Japan’s Michihiko Iwamoto, 51, has been a huge fan of Back to the Future ever since he saw the movie some 30 years ago. As the head of a company called Jeplan, he teamed up with NBC Universal Entertainment to create a new version of Doc Brown’s DeLorean, one which runs not on organic waste but rather bioethanol made from cotton fibre of old clothes. And it works, although as a car, not a time machine!
To make the pop culture reference even more real, the unique DeLorean will hit the streets of Tokyo on October 21st, 2015 – the exact date Marty and Doc visit in the future.
“My three decade-long dream will finally come true,” Iwamoto told the Asahi Shimbum . “We have been working to complete the machine by this date.”
Clothes used to make the bioethanol fuel come from all parts of Japan and are transformed at the Jeplan plant.