My one and only personal experience of DeLoreans was at the Gold Coast Motor Museum when I filmed a segment on the museum’s DeLorean exhibit for Unique Cars. I sat in the car while museum curator Carl Amor warned me not to push the big red button in the centre of the dash (the roadside warning light switch). Naturally I pushed it and the editor of the piece then used some special effects to make it appear that we had activated the dreaded ‘Flux Capacitor’ that sent the car spiralling through time to who knows where. A bit corny I know, but so was Back to the Future, although not so the car that was made famous by the movie.
It wasn’t the only movie the car featured in – 2019’s Framing John DeLorean, a dramatised documentary starring Alec Baldwin as DeLorean, delves into the murkier side of the man and his many exploits within and without the auto industry.
Much like John DeLorean, the car he graced with his name remains somewhat of an oddity in a world in which standing remains somewhat of an oddity in a world in which out from the crowd, is now made so much harder by impenetrable layers of bureaucracy that dictate what cars should look like and how they should behave (or “comply” in bureaucrat-speak).
Back in the early ’80s when the first DeLoreans saw the light of day, there had been much publicity (not all of it good – see REBEL WITHOUT A PAUSE sidebar) and anticipation about what its creator would release, given his considerable experience as a barrier-busting automaker in the USA.
The DMC (DeLorean Motor Company) joint venture had been announced back in 1974, but it took another eight years for the first shiny stainless-steel car to emerge from the factory in Northern Ireland.
Prestigious USA title Road & Track was one of the first magazines to road test the new GT roadster and they had some sober comments to make about it; some good, some not-so.
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CHEVROLET C2 CORVETTE 1963-67
TWO YEARS after Jaguar made every other sports car obsolete with its E-Type, Chevrolet went a step further with its radical Corvette Sting Ray.
LOST & FOUND
THE WHEREABOUTS OF THIS RARE 1969 AMC AMX WAS FOR DECADES A COMPLETE MYSTERY, UNTIL IT WAS PULLED IT OUT OF A SHED IN ADELAIDE
IN THE RED!
AS OUR ROADS EMULATE THE DARK SIDE OF THE MOON, GOVERNMENTS ARE DOING THEIR BIT TO SHIRK ALL RESPONSIBILITY
Ray Ikin - 2001 MUSTANG & 2003 CV8
RAY IS FORTUNATE ENOUGH TO HAVE A BIG DECISION WHEN HE STROLLS INTO HIS SHED DO I TAKE THE MUSTANG OR THE MONARO?
1986 PORSCHE 928 S
THE 928 SHAPE MIGHT HAVE BEEN AN ACQUIRED TASTE FOR PORSCHE AFICIONADOS, BUT IT’S DESIRABILITY HAS IMPROVED WITH AGE
MODERN CLASSICS ZX-12R
KAWASAKI'S KING NINJA AIMED TO BE A HAYABUSA-BEATER
1972 FORD FALCON HARDTOP GT REPLICA
THIS FACTORY V8 FALCON HARDTOP KNOWS A THING OR TWO ABOUT BRIGHT AND DESIRABLE COLOUR COMBINATIONS
VALE MECUM AUCTION'S JOHN KRAMAN
A CORNERSTONE of Mecum Auctions and one of its most recognisable members, John Kraman, has died.
STOP IT!
PERHAPS THE CELEBRATION OF DIVERSITY IN GENERAL SHOULD INCLUDE CELEBRATING THE DIVERSITY OF HANDBRAKE TYPES
