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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>
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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
>
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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
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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
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