will.i.am has a thing for crazy car customizations.<\/p>\n
He even founded his own car company called\u00a0IAMAUTO.<\/p>\n
One of his builds is a modern take on every \u201990s kids\u2019 dream car: the DMC DeLorean.<\/p>\n
But the process of creating his dream car was far from straight-forward, involving impoundment, lies, and half a million dollars.<\/p>\n
READ MORE: Conor McGregor owns one-of-a-kind Rolls-Royce Ghost with highly customized exterior<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n will.i.am has teamed up with the guys at West Coast Customs<\/a> on more than one occasion.<\/p>\n Most recently they released The Flip, a one-off inspired by the Mercedes-AMG G-Wagen<\/a>.<\/p>\n His take on the DMC DeLorean, however, is his most infamous and controversial mod.<\/p>\n The singer took the car beloved by many for its role in the Back to the Future<\/em> films and gave it a futuristic twist.<\/p>\n His brief to West Coast Customs was to redesign it in a modern way<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/a>West Coast Customs<\/a>West Coast Customs<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s basically what it would look like if they did a new Back to the Future<\/em>,\u201d Ryan Friedlinghaus, the repair shop CEO said.<\/p>\n They started with a classic DeLorean as the base.<\/p>\n According to Friedlinghaus<\/a>, the car was overhauled to the point that the only original pieces left were the door hinges.<\/p>\n They widened the body by eight inches, adding 20-inch multi-fin wheels to accommodate for the wider size.<\/p>\n One of the most striking features is the brake light, which is one huge LED light.<\/p>\n Inside will.i.am opted for wooden floors, leather upholstery and stainless steel trim, giving it a retro look.<\/p>\n He installed an iPad into the dashboard which, back in 2012, was a novel concept.<\/p>\n Of course, it wouldn\u2019t be a musician\u2019s car without a totally revamped sound system, and this DeLorean is powered by Beats by Dre<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/a>West Coast Customs<\/a>West Coast Customs<\/p>\n He took out the old engine and put in a GM LS3 E-Rod V8 unit.<\/p>\n Naturally, when you mess with an old classic<\/a> people on the internet are going to have some opinions about it.<\/p>\n \u201cThat is a Deplorean,\u201d one commenter said.<\/p>\n \u201cSome of this looks okay but why did you have to slaughter a DeLorean for it?\u201d another said.<\/p>\n In total will.i.am spent $500,000 on this futuristic car, adding his own logo to the grille as the finishing touch.<\/p>\n But this is where things got strange.<\/p>\n First, the singer went on Jay Leno\u2019s talk show and lied about how he built the car.<\/p>\n He said the vehicle was built from scratch using Chrysler parts.<\/p>\n This was a weird move considering West Coast Customs televised their customization process, clearly starting with a DeLorean<\/a> DMC-12.<\/p>\n Next, he accidentally got the car impounded for driving without license plates or a VIN number.<\/p>\n Then posted on X that someone had stolen his car, forgetting that he\u2019d given it to the valet to park.<\/p>\n And lastly, he just gave it away, after hearing that J Balvin<\/a> was a fan of the car.<\/p>\n Presumably, he was fed up with all the drama.<\/p>\n The post will.i.am\u2019s custom DeLorean DMC has been plucked from the future<\/a> appeared first on Supercar Blondie<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" will.i.am has a thing for crazy car customizations. He even founded his own car company called\u00a0IAMAUTO. One of his builds is a modern take on every \u201990s kids\u2019 dream car: the DMC DeLorean. But the process of creating his dream car was far from straight-forward, involving impoundment, lies, and half a million dollars. READ MORE: …<\/p>","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":42807,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[82,72],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-society","category-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42806\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}