Back to the drawing board...
Inventor banned by judge from making three-wheel ‘DeLoreans’
AN INVENTOR making bizarre Back to the Future DeLorean cars out of converted Reliant Robins has been banned from carrying on by a judge.
But Tyler Delorean – who claims to be former motor mogul John DeLorean’s secret son – says he would rather go to prison than give up on his dream.
Mr Delorean gained widespread attention when he displayed his cars at a string of motor shows in 2021. The DMC21 vehicles are made from the front end of a vintage three-wheeled Reliant and the back end of a pick-up truck with gullwing doors added.
They resemble a mash-up between the time machine used by Michael J Fox in the Back to the Future films and Del Boy’s van from Only Fools and horses.
But the high Court in London has ordered the inventor, of Newquay, Cornwall, to remove all reference to the DeLorean Motor Company (DMC) after being successfully sued by the Texas-based operation for trademark infringement.
Mr Delorean – who changed his name from Benjamin Granger by deed poll – has been advertising his cars for £20,000 and claims to have signed a deal with Netflix for his story. he had told the court he was ‘creating a parody or a pastiche’.
The DeLorean car, made for just two years near Belfast before the firm went bust in 1982, became an icon after the first Back to the Future movie in 1985.