Here we had a DeLorean car, which was used as the time travelling vehicle. But also this DeLorean was the actual car, as the card is also a still from the film.
Now this was a pretty easy clue if you knew the film but the answer was not revealed until the reverse was shown so we used it.
At this stage in the Topps story they were still issuing cards with gum, rather than just selling the cards. In America the price of a packet was fifty cents, and each contained nine movie cards, one sticker, and a stick of bubble gum. In the United Kingdom the packets are identical but Topps removed the large black box in the top right hand corner that had the 50c price in it, leaving us with an all blue background.
This card comes from the second film, which was released in 1989. The basic story was that once the hero comes home from his trip to 2015, he discovers that he must return to the past. Most of the cast and crew returned too, which is always fun.
Now in case you are wondering why we have a card from the second film and not the first, well there is a very sad fact, and that is that the first film was never given a set of cards. There are reportedly promo cards featuring stills of it, but I have not been able to track any of those down. Yet.
The main body of the set shows film clips from the movie, like ours, but at the end there are a few cards showing the cars (numbers 80-85). One of these cars has rather an interesting back story - that`s on card 81, it is described here as a spider car, but it had also appeared in the film "Blade Runner" (1992), where it was called a spinner.
The rest of the cards in the set are one offs, No.86 shows the interior of the cafe, No.87 shows Marty Mc.Fly / Michael J. Fox sitting on the DeLorean, and No.88 is a bit of promotion for film number three, the front being entitled "Until Next Time" and showing the DeLorean with the two main stars and a dog, whilst the back tells you that Back to the Future 3 would be at your local movie theater in the summer of 1990.