Re: [DML] DeLorean ownership; an ego trip & funniest thing ever heard Cont'd...

["Brian McCool" <bjmccool@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

For some reason people love to put someone up on a pedestal, and then knock
them off of it. I really don't understand this either. I can see where some
people in England may feel they were taken advantage of, rightly or wrongly,
but the sheer hatred that some people seem to have for the man or the car
does seem strange. It's not like the Delorean was shipped without an engine,
if you don't like the car don't buy it. No one forced anyone to put their
money into DMC or any other new company for that matter. It's just like the
stock market. If you can't afford to totally lose your investment, don't put
up the money. Unfortunately, there will be people that think that the car is
junk and that John is a con man for a long time, but eventually those people
won't be here anymore. That's when the younger people will want to buy the
car they saw in Back To The Future, and probably won't remember anything
about the cocaine trial. How many people under 30 (not including the ones on
this list) honestly know anything about the cocaine trial or the specifics
of the car, other than it was in Back To The Future?

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Randal Atamaniuk" <martydmc12@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, April 25, 2004 3:14 AM
Subject: Re: [DML] DeLorean ownership; an ego trip & funniest thing ever
heard Cont'd...


> This is where I get confused, and frustrated with non-owners.  Forget the
> Back to the Future remarks; those can be a lot of fun.  And the people who
> ask the million and a half questions; better to inform them correctly than
> have them walk away false information.  My concern is with the people who
> argue with us about the history of our cars, and especially J.Z.D.'s
> history.  These types of people seem to have a personal vendetta against
> both John and the car.  Did John DeLorean one day happen to get into his
> DMC-12, and drive over these peoples mothers?!  These types insist our
cars
> are pieces of junk; or that J.Z.D. was a crook and should be in jail.
Even
> if they sometimes have all the facts right; they continue to hound us with
> how stupid we must be to own such a lousy car.  And most of these people
are
> usually automotive enthusiasts.
>
> I don't get it; after John left GM and his Pontiac GTO in its glorified
> history, did the world suddenly go anti-DeLorean?  I wasn't old enough to
> remember or even know what was going on before 1981; but I always assumed
> that the creation of a new automobile was a positive thing for car
> enthusiasts (okay, maybe not for Detroit).  But what happened?  Did the
> cocaine scandal suddenly make our cars stainless steel heaps?  I though
> 1981-1982, no matter how poor sales were, the DeLorean was "the dream" car
> of that time period.
>
> A good example is a story I heard about eight or nine years back, before
DMC
> Houston starting re-manufacturing the blank keys.  There was a guy in
> England who had buckets of original key blanks; at the time, he could have
> made a pretty penny off of them too.  But no, because he hated DeLorean so
> much, he melted them down instead.  So this goes back to my question, what
> is this hatred that seems to pop-up now and again at a car show, or on a
> message board, etc.  Where did it come from, and why?  What's their
excuse?
> It doesn't seem to be ego or jealousy either.  It's something else.
> Something I'm not sure anyone can or will ever figure out.
>
> Maybe I'm wrong.  Who knows.
>
> Randy
> Vin #16353
>
>
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