Delorean Dies, car rocks.
NEW YORK: John DeLorean, the flashy automotive executive whose equally flashy car of the same name proved a financial folly but burned its way into pop culture with the Back to the Future films, has died at the age of 80.
Delorean had a checkered life but one of his great achievements has to be the DeLorean DMC-12.
The striking vehicle, with its gull-wing style doors, sleek design and metallic finish was one of fewer than 9000 produced over three years before the company failed in 1983.
Despite its failure, the car achieved a permanent spot in pop culture history when it was used as the time-travel vehicle in Back to the Future, a huge movie hit starring Michael J.Fox that spawned two sequels.
Here’s another, this one is gold plated with zero miles on the clock. A typical Texan understatement.
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The striking vehicle, with its gull-wing style doors, sleek design and metallic finish was one of fewer than 9000 produced over three years before the company failed in 1983.
Despite its failure, the car achieved a permanent spot in pop culture history when it was used as the time-travel vehicle in Back to the Future, a huge movie hit starring Michael J.Fox that spawned two sequels.
Here’s another, this one is gold plated with zero miles on the clock. A typical Texan understatement.
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Well Kev I’ll just have to drive the 80 miles to Snyder and find out if there is indeed a gold plated Delorean in the bank vault. It’s right up the road….though I’ve never heard anything about this.
On a more personal note about the passing of Delorean. In addition to his famed car, he is also considered the father of the American “muscle car” having developed the Pontiac GTO that premiered in 1964. One of my good friends had one of the first GTO’s in West Texas. Having just gotten our drivers license’s at the age of 14 we spent a lot of time cruising in that car. [what were his parents thinking….buying a 14 y.o. kid a car like that!]. Maybe it’s the reason that the legal driving age in Texas is now 16 [still to young!]
I think Habib would disagree with your assessment of the DeLorean.
No, Habib doesn’t agree but I’ve always had a thing for gull-wing cars I loved the Mercedes Benz 300SL but the price precluded even fantasizing about owning one. Hence the DMC-12.