00:00 Hi, my name is Rich Wiesenthal and these are my DeLoreans.
00:17 From a limousine to a hovercraft and even a monster truck, Rich Wiesenthal has taken
00:22 his DeLorean obsession to a new level.
00:25 Crazy?
00:26 Absolutely.
00:28 I would say without a doubt, DeLorean crazy.
00:31 Rich from Chicago began creating his radical custom cars after meeting founder John DeLorean
00:37 14 years ago.
00:39 I met John DeLorean at one of the DeLorean car shows.
00:44 I showed him some of my sketches and I told him I'd like to build something like this
00:48 and probably thought I was a little bit crazy but he said if you think you can do it, go
00:52 for it.
00:53 Inspired, the 50 year old set about turning his creations into a reality.
00:57 Let's dance him with the biggest of them all.
01:00 This is my DeLorean monster truck and this is what it sounds like when I fire it up.
01:11 Even though it's pretty big, it actually only took me a month to build it.
01:15 Built it back in 2002 using a wrecked DeLorean and a wrecked K5 Blazer.
01:22 We married the two bodies together, body and chassis and we did some upgrades including
01:30 a 12 inch lift kit.
01:32 And the building didn't stop there as his new creations came in all shapes and sizes.
01:37 The DeLorean limousine is 26 feet long.
01:40 It's got three sets of gull wing doors so you have six fully operational gull wing doors
01:45 on there and that's never been attempted as far as I know on any kind of limousine.
01:51 Probably for good reason.
01:52 They're very difficult to try to get everything lined up exactly right.
01:57 He may be aggressive with his designs but Rich employs a code of conduct.
02:02 The DeLorean enthusiast will only use damaged cars for his creations.
02:06 I use them primarily because there were so few DeLoreans actually built that I do not
02:12 want to remove the good ones from the population.
02:16 So I wait until I get damaged cars and I use them for the projects as I come up with them.
02:24 As Rich drives his DeLorean into the distance, he's already planning his next amazing car
02:29 conversion.
02:30 My DeLorean projects are kind of like kids so it's difficult to pick a favorite.
02:37 I have so many different ideas for custom DeLoreans.
02:41 I'm not sure if time, money, or my eventual age stopped me from building them.
02:50 But as long as I'm able, I will continue to build them.
02:53 [Music]
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