This is what happens to a guy who was probably an adolescent when he saw the movie Back to the Future and really, really wanted a DeLorean but all he could get hold of was a Tesla. So Supercar Blondie had his favorite mechanic shop convert the Tesla into his image of a badass time machine, complete with DeLorean branding and even a vanity plate. It may not be jet-powered, but it's got flamethrowers coming out of the rear! It's also got a "flux capacitor," the "garbage to energy" converter from Back to the Future 2, all the dashboard controls from the movies, and even a hoverboard stashed inside. They went to a lot of trouble to make the electric car sound like a gas-powered machine, because the noise is important.
The Tesla part is in the first eight minutes. Keep watching to see a conversion car from Resident Evil. It has a gun rack, a rocket launcher, an armor cage, and more apocalyptic details. -via Geeks Are Sexy
Fast forward 25 years. Early in my writing career, I made a list of cars as metaphors. I wrote about the DeLorean as a metaphor for "failure." I then found out that the internet was populated by people 10-15 years younger than I am. The readers raked me over the coals, because a DeLorean to them is a "time machine." They were young when Back to the Future came out, and completely missed the joke that the DeLorean was selected for the film because it was a failure (although a pretty cool-looking one). I, being an adult in 1985, really enjoyed the movie but missed how important it became to kids of that time.