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Article: John DeLorean, fabled carmaker
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- The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
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- March 21, 2005
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ERIC MALNIC, Special from the Los Angeles Times
The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
03-21-2005
John DeLorean, fabled carmaker -- GM exec rose fast, fell hard
By ERIC MALNIC, Special from the Los Angeles Times
Date: 03-21-2005, Monday
Section: LOCAL
Edtion: All Editions
John Zachary DeLorean, the dashing former General Motors executive whose flamboyant lifestyle faded into obscurity after charges that he tried to use drug money to salvage his own fledgling DeLorean Motor Car Co., has died. He was 80.
Mr. DeLorean, who created the gull-winged car adapted as Michael J. Fox's time-traveling vehicle in the "Back to the Future" films of the 1980s, died Saturday at Overlook Hospital in Summit, of ...