John DeLorean R.I.P.

CNN is reporting that he passed away today at age 80.

You may or may not have liked his cars or his legal team, but the man had character!

I was always a huge fan of the DeLorean. It didn't perform. It was a major economic failure. But it always did it for me.

Doody.

 

Yesterday, actually.

Here's the AP news item:

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/O/OBIT_DELOREAN?SITE=MIDTN&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

doody.

 

Shame-- as you said, not a great car, but had presence and character.. Any man willing to sell 10's of millions in coke to save his car company is an a-okay car enthusiast in my book!

 

He and Johnny Carson have been re-united!

DL

 

johnny carlson is dead?

 

Dude, What are you talking about? They even had him lying in state in a Murcielago. I thought you bought it!

DL

 

it is a shame, I get just as excited to see a Delorean as i do a Ferrari. May he RIP.

I think ill go watch back to the future.

 

ironically, i saw a delorean yesterday on a side street!!still turns head....my cousin bought one when it came out...cool looking car but slow and tons of problems..

 

man, i've been out of the country too long.....
dude, that's all fun but..i heard that sh*t can really happen, ya know

 

Werd dawg!

DL

 

Character? You obviously have a different definition of that word than I do. If anyone lacked character it was John DeLorean. Now if you said charisma, I'd agree..

 

Will always remember him for creating my favorite car , My 1968 GTO. R.I.P

 

Wasn't he married to a hottie at one point in his life?

 

Here is some interesting tech on the subject:

 

Just read his autobiography a month ago. It was a fairly interesting read, I didn't know anything about him until I read it, cause I was a little kid when all that was going on. Like most kids my age, the first time I ever saw a Delorean was in Back to the Future.

 

Here's the story on CNN.....IMO a little too brief.

http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/03/20/obit.delorean/index.html

 

GTO was an awesome car. R.I.P

 

Read in his obituary this morning that he ruffled quite a few feathers at GM when he drove a Maserati instead of a Vette. Kind of like if Ray Crock was seen eating at Burger King

 

It truly sucks. I'm definitely not a Delorean fan, but I am a muscle car nut - even more so than Ferrari. The man was one of the greatest men in the industry; after all, he created the muscle car. Truly sad to see him go.