During my senior year of high school, I had the idea to make my own version of Back to the Future with my friends, using my family's 1990 Ford Tempo as the time machine. I wrote a script, but we didn't have time to pursue it until after graduation, when we did decorate the car.
A Ford Tempo is a poor stand-in for a DeLorean, but it is the best we could do.
We didn't do much with the front of the car, aside from stringing a wire over the hood. The more interesting modifications were in the back.
A large stereo speaker with an aluminum grill was strapped to the flat trunk lid, and faired in with black cardboard. Flexible hose from an old canister vacuum led through the rear windows, blanked with more cardboard, with more vacuum piping for exhaust.
We even made a futuristic "OUTATIME" license plate from aluminum foil.
I'm not actually sure if all this stuff would have stayed in place if we had driven the car like this. We never actually got that far.
The interior also had some modifications for time travel.
A plasma globe between the front seats stood in for the flux capacitor. it was plugged into a power inverter so it would actually light up in the car.
We also built a control panel, mostly out of random electrical junk, old watches, and a broken spellchecker. Some of the lights did light up, though, and I actually still use the graphing calculator. Unfortunately, the car met an untimely end soon after this, and we never actually made the movie, but looking back I think building the time machine would have still been the most fun part of the project anyway.
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