The DeLorean Story The Car The People The Scandal eBook Nick Sutton
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his is the inside account of the DeLorean saga written by a senior manager who worked with the company from beginning to end. The short life of the DeLorean DMC-12 sports car – a vision of the future with its gullwing doors and stainless steel body – began after John DeLorean secured financial backing from the
British government for his car-making venture.
In a blaze of publicity the DeLorean dream arrived in Belfast in the summer of 1978. The challenge was to build a car and a factory in 18 months, with two prototypes and 72 acres of muddy fields in West Belfast as the basic ingredients. Money shortages and civil disturbances – the result of the IRA hunger strike campaign – caused major disruptions.
Four years and almost 9,000 cars later the company went bust and John DeLorean’s dream turned into a nightmare as he was tried for alleged drug offences, eventually to be found ‘not guilty’ due to entrapment by the FBI. His apparent charmed life continued when he was also found ‘not guilty’ of embezzling the missing equity money from the Belfast factory. His big ally, Colin Chapman of Lotus, also drew posthumous scrutiny.
Prior to John DeLorean’s trials, Margaret Thatcher vetoed a plan by a UK consortium to restart the DeLorean site, which would have provided over 1,000 jobs, but she decided this recovery plan was not for her. What were her reasons? This book offers one possible answer.
Who were the real heroes and villains in this saga? The DeLorean Story reveals everything about the car, the people and the scandal, from 1978 to 2004.
The DeLorean Story The Car The People The Scandal eBook Nick Sutton
A strange story, mixing politics with engineering and contemporary history. It is the story how the English government tried to create new workplaces in a depressed area near Belfast and ease the social unrest that stoked the Civil War in Northern Ireland by subsidizing a car factory producing the (now) famed DeLorean car, and how the attempt failed ending in a colossal waste or (it is still uncertain) embezzlement of money. At the same time it is the story of a group of people that put all their heart and mind in a project that looked so fascinatingly crazy to attract enthusiasts and visionaries from Europe and America. At the end of the book, the reader maybe will close it with a sigh and a thought: "what a pity!".Product details
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The DeLorean Story The Car The People The Scandal eBook Nick Sutton Reviews
This is a fascinating and well-written book, especially considering that the author admits that he wanted nothing to do with DeLorean for decades after the company folded. It's worth the wait Nick Sutton has written with an unbiased eye and a clear memory, bolstered by years of research and witty personal recollections of some of the more colorful aspects of working in an under-funded, over-staffed, deadline-pressing company expected to make miracles.
The author explains that, in a way, miracles did happen -- through the sweat, stress, and grit of employees who, regardless of their political or religious affiliations, took John DeLorean's dream into their own. Sutton's tales of workers' struggles during and against The Troubles are particularly poignant and resonate still today for those of us old enough to remember those years and the turmoil contained therein. Sutton explains how a distant American could not have known exactly what the challenges were, and how a combination of genius, foolhardiness, and self-assurance can cause great success or great failure in any man, and what it led to in the case of John DeLorean and his company. Northern Ireland of the time is put into terrific context, and from the book one can get a great sense of what "normal" occurrences led to sticky problems even for someone trying to keep life simple as a normal workaday man or woman.
But more than that, Sutton puts faces and stories to many who did not work with John DeLorean directly, and therefore languished out of the light of history for many years -- the people who worked not for fame or power but to make a good product against near-hopeless odds. Humanizing the anonymous is a difficult thing to do, particularly as one's memories soften with age, but Sutton's stories of the folks at DMC Limited are sharp and emotionally relevant.
Nor does Sutton spare the reader the agonizing details of how the company came to a slow crash. Missing money, a drugs trial, distant management, and -- perhaps hitherto unknown to most American readers -- political machinations in the UK? Was Margaret Thatcher involved? Of course, I can't tell, but I can say that you might be surprised by just how complex the story really is.
I think Sutton's book is a great read, plus it contains lots of information for car buffs and history buffs, too -- including some never-before-seen photographs. I look forward to reading it again and again.
I found myself laughing out loud at some of the stories from Mr. Sutton. I also found the story informative and with much more information that other books I've read. The pictures in this book show a company growing, testing, experimenting, and the ultimate downfall. But the story of how Mr. Sutton met John DeLorean was an eye-opener, of how he was given a toy model to use for cost analysis of the DMC-12, and how the brand new offices didn't even have a working coffee maker installed, yet. The story includes the inner conflicts of the staff and the problems making the DMC-12 on time, and the story behind the Gold DeLorean. This is a must-have for any car enthusiast.
This is the book I've been looking for. I've read several, and they have all been "high level" viewpoints. I wanted to know how suppliers were selected, and maybe convinced to become suppliers; how the supply chain was developed; how the car was actually built. This book was the closest to answering my questions from a 'line side' viewpoint.
Very good book. Almost no-one knows the history of this company; only that John Delorean got in trouble for drug possession and that the company ultimately went out of business. What impressed me was how professional this company was structured and what they managed to accomplish in so little time.
What a good read. I enjoy learning about what really happens when cameras are not rolling or someone is pushing something and it isn't for fun its the job they do. I like the hands on blue collar version that makes clear some misconceptions are no accident. I haven't had a real opinion of John Z as I was born in late 73. I do remember that in Moore Oklahoma, Gene Williams (gone) Chevrolet had a DMC sign well before a single car. So I knew a tiny bit before the movie that made a flop a cultural icon. I have since ridden and driven a few DeLoreans and never mind my 82 280ZX Turbo would run off and hide from one it still is a neat car. I still will take a Z or maybe a C5 Vette but the car has a colorful enough personality that pricing aside ( To little performance for so much money ) and the factor that it will retain value if you take care of it, Makes it a bucket list car for me. The troubling aspect is to build North Ireland up so much at such a volatile time with, as the author says, "The Troubles" Between promises never even being planned on to keep and having a factory with a Catholic neighborhood on one side and a Protestant on the other you know people were prime for any good thing to come. Well, in the end it didn't happen. If you get a chance, The DMC site has some interesting papers regarding that the later ones that were "better" still needed over 50 hours of repair at port before they went to the US dealers. Some of the things ( Razor blades taped into the wiring harness to the radio that had no fuse and shipped that way, 20% of the cars were sabotaged this way causing untold injury in the US ) are real low that were done for multitudes of "Reasons". No. The guy who gets hurt fixing your trap has the right to knock you senseless, He is not the one who screwed the employes over. And the ones that did the screwing got off and away as always. I like the narrative style of the writer. I feel he could write full time. Good book.
A strange story, mixing politics with engineering and contemporary history. It is the story how the English government tried to create new workplaces in a depressed area near Belfast and ease the social unrest that stoked the Civil War in Northern Ireland by subsidizing a car factory producing the (now) famed DeLorean car, and how the attempt failed ending in a colossal waste or (it is still uncertain) embezzlement of money. At the same time it is the story of a group of people that put all their heart and mind in a project that looked so fascinatingly crazy to attract enthusiasts and visionaries from Europe and America. At the end of the book, the reader maybe will close it with a sigh and a thought "what a pity!".
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