Hi John We get a lot of "some of my money went into that car" and "he was a crook, wasn't he?" and all the usual stuff about the car being rubbish, but 90% of these people can have their opinions reversed with a quick tour aroud the car and ask the question "so what do YOU think's bad aout it?" We had a great day at Bishops Stortford a few weeks ago because one of the people we met was Jason Barlow, one of Quentin's co-presenters on 5th Gear. he grew up in Dunmurry and loves DeLoreans - in fact, he has always wanted one. He said he'd pass on our feelings to Quents... Martin John Dore wrote: >Hey lads, and especially guys in England, >With the thread over on that other list ;) about whether the DMC is >American or English or Irish or whatever, it got me thinking about >something that you might be able to clear up. > >When out and about with your cars over in England, how do you find >public opinion of it? As far as I can see, most English people have a >very negative attitude about the DeLorean. Of course I'm talking to >the converted here - you wouldn't own one if you had negative >opinions on the car... Basically I'm talking about the people who had >no connection with the company, just have formed opinions on what >they have read in the pre-dominantly negative British press about the >car, I'm assuming... > >I had my car out at a car show here in Ireland last summer. Based on >the comments made by people from England at that show, and also with >converstions I've had about the car with English people both here in >Europe and any that approached me in the USA, they all seem to think >John DeLorean is a gangster, the car is crap, and that it was a huge >waste of public money. I do meet the odd enlightened individual who >will know better than the silly rumours, but not often. > >I suppose my question is why is the press over there so hell-bent on >giving the car and man a bad name, even though many of you consider >the DeLorean to be a British car? Quentin Willson seems to go to >extraordinary lengths to form a bad opinion of the car in as many >people's heads as possible. > >I once contacted Quentin's agent, and asked him could he arrange an >interview between myself and Quentin. He said sure, that should be no >problem, what did I want to talk to Quentin about? I replied that I >wanted to talk about his opinions on DeLoreans, and gave my website >about him and his opinions: > >http://homepage.eircom.net/~johndore/Quentin.htm > >I never heard any more from him, I wonder why? > >THanks, >John. > > Yahoo! Groups Sponsor <http://rd.yahoo.com/M=259395.3614674.4902533.1261774/D=egroupweb/S=170512 6215:HM/A=1524963/R=0/SIG=12o885gmo/*http://hits.411web.com/cgi-bin/autore dir?camp=556&lineid=3614674?=egroupweb&pos=HM> <http://us.adserver.yahoo.com/l?M=259395.3614674.4902533.1261774/D=egroupm ail/S=:HM/A=1524963/rand=471753636> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: DMCForum-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service <http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/> .
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