More “time machine” cars made famous by the Back To The Future blockbuster could be hitting the streets after the iconic film turned 30.

The DeLorean’s silver gull wing door design was immortalised by the 1985 Hollywood film starring Michael J Fox a few years after the collapse of the original manufacturing firm in Northern Ireland.

Now it has emerged around 1,000 doors still exist from the factory in Belfast and are sitting in a warehouse in the US.

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James Espey, vice president of the DeLorean Motor Company, told Xcar website: “We own all the remaining stock of parts that came out of the factory in Belfast and that comprises most of our inventory.

“We do parts sales to shops and owners all around the world as well.”

A customised DeLorean.
(Mark J Terrill/AP)

Around 2,800 parts make up a DeLorean and the Texas-based company, which has no connection with the original firm nor the estate of John DeLorean, has more than 99% of them. It reproduces or rebuilds the rest using the original drawings.

Espey added: “There are about a thousand doors, so to speak, here in the building and the door of course being the most complicated part of the car to reproduce they are almost evenly matched in pairs left and right so about 500 cars would be the maximum.”

The Back To The Future films have ensured the cars retain a cult following after the hero Marty McFly used one to travel back in time.

He accidentally transported himself 30 years into the past, to 1955, when his parents were in high school. Marty’s interference with his parents’ love story intervened with the chances of his own birth, pushing him to do anything to get back “home” to 1985.

When Back To The Future hit cinemas in 1985, it raked in millions of pounds in ticket sales, became the highest-grossing film of the year and landed a sound effects editing Academy Award and three more nominations. Former US President Ronald Reagan quoted the film in his speeches.

The first film was released in 1985, three years after the closure of the original factory in Belfast. Fewer than 9,000 cars had rolled off the production line at the Dunmurry plant.

Details of Matt Hissem's 1981 DeLorean
(William Glasheen/AP)

The unused stock, including millions of spare parts like nuts, bolts and washers, was sold and eventually bought by the new DeLorean Motor Company.