“A monument imitating the passenger car type time machine "Delorean" that appeared in the US movie "Back to the Future" in 1985 (Showa 60) appeared in front of the front entrance of Wakayama Prefectural Tanabe Technical High School (Tanabe City). .. It is a masterpiece produced by the students over four years, and the theme song of the movie is played and rotated four times on weekdays. Teacher Masato Takai (51), who taught, hopes that "what the students made will remain in the school and will be a great memory."(Zhang Yingju)
　The DeLorean monument is made of about 20 rust-resistant aluminum plates, is about 4.2 meters long, and weighs about 500 kilograms so that people can see it for a long time. The body of the movie is precisely reproduced based on online information. The base, which is about 4 meters long, is also made of aluminum.
　Rotate for about 3 minutes with the theme song from Monday to Friday at 9 am, noon, 3 pm and 6 pm. At 6 pm, the illuminations on the ground illuminate the car body.
　In the past, foliage plants with a height of more than 10 meters were planted in front of the main entrance, but they were cut down in 2015 because there was a risk of collapse due to being eaten by insects. In 2016, he decided to make a symbolic thing on the site, and Professor Takai proposed Delorean, saying, "The industrial products that represent Japan are cars. The ones that appear in movies that have dreams are good."
　Started production in 28. Around September, a student in the third grade class, who was in charge of teacher Takai, started making using aluminum plates. The exterior was completed once and was shown at the school festival of the same year. However, the details could not be reproduced and the inside of the car was hollow, but the students who made it graduated.
After that, the members of the Engineering Drafting Department (currently the Manufacturing Research Department) took over, and the car body and base part were completed by the spring of last year with the cooperation of students in each grade of the mechanical department. Only the drive unit and electrical wiring remained, and it was expected to be completed during the Golden Week holidays in spring.
　However, due to the influence of the new coronavirus, the school was temporarily closed from spring to mid-June, and the situation where production could not be continued continued, and the summer vacation was also shortened significantly. Nevertheless, the members of the Manufacturing Research Department continued to work after school and on Saturdays and Sundays, and completed it in December.
　The members who made it were deeply moved, and the director, Yoshiaki Hashimoto (16) = 2 years = "I was happy to complete what my seniors made over the years," Rei Tanimae ( Ryo) (17) = 2 years = "I didn't know what I was doing, but I made it while studying", and Masanori Hirohata (16) = 2 years = "I'm full of seniors' hardships." I have completed what I have done. "