* February 19 – The DeLorean Motor Company Car Factory in Belfast is put into receivership.

* John DeLorean, of DeLorean Motor Car fame

At the time of his death, both Chapman and Lotus were linked with the DeLorean Motor Company scandal over the use of UK Government subsidies for the production of the DeLorean DMC-12, for which Lotus had designed the chassis.

The original DeLorean Motor Company ( DMC ) is an automobile manufacturer formed by automobile industry executive John DeLorean in 1975.

In 1995, Liverpool-born mechanic Stephen Wynne started a separate company using the " DeLorean Motor Company " name and shortly thereafter acquired the remaining parts inventory and the stylized " DMC " logo trademark of DeLorean Motor Company.

The current DeLorean Motor Company located near Houston is not, and has never been, associated with the original company but supports owners of DeLorean cars.

John DeLorean founded the DeLorean Motor Company in Detroit, Michigan on October 24, 1975.

Besides taking some early seed capital from Hollywood stars Sammy Davis Jr. and Johnny Carson, DeLorean Motor Company relied on the British government for about $ 120 million of its $ 200 million startup costs according to the Times.

Officially known as DMCL ( DeLorean Motor Cars, Ltd .), the facility was located in Dunmurry, a suburb of Belfast.

In response to the income shortfall, a restructuring plan was devised where a new " DeLorean Motors Holding Company " would be formed, which in turn would have become corporate parent to DMC and each of its subsidiaries: DeLorean Motor Cars Limited ( manufacturer ), DeLorean Motor Cars of America ( distributor in the U. S .) and DeLorean Research Partnership ( a research and development company ).

In particular, DMC ( based in Humble, Texas ), operates under entirely new ownership and with no direct ties to the original DeLorean Motor Company.

In October, 2011, the DeLorean Motor Company of Humble, Texas, announced intentions to sell custom-made electric DeLoreans by 2013.

* Logan Machine Company, the snowcat company owned by John DeLorean

* DeLorean Motor Company

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DeLorean DMC 12 with Lotus designed Chassis

In November, 2010, in collaboration with DMC, Nike released a limited edition DeLorean Dunk shoe with an estimated production of 1, 000 pairs at a suggested retail price of $ 90.

Thiokol of Utah sold its ski-lift and snowcat operations in 1978, with John C DeLorean purchasing the snowcat division, and changed its name to DMC.

John Z. DeLorean purchased the Thiokol snowcat operation and renamed it DMC.

Thiokol sold its ski-lift and snowcat operation in 1978 to John DeLorean, and changed its name to DMC.

In spite of a GM unwritten edict against engines larger than 330 ci in intermediate cars, DeLorean ( with support from Jim Wangers from Pontiac's ad agency ), came up with the idea to offer the GTO as a dealer option package that included a 389 ci engine rated at 325 or.

* John Z. DeLorean, Ted Schwarz, Delorean, Zondervan ( September, 1985 ), ISBN 0-310-37940-7

* William Haddad, Hard Driving: My Years with John DeLorean ( August 12, 1985 ), ISBN 0-394-53410-7

* J Lamm, DeLorean Stainless Steel Illusion, 2nd edition ( 2003 ), ISBN 0-9744141-0-7

A two-seater sports car prototype was shown in the mid-1970s called the DeLorean Safety Vehicle ( DSV ), with its bodyshell designed by Italdesign's Giorgetto Giugiaro.

Fox ), and an eccentric scientist, Dr. Emmett L. Brown ( Christopher Lloyd ), as they use a DeLorean time machine to time travel to different periods in the history of Hill Valley, California.

A few years later ( fall of 1956 ), under the guidance of Bunkie Knudsen Pontiac was determined to change it's image into a performance car to boost sales, this led Knudsen to look for further talent such as in Pete Estes as chief engineer ( taken from Olds division ) and John DeLorean as director of advanced engineering, a former Packard and Chrysler engineer.

* 1978: The company sells its ski lift division to CTEC and its snow equipment division to Logan Manufacturing Company ( LMC ), owned by John DeLorean.

Some included dropping a DeLorean car onto the opponent ( a Back to the Future reference ), turning the opponent into a hamburger ( a reference to an earlier Data East game, BurgerTime ), and massive diarrhea.

* January 21 – The first DeLorean DMC-12 automobile, a stainless steel sports car with gull-wing doors, rolls off the production line in Dunmurry, Northern Ireland.

* DeLorean DMC-12.

It is remembered for the one model it produced — the distinctive stainless steel DeLorean DMC-12 sports car featuring gull-wing doors — and for its brief and turbulent history, ending in receivership and bankruptcy in 1982.

The DeLorean DMC-12 shot to worldwide fame in the Back to the Future movie trilogy as the car made into a time machine by eccentric scientist Doctor Emmett L. Brown, although the company had ceased to exist before the first movie was made.

DeLorean DMC-12 with gull-wing doors open.

In August 2007, it emerged that due to demand for the DeLorean DMC-12, DMCH would start selling refurbished cars.

He was best known for developing the Pontiac GTO muscle car, the Pontiac Firebird, Pontiac Grand Prix, and the DeLorean DMC-12 sports car, which was later featured in the 1985 film Back to the Future, and for his high profile 1982 arrest on charges of drug trafficking.

DeLorean DMC-12

The car entered into production as the DMC-12, but known simply as the DeLorean.

Many " conventional " cars are in the collection, including an Austin Allegro, an Austin Metro previously owned by Lady Diana Spencer, a Ford Escort MK2, Hillman Imp, Triumph Acclaim, Talbot Sunbeam, Talbot Horizon, Peugeot 206, Peugeot 405 and a DeLorean DMC-12 car made famous by the Back to The Future films.

* ZMJ-159: Fuel-injected version used in the DeLorean DMC-12

PRV engine in a DeLorean DMC-12 | DeLorean

* DeLorean DMC-12 ( 1981 – 1983 )

They were also used in the door mechanism of the DeLorean DMC-12 automobile.

* DeLorean Motor Company, makers of the distinctive DeLorean DMC-12 sports car

The Iconic Gateway Arch and DeLorean DMC-12 are both clad in brushed stainless steel.

A DeLorean DMC-12 with its doors open

Apart from the Mercedes-Benz 300SL of the mid-1950s and the experimental Mercedes-Benz C111 of the early 1970s, the best-known examples of road-cars with gull-wing doors are the Bricklin SV-1 from the 1970s and the DeLorean DMC-12 from the 1980s.

* DeLorean DMC-12