RE: [DML] Protecting the DeLorean Image.

["Jack Stiefel" <jackstiefel@xxxx>]

Man this is silly, really silly here. Why is everyone getting so worked
up about this "inventor" or the usage of a DeLorean in a Video Game? I
could go on all day reading off the cars that have been used in Video
Games, and all seem to be in a good light, including the DeLorean. I
have not seen a game where they took the time to make a reproduction of
a car to be silly. 

Don't you think that owners of a 70's Firebird don't get Bandit jokes?
Do not owners of a 1996 BMW z3 get James Bond comments. How about
Herbie the Love Bug? DeLoreans would not be as popular today had it not
been used in BTTF. They would be in the area of the Bricklin (I am sure
there are Bricklin owners here, but if you mention it to 100 people on
the street, most will never have heard of the car but mention the
DeLorean and/or BTTF and look out). But I don't remember seeing anyone
cracking jokes to me about D-rex, or the Hover conversion, or the
convertible "D". These are all unique versions of our car. Some people
might call it bastardization, some call it cool as heck (I fall on the
side of coolness myself). 

As far as the "electric" DeLorean, anyone silly enough to look at it as
a defamation of character really needs to look at this form a different
angle. What better a car to use than a futuristic Stainless Steel car
to use in his "presentation". The looks alone make you almost believe
it's possible. It is all marketing here, and we should be proud he
choose it. Not proud of the "engineering" he did or lack of. But proud
that of all the cars out there to pawn off as a perpetual motion
machine, he chose not a Viper, Prowler, Porsche, Ferrari, Model "T",
Beetle, or even a 1992 Ford Escort but a DeLorean.

Just my 2 cents, I just woke up and might be a bit groggy, but man, I
just couldn't read any more about damaging the marquee of the DeLorean
because some shmuk was using on as a scam. In 3 months, no one will
ever remember this guy ever did this, except a few people in
Nashville... Maybe...

Jack & Virginia Stiefel http://www.sacketmansion.com
1981 DeLorean Vin 3461 August 1981 Build
1988 Jaguar XJ-SC V-12
Community Radio in the 1000 Islands. 104.9 Radio Cape Vincent
http://www.radiocapevincent.com



-----Original Message-----
From: therealdmcvegas [mailto:DMCVegas@xxxx] 
Sent: Tuesday, September 10, 2002 12:58 AM
To: dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [DML] Protecting the DeLorean Image.

>
> I don't mean to insult anyone with this post, so please don't take this
> the wrong way. I'm not out to offend.
>
> But I can't get over the fact that the general concensus is that no 
> one wants a DeLorean to appear in a video game that "...contains rather 
> controversial material that they (the car) didn't want to be associated
> with." But when it comes to someone trying to promote yet another
> invention that will no doubt be ridiculed by quite a few people, and
> will itself become a joke, while taking the image of the car down along
> with it... Well, that seems to be acceptable.

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