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Back to the Future Time Traveling Scion TC

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For halloween my son wanted to do a Back to the Future (BTTF) Theme this year. He wanted me to get a real BTTF DMC reproduction for $60,000 on ebay. After I got off the floor from passing out We came up with a way more affordable way to do this. Why not make one out of my Scion TC. So we did. It probably cost about $100 bucks to do this. We have the Flux Capacitor, an iPad time calculator and the Plutonium case which doubles as our candy dish.

Check out the video in HD:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qf7AEI-SD9k&hd=1

20 comments

Nov 4, 2010. 7:38 PM

possum888 says:

That is the COOLEST thing I have ever seen! I want to do this to my Mini now...

Nov 4, 2010. 11:21 PM

mikeasaurus says:

1.21 gigawatts? Great Scott!

Nov 12, 2010. 8:32 PM

cowtasticfilms (author) says:

Check out this cool video we made of the time machine actually working.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qf7AEI-SD9k&sns=em

Jan 19, 2011. 5:18 PMsoups101 says:

this is cool it looks beter than the one in the movie

Jan 19, 2011. 6:36 PM

cowtasticfilms (author) says:

Thanks, Check out the video we made.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qf7AEI-SD9k

Jan 20, 2011. 6:56 AMsoups101 says:

your welcome

Jan 20, 2011. 6:56 AMsoups101 says:

your welcome

Jan 29, 2011. 11:39 AMindustrifox says:

Oh comon the Futureshock can never be replaced! The Delorean made the machine, dude. I agree still very cool modification. The first thing in my head I envisioned after seeing this pic was my Cobalt done up like that ha!

Jun 19, 2011. 11:08 PMdmaney says:

'What are you deff and stupid!?"

Aug 19, 2011. 9:24 PMlance_spikes says:

That is def one of a kind...I have a Scion TC also but mine is white with a rear spoiler cant do this theme but looking for any advise as to what theme i could have since halloween is coming soon. thanks

Aug 21, 2011. 6:33 PM

cowtasticfilms (author) says:

How about the Speed Racer mark 5 or the James bond lotus sub.

Nov 5, 2010. 7:01 PMVissy says:

I forgot to say how COOL this is. Especially the left side outer prop. Held on with magnets?

This looks better than some DeLorean mods ive seen.

Nov 19, 2010. 8:09 PM

cowtasticfilms (author) says:

Actually held on with Velcro.

Nov 12, 2010. 7:57 PMGizmo64 says:

Imagine you happened to have a delorean...

Nov 10, 2010. 8:20 PMFayegiga says:

Only one of the coolest uncles on the planet could put this together! This was awsome!

Nov 4, 2010. 10:40 PM

kelseymh says:

That is seriously awesome. Where did you get (or make?) the smaller props (newspaper, sports almanac, etc.)? Did you take enough pictures during the build to put together an actual Instructable (or few)?

Nov 5, 2010. 6:28 AM

cowtasticfilms (author) says:

The cool thing about a Halloween Prop is I have to take it apart so I video taped this and will submit it as an instructable.

Nov 9, 2010. 1:54 AMbryandhispup says:

you mean you actually take this off? No way, I'd be the nerd driving around with it on all the time!

Nov 5, 2010. 6:57 PMVissy says:

You can get BTTF "kits" on eBay from people that bought them and resell copies...sort of unethical, but for the $10 or so, you get the clocktower flier, the "VOTE FOR MAYOR" poster, the fading Marty picture, all kinds of stuff.

I usually make movie props myself, its fun. Did you make these?

Nov 5, 2010. 3:29 PMCB2001 says:

Doc, are you trying to tell me, you made a time machine..... Out of a Scion?