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DeLorien are back; ...to the future!
Topic Started: Aug 26 2007, 09:43 PM (247 Views)
Innisfallen	Aug 26 2007, 09:43 PM Post #1
Member Posts: 173 Group: Members Member #27 Joined: August 29, 2006	Right, I aint a massive car fan, once the thing moves I'm happy, but last week all 80s kids got closer to one of their dreams... Owning a DeLorien car. A guy from Texas managed to buy all the parts after the British Government liquidated the factory in '83 (which was just outside Belfast, NI) and got John DeLorien's permission to use the name... Anyhow, good article here
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Deleted User	Aug 26 2007, 11:01 PM Post #2
Deleted User	Innisfallen Aug 26 2007, 09:43 PM Right, I aint a massive car fan, once the thing moves I'm happy, but last week all 80s kids got closer to one of their dreams... Owning a DeLorien car. A guy from Texas managed to buy all the parts after the British Government liquidated the factory in '83 (which was just outside Belfast, NI) and got John DeLorien's permission to use the name... Anyhow, good article here Ahh good old John DeLorean, Ł100million of government money and a fantastic car design that could have been succesfull and still managed to end up trafficking cocaine...* Anyway I'm a great fan of the original DMC-12 and hope they can produce something equally as good. *he was found not guilty due to entrapment, which basically means that he trafficked cocaine because FBI agents enticed him to,
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Innisfallen	Aug 27 2007, 08:10 PM Post #3
Member Posts: 173 Group: Members Member #27 Joined: August 29, 2006	The story of the company is as amazing as the design of the car. He was supposed to build the factory in Limerick, but the Irish Government changed their minds at the last minute, then he went to Belfast and offered jobs, they threw money at him. The Coke story is like something from Miami Vice, smuggling drugs to raise the cash to save his factory... He is supposed to have been working on a new design for another car before he passed away too...
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