Keep in mind the Delorean isn\'t a multi-million dollar collector car (probably mid 5 figures at best for a nice one) so certainly doable for something like TPIR (especially in a PG where it\'s not likely it\'ll be given away anyway)
Well, when it was launched its sticker price was $25,000 so maybe
Hmmm...the first few years of Perry\'s Sale of the Century. Maybe part of the prize package offered on either Name That Tune or during the $1M Chance of a Lifetime\'s second season.
Yep- TPIR gave one away in 1981 during one of their home viewer contests..here\'s the clip showing it from the ep where the winner was announced..
http://youtu.be/TCTSg6wAB1Q
(SoTC started too late- they only made DeLoreans in 81 and 82).
Great clip, thanks for sharing. First time I\'ve seen that. Further proof editing must have been invented in 1993 or something.
-Jason
Yep- TPIR gave one away in 1981 during one of their home viewer contests..here\'s the clip showing it from the ep where the winner was announced..
http://youtu.be/TCTSg6wAB1Q
(SoTC started too late- they only made DeLoreans in 81 and 82).
Hmmmm....if they found one, they could have used it to go back 1-2 years and get more.
/Provided it has a flux capacitor.
And also provided that the Flux Capacitor can produce the 1.21 Gigawatts of power
But once the thing reaches 88 miles an hour...
...you\'re gonna see some serious (BLANK).
Great clip, thanks for sharing. First time I\'ve seen that. Further proof editing must have been invented in 1993 or something.
I\'m surprised GSN aired it. They used to skip the segments with the Home Viewer Showcases, although, IIRC, except for when the showcase was first announced, they didn\'t go into any details about the prizes - it was mainly Johnny discussing the rules - so there wasn\'t really a need to show most of them.
(One detail I do remember: the DeLorean\'s price was \"FOB Port of Entry\". Presumably, that means that the price includes the shipping cost from where it arrived in the USA to where it was stored, which they didn\'t bother to mention.)
(One detail I do remember: the DeLorean\'s price was \"FOB Port of Entry\". Presumably, that means that the price includes the shipping cost from where it arrived in the USA to where it was stored, which they didn\'t bother to mention.)
(One detail I do remember: the DeLorean\'s price was \"FOB Port of Entry\". Presumably, that means that the price includes the shipping cost from where it arrived in the USA to where it was stored, which they didn\'t bother to mention.)
Nope, that basically means the price only includes shipping to where it arrived into the U.S. -- the buyer/winner would be responsible for it from that point on (either driving it from there, or paying to have it shipped). For more info, see this Wikipedia article.
Then they still have the problem of having to guess the shipping cost from where it was made (Northern Ireland?) to where it arrived in the USA.
And it was produced in Belfast, Northern Ireland. This was one (of several) major problems with the car. As John DeLorean built the plant in Northern Ireland during the height of \"The Troubles\" and decreed that he wanted Protestants and Catholics to work together on the shop floor, to promote unity. This is very noble, but to put it in modern terms, it would be a bit like opening a car factory in Iraq and deciding to have the Sunnis and Shi\'ites working together...it was doomed to failure.
And also provided that the Flux Capacitor can produce the 1.21 Gigawatts of power
Great Scott! 1.21 gigawatts! I suppose plutonium is available on every single street corner in 1985!
--Charlie