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00:00Hi, folks, Hank Dunham at Dunham Family Motors.
00:02We're in the middle of our inventory reduction sale.
00:05So many cars to choose from, and we're passing the savings on to you.
00:08How about our...
00:09Some cars are instant classics.
00:11Some are here today and gone tomorrow.
00:13But every once in a while, there's one that's ahead of its time.
00:16Stainless steel, gold-wing doors,
00:18an aggressive front end that screams performance.
00:22Well, kinda.
00:23It all began in 1955 with a car that was built in 1981.
00:29Yeah, just watch my dad.
00:31And only $75 a month.
00:35So come on, daddy.
00:38And we have this beauty just appear on the lot.
00:45They put the door on sideways.
00:50Throughout time, humanity has been obsessed with getting places
00:53using anything but their own two feet.
00:56We've tried all kinds of things.
00:59Until finally, the greatest invention of all time.
01:03The automobile.
01:05Moron!
01:07These are the cars that drove us.
01:11You know the names.
01:13Henry Ford.
01:15Ferdinand Porsche.
01:17Enzo Ferrari.
01:19And with me here, Mr. John DeLorean.
01:22John, who made this thing.
01:25What is this thing?
01:26This is the DeLorean.
01:30Which John claimed was an engineering marvel of pure power.
01:35But things claimed by John DeLorean
01:39may not be quite what they seem.
01:41He was a big spender who loved beautiful women.
01:44To some, a white-haired maverick.
01:46John was Robin Hood.
01:47Driven by cars and...
01:51Well, I have a reasonably strong sex drive.
01:55John DeLorean had a nose for innovation.
01:57Or if you ask some...
01:59His history is super fraught.
02:02His nose was elsewhere.
02:04It's a story of big business, big money, and the crime of cocaine.
02:08Whether John DeLorean was morally bankrupt is disputable.
02:12Is he a good guy?
02:13Is he a bad guy?
02:14However, his car company surely was.
02:17The DeLorean was a failure.
02:19But the DeLorean story had a bright future
02:21and an extremely unlikely revival.
02:24Are you telling me that you built a time machine
02:26out of a DeLorean?
02:28But we're getting ahead of ourselves.
02:29Let's go back to where this story starts.
02:321955.
02:34Close.
02:34Our story begins in 1952.
02:37A brief period of time when John's hair wasn't white
02:40and he was fully clothed.
02:42John Z. DeLorean was an engineer in the 50s.
02:46John was an innovator.
02:47He had presence and charisma.
02:49He started his career with Packard.
02:52But John was soon coached by the General Motors Pontiac division.
02:56And then he was made the head of strategic engineering.
02:59And boy, was it time to strategically engineer.
03:03Pontiac was referred to as the old ladies division.
03:09When John got into Pontiac, he knew that they needed a makeover.
03:13Pontiac wasn't going to be the old ladies car division anymore.
03:17It was going to turn his attention to performance.
03:21It was him that said, why don't we put a giant engine in this car?
03:26And boy, you step down the gas on that car,
03:29shove you back in the seat and just rock it forward.
03:32It was cool.
03:33Yeah, that car helped kick off the whole muscle car age.
03:36With the GTO, John DeLorean earned his stripes.
03:40The next thing you know, he's chief engineer of Pontiac, becomes general manager of Pontiac.
03:46To people like me, he was my hero.
03:48He was the first rock star automotive exec.
03:52Wow!
03:53Everybody wore a shirt and tie, but then there's John DeLorean standing there in his white jeans,
04:01deck shoes without socks, and a t-shirt.
04:04He wanted to buck the system.
04:06Did you have the feeling that the way you looked was rubbing some people the wrong way?
04:10Oh, I'm sure that was right.
04:11I was told that a number of times.
04:14Instead of cutting his hair, DeLorean cut ties with the GM fuddy-duddies.
04:20Leaving GTO skid marks on the road of destiny,
04:24John DeLorean set out to engineer a car the likes of which the world had never seen.
04:30He knew art, he knew engineering, and he knew mass production.
04:33The combination that would lead to something truly original.
