The officer then asked “Do you know how fast you were going? You were going 88 mph.”
#BACK TO THE FUTURE DELOREAN BEAMNG.DRIVE WINDOWS#
(Spencer LaGrand White)Īfter the DeLorean stopped, he said, the mother and son were joking with the officer.īecause the DeLorean’s windows are too small, White said, he had to open the vehicle’s gull-wing door to talk to the smiling officer.
A CHP officer's radar gun showing a speed of 88 mph. It wasn’t until the officer was directly behind the vehicle that he realized it was a DeLorean, Greengard said. The officer took off and followed the speeding driver. ‘Do you know how fast you were going? You were going 88 mph’Ī California Highway Patrol officer using lidar, a laser gun that emits a beam of infrared light to measure a vehicle’s speed, was parked on the right freeway shoulder when he clocked in the high speed, said Officer Josh Greengard, a CHP spokesman. He then looked over and asked his giggling 67-year-old mother, “Do you want to take it up to 88?” The mother and son agreed, saying “Yeah, let’s do it.”Īs White pressed his foot on the gas, the gray DeLorean DMC-12 reached 88 mph. White glanced at his speedometer and noticed it was hovering between 84 and 85 mph. White said he got stuck behind a motorist who was driving about 45 mph in the far right lane, so he moved into another lane and sped up to keep pace with traffic. It was the first time White had taken his mother, Michelene, out for a spin on the highway. “If you are going to get a ticket, it’s the dream ticket,” White told The Times.
But the 36-year-old Santa Clarita Valley resident wasn’t transported into the future: He got busted for speeding on the 14 Freeway in Newhall. On Friday night, he achieved another milestone, albeit a costly one, when he reached 88 mph – the magic speed that sent Marty McFly into the future. “Back to the Future” ultra-fan Spencer LaGrand White made his childhood dream come true in April when he saved up enough cash to buy a 1982 DeLorean.
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