00:00Hi, my name is Rich Wiesensell and these are my DeLoreans.
00:17From a limousine to a hovercraft and even a monster truck, Rich Wiesensell has taken his DeLorean obsession to a
00:24new level.
00:26Crazy? Absolutely. I would say without a doubt, DeLorean crazy.
00:31Rich, from Chicago, began creating his radical custom cars after meeting founder John DeLorean 14 years ago.
00:39I met John DeLorean at one of the DeLorean car shows.
00:44I showed him some of my sketches and I told him I'd like to build something like this
00:48and probably thought I was a little bit crazy but he said if you think you can do it, go
00:52for it.
00:53Inspired, the 50-year-old set about turning his creations into a reality, starting with the biggest of them all.
01:00This is my DeLorean monster truck and this is what it sounds like when I fire it up.
01:10Even though it's pretty big, it actually only took me a month to build it.
01:14Built it back in 2002 using a wrecked DeLorean and a wrecked K5 blazer.
01:22We married the two bodies together, body and chassis, and we did some upgrades, including a 12-inch lift kit.
01:32And the building didn't stop there as his new creations came in all shapes and sizes.
01:37The DeLorean limousine is 26 feet long. It's got three sets of gullwing doors, so we have six fully operational
01:44gullwing doors on there.
01:46And that's never been attempted as far as I know on any kind of limousine.
01:50Probably for good reason. They're very difficult to try to get everything lined up exactly right.
01:57He may be aggressive with these designs, but Rich employs a code of conduct.
02:02The DeLorean enthusiast will only use damaged cars for his creations.
02:06I use them primarily because there were so few DeLoreans actually built that I do not want to remove the
02:14good ones from the population.
02:16So I wait till I get damaged cars and I use them for the projects as I come up with
02:22them.
02:24As Rich drives his DeLorean into the distance, he's already planning his next amazing car conversion.
02:31My DeLorean projects are kind of like kids, so it's difficult to pick a favorite.
02:37I have so many different ideas for custom DeLoreans.
02:41I'm not sure if time, money, or my eventual age stopped me from building them.
02:49But as long as I'm able, I will continue to build them.
02:53We'll see you next time.
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