04:37And the DMC-12 was born.
04:42A unique vision of beauty and elegance.
04:47And a collection of ideas from other stuff.
04:50From the doors.
04:51John was inspired by the Mercedes Gullwing.
04:55What a fucking false visit.
04:56Oh, you like it?
04:57Which in itself was inspired by this exquisite seabird.
05:01But the DeLorean wasn't stealing her fries.
05:04He was stealing its shape.
05:07From James Bond's submersible car of choice.
05:10Isn't it nice?
05:11The closest thing to the aesthetics of the DeLorean is the Lotus from The Spy Who Loved Me.
05:20The DeLorean uses the same backbone steel chassis.
05:24Can you swim?
05:25But very much unlike the Lotus Esprit.
05:28It's got a liquid-cooled V6 behind the rear axle.
05:32And the only real car of note that was like that was the Porsche 911.
05:36A Porsche 911 is nothing like a Lotus Esprit.
05:40And a Lotus Esprit is nothing like a Gullwing Mercedes.
05:43And a Gullwing Mercedes is nothing like a Porsche 911.
05:46But somehow when you put all these together, you get...
05:51The DMC-12.
05:54And why the 12?
05:55Because John DeLorean wanted it to cost $12,000.
05:58He wanted to make an affordable sports car.
06:01But to mass-produce a sports car of any price, John DeLorean would need some things.
06:07He needed capital.
06:08He needed land.
06:10He needed a factory.
06:11Think about the amount of capital that you would need.
06:13An incredible amount of money.
06:15And this Hollywood hunk knew just where to find plenty of it.
06:19Johnny Carson, Sammy Davis Jr.
06:22And he relied on people he knew, engineers, builders, and designers, to create a prototype.
06:27But there's a big jump from building that prototype car to actually having a factory and being set up for
06:32production.
06:33That's when he started shopping around the world to find support from countries and governments.
06:37Well, to find those, he knew just where to look.
06:40No, a bit to the east.
06:42That's the one.
06:44Britain.
06:44But then the British government sent him west a bit.
06:47The British government offered them funding to put the factory in Northern Ireland.
06:52Seemingly a place of great merriment and gaiety.
06:56The British government put in over $100 million because Ireland needed something to create jobs.
07:02The unemployment rate in some areas was as high as 50%.
07:06The DeLorean sports car plant will create 2,000 jobs.
07:10Failed by 2,000 untrained workers.
07:12DeLorean needed a ringer.
07:15I was the first recruit out of the British automotive industry.
07:18But when DeLorean offered Barry Wills the job, he had good reason to be apprehensive about the move to Belfast.
07:27The Catholics and the Protestants had been in a civil war.
07:30It was known as the Troubles.
07:33The British army were out there trying to keep the peace between the two factions.
07:38Yeah, sounds like a great place to start a business.
07:41But were some such challenges, John DeLorean saw possibility.
07:56John DeLorean had smooth-talked the British government into giving him a factory in Belfast.
08:04They put us in a battlefield between major Catholic and Protestant developments.
08:10And that was the radical thing to try.
08:13But he'd need more than charm to navigate Belfast civil unrest.
08:17British soldiers who helped provide security for DeLorean's new factory.
08:22Once the plant got going, they worked together side by side, Catholics and Protestants.
08:29Without any problem whatsoever.
08:31Turns out the Catholics and the Protestants found one thing they agree on.
08:35John DeLorean is something of a hero because he's bringing jobs to this city.
08:40John was Robin Hood.
08:42He'd taken money from the British government to provide jobs.
08:45They worshipped him.
08:46But soon, Belfast would once again be split.
08:49This time, the employed versus the unemployed.
08:53And they literally burned the engineering building to the ground with Molotov cocktails that had been thrown over the fence.
08:59Despite the troubles with the troubles, John DeLorean forged ahead.
09:03This is going to be a very successful project.
09:07Whether it was confidence or ego...
09:08He had the balls and initiative to swing for the fences.
09:11DeLorean doubled down.
09:13John made a decision to double production.
09:16From 40 cars a day to about 80 cars a day.
