Back To The Future Fan Drives 88 MPH In His DeLorean, Fails To Travel Through Time

"My mom ... she just says, 'Take it up to 88, let's do it.'"

A Back to the Future superfan who owns a DeLorean took it for a drive recently on a California highway, hitting 88 mph but failing to travel through time and only getting a speeding ticket.

KTLA 5 (via Uproxx) brings us the wonderful story of Santa Clarita man Spencer White, who was on the 14 Freeway recently and was zipping along at 85 mph. His mother was in the car with him and gave him some motherly advice: "My mom, she's looking at me and she just says, 'Take it up to 88, let's do it," White said.

White did just that, apparently, and had the DeLorean at 88 mph for "about two seconds" before he spotted a police officer behind him. He got pulled over, and the officer asked if he knew how fast he was going. He said 88 mph, and they both enjoyed a laugh, apparently.

White said he thought at first he would be let off with just a fine, but the officer ended up giving him a ticket for about $400. The officer also let White take a picture of the radar gun that showed 88 mph, apparently. White doesn't sound too upset, however, as he says getting a ticket for driving 88 mph in a DeLorean is the "dream ticket" for people who own the famous car.

As for why White did not travel through time, he says he didn't have his Flux Capacitor installed, and he was out of Plutonium.

https://www.gamespot.com/articles/back-to-the-future-fan-drives-88-mph-in-his-delore/1100-6450429/

EDIT:  Just because I can...

He actually did travel through time and went on a grand adventure. Unfortunate, he traveled back at the exact moment he left and the cops got him.

Time travel is a saucy mistress.

Without Flux compensator? No Plutonium? Kids these days just aren't prepared properly.

The article states that his mum told him to take it to 88mph yet there's a little girl on his lap...

HE'S LYING! IT DID WORK! GREAT SCOTT!

That you and your kid livingmetal? :)

Cool story btw, love that car even if it's mocked constantly for being made out of stainless steel and being a piece of shit. It will always be iconic to me from that movie franchise.

Yes, that was at ComicCom 2017 New Orleans.

Shocking development! I was sure it was gonna work! xD

I sure miss the DeLorean in the Forza games I think it hasn't been in one since Forza Motorsports 4 because of Jeremy Clarkson bad mouth the car in the Forza Vista for it which was later on removed. Anyway with a few modifications any DeLorean can hit 88 mph.

Kid as Batgirl = Good father... just watch out for any jokers around her!

Envy you getting to sit in the movieesque delorean though, they would have needed to use a crow bar to get me outta there if I was allowed sit into it.

This is such a ridiculous news story. Did people actually expect this to work, like seriously? The man didn't even have a real Flux Capacitor or any plutonium, so of course he couldn't travel through time.