“It is fantastic,” DeLorean chief executive Stephen Wynne told Texas radio station KPRC. Now a American government initiative allows new models to be made for the first time in 35 years. It has emerged that around 1,000 doors still exist from the factory in Belfast and they are sitting in a warehouse in the US.
The DeLorean’s silver gull wing door design was immortalised by the 1985 Hollywood film starring Michael J Fox a few years after the collapse of the original manufacturing firm in Northern Ireland. A small number of the “time machine” cars made famous by Back To The Future could be produced by next year, the DeLorean Motor Company has said.
