MARTY MCFLY: Wait a minute, Doc. Are you telling me that you built a time machine … out of a DeLorean?
DR EMMETT BROWN: The way I see it, if you’re gonna build a time machine into a car, why not do it with some style?
Robert Zemeckis & Bob Gale, Back to the
Future (1985)
Now I lay me down to sleep
I hear the sirens in the street
All my dreams are made of chrome
I have no way to get back home
Tom Waits, “A Sweet Little Bullet
From A Pretty Blue Gun” (1978)