#A HOVER CAR INSTALL#

The extra nines in the price of a hover conversion are a comment on the inflated prices expected in the future, and the marketing tactic of quoting prices just five cents less than a round number. As the owner of the largest chain of low-cost auto body repair shops in the U.S., his well-known tagline in the 1950s originally stated, 'I'll paint any car any color for only $29.99', but by the 1980s his price had increased to $39.99.

The $39,999.95 cost of a hover conversion is most likely a reference to Earl Scheib's television commercials in the 1980s.

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#A HOVER CAR INSTALL#

An article titled CAR OWNERS REVOLT was billed in the Newsline column in the October 22 issue of USA Today, and a news story titled Auto rebels form organization appeared at the bottom of the front page.Ī Newsline column of the October 22 issue of USA Today also billed an article titled MOTHERS AGAINST DRUNK FLYING HIRES NEW LOBBYIST, which mentioned that Katie Pearson was leading a campaign to install kill-switch breathalyzers in flying cars. It can only be assumed that Goldie Wilson Hover Conversion Systems also carried out the work in this case.Īccording to the Newsline column on the front page of the Octoissue of USA Today, a man had been killed by falling litter 'thrown from a hovering vehicle'.Ī group of individuals, led by Maynard Hornbuckle III, vice president for consumer affairs of the auto watchdog group Edsel Inc., had begun to boycott automakers and refuse to buy a new automobile for the next three years, because Hornbuckle felt that car owners were not getting the value they deserved and the cost of owning and operating a family car was 'absolutely astronomical'. The Jules Verne Train Doc built after becoming stuck in 1885 was also hover converted in 2015. and his sister Marlene were sent to jail for being involved in a robbery plot. It would appear that at some point afterwards Doc discovered Marty McFly Jr. Nobody would ever believe this.' -From Back to the Future Part II by Craig Shaw Gardner (quote, page 11)Ī hover conversion was an application to a ground vehicle to enable it to fly. Marty and Jennifer looked at each other. That meant they had to be flying! / Doc gunned the car into the sky. That meant the tires were no longer touching the ground.

Marty leaned over the top of the door just enough to see that the wheels were rotating ninety degrees to flatten beneath the bottom of the car. FUSION HOME ENERGY CENTER, hit it and grinned with satisfaction as the DeLorean rolled about a hundred yards down the street, blasted off into the sky trailing a thin flume of silver smoke, and then disappeared.' -From Back to the Future by George Gipe (quote, page 248) ' He reached out to the dashboard and flicked a switch that Marty didn't recognize.

' He pointed to a new switch on the dashboard labeled MR.

Marty sees Goldie Wilson's hover conversion commercial on a holobillboard in 2015.ĭoc flies the DeLorean to the roof of Biff Tannen's Pleasure Paradise Casino & Hotel to rescue Marty McFly in 1985A.ĭoc sees flying cars, as well as the hovering greeting sign, on his first visit to Hill Valley in 2015 in IDW Publishing's Back to the Future: Untold Tales and Alternate Timelines 4: 'Emmett Brown Visits the Future'. The DeLorean hovers in 1985 before it takes off for 2015.

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