How was the DeLorean chosen for the project?
My teacher had a penchant to pick interesting, well known things to do for the cardboard project. In past quarters, his classes also constructed Alien and Predator models, and our class almost did the Millenium Falcon from Star Wars, but we ended up settling on the DeLorean, because our teacher wanted to do something that wasn't from a sci-fi movie, neccessarily. Believe it or not, the DeLorean was MY idea! I had the idea to do the DeLorean from Back to the future, with the flux capacitor and such, although my teacher decided instead to get the normal DeLorean model, since it was less complicated.

Any other interesting anecdotes about the project?
In the process of making our seperate pieces, our class would often joke that we should actualy hook up a real radio to the dash, put a real engine in it and drive it around, and all sorts of silly things.

The DeLorean was also featured in the Spring issue of a UK car magazine. I'm not exactly sure which one. No idea how they found out about it, but shortly after we'd put it on display outside Hopkins, our teacher was contacted about the article and asked for pictures of the car.

[The magazine saw your project posted here and asked for more information. At the time all we knew was the location of the car and that Josh's sister found it. With that they found your class.]