Fan Expo Canada drew thousands of costumed fans to downtown Toronto for celebrity panels, family activities and pop culture memorabilia. A DMC DeLorean replica celebrated the 40th anniversary of Back to the Future and drew long photo lines. The iconic sports car, with sleek grey design and gull wings, belongs to Samantha Frank and her husband, who bought it 15 years ago and transformed it from a stock DeLorean. They scoured parts worldwide and welded movie-specific components, including a dashboard with time coordinates and a Flux Capacitor. Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd attended anniversary panels. The DeLorean is fully functional mechanically, minus time travel.
The iconic sports car, with sleek grey design and gull wings, belongs to Samantha Frank and her husband, who say they revamped an old DeLorean to mirror the time machine used in the Back to the Future films, which first came out in 1985. "We bought this car 15 years ago as a stock DeLorean and my husband wanted to sell it in order to buy a Viper," Frank said on Saturday. "I wanted a time machine."
So the two of them scoured for parts from all over the world, and Frank's husband welded on the components specific to the movie-version of the car, including a dashboard with time co-ordinates and a Flux Capacitor. Many of the stars of the 1985 smash hit were on hand at the expo Friday to talk about the film and answer questions from fans,
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