Obscure Auto: Delorean DMC-12
Posted: December 19, 2011 Filed under: Obscure Autos, SHOWCASE | Tags: Car, CIA, Cocaine, DeLorean, DMC, DMC-12, Drugs, Dunmurry, Entrapment, Exotic, Failure, GM, Gullwing, Ireland, John Z. Delorean, Mind over motor, Northern Ireland, Obscure Auto, Sports Car, Stainless Steel, UK, USA, V6 7 Comments »
The man with the car that made him famous (and brought him down). John Z. DeLorean.
Back in the Sixties, John Z. Delorean was one of the greatest men working at General Motors. But, by the middle of the Eighties, that all came to a crashing end in a federal courthouse. Most of us know what happened. But, what about the car he badly wanted to put on the market? The DeLorean DMC-12 is still known by most of the public as a time machine, but its own story is a look back at one of the most famous storylines of all time in the small-manufacturer books. Read the rest of this entry »
