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  • - You don't buy a De Lorean unless you want attention.

  • Like, you do want to be out in a De Lorean if you're

  • having a bad day because everybody's honking at you

  • and giving you thumbs up.

  • It's almost like a happiness mobile.

  • Even with like 20 other De Loreans parked around,

  • like, what is the story with this one?

  • (upbeat music)

  • (beeps)

  • First time I saw a De Lorean was in a science museum,

  • I wanna say in 1983, and they had a brand new De Lorean,

  • the car of the future parked in the lobby of the science

  • museum, it became my dream car and I always wanted

  • to own one, but it always seemed like wanting to own,

  • you know, Magnum PI's Ferrari, or the van from the A Team,

  • like something impossible that would never happen.

  • I wrote this novel, Ready Player One, the protagonist

  • is kind of obsessed with ‘80s pop culture, and he loves

  • Doc Brown's time machine, but, he decides to take

  • Doc Brown's time machine and then mash in three more

  • of his favorite 80s super vehicles, the Ghostbuster's

  • ectomobile, Ecto 1, KITT from Knight Rider and then

  • Buckaroo Bansai's jet car.

  • So it has both a flux capacitor for traveling through time

  • and an oscillation over thruster for traveling

  • through solid matter.

  • (upbeat music)

  • I never imagined that I would finish the book or that

  • I would be able to sell it or that it would become a movie

  • but all those things happened, and once I sold the movie

  • rights then I realized I could actually buy a De Lorean

  • finally and then recreate the De Lorean from the book.

  • It makes me a lot more interesting at my book signings

  • when I pull up in a time machine, it's like a traveling

  • ‘80s museum.

  • This is my iPad that I use to control my time circuits.

  • This operates the flux capacitor, but mostly it's just

  • fun like at the stoplight, I just pretend that I'm

  • dropping oil like Spy Hunter, and then I also have KITT.

  • - [KITT] A little consideration would be a beginning.

  • - And my light bar.

  • When I need to clear traffic, because I need to get to,

  • you know, the site of a job and bust a class five

  • full roaming vapor, I can't be sitting in traffic.

  • (upbeat music)

  • I love people who love the things they love so passionately

  • that it's just not enough for them to talk about it,

  • it has to manifest itself in their lives in some way.

  • They have to build their own time machine or they have

  • to cosplay, you know, their favorite character.

  • I'm that kind of person, and so the car is a way for me

  • to do that.

  • (upbeat music)

- You don't buy a De Lorean unless you want attention.

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