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[[File:Barcodelicenseplate.jpg|thumb|300px|The DeLorean's futuristic-looking [[barcode license plate]].]] |
[[File:Barcodelicenseplate.jpg|thumb|300px|The DeLorean's futuristic-looking [[barcode license plate]].]] |
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'''License plates''' were identification tags for vehicles in the [[20th century|20th]] and [[21st century|21st]] centuries. |
'''License plates''' were identification tags for vehicles in the [[20th century|20th]] and [[21st century|21st]] centuries. |
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Revision as of 12:45, 9 January 2017
The DeLorean's futuristic-looking barcode license plate.
- "Then [after the DeLorean time machine had disappeared], a tiny, metallic sound, tinkly in quality, echoed across the lot. His fingers trembling, Marty zoomed in to the object. / It was the DeLorean's license plate, a vanity plate that read: OUTATIME."
- —From Back to the Future by George Gipe (quote, page 50)
License plates were identification tags for vehicles in the 20th and 21st centuries.
Two license plates appeared on the DeLorean time machine:
- OUTATIME: California vanity plate, circa 1985
- 136113966: Barcode license plate, circa 2015
Other license plates seen on-screen were (in order of appearance):
- 1JVB988: Mr. Parker's AMC Eagle, circa 1984
- 6H 96472: Biff Tannen's Ford Super De Luxe Convertible, circa 1955
- 6S 48405: Sam Baines's Chevrolet Bel Air, circa 1955
- 8N 39742: Emmett Brown's Packard, circa 1955
- 3A709T8:[1] George McFly's BMW 733i, circa 1985
- 2EZP916 (Part I) / 2BAK860 (Part II and Part III): Marty McFly's Toyota Hilux 4X4, circa 1985
Note: The above listing refers only to vehicles driven by the main characters in the movies and/or members of their families.
Although California law in 1985 required that a car have two license plates (one for the front and one for the back), some cars — including the DeLorean — only displayed the rear plate. Marty's truck had a front license plate when he opened the garage door on Saturday morning, October 26, but he apparently removed the front plate before he drove the truck the next morning.
Both the 1985 vanity plate and the 2015 barcode plate fell off the DeLorean. In each case, the plate landed upright, on one of its corners, and spun around for a while after falling off. The vanity plate fell off after overheating during the first temporal experiment, and spun on the parking lot of Twin Pines Mall. The barcode plate came off when the DeLorean was destroyed by the impact of being struck by the diesel locomotive; the plate landed on the track after the train had passed, and continued to spin.
Behind the scenes
- License plates are known as registration plates or number plates in the UK.
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See also
Vehicle registration plate on Wikipedia
Vehicle registration plates of the United States on Wikipedia
References
- ↑ As seen in main photograph on page 93 of Back to the Future: The Ultimate Visual History.