A Time Machine with style!
If Dave Pringle’s 1981 DeLorean DMC-12 had a flux capacitor and could really fly, he’d be OK with that. He was actually looking for an airplane and not a car when he stumbled across one of the space age sports cars that will forever be linked to the “Back to the Future” film.
“The main reason we went up to look at this car was he also had a Christen Eagle, which is a bi-wing aerobatic plane,” chuckles Pringle, a resident of Stevens Point, Wis. “I was interested in aerobatic flying and I flew aerobatic competitions for several years in that Eagle.
“We walked into a hangar and there it sat. The tires were kind of down and it was full of dirt, but it looked like a pretty neat car. We paid 15 grand for it at that time, I think, and my wife and son drove it home.”
That was about 25 years ago, according to Pringle, and the DeLorean had a paltry 7,000 miles on the odometer at the
