Word: loreans
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...Lorean makes bail, but is charged with a drug deal...
...that this was any fault of John De Lorean's. To the contrary. It was De Lorean who seized the invalid Pontiac division of General Motors and pumped it back to life. It was De Lorean (so goes the tale) who showed the corporate stuffed shirts the writing on the wall. Where was the fuel-efficient, practical, obsolescence-proof carriage for the common man? asked our ageless pioneer. No one looked up from the boardroom table. The point is that for all his boogying and Ursula Andressing, De Lorean actually understood what...
Instead, he returned with the De Lorean. Why? It was a pretty little thing, to be sure, but it cost a fortune, was only relatively fuel-efficient for a sports car, was hardly designed for the common man or his common family. With the American open road blocked by a 55-m.p.h. speed limit, John De Lorean comes out with...
...more, he makes too many of them to sell. And where does he decide to do that but in Belfast, which needs another high-risk enterprise as much as it needs one more car bombing. The decision is baffling. Oh, one can argue that here was Black Jack De Lorean going against the tide again, betting other people's money and his life on the American rich getting richer and flocking to their very own indigenous Mercedes. But from the viewpoint of business horse sense, of which De Lorean is said to have had plenty, it only looks...
...course, wildness may constitute the entire explanation. De Lorean may simply have spun out of control, following a bad idea with a desperate flail. Then, too, he may have actively been trying to destroy himself. He chose a symmetrical end, after all. To be nabbed in Los Angeles, the city of the car, and of his youth. To have the coke discovered in a Chevy, the All-American machine. Finally, to risk the ruin of his career by means of a drug that for a certain social set may be said to have replaced the automobile as the national narcotic...