Want a new DeLorean? You’ll need a dredger

The car was used as the time machine in the film Back to the Future
The car was used as the time machine in the film Back to the Future
THE KOBAL COLLECTION

If James Espey could travel back in time like Marty McFly, one of his missions would be to stop a salmon farmer from putting the machines that made the doors for the DeLorean car into the sea at Kilkerrin Bay, Galway.

Mr Espey, vice-president of DeLorean Motor Company, said that he had only 1,000 of the gullwing doors left, and would love to use them to produce 500 new models of the car that was used as the time machine in the film Back to the Future. But it is not an option.

“In a perfect world we could make 500 more DeLoreans, but the reality is we need what we have left to replace damaged doors on original cars. The doors are precious