DIY DeLorean DMC-12 Time Machine Paper Model

The DeLorean time machine is a fictional automobile-based time travel vehicle device featured in the Back to the Future franchise. In the feature film series, Dr. Emmett L. Brown builds a time machine from a retrofitted DMC DeLorean car, to gain insights into history and the future. Instead, he and Marty McFly end up using it to travel across 130 years of Hill Valley history to change the past for the better and to undo the negative effects of time travel. The car requires 1.21 gigawatts of power, and needs to travel 88 miles per hour so it can time travel. One of the cars used in filming is on display in a museum in Paarl, South Africa. The official Back to the Future DeLorean can be viewed at the Petersen Automotive Museum. The control of the time machine is the same in all three films. The operator is seated inside the DeLorean, and turns on the time circuits, activating a unit containing multiple fourteen- and seven-segment displays that show the destination (red), present (green), and last-departed (yellow) dates and times. After entering a target date, the operator accelerates the car to 88 miles per hour (141.6 km/h), which activates the flux capacitor. As it accelerates, several coils around the body glow blue/white while a burst of light appears in front of it. Surrounded by electrical current similar to a Tesla coil, the whole car vanishes in a flash of white/blue light seconds later, leaving a pair of fiery tire tracks. A digital speedometer is attached to the dashboard so that the operator can accurately gauge the car's speed. The production crew chose the velocity simply because they liked how it looked on the speedometer. The actual speedometer on the DeLorean's dashboard only goes up to 85 MPH, and that the car itself was criticized for being under-powered.

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