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Article: Auto Innovator John DeLorean Dies at 80

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JEFFREY GOLD, Associated Press Writer
AP Online
03-21-2005
Dateline: NEWARK, N.J.


John DeLorean answers reporters' questions at a news conference in New York on Feb. 19, 1982. DeLorean, an innovative automaker who left a promising career in Detroit, Michigan to develop the short-lived gull-winged sports cars featured as a souped-up time travel machine in the "Back to the Future" movies, has died. He was 80. (AP Photo/Marty Lederhandler)

John Z. DeLorean, an automotive innovator who left General Motors Corp. to develop a radically futuristic sports car only to see that venture crash spectacularly as he fought federal drug charges, has died at age 80.

DeLorean was among just a handful of U.S. ...

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