To address comments privately to the moderating team, please address: moderators@xxxxxxxxxxx To search the archives or view files, log in at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dmcnews ------------------------------------------------------------------------ There are 3 messages in this issue. Topics in this digest: 1. RE: Re: Downfall of the DMC? From: "Brian McCool" <bjmccool@xxxxxxxxx> 2. Re: RE: wheels - powder coat, paint, chrome From: Soma576@xxxxxxx 3. anybody in colorado?? From: "spaceace3113" <spaceace3113@xxxxxxxxx> ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ Message: 1 Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2002 17:56:09 -0500 From: "Brian McCool" <bjmccool@xxxxxxxxx> Subject: RE: Re: Downfall of the DMC? If I had to narrow it down to one specific event that brought the company down, I would say it was the decision in November of 1981 to double production of cars from 40 a day to 80 a day. The country went into a recession and had a very bad winter about a month after this, which affected every car manufacturer negatively, especially DMC. JZD did this partly to make the company look more impressive right before a planned public offering of the company's stock that ended up being canceled. By doubling production right before a market downturn, working capital was effectively used up, and the market was flooded with Deloreans that were just sitting at the Quality Assurance Centers in the US. This started a downward spiral that the company wasn't able to recover from. A major gamble in the auto industry is to build cars without adhering to dealer orders. Chrysler got itself into trouble in the late seventies by doing this. In retrospect, if JZD would have cut production in half, DMC may have lasted much longer than it did. It's likely that DMC would have merged with or been bought by another auto company, by this point. Global mergers have drastically reduced the amount of independent auto companies. Smaller auto companies face a major problem in that it takes very large sums of cash to function in the automotive manufacturing industry, and the little guys don't have very deep pockets. This was especially true for DMC. Whereas every penny they spent had to be asked for, the big boys were functioning off of their own cash flow. -----Original Message----- From: therealdmcvegas [mailto:DMCVegas@xxxxxxxx] Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2002 2:27 AM To: dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [DML] Re: Downfall of the DMC? I will have to agree with Andy on this one. The best thing to do is to read the books available. Specificly, I would stick with "De Lorean", "Hard driving", "Dream Maker", and "Stainless Steel Illusion".. These are the best books, and to get the full effect, I would reccomend reading them in that order. Once you're done, read "De Lorean" over again, and alot of bits and pieces from all of the books will click together. Was there any one thing that took DMC down? No. It was unfortunetly a combination of a number of things that caused the demise. When you start reading up on the subject, you begin to wonder just how it could have ended. While there were a some mistakes made here and there in the form of things that either should, or should not have been done, there wasn't a single action that caused any sort of a domino effect. -Robert vin 6585 "X" --- In dmcnews@xxxx, Vin 5386 <delorean_stainless@xxxx> wrote: > Does anyone know the actuall reasons that DMC ended up > in bankrupcy? When all is said it seems to me that the > company did quite well in its short time. Was it just > that the DeLorean as an automoblibe didn't "fit the > nitch" at that time in history? sorta to much to soon? > or was it more related to competeing with the larger > companys? Would be amazing to suspend reality for one > instance and imagine where the DeLorean would be today > given it had continuted production. > > Todd > Vin5386 > > ===== > For up to the minute details on the restoration of Vin5386 point your browser to, http://www.khpindustries.com/stainlessrestorations.html > > __________________________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > New DSL Internet Access from SBC & Yahoo! > http://sbc.yahoo.com To address comments privately to the moderating team, please address: moderators@xxxxxxxxxxx To search the archives or view files, log in at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dmcnews Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ Message: 2 Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2002 20:20:36 EDT From: Soma576@xxxxxxx Subject: Re: RE: wheels - powder coat, paint, chrome Hey All, speaking of wheels: a couple years ago my wheels were powdercoated with a chromium leaf and they looked EXCELLENT but have unfortunately become dull due to atmospheric exposure. i now want to replace these wheels with DMC Houston's polished wheels or the machined finish wheels. does anyone have any pics who own these wheels so i can see what they look like on a car so i know which ones i like better? i saw them off of cars when i was at the warehouse this summer but i don't remember the difference anymore.. Andy Soma576@xxxxxxx 1982 DeLorean DMC-12 VIN#11596 Fargo, ND 58102 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ Message: 3 Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 00:40:37 -0000 From: "spaceace3113" <spaceace3113@xxxxxxxxx> Subject: anybody in colorado?? would any experienced delorean owners want to take a look at a car for me?....thought this might be worth a shot...thanx ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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