Building it into a time machine in the years that followed, Varrica said, has required 300 to 400 hours of assembly work plus $25,000 in parts and $20,000 in repairs. “My time machine has so ...

Every piece of the car, including the stock DeLorean parts and parts specific to the time machine, were taken off. They even removed the wheels, leaving just a basic frame to work from at one point.

Obviously, the most iconic piece of fictional hardware from the Back to the Future films is Doc Brown’s DeLorean DMC-12 time machine. But we’d have to agree with [Jason Altice] of ...