Car Developer John DeLorean Dies at 80

AP (via Yahoo) ^ | 3/20/05 | JEFFREY GOLD, Associated Press Writer

[RockinRight]

That bugs me too, and I'm only 27 (the AC/DC Muzak thing I mean).

[RockinRight]

Dr. Emmett Brown:

I'm sure in 1985, plutonium is available at every corner drugstore, but in 1955 it's a little hard to come by.

[tet68]

Not at every corner drugstore but maybe at every
Dairy Queen?

[RockinRight]

[Doohickey]

Car DeveloperCoke Dealer John DeLorean Dies at 80

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Damn - Time is passing. Had no idea he was that old. I guess I have no idea I'M this old!

Ain't that the truth. Our medicine cabinet now looks like the medicine cabinets of our parents whom we used to snicker at and say.....'They're old'.

I guess the whole circle of life thing is at play, and it sucks. But it beats the alternative.

[OldFriend]

The man was a deadbeat in the end.

[kennedy]

The car was a piece of junk, always in the shop.

I wondered about that. I did a quick internet search and there are several DeLoreans for sale with under 10,000 miles.

[OldFriend]

A neighbor had one......it was forever in the shop.

Not being a car person, I can say that my Ford was also always in the shop in those years.

As was our Alfa Romeo......

Now we're old and have a faithful Subaru!!!

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I only remember the controversy over him vaguely. I wasn't much of a concerned citizen in the '80's. I had a teenage daughter that I was thinking about killing at the time. Just about the time she grew that dreaded second head that girls at their age grow.....lol

[Clemenza]

One of my childhood heroes. I remember being seven years old and seeing Delorean on TV talking about his new models. He really seemed like a really cool guy and I loved the side hatch doors. He made the rather unsexy automobile industry (which my father worked in) look cool.

A few months later, he was on TV snorting coke.

[OldFriend]

DeLorean's daughter Catherine was in my daughter's high school.........AAAARRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHH

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

After his acquittal he did not pay his attorneys.

Now that is funny.

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Was his daughter snooty?

I remember a pretty woman on his arm sometimes, I guess that was his wife, the model/actress.

[Clemenza]

Its hard to believe that the meth and coke addicted creep that we saw in the earlier picture was the same suave, debonair guy who impressed me at a young age. He went from being James Bond to Crackhead Bob.

[OldFriend]

Uh oh, I suspect the pictures are of the murderer of Jessica Lundford.

[OldFriend]

Spoiled rotten.

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Figures.

[Clemenza]

Whoops, my bad. I've been hanging out in the San Juan Islands and haven't had much time to get a good look at Lunford's murderer.

The good news is that Florida will give him the needle. In New York or New Jersey, he would be sitting in Attica or Rahway while his lawyers filed appeal after appeal at taxpayers expense.

[OldFriend]

Last time I saw John DeLorean he was tall, thin, beautiful silver hair, and quite handsome.

He has had a stroke and it's been years since I saw him out and about.