Both endeavors were successful financially, but these areas held little interest for DeLorean.

DeLorean responded to the production problems by delaying the release of the Camaro, and simplifying the modifications to the Corvette and Nova.

* DeLorean Motor Company ( DMC ), manufacturer of the DeLorean DMC-12, a sports car made famous by the movie Back to the Future, has its only remaining private factory based in Humble.

Chasing large sums of money which had disappeared from the DeLorean company, Lotus was besieged by Inland Revenue inspectors, who imposed an £ 84 million legal " protective assessment " around the company and all of its assets.

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

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.

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.

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

In response to the " pony car " market dominated by the wildly-successful Ford Mustang, DeLorean turned to the 14th Floor for permission to offer a smaller version of the Pontiac Banshee Show car for 1966.

In a Motor Trend interview August, 1970 DeLorean said, " Vega will be the highest quality product ever built by Chevrolet.

Incomplete and often non-functioning cars soon filled the factory lot, the vehicles then had to be reprocessed and repaired by a team assigned to this task by DeLorean.

" GM gave him a Florida Cadillac franchise as a retirement gift, and DeLorean did in fact take over the presidency of The National Alliance of Businessmen, a charitable organization with the mission of employing Americans in need, founded by Lyndon Johnson and Henry Ford.

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.

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.

From 1978 until his death, Chapman was involved with the American tycoon, John DeLorean, in his development of a stainless steel sports car, to be built in a factory funded by the British government.

The finished film still shows him writhing in pain, which has been explained by various sources by saying that he had a heart attack, or noting that his cane catches as he leaves the DeLorean.

The original company founded by John DeLorean closed in 1982.

Though the Monte Carlo was developed at Chevrolet under the leadership of Pete Estes, it was formally introduced in September, 1969 by John Z. DeLorean, who succeeded Estes as Chevrolet's general manager earlier in the year after previously heading the Pontiac division, where he led the development of the similar-bodied 1969 Grand Prix introduced the previous model year.

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.

Currently, a DeLorean can be assembled from the ground up using a combination of new, original and reproduction parts for US $ 57, 500 and still carry a 1980s title, while unrestored but good condition vehicles run from about US $ 25, 000 upwards.

However, adequate fuel must be collected before being able to time travel using the DeLorean.

Chrysler ran a post-graduate educational facility named the Chrysler Institute of Engineering, which allowed DeLorean to advance his education while gaining real-world experience in automotive engineering.

Instead of entering the engineering workforce after earning his degree, DeLorean sold life insurance, and later worked for the Factory Equipment Corporation.

DeLorean and other Pontiac planners decided to make the switch in light of declining sales of the full-sized Grand Prix in comparison to competition from unique personal cars in both the luxury and sporty car fields including the Ford Thunderbird, Buick Riviera and Oldsmobile Toronado at the luxury end, along with the emerging ponycars such as the Ford Mustang and Pontiac's own new-for-1967 Firebird.

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

John DeLorean then lobbied the British government for aid, but was refused unless he was able to find a matching amount from other investors.

DeLorean attended Detroit's public grade schools, and was then accepted into Cass Technical High School, a technical high school for Detroit's honor students, where he signed up for the electrical curriculum.

DeLorean worked as a draftsman for the Public Lighting Commission for a year and a half to improve his family's financial status, then returned to Lawrence to finish his degree.

Meanwhile the main northern industries based on shipbuilding, ropes, shirts and textiles declined from 1960, and then more so due to the 1970s ' Troubles ' in Northern Ireland, despite government investment in projects such as the Belfast DeLorean plant.

After his trial and subsequent acquittal, DeLorean quipped, " Would you buy a used car from me?

DeLorean believed there was an undue amount of infighting at GM between divisional heads, and several of Pontiac's advertising campaign themes met with internal resistance, such as the " Tiger " campaign used to promote the GTO and other Pontiac models in 1965 and 1966.

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

The ride used DeLorean based simulator cars and a 70 ft tall IMAX dome screen to project footage.

Also on display is one of three 24kt gold plated DeLorean DMC-12s built for American Express, a " Jerrari ", a Jeep Wagoneer fitted with a V-12 Ferrari engine and formerly used for winter driving by William F. Harrah, and the only surviving prototype of Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion car.

He modified a time-traveling DeLorean to seat eight, which is used when Biff steals the time machine again and the audience, in their own time-traveling DeLorean, help Doc chase Biff through time.

DeLorean found the Cass experience exhilarating and he excelled at his studies.

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.

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.

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

Over the next 30 years, he remembers seeing the flying DeLorean taking off, and that in the future of flying cars, he has never seen a flying DeLorean.