Click to view photo set.Fans of a certain gullwing time machine got a special treat at this year's Denver Auto Show.

The Showcase featured five excellent condition DeLoreans, including a recently built 2008 model and one with a flux capacitor. Wilson Hitchings, the owner of the 2008, was nice enough to let me sit in his car with the door closed, giving me my first view from inside a DeLorean cockpit. Well, technically my second, though I was too young to remember the first.*

At 6'4" it was a tight fit, but if given the chance to take one for a spin, I'd manage.

View more DeLorean pics in the Denver Auto Show photo set.

*As my dad tells it, I sat in one as a kid and the closing gullwing door scared me right out of it.

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