Rent a Little Piece of Back to the Future in Ireland
Make like Marty McFly and get out of here. (Photo: AP)
Great Scott! Calling all serious “Back to the Future” fans. Anyone who has ever dreamed of attending the “Enchantment Under the Sea” dance, shopping at Lone Pines Mall or getting married on Oct. 21, 2015, will jump at this new offer in Ireland.
RetroVentures Ireland, a company that specializes in renting classic cars, is now offering visitors the chance to rent a DeLorean to celebrate the 35th anniversary of the production of the first one of the cars. The cars were originally produced in Belfast, Ireland and only about 6,000 of them still exist today.
If you don’t happen to be a fan of the greatest movie trilogy ever made, the DeLorean is the car that Dr. Emmett Brown turns into a time machine and travels through 130 years of Hill Valley history.
RetroVentures managing director, Chris Davidson, says the hunt for the perfect car took him two years.
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“We started looking for a DeLorean DMC-12 almost two years ago and, while we knew they were rare to come by, we hoped we might have been able to find one in Europe,” Davidson said in a statement. “Having widened the net to include North America, we came across one being sold on eBay by a chap in Michigan. We could not believe our luck as it was a one-owner car with just 11,000 miles on the clock!”
That’s pretty good, but no word on whether it contains a flux capacitor or runs on plutonium.
The self drive rental package begins at $568 a day. You can also rent the DeLorean for $227 an hour. It’s pricey to be sure, but the chance to hit 88 miles per hour and head back to Hill Valley in 1955 truly is priceless.
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