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Article: DELOREAN SPORTS-CAR SAGA ENDS; A DREAM THAT DIED IN COURTROOMS.
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- Automotive News
- Article date:
- June 21, 1999
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I stood in a Northern Ireland pasture on a drizzly October day in 1978 as John DeLorean broke ground for his factory, never imagining that his sports-car venture would end with lawyers haggling over the amount of a lawsuit settlement.
After the groundbreaking ceremony, when earth-movers began pushing around the Irish hills, the DeLorean sports car seemed like a big idea that had a chance to succeed. After all, the British government was backing the project with $140 million.
I should have known better.
Last month, when lawyers for the trustee of the bankrupt DeLorean Motor Co., the British government and other creditors settled a lawsuit ...
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Article: DeLorean Develops New Sports Car
AP Online;
May 4, 1999 ;
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......Online 05-04-1999 DeLorean Develops New Sports Car SAN DIEGO (AP) -- John DeLorean has another sports car in the works. DeLorean once made a stainless...at all,'' said DeLorean, whose latest...a 1,450-pound sports car built from structural...
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