Fw: [DML] Delorean Vin#000570

["Chris Parnham" <chrisparnham@xxxx>]

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Subject: Re: [DML] Delorean Vin#000570


> In a message dated 07/08/2001 9:24:37 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
> chrisparnham@xxxx writes:
>
> << The Right Hand Drive cars were taken off the production line at various
> stages for the conversions to be done..but day 2 eh? >>
>
> In the documentary film "Start-up," John DeLorean ordered C. K.
> Bennington to start the RHD conversion immediately during a 1980 board
> meeting.
> The initial plan would take DMC 12-14 months to start production of
the
> RHD car.
> JZD wanted the cars retrofitted at the ports of entry in European markets.
> DMC was looking for substantially more sales than that in North
America.
> DMC could not support the current overhead with the one car in North
America.
> The RHD car was not a matter of something extra, it was a matter of pure
> survival.
>
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