RE: [doc] 85 million pound question

["Chris Parnham" <chrisparnham1@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

That doesn't square to what I once heard, I understood that loads of engine
were un-paid for. Just another bit of folk law no doubt.

I understand Colin Chapman is sharing a house with Lord Lucan in South
America....honest.....an old chap called Adolph H  does their garden......

Chrispy

-----Original Message-----
From: jamesrguk [mailto:James_rg@xxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: 29 April 2004 20:56
To: doc-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [doc] 85 million pound question


I heard from an old Renault employee that I know through work that
Renault actually did quite well from the DeLorean deal, although
little was said about it.

Apparently a huge number of PRV engines had been paid for by DMC but
not delivered to the DeLorean project, so Renault kept them when the
project when tits up then sold them again to other manufactures.

Also from the many books I read I don't think old Colin Chapman was
short of a few quid after the DeLorean project.



James RG




--- In doc-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "claire_usher71" <claire_usher71@xxxx>
wrote:
>
> I'm sure I'd heard somewhere that the Government got quite a bit of
> money back and that ok £85m was lent, but there was 'only' about
£26m
> outstanding. Anybody know different/the truth?
>
> When people go on at me about Govt money I just retort with
references
> to other things paid for with Taxpayers money, the Millenium Dome I
> think is a classic example.  Will that be standing in years to come
> when we are still prowling the streets in our D's??
>
> Also, if you get the smart arse comment "I own a piece of that car",
> its always handy to have some spare part (no longer required of
> course!) under the bonnet - we've given out a couple of LHD
headlamps
> to bemused smart arses!!
>
> Claire
> #2292 'Flopsy' VUR594W
> Megane Dynamique dCi 120 'Maggie' KL04CAE




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