De Lorean EuroTec

I just saw a fragment of BTTF where marty keeps hitting hit head to the door because of a bad gas spring, something hit me:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088763/trivia?tr0798779

"The script never called for Marty to repeatedly bang his head on the gull-wing door of the DeLorean; this was improvised during filming as the door mechanism became faulty."

"The gas-powered struts that hold the De Lorean's gullwing doors open would fail during the course of filming a take, so crew members had to be on stand-by with hairdryers to warm them up to stop the doors from drooping. "

Why? The car was 2 (TWO!) years old at the time of shooting the BTTF movie. I've had my struts for over 10 years and they're still tight as a [beep]. Were the original struts THAT bad?

Probably not helped by the car being sprayed with liquid nitrogen for the frosty look, and all the other general abuse it must have gone through during the filming.

Dan 6457 wrote:Probably not helped by the car being sprayed with liquid nitrogen for the frosty look, and all the other general abuse it must have gone through during the filming.

Lol. "Other general abuse". That coming from a man who does not know what a speed limit is..

Lol good one Rob But I disagree about that being classed as abuse. Abuse of the law yeah but not abuse of the D

Dan 6457 wrote:Lol good one Rob But I disagree about that being classed as abuse. Abuse of the law yeah but not abuse of the D

I have no clue about any other general abuse

I heard a certain person drove it out of Doc Brown's garage, and it was never the same since!

good one Arran