1980s carmaker DeLorean dies at 80

[StarvingRussian]

http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/03/20/obit.delorean/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.

 

[Mr. 4500 RPM]

ironically so i know overlook hospotal cause i used to live in the area...sadness...

 

[Mr. Win]

way to go god...

 

[Roywhitep5]

WTH all they have to say about him is that he created the delorean??? what about the gto??

 

[laracroft]

I'd rather mention the GTO than the Delorean because it LACKED TERRIBLY in horsepower and sales. Top speed was a terrible 109 and it had about 130 hp. Poor guy. Car and Driver gave it a big thumbs down. That man put everything he had in that car including his name and it turned out big fat zero's.

 

[Pretzellogic]

Like him or hate him, the guy was an innovator.

 

[genericuser]

only car ever you could safely wash with a brillo pad

(mswerd)

 

[Pretzellogic]

Don't forget the GTO, people!

 

[Captain KRM P5]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7248894/

 

[vindication]

bless his coked out heart

 

[ArcanaP5]

hmm, maybe he isnt really dead. maybe its just like in Back to the Future, hit 80 mph and you can travel through time. he might just have started time traveling at 80 years old...

either way, sorry to see him go, truely an innovator

 

[jersey_emt]

Wow Overlook isn't far from me at all...I've taken patients there many of times

 

[anarchistchiken]

My great grandfather represented him on a drug possesion charge or something similair back in the 80's and Delorean gave him.... a Delorean. Plus the normal lawer-y moneys of course. But grandaddy, always thinking ahead to his future grandsons happiness, sold the car soon afterwards

 

[Captain KRM P5]

hmm, maybe he isnt really dead. maybe its just like in Back to the Future, hit 80 mph and you can travel through time. he might just have started time traveling at 80 years old...

either way, sorry to see him go, truely an innovator

88 actually

 

[pr5owner]

damn 8 short... we all know marty would of made it...

 

[Captain KRM P5]

hello mcfly!

 

[eting_pro5]

My great grandfather represented him on a drug possesion charge or something similair back in the 80's and Delorean gave him.... a Delorean. Plus the normal lawer-y moneys of course. But grandaddy, always thinking ahead to his future grandsons happiness, sold the car soon afterwards

The Detroit Free Press article talked a lot about his affinity for financial disregard. Besides his coke dealings and frauding investors, he was once sued by one of his lawyers for not paying the lawyer fees.