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theshark8777 · 03-20-2005, 02:29 PM

http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/03/20/obi...ean/index.html

(CNN) -- John DeLorean, developer of a futuristic sportscar that captured the country's attention in the 1980s, has died. He was 80.

DeLorean died Saturday at the Overlook Hospital in Summit, New Jersey, from complications from a stroke, said Paul Connell, owner of Desmond and Sons funeral home in Michigan.

DeLorean's stainless-steel, gull-winged car, which bore his name, became more engrained in American culture after director Robert Zemeckis used a DeLorean as a time machine in the 1985 film "Back to the Future" and its two sequels.

TheHappyBurgerMeister · 03-20-2005, 02:30 PM

aww, that's sad.

RIP

Jrnygrl · 03-20-2005, 03:04 PM

Interesting that they don't mention his high profile case that involved drugs.

TJL · 03-20-2005, 03:09 PM

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Originally Posted by Jrnygrl

Interesting that they don't mention his high profile case that involved drugs.

theshark8777 · 03-20-2005, 03:15 PM

Yeah really, what was it like $25 million in cocaine or something he tried to sell to cops?

theshark8777 · 03-20-2005, 03:23 PM

Here we go, from fox news:

DeLorean's company collapsed in 1983, a year after he was arrested in Los Angeles, accused in a sting of conspiring to sell $24 million of cocaine to salvage the company.

DeLorean used an entrapment defense to win acquittal on the drug charges in 1984, despite a surveillance videotape in which he was shown calling a suitcase full of cocaine "good as gold."

He was later cleared of defrauding his investors, but continuing legal entanglements kept him on the sidelines of the automotive world. He declared bankruptcy in 1999.

Brian · 03-20-2005, 03:25 PM

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Originally Posted by theshark8777

Yeah really, what was it like $25 million in cocaine or something he tried to sell to cops?

He became a victim of entrapment. From what I remember, he needed money and these cops got him to sell drugs and then arrested him. The Supreme Court ruled that because he was forced into committing a crime that he wouldn't normally commit (he was clean), his arrest was invalid.

Cactus Jack · 03-20-2005, 04:00 PM

*Pleasant Tomorrow* · 03-20-2005, 05:13 PM

Steve M. · 03-20-2005, 05:33 PM

Imagine how different automotive history might have been if his car company had made it!

theshark8777 · 03-20-2005, 05:47 PM

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Originally Posted by Steve M.

Imagine how different automotive history might have been if his car company had made it!

And time travel

Steve M. · 03-21-2005, 05:36 PM

One innovation of his I'm not to crazy about was the radio antenna embedded in the windshield. I had 1970 Chevrolet with that feature. Sometimes the reception was bad, and I couldn't adjust it course. Also, my radio was AM only, and I would have had to hae a whole drilled into the car just to install an FM antenna; I got an FM adapter instead. What can I say, I'm not into talk radio.

musicradio77 · 03-21-2005, 10:14 PM

I might as well watch all three "Back to the Future" movies and see how I remember the Delorean. RIP

Seth · 03-21-2005, 10:22 PM

theshark8777 · 03-21-2005, 10:24 PM

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Makes me want to go back to 1955.

03-20-2005, 02:29 PM	#1
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theshark8777 Moderator Hats for Bats Join Date: Jan 23, 2001 Location: northeast Ohio. Posts: 5,259	Yeah really, what was it like $25 million in cocaine or something he tried to sell to cops?

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theshark8777 Moderator Hats for Bats Join Date: Jan 23, 2001 Location: northeast Ohio. Posts: 5,259	Here we go, from fox news: DeLorean's company collapsed in 1983, a year after he was arrested in Los Angeles, accused in a sting of conspiring to sell $24 million of cocaine to salvage the company. DeLorean used an entrapment defense to win acquittal on the drug charges in 1984, despite a surveillance videotape in which he was shown calling a suitcase full of cocaine "good as gold." He was later cleared of defrauding his investors, but continuing legal entanglements kept him on the sidelines of the automotive world. He declared bankruptcy in 1999.

03-21-2005, 05:36 PM	#12
Steve M. Forum Veteran Holding the compass Join Date: Nov 07, 2003 Location: New Jersey Posts: 20,423	One innovation of his I'm not to crazy about was the radio antenna embedded in the windshield. I had 1970 Chevrolet with that feature. Sometimes the reception was bad, and I couldn't adjust it course. Also, my radio was AM only, and I would have had to hae a whole drilled into the car just to install an FM antenna; I got an FM adapter instead. What can I say, I'm not into talk radio.

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