John Z. DeLorean, Father of Glamour Car
NY Times
John Z. DeLorean, the flamboyant automobile industrialist whose dream of running his own car company dissolved into bankruptcy, died Saturday evening at Overlook Hospital in Summit, N.J. He was 80 years old and lived in Bedminster, N.J.
The cause was complications after a stroke, his family said.
Mr. DeLorean, a Detroit native, was once thought to be a contender for the presidency of General Motors but left the world’s largest automaker in 1973 and went on to start his own company, DeLorean Motor Company, with the backing of investors like Johnny Carson and Sammy Davis Jr.
DeLorean Motor produced only one model, the DMC-12, but it made a lasting impression. In the early 1980’s, with increasingly dull cars coming from Detroit, the unpainted, stainless steel-bodied sports car had doors that opened upward like a gull’s wings and was featured in the “Back to the Future” movies starring Michael J. Fox.
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