John DeLorean, who of course invented the Back to the Future car, died today. He is also the man who created the muscle car when he jammed a V8 into a Pontiac Tempest and called it a GTO.

 

Heard about his death in the news last night. very sad. i love the delorean.

 

He was a great automotive mind and had many great ideas. He was equally flamboyant and seemed to be a larger than life personality.

 

yeah i heard about that. too bad. his car looked perdy cool. aside from the lack of, well, you know, color :P

may he rest in peace

wow i didnt know the GTO thing. I better brush up on "non ford" auto history once in a while.

 

its a real shame that hes gone but atleast he lived his dream before he passes thats all that really matters he set a goal and a dream and completed it

 

Yeah, I didn't know he was the Dr. Frankenstein of the GTO, thanks for the info. I also found out yesterday that the U.S. government had aquitted him of his charges on his financing his car, the DeLorean, thru cocaine sales. Apparently this happened some time ago, because I never knew he had been aquitted.

 

May he rest in peace

 

that's sad to hear.....that was a cool car...he's in a better place now 0:-)

 

I wish they would bring the Delorean back and see how it would do. I think the only thing holding it back 20 years ago was the crappy engine they put in it. Would love to see a two seater with a decent s/c V6, have the same finish as seen on the Shelby GR-1, and it's gotta have the gullwing doors as well.

 

He was setting up a factory in Ireland to build cars, as I remember and was stung by the feds with a briefcase of coke. Nonetheless, he was an automotive visionary and gave us a lot of good things.

RIP.

 

Rest in Peace.

 

He was setting up a factory in Ireland to build cars, as I remember and was stung by the feds with a briefcase of coke. Nonetheless, he was an automotive visionary and gave us a lot of good things.

RIP.
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I recently wrote a story about him for one Serbian Web Site. At the time when he was arrested he missed phone call from the bank where loan for around $200 milion was approved. That loan could've save his company.