People say that JZD was a failure, others say he was successful. JZD was a brilliant man who was not afraid of taking a risk. Imagine being in his position at GM, making big bucks, living the good life and saying "I want more. I want to make my own automobile." How many people have thought about it or said it and how many have done it? Many people write about the car being a lemon. Let me see, after 22 years we still have a tremendous amount of his cars riding around, looking timeless. How many 22 year old Chevy's do you see today? JZD was a risk taker. He was a salesman. You have to be a salesman/entrepreneur/venture capitalist to raise money to create an automobile manufacturing company from scratch. JZD's short lived company would have still be around today if were not for the intense geo-political risk at the time in Ireland and the double digit inflation rates and double digit interest rates that occurred here in the USA. From 1980 to 1985 short term money market rates in the US were at over 20%! People were taking out car loans at 18-25%. All of the car companies suffered. So by fate or bad luck, JZD took his chance during one of the worst times of hyper inflation that we have seen in over a century. And he was under capitalized to boot. During that 5 year period of high inflation and high interest rates if GM needed money they just went out and raised money by selling more stocks and bonds to the public. JZD was just an embryo hatching from his stainless steel egg during a bad economic period of time. It's just a blip in the timeline of history. But it was his unfortunate blip. If you don't take a risk in life you'll never accomplish anything. Now the responsibility of his dream is ours. Let's give the man credit. He was successful. People hate successful people. All of who own a Delorean know that the car is phenomenal. May he rest in peace. And for all these cowards who make their money writing about dead people who took a chance I say - you should be so lucky that someone gives a shit about you to write ANYTHING when you die. I think I need a ride in my DMZ. Bob Cutrupi 16909 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] To address comments privately to the moderating team, please address: moderators@xxxxxxxxxxx For more info on the list, tech articles, cars for sale see www.dmcnews.com To search the archives or view files, log in at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dmcnews Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dmcnews/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: dmcnews-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/