09:19He decided to bring in a second shift.
09:23Which meant hiring workers that had even less experience.
09:27And there's no doubt that some of the cars were lower quality standard than perhaps they should have been.
09:33Every day, DeLorean went deeper into debt.
09:36Which meant it was time for the DeLorean DMC-12 to spread its wings.
09:41The DeLorean is one of the most awaited automobiles in automotive history.
09:47Because after eight long years...
09:49In 1981, John DeLorean hosted a small group of automotive journalists.
09:54And John made sure everyone was in a good mood.
09:59Concord.
10:00When we got to the hotel in Belfast, it was surrounded by barbed wire and fencing.
10:05Five star, still.
10:06And some guys with some serious guns.
10:09It was quite an adventure.
10:10But we drove some of the first-build DeLoreans.
10:13John DeLorean's masterpiece was on display.
10:16It was a wonderful press trip.
10:19It was a pretty dismally bad car.
10:21Well, the DeLorean looked really sleek, but it just wasn't that fast.
10:26No thanks to the laws of physics.
10:28The stainless steel construction of the car made it 900 pounds heavier than regular automotive steel.
10:36Stainless steel.
10:38It's good for a lot of things, but automobile's not one of them.
10:42The car has a six-cylinder Volvo Renault engine, so it's seriously underpowered.
10:49Middling quality, middling performance V6.
10:52But that was what he could afford at the time.
10:54And the Renault was a nice car, but it was an economy-based engine.
10:58John DeLorean couldn't just snap his fingers and develop a motor.
11:02And most auto companies don't want to sell you one of their engines,
11:05because if your car gets a bad reputation, their engine goes down with you.
11:09So he had to take what he could get.
11:12And if the blood didn't rush from your head,
11:16from the speed,
11:18Watch your head.
11:18the doors would finish the job.
11:21Watch your head.
11:21Watch your head.
11:22I'm sorry.
11:22It's time to keep banging.
11:23And much like the exquisite seabird itself,
11:26gull-wing doors,
11:27There's a real pain in the ass.
11:29Johnny Carson.
11:30He was an early investor,
11:31and he got an early DeLorean.
11:34The door got locked up,
11:36and he could not get out of that car.
11:39So he, of course, tells the story on TV.
11:42Then the public thinks the car is junk and dies.
11:45The real question was,
11:46Is this thing going to be viable?
11:47Eh, well, about that.
11:49Roughly.
11:50How much will it cost?
11:51The car's price went from $15,000 to $27,000.
11:57So that was big money.
11:58In 1981, you could buy a house for $25,000.
12:02But if the DeLorean was a house,
12:04they all looked the same.
12:05It was one of those cookie-cutter ones.
12:07You can have the DeLorean in any color
12:10as long as it's stainless steel.
12:12They're all brushed stainless steel,
12:14and they either have a black interior
12:16or a gray interior.
12:18You can't have 30,000 cars all the same color
12:21and expect to sell them all.
12:24DeLorean's hopes for the DMC-12 were fading fast.
12:28My name is on this.
12:29I'm not going to let it die.
12:30When they didn't sell nearly as many cars
12:32as they were hoping,
12:33he was trying desperately to get enough money
12:35to keep that car company going.
12:37No matter where we have to steal the money to do it,
12:39it's not a matter of something extra.
12:42Well, this is a matter of pure survival.
12:44They needed a way to bring in some extra money
12:46into the company.
12:47As luck would have it,
12:48a golden opportunity would come the company's way
12:50in the form of a marketing promotion
12:53for the American Express gold card.
12:55John would plate them in real gold.
12:58These cars were about twice as expensive
13:00as a regular DeLorean,
13:01and he thought that he could sell,
13:03you know, maybe a couple hundred.
13:05Who'd want to buy a gold-plated car?
13:07Well, it turns out nobody was interested.
13:09You can't take it anywhere.
13:11Yeah, absolutely crazy.
13:12It seemed for DeLorean,
13:14the luck of the Irish was nowhere to be seen.
13:16It took seven years from the inception
13:18of DeLorean's dream to the first car.
