DeLorean buffed to mirror-finish

On the Autopia forums, AkamaiDetailing recently unveiled his brushed-steel DeLorean, polished and buffed to a mirror finish: "This took an insane amount of time, but it was so worth it. Has anyone else done this before?" They have indeed.

• [bigyup]

  so cool but what’s that like for other drivers on a sunny day? 

  • [Bad Juju]

    What ever do you mean?

  • [Guest]

     Not sure, but I bet nobody hi-beams him!

• [Ceronomus]

  A true thing of beauty….

• [Mike Grusin]

  As an alternative to the insane amount of labor this takes, I’ve heard that there are companies that will polish Airstream trailers to a mirror finish for $100-ish / linear foot.

  • [Ipo]

    Sure, and think how much more effort it takes to polish stainless steel than it does to polish the aluminum Airstreams.  

• [Richard Schneider]

  How’s driving west at sunset?

  • [Eric Gates]

    I was thinking that too.  I feel truly sorry for anyone who accidentally gets a bright reflection in the face while trying to get his family home safely.

    • [Stahlbrand]

      Yeah, because nobody has ever washed and waxed their car to the point where the sun glints brightly on it.  Stay humourless.

      • [zarray]

        And polarized sunglasses are such a rare commodity.

        • [Guest]

           and concern is in short supply! :P

        • [Georg Holderied]

          Polarized sunglasses don’t work on reflections off metal surfaces.

      • [mambobananapatch]

        I guess you just don’t understand the difference between a waxed car and a fucking mirror on wheels. Chromed cars and accessories are not even legal in most jurisdictions run by thinking people.

        And just to show you I’m not humourless:

        Why did the monkey fall out of the tree?

        Because it was dead.

    • [Joseph Brown]

      you need to get a big hummer.  with tinted windows.  to protect your family.

    • [dolo54]

      Think of the children!!

    • [Guest]

      Indeed, you could get sunburned quite badly. All depends where the sun is shining from.

    • [Chris Bradshaw]

      There are big trucks with shiny aluminum fuel trailers all over the freeways, I’m sure families will be just fine …

  • [OgilvyTheAstronomer]

    I’ve noticed that there’s a transportation corollary to Murphy’s Law: One always tends to drive east in the morning and west in the afternoon.

    • [Donald Petersen]

      My dad had some cancerous lesions removed from the left side of his face and left forearm as a result of several years of commuting southeast in the morning and heading back northwest in the afternoon.

• [Shibi_SF]

  Where is the flux capacitor?

• [Tyler Roy-Hart]

  perfect for transporting cocaine, and doing cocaine off of the hood. elegant.

• [Dave Jenkins]

  I’ve thought about doing this with my Vespa Rally 200.

• [Andy]

  That is bad ass. Love it! Wish my neighbor down the street would do that with the two that are rotting in his yard.

  • [OgilvyTheAstronomer]

    I used to walk past the two rotting in the Universal Studios parking lot (one of them in full Flux Capacitor detail). This was in the 90′s, I hope they have been rescued since.

• [Andy]

  Hey wait, my old Range Rover classic is an aluminum body, I should strip it and polish it. %-

  • [Guest]

    because that’s just like stainless steel?

    • [dculberson]

      Aluminum takes a polish quite well!

      • [Guest]

        The shiny outside of my foil hat agrees with you!

• [craig]

  does it come with compementary white gloves to help minimize the fingerprint problem?

  • [zarray]

    You just pop back in time before the fingerprint took place.

• [Donald Petersen]

  I’ve always wondered why more DeLorean drivers didn’t do this.  I didn’t realize it was quite so labor-intensive.  But I never understood why someone would pay so much for a car that looked like a commercial pizza oven.

  Nor one that looks so speedy, but is handily beaten in a drag race by a Toyota minivan.

• [awjt]

  1.21 jigawatts??  Fry an egg on it for me.

• [Hanglyman]

  I bet it would look even better on one of the three gold DeLoreans.

• [koko szanel]

  http://cdn.humansinvent.com.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/vinylmain1.jpg
  same taste

  • [Donald Petersen]

    Probably hits 88 mph faster, too.

  • [manicbassman]

    note the matt black bonnet (hood for USAnians)… wonder if the DeLorean owner has thought about being blinded driving into low sun? Nope… he hasn’t

• [steveboyett]

  Suh-weet! American Express commissioned limited-edition gold DeLoreans. See http://www.entermyworld.com/gallery/gold-deloreans?pg=3

• [jimh]

  Now there’s a car I can see myself in.

• [pjcamp]

  I guess if you bought a Delorean, it isn’t surprising that you have a lot of time on your hands.

• [DiabloD3]

  This guy is still above the idiots who paint their DeLoreans. It is still not as good as stock.

• [dustindriver]

  I respectfully disagree. Not because it could blind other motorists. Because the mirror finish confuses the excellent lines of the car. It’s a Giugiaro masterpiece, for cryin’ out loud.

• [Shank Lemons]

  [sigh] Such an eighties thing to do…

• [Daniel Latta]

  OMG Cylon! KILL IT!!!

  • [IronEdithKidd]

    You made me giggle out loud.
      
    Toaster, FTW.

• [Benjamin Bertrand]

  Great. Now finish the rims! 

• [retepslluerb]

  This’ll go great with a $20.000  Vertu phone. 

  • [guanto]

    Yeah, the phone looks like DeLorean poo!

• [Vicky Van]

  Princess Amidala would love this.

• [Jim Schmidt]

  To quote a co-worker: “That’s… that’s a Hot Wheels car!”

• [Gino G Gori]

  Looks like the Oregon Duck helmet!

• [Mladen Kalinic]

  I wannaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

• [gellfex]

  “Nor one that looks so speedy, but is handily beaten in a drag race by a Toyota minivan. ”

  That’s not saying much, today’s cars are so overpowered. I heard a V6 Rav4 beats Magnum PI’s Ferrari 0-60.

  • [Donald Petersen]

    Top Gear did it with a Camry, which is the same drivetrain, so you’re probably right.  I know my own Rav4 is a lot faster than it needs to be.  Which is A-OK with me.

• [Standish]

  Don’t think it would be a danger on the road – people don’t seem to have too much trouble with polished Airstreams, truck bumpers, and tanker trailers.
  It does look a bit tacky though, especially on a dirty street. Here’s a pic of a UK soccer player’s chrome Aston Martin. (Excuse the nasty Daily Mail link with their standard classist (and probably racist?) ‘people with more money than sense’ griping.

  http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2064124/Jermaine-Pennant-chrome-Aston-Martin.html  

• [Paul]

  I just realized that, from this angle, the Delorean is a Space-Pinto!