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I always wanted one of those cars.
DeLorean died Saturday at Overlook Hospital in Summit, N.J., of complications from a recent stroke, said Paul Connell, an owner of A.J. Desmond & Sons Funeral Directors in Royal Oak, Mich., which was handling arrangements.
DeLorean, whose namesake car was turned into a time machine in the “Back to the Future” movies, was among just a handful of U.S. entrepreneurs who dared start a car company in the last 75 years.
I always wanted one of those cars.
I guess all that cocaine finally caught up with him.
Back to the Future ruled!
I took my very first class in college from the man who gave Delorean his polygraph test in his court case.
SWEET!
So basically you took a college class from a criminal?
The Delorean polygraph test is famous for showing that a biased polygraph tester can skew the results to say what they want it to say.
DeLorean is a classic case of corporate America being afraid of innovation and new ideas. He was a maverick, much like Tucker, and not that great in business, but an automotive genius, nonetheless. What he needed was a patron, someone to run the business, and just tell him, "you design and build the cars".
His car is eyecatching (largely still remembered so fondly because of Michael J Fox) but it wasnt a great car. Lots of problems with it, the least of which is that stainless steel rusts easily. Add salt and snow and lots of Deloreans died a horrible death up north. Add to that an underpowered engine and a poor transmission and you have a bad car.
^Plus from a design perspective, lets face it, the front end wasn't his best effort.
Uhhhhh, stainless steel does NOT rust easily. The parts that aren't stainless do though.
Add salt and snow and lots of Deloreans died a horrible death up north.Sorry, I had to laugh at that one. Can you name me a type of car that doesn't die a horrible, rusty death up north? It's so prevalent that they even invent local terminologies for it, like Michigan Cancer.
But still, stainless steel doesn't rust that easily.
Last edited by Useruser666; 03-21-2005 at 03:37 PM.
word...I drove one for a week or so once...the thing was a turd. The volve engine he used was a wimpy piece of , the gearbox would try to lock up running it through the gears hard...bad understeer roll in hard corners...it looked great but drove like . I couldn't wait to get out of it...
The dentist we used to go to when I lived in Ohio had one. I wonder how well that thing did in the snow.
Well, we know that John himself did pretty well in the snow, for a while at least.
RACK 'IM! John sure was nuts about snow.
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