Re: [DML] Re: DeLorean Mobile Home?

["Brian McCool" <bjmccool@xxxx>]

Ok, here's the deal on the Delorean connection to the Vixen. Bill Collins,
who had worked with John Delorean at GM, and later went with him to help on
engineering the DMC-12, left Delorean Motor Company in 1979 and went to work
as head of product planning at American Motors for the next 2 1/2 years. He
then decided to leave American Motors, and Start Vixen Motor Co. with the
former chief financial officer of DMC, Bob Dewey. Coincidently, the same
company that did the prototype DMC-12, also built the prototype Vixen. The
whole idea behind Vixen was to make motorhomes that could fit inside a
regular sized garage. I remember reading a small article in Autoweek around
'88 or '89 that mentioned the bankruptcy of Vixen Motor Co. and I also
remember seeing an ad in Hemmings Motor News selling the remaining motor
homes that were left after the bankruptcy (I've got the article bookmarked
but it's in storage).
The majority of this info was pulled from Stainless Steel Illusion page #68.
----- Original Message -----
From: "therealdmcvegas" <DMCVegas@xxxx>
To: <dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, March 08, 2003 8:46 AM
Subject: [DML] Re: DeLorean Mobile Home?


> --- In dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Stragand, Dave" <dave.stragand@xxxx>
> wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > Has anyone ever heard of a DeLorean motor home, called
> (coincidentally
> > enough) a "Vixen"? Here's what the owner had to say:
> <SNIP>
>
> By the time I post this, I'm sure that there will already be a few
> links to this RV posted here. But, here is a quick one that will sum
> everything up:
>
> http://www.agencyrv.com/Vixen.HTM
>
> Midway down the page, it has the following quote:
> "587 Vixens were built by Vixen Motor Co., Pontiac, Michigan, between
> 1986 - 1989, when the company closed."
> So this couldn't possibly have been a DMC related project for when
> the company was in business. Could JZD have possibly been involved?
> There is always that possibility, but I seriously doubt it. Durring
> these years, DeLorean was mainly fighting his bankruptcy in Michigan,
> and the only companies that I've see him being involved with were
> attempts as reviving DMC, and Logan Manufacturing. In all the
> documents and articles that I've run across, I've never seen a
> mention of an RV, let alone any other projects that he started up.
> But who knows...
>
> -Robert
> vin 6585 "X"
>
>
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