[DML] What could have been... ;)

["Stian Birkeland" <dmc_norway@xxxx>]

First some corrections:
Robert Rooney <dmcvegas@xxxx> wrote:

...

> The reason that "Wall Street" changed it's mind about investing was
> because right as this sotck offering was about to have gone thru, the
> "Gold Facets" memo "popped" up. With this memo were aligations of
> fraud, corruption, etc... William Haddad who was in charge of
> publicity, wrote the memo, and had JZD's personal secratary, Marion
> Gibson deliver it to Tony Blair.

...

It was definitely not Tony Blair! (Britain's Prime Minister right now, and 
is the head of the Labour Party)

Gibson delivered the forged memo from Haddad to a member of Parliament 
(Conservative) called Nicholas Raymond Winterton

(GRAND DELUSIONS,page 273)

The most interesting part here is that Mr. Winterton couldn't get hold of 
Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher (who was visiting Australia at that time) 
so he chose to go to the press with the material!

Page 274: "His best deal came from the country's best-selling paper, the 
NEWS OF THE WORLD, a sensationalist tabloid that has never prided itself on 
accuracy".

I think this tells it all... it is was blew the stock offering...

DMC were also in the process of developing the Euro-DeLoreans at that time. 
I'm sure that over here it would have been a best-seller.

The DeLorean is sometimes criticized for lack of power which really makes 
sense since Americans are used to the V8s.

But in Europe, we have never had the same ideas on big engines, so here a 
DeLorean V6 would be very attractive
(as it is still over here - lots of imports).

I'm still thinking of what could have been, had DMC initiated the 
Euro-DeLorean at the same time as hitting the US market with the first cars.

I strongly believe that the Euro-DeLoreans would have kept the company 
floating and that the extra DeLoreans which got stockpiled in the US (when 
the recession sat in) could easily have been "swallowed" by the European 
market.

Then the Twin-Turbo would have made it to the US market, and with the 4-door 
DeLorean sedan coming out in 1984.


Very best wishes
Stian Birkeland
NORWAY
VIN # 6759


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