She was employed at the Carboloy Products Division of General Electric throughout much of DeLorean's early life.

DeLorean's time at Chrysler lasted less than a year, ending when he was offered a US $ 14, 000 salary at Packard Motor Company under supervision of noted engineer Forest McFarland.

However, it proved to have a positive effect on DeLorean's attention to engineering detail, and after four years at Packard he became McFarland's successor as head of research and development.

DeLorean's years of engineering at Pontiac were highly successful and produced dozens of patented innovations for the company, and in 1961 he was promoted to the position of division chief engineer.

Investment capital came primarily in the form of business loans from the Bank of America and from the formation of partnerships and private investment from select parties, including The Tonight Show host Johnny Carson and entertainers Roy Clark and Sammy Davis, Jr .. Money was also gained later through a dealer investment program in which those dealerships offering DeLorean's cars for sale were made shareholders in the company.

The key element of evidence for the prosecution was a videotape showing DeLorean discussing the drugs deal with undercover FBI agents Benedict ( Ben ) Tisa and West, although DeLorean's attorney Howard Weitzman successfully demonstrated to the court that he was coerced into participation in the deal by the agents who initially approached him as legitimate investors.

When the Back to the Future film came out in 1985, featuring DeLorean's namesake car, DeLorean wrote a letter to Bob Gale, one of the movie's producers and writers, thanking him for immortalizing the car in the film.

The DeLorean DMC-12 ( commonly simply the DeLorean ) is a sports car manufactured by John DeLorean's DeLorean Motor Company for the American market in 1981-82.

DeLorean's version was rejected because of GM's concern that his design would take away sales from the Corvette, their flagship performance vehicle, so instead they forced him to work with the existing Camaro design.

Instead, DeLorean's " ropeshaft " design was greenlighted.

DeLorean's vision has been further vindicated by the adoption of similar designs in a slew of modern high-performance cars, including the Porsche 928, the Corvette C5, and the Aston Martin DB9.

DeLorean's father Zaharie was a Romanian immigrant, originally from Şugag, Alba County, who worked in a mill factory ; Zaharie emigrated to the United States when he was twenty.

DeLorean's mother, Kathryn, was an immigrant from Austria.

DeLorean's parents divorced in 1942.

DeLorean's best-known contribution to Pontiac was the Pontiac GTO, widely considered the first muscle car.

DeLorean's most notable contribution to Pontiac was the Pontiac GTO ( Gran Turismo Omologato ), a muscle car named after the Ferrari 250 GTO.

The 1970 Chevrolet Nova was released behind schedule under DeLorean's leadership of GM's Chevrolet division.

The executive offices of General Motors headquarters continued to clash with DeLorean's nonconformity, and he was still not able to fit the traditional mold of conservatism that was usually expected of someone of his stature.

The Vega was assigned to Chevrolet by corporate management, specifically by GM president Ed Cole, just weeks before DeLorean's 1969 arrival as Chevrolet division's general manager.

" By DeLorean's orders, tens of extra inspectors were assigned on the Vega assembly line and the first two thousand cars were road tested.

The one millionth Vega was built in May 1973, a month after DeLorean's GM resignation.

The name, which was DeLorean's idea, was inspired by the Ferrari 250 GTO, the successful race car.

Marty locates Doc, although the DeLorean's fuel line is punctured during his arrival, rendering it unable to move under its own power.

Admiral of the Fleet Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas George Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma ( born Prince Louis of Battenberg ; 25 June 1900 – 27 August 1979 ), was a British statesman and naval officer, an uncle of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh and second cousin once removed to Elizabeth II.

Mary's uncle was King Charles II, who ruled the three kingdoms of England, Scotland and Ireland ; her maternal grandfather, Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon, served for a lengthy period as Charles's chief advisor.

In June 1402, Sir Edmund Mortimer, the uncle of the Earl of March, was captured.

His mother, Margory Golding, was the sister of the Ovid translator Arthur Golding, and his uncle, Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, was the inventor of the English or Shakespearean sonnet form.

In August 1485 there was another rebellion against Richard, headed by Henry Tudor, 2nd Earl of Richmond ( later King Henry VII ) and his uncle Jasper.

Elizabeth's mother was Jacquetta of Luxembourg, widow of Henry VI's uncle, John of Lancaster, Duke of Bedford, but her father, Richard Woodville, 1st Earl Rivers, was a new-minted baron.

The prince was accompanied to Ludlow by his mother and by his uncle, Anthony Woodville, 2nd Earl Rivers, who carried out many of the administrative duties associated with the presidency of the Council.

Her first ministry was predominantly Tory, and contained such High Tories as Daniel Finch, 2nd Earl of Nottingham, and her uncle Laurence Hyde, 1st Earl of Rochester.

Thomas, Earl of Norfolk, joined Isabella's forces and Henry of Lancaster – the brother of the late Thomas, and Isabella's uncle – also announced he was joining Isabella's faction, marching south to join her.

James was murdered at Perth on the night of 20 – 1 February 1437 in a failed coup by his uncle and former ally Walter Stewart, Earl of Atholl.

In 1431, before the September uprising, the king had arrested two of his nephews, John Kennedy of Carrick and Archibald, Earl of Douglas possibly as a result of a conflict between John and his uncle, Thomas Kennedy in which Douglas may have become involved.

The estates firmly resisted this and their opposition was articulated by their speaker Sir Robert Graham, a former Albany attendant and a servant of the king's uncle, Walter Stewart, Earl of Atholl.

In 1756, after the deaths of his uncle and father, John became the fourth Earl of Dunmore, and sat as a Scottish representative peer in the House of Lords from 1761 to 1774 and from 1776 to 1790.

She found herself particularly attracted to Archibald Douglas, 6th Earl of Angus, whom even his uncle, the cleric and poet Gavin Douglas, called a " young witless fool.

Joined by his uncle, Thomas Percy, Earl of Worcester, he marched to Shrewsbury where he intended to do battle against a force there under the command of the Prince of Wales.

The lesser title and ( in due course ) greater estates of the Earldom of March also became his on the death of his maternal uncle Edmund Mortimer, 5th Earl of March, on 19 January 1425.

The town is first mentioned in Orkneyinga saga in the year 1046 when it is recorded as the residence of Rögnvald Brusason the Earl of Orkney, who was killed by his uncle Thorfinn the Mighty.

Magnus's nephew, Rognvald Kali Kolsson, laid claim to the Earldom of Orkney, and was advised by his father Kol to promise the islanders to " build a stone minster at Kirkwall " in memory of his uncle the Holy Earl, and this became St Magnus Cathedral, Kirkwall.

His eldest brother John de la Pole, Earl of Lincoln ( c. 1464-1487 ), was named heir to the throne by his maternal uncle, Richard III of England, who gave him a pension and the reversion of the estates of Lady Margaret Beaufort.

Earl Park was laid out July 31, 1872, by Adams D. Raub and named for his uncle, Adams Earl, one of the promoters of the Big Four railway from Lafayette to Kankakee.

Jasper Tudor, 1st Duke of Bedford, 1st Earl of Pembroke, KG ( Welsh: Siasbar Tudur ) ( c. 1431 – 21 / 26 December 1495 ) was the uncle of King Henry VII of England and the architect of his successful conquest of England and Wales in 1485.

William Cavendish, 1st Earl of Devonshire, was his uncle ( see the Duke of Devonshire for further history of this branch of the family ).

Henry III had granted the land to the queen's uncle, Peter, Count of Savoy, whom he designated Earl of Richmond and gave all the land from the Strand to the Thames, in 1246.