Back To The Future fans, listen up! You may or may not be familiar with the story of the late John DeLorean, car engineer and former GM executive, who started his own company only to produce one vehicle before going out of business: the DeLorean DMC-12. The car didn’t sell as well as he had hoped, and DeLorean’s own arrest on drug trafficking charges in 1982 put the kibosh on it for good. But the car was featured as a time machine in the hugely successful movie Back To The Future and captured the imagination of all who saw it. Today its legacy lives on. With an estimated 6,500 still on the road, and an 8 month waiting list for rebuilds from a Texas company that bought the rights to the name, the car clearly still has a dedicated following. And now it looks like it may be making a true comeback in 2008.

According to the L.A. Times, the new DeLorean Motor Co. has plans to put the car back into limited production sometime next year. The idea is to start small, with maybe 20 new cars being produced per year. Whether or not manufacturing will increase from there remains to be seen, but if the demand exists, I would think it’s a possibility. On the other hand, if everyone had one, I suppose they might not seem so special anymore. Hey, by the way, my birthday’s coming up in November people. You know what to do.