13:20In that time, the economy sagged
13:22and car sales collapsed.
13:24The recession hit, and things went south.
13:28The company was too far gone.
13:30You know, there was nowhere for the cars to go
13:31because people weren't buying them.
13:33And the Iron Lady herself
13:34was ready to cut ties
13:36with this stainless steel albatross.
13:38Margaret Thatcher said
13:39there will be no more money.
13:41Tell the receivers to do their job.
13:43And the employees receivered some terrible news.
13:46They laid most all the people off at the factory.
13:49But John DeLorean was truly desperate
13:51to keep his company
13:52and had one last Hail Mary up his sleeve.
13:55The flamboyant auto executive said
13:57he was interested in arranging a drug deal
14:00to raise $60 million
14:01to save his failing sports car company.
14:05Facing bankruptcy and ruin,
14:07John DeLorean had one last trick up his nose.
14:11Uh, sleeve.
14:12John had been arrested smuggling cocaine.
14:16A suitcase full of cocaine was put before him,
14:19and he called it better than gold.
14:21Uh, well, it wouldn't want to be.
14:23They caught him in a hotel room
14:24with the drug dealers,
14:26with the briefcase full of cocaine.
14:27Overnight, John DeLorean went from
14:29automotive revolutionary
14:30to suspected drug trafficker.
14:33I was shocked.
14:35I've never, ever seen cocaine,
14:36touched cocaine, used cocaine.
14:38But I wasn't shocked,
14:39because I knew that he was capable of this.
14:43What was certain
14:44was the fate of the DeLorean car company.
14:47I was running what was left in Northern Ireland,
14:49and I was taken to one side
14:51and told that, uh,
14:52we're announcing the closure of the company.
14:54DeLorean stays in prison
14:56until his lawyers come up
14:57with a quarter of a million dollars in cash
14:59and a balance of the five million dollars bail money
15:02in stocks, bonds, or securities.
15:04But hang on just a minute.
15:06Not so fast.
15:07The issue is whether John DeLorean
15:09was unfairly enticed by government agents
15:11into an illegal drug deal.
15:13So did I do it?
15:14I don't know.
15:15Maybe I did.
15:15The jury said no.
15:17This was pure entrapment.
15:19But no acquittal could restore the name
15:21of the company,
15:22the car,
15:23and the man.
15:24The company is bankrupt
15:26and the DeLorean name is destroyed.
15:28You're taking 20 pounds of sugar
15:29with you on a business trip?
15:31Sure.
15:31You know how I love to bake.
15:33His name was Mud after that.
15:36It would seem the DeLorean was dead.
15:39And along with it,
15:40the reputation of the white-haired man
15:42who'd made it.
15:43The DeLorean was a failure.
15:47A sad crash.
15:49But soon enough...
15:51Look out!
15:52The DeLorean would reappear from the past,
15:55all thanks to an even madder,
15:57white-haired madman.
16:00No, not that one.
16:01This one.
16:02I'm Bob Gale.
16:04I'm the co-creator,
16:06co-writer,
16:07co-producer
16:08of Back to the Future.
16:10That is one of my all-time favorite
16:13movie props.
16:15A DeLorean.
16:15You know those cars.
16:16Oh, do I know those cars.
16:17The DeLorean had gone from
16:19Hollywood punchline...
16:20Your cars, man.
16:21They don't work,
16:22and nobody gonna buy them.
16:23To being the hero
16:25of a billion-dollar franchise.
16:27And nobody was more surprised than me.
16:30Things have certainly changed around here.
16:32Scientifically,
16:32it made perfect sense.
16:34The stainless steel construction
16:35made the flux dispersal.
16:37To be the second most obvious choice
16:39for Bob's time machine.
16:41The time machine in the drafts
16:43was built out of an old refrigerator.
16:45Well,
16:45that's essentially a DeLorean.
16:48It's a stainless steel car
16:49with the same steel
16:50we'd probably have under a refrigerator.
16:52But that idea was put on the shelf
16:54and lost behind the condiments.
16:57Wouldn't it be better
16:58if Doc Brown
16:58had decided
17:00to build a time machine
17:01into a car?
