Word: stainlessness
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...death that his heart implant was performed ten hours ahead of schedule. Dr. Jeffrey Anderson, the Utah cardiologist who had arranged the fateful first meeting of his patient and DeVries, recalls that when Clark's heart was carefully cut out of his body and set in a stainless steel tray it was still quivering. Says Anderson: "It was an irreversible step. From then on everyone was going on faith that the machine would work...
...week's end an Ohio-based company, Consolidated International Inc., reached agreement with British officials to buy some 1,000 unsold cars in Ulster for about $15 million, and secured an option to purchase the $75 million DMC facility near Belfast. There, at least, De Lorean's stainless-steel dream remains an object of pride: last week one of the cars was put on display in the Ulster Folk Museum...
...thick windowpanes flanking the barred door. This was not the Ritz in London, one of his favorite jet-set stops, nor his art-rilled office high above Manhattan's Park Avenue. John Zachary De Lorean's dream of soaring to industrial fame on the gull-winged glitter of his stainless-steel sports car had turned into a nightmare...
...rise and demise of a stainless-steel miracle...
Many other factors were involved in the car's demise, not the least of which was the DMC-12 itself. True enough, it was sleek and racy, with a stainless-steel skin, a corrosion-resistant, glass-reinforced plastic underbody, a 130-h.p. Renault engine and gull-wing swing-up doors borrowed from the 1954 Mercedes sport coupe. But, doors aside, car critics could find nothing distinctive or terribly special about it. One described it as "clunky." Still, the car had its fans...