And the DeLorean award goes to...

[LS1Hawk]

Thought this was interesting:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=140026479742&sspagename=ADME%3AB%3ASS%3AUS%3A1

[WildBillyT]

In my opinion it's really a shame what happened to that guy.

[WayFast84]

In my opinion it's really a shame what happened to that guy.
I did a project on him/the company in 7th grade for tech and what I found out about him and the company I agree! Did you know he lived IN nj for a bit?

[LS1Hawk]

Yeah, he lived in NJ for a quite awhile and spent the last years of his life here. I totally agree. They guy was an absolute visionary. A lot of people wrote him off after the drug sting and entrapment, but it was a very fishy case with the goverment.

[WildBillyT]

Yeah, he lived in NJ for a quite awhile and spent the last years of his life here. I totally agree. They guy was an absolute visionary. A lot of people wrote him off after the drug sting and entrapment, but it was a very fishy case with the goverment.

He lived in Hunterdon county on a big estate (Bedminster?), which is going to become one of Trump's golf courses I think.

After reading Smokey Yunick's book I was intrigued by De Lorean so I poked around a little. My take on the whole deal is that he had a dream about his own car company but was totally in the red after he stopped getting government assistance for his factory in Belfast, and sales weren't stellar because the cars weren't on par with other sports cars in the market. So he was out of options and got into drugs to try to drum up some money to save his failing business.

[jimmyboy8301]

bedminster is somerset county

[WildBillyT]

Huh. :shrug: Must've been a mistake in the article either way.

[LS1Hawk]

He died at a hospital in Summit, so he must have lived somewhere around there.