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John Z. Delorean
Posted on 6/14/21 at 2:41 pm
Posted on 6/14/21 at 2:41 pm
I know everyone is familiar with the car and have a decent grasp on the man behind the DMC-12, but has anyone ever researched the depths the Feds and Thatcher/UK went to frame this man? The Netflix documentary threw me into a Youtube rabbit hole to try and understand the utter corruption where GM/Chevy seem to have had a hand in it as well.
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This post was edited on 6/14/21 at 2:43 pm
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Posted on 6/14/21 at 2:42 pm to Tomatocantender
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Posted on 6/14/21 at 2:44 pm to Tomatocantender
Second reply.
Posted on 6/14/21 at 2:44 pm to Tomatocantender
It's been a while, but I remember thinking the whole thing was B.S. at the time (and I was a very anti-drug youngster in most respects).
Posted on 6/14/21 at 2:44 pm to tgrbaitn08
1st post, now 2nd replying to you. Been following TD since 2012 with the Mickey Shunick stuff in Lafayette. Back then you had to have a private paid type email so I never joined. Been lurking for 9 years and love it.
Posted on 6/14/21 at 2:44 pm to Tomatocantender
Is the Z his pronoun?
Posted on 6/14/21 at 2:44 pm to Tomatocantender
No but an old girlfriend's dad had a Delorean and we would take it out when pops was out of town.
Posted on 6/14/21 at 2:45 pm to Tomatocantender
For some reason I sang his name in my head to the John Deere Green song
Posted on 6/14/21 at 2:46 pm to Tomatocantender
Posted on 6/14/21 at 2:47 pm to Tomatocantender
I haven't seen that particular documentary, but have seen a few. It goes to show that if certain people in our government or others with connections want to have you prosecuted and destroyed, they can do it.
Posted on 6/14/21 at 2:47 pm to Tomatocantender
He shouldn't have gone cheap and put that piece of shite underpowered Peugeot engine in it...
Posted on 6/14/21 at 2:47 pm to DavidTheGnome
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For some reason I sang his name in my head to the John Deere Green song
He wrote "Billy Bob loves cocaine."
Posted on 6/14/21 at 2:56 pm to Hangover Haven
You hit the nail. For all its flaws, this was the biggest mistake. Delorean was the brains behind the 64 Pontiac GTO that was a beast. But to get the Delorean to market from Ireland, he cut a deal with a European engineering outfit and was forced to put a hamster under an already heavy stainless steel hood and body. Recipe for disaster.
Posted on 6/14/21 at 3:34 pm to Tomatocantender
I thought he couldn't finance the company, so he tried to smuggle drugs to make cash to save the company. Then got busted?
Posted on 6/14/21 at 4:15 pm to Tomatocantender
Totally fascinating story. He was a maverick at GM that should've been thrown out in 1960, was finally tossed around 1974, then ran out of good ideas and came up with a stainless steel underpowered sports car (as opposed to an overpowered GTO).
The coke thing was so long ago I don't really have an opinion.
The coke thing was so long ago I don't really have an opinion.
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