newly acquired car trailer–the 4.3L Vortec is a powerhouse in the Astro. The only thing that kept my speed down were moderate signs of trailer sway. No worries though b/c this won’t be a regular thing! 🙂
Wow, what a sight!
Why does a Delorean still look like the future to me?
“Stan suddenly sat bolt-upright with a brilliant idea could it be that with a stainless Delorean, some electrical cables and a small battery, rusting Ford trucks could be a thing of the past? And thus began his doomed experiments in anodes combined with time travel.”
The designer of the Bricklin was a free lancer, named Herb Grasse. Before he passed away 10 years ago, I had the fortune of meeting him many years ago in Japan. He was a Jerry Garcia type of guy.
We had a great conversation about design and about the Bricklin. I gave him props for being ahead of his time… excluding an ash tray in the interior design. He corrected the myth. During the media launch, a writer asked the whereabouts of the ash tray. It was only at that time that he and the small Bricklin team realized they completely forgot about packaging an ash tray. So, Herb made up the story that it was a design decision, aligned with the SV-1 mission as a safety vehicle and that smoking while driving was not safe. Not only was he a great designer, he was quick on his feet.
So the Bricklin designer “was a Jerry Garcia type of guy”? Surely the folks at Ben & Jerry’s should have no trouble conjuring up an ice cream flavor honoring someone named Herb Grasse…
“Where we’re going Marty, We don’t need roads!”