Dad Turns Pushchair Into “Back To The Future” DeLorean

[Photo: Lunchbox Dad]

In case you’re not familiar with Beau Coffren, aka Lunchbox Dad, he’s pretty crafty. He’s known for jazzing up his children’s lunchboxes with fun character drawings and designs, to tempt them to eat up.

But now the dad-of-three has taken his DIY skills to another level, all for his love of “Back to the Future.” He converted a regular pushchair into the cult film’s iconic DeLorean – all in celebration of yesterday’s “Back to the Future Day.”

Using PVC pipe, cardboard, duct tape and a few other items, he craftily transformed a Britax B-Agile pushchair into the epic time machine – or a version of, anyway.

[Photo: Lunchbox Dad]

“I have been waiting for this day since I was a kid,” Coffren, based in the US, wrote on his website yesterday. “It is finally the exact date that Marty McFly, Jennifer, and Doc Brown traveled to the future in the movie Back to the Future II. I thought it would be a great chance to celebrate building a time traveling DeLorean Stroller.”

Explaining he was inspired to start the project after seeing another dad make one out of a ride-on kids toy a few years ago, Coffren got to work on the DeLorean a couple of months ago.

“I knew I wanted to build the DeLorean out of cardboard but I also knew that I needed a lightweight frame to put it on,” wrote Coffren. “PVC pipe would work well because it is light, but also flexible. I spray-painted it black so that you couldn’t see any of the pieces once assembled. I also cut and spray-painted the cardboard grey. This material was great because it was easy to cut and forgiving on the seams. I used grey duct tape to attach the pieces together.

[Photo: Lunchbox Dad]

“I love how the details turned out on the DeLorean. I hand-drew the emblem with sharpie marker. I found pictures online of the 2015 license plate, flux capacitor, and time circuits. I printed them out and cut them to fit where needed.

“I used white battery powered led string lights to really bring the Flux Capacitor to life. They blink like it is actually ‘fluxing’.”

[Photo: Lunchbox Dad]

[Photo: Lunchbox Dad]

Coffren goes on to explain that not only did he build the Delorean, he also customised his own hoverboard and Pepsi Perfect bottle.

“I took a stock prop hoverboard and had my own circle Mattel stickers printed. Then I cut out some foam pieces to match the battery pack of the original. For the Pepsi Perfect bottle I took an old water bottle, spray painted it, and added the decal (bought from ebay) and silver line sticker.”

You can read about the entire project here.

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