17:03Are you telling me
17:03that you built a time machine
17:07out of a DeLorean?
17:08At the time
17:09that we were in pre-production,
17:10the trial was covered
17:11on the news every night.
17:13It's a story
17:14of big business,
17:15big money,
17:16and cocaine.
17:16What if
17:17we used a DeLorean?
17:20Um,
17:21yeah,
17:21good idea.
17:22But the universal
17:24product placement guy...
17:25Product placement guy
17:26comes into my office one day
17:28and he says,
17:28Bob,
17:29I've got a deal for you.
17:31$75,000,
17:32which is
17:33a day and a half's worth
17:34of shooting
17:34back in 1984.
17:36If you will change
17:37the DeLorean
17:39to a Mustang.
17:45And I looked
17:46straight at him
17:47and I said,
17:48Doc Brown doesn't
17:49drive a Mustang.
17:50Get out of here.
17:51And with that,
17:52Bob changed the future.
17:54After seeing the movie,
17:56he's like,
17:56I gotta get a DeLorean.
17:58And I did.
17:59This one.
18:00But you don't really
18:02have a DeLorean
18:05until you have
18:06the DeLorean.
18:07I have a DeLorean,
18:09but everybody
18:10keeps going,
18:11yeah,
18:12but that's not
18:12the back to the future one.
18:13If you thought
18:14finding a DeLorean
18:15was hard,
18:16try finding a
18:17flux capacitor.
18:19Wow.
18:21It's time
18:22to get serious, folks.
18:23I'm gonna say
18:24we have like
18:2430% brakes.
18:26I don't own
18:26this DeLorean
18:27and the shocks
18:28suck for its
18:29powerful engine.
18:30Wow,
18:30is that all she got?
18:31That's it right there.
18:32Or soothing
18:33air conditioning.
18:34I bought this.
18:36This thing has good bones
18:37except for the brakes.
18:38So I can go
18:39back to the future.
18:41Yeah.
18:41We're gonna turn it
18:42into a legit
18:43time machine.
18:44It's time for me
18:45to collect my
18:46time machine
18:47from the folks
18:47at DeLorean
18:48Motor Company.
18:49Let's just say
18:50this car has
18:50the wow factor.
18:52Wow.
18:52Wow.
18:53Wow.
18:55This is unbelievable,
18:56the amount of detail
18:57and work.
18:58Because maybe,
18:59just maybe,
19:00it's me
19:00who's been converted.
19:01This is so cool.
19:05This thing's great.
19:06I got all kinds
19:07of look-you-loose
19:08people slowing down,
19:09taking videos
19:09and pictures
19:10and thumbs up.
19:12There really is
19:13a heartwarming story
19:14that the car
19:15lived well beyond
19:17and into the future.
19:19On March 19, 2005,
19:21auto designer
19:22John DeLorean
19:23died Saturday
19:24of complications
19:25from a stroke.
19:26One of the best
19:26fan letters
19:27we ever got
19:28was from John DeLorean
19:29and he told us
19:30how much he loved
19:31the movie
19:31and he thanked us
19:33for keeping
19:33his dream alive.
19:35The DeLorean
19:36goes from being
19:37a very famous flop
19:39to just being
19:41one of the most
19:42beloved automobiles
19:43ever made.
19:45You know,
19:45if the DeLorean
19:46hadn't hit
19:47all the snags
19:47and speed bumps
19:48that it did
19:49along the way,
19:50you kind of wonder
19:51what would have been
19:52the next iteration
19:53of this vehicle
19:54because this thing
19:55is so different.
19:59It's an 80s experience
20:00all over again.
20:02The smells,
20:03the sounds,
20:04and there might be
20:05a little cocaine
20:05in the ashtray,
20:06I'm not sure.
20:06Yep,
20:08there's nothing
20:08quite like
20:09the DeLorean,
20:10both the car
20:11and the man.
20:12He really
20:13made a mark.
20:15Whether it's
20:16back in the past,
20:17back to the future,
20:18or just the future,
20:22whichever way
20:23the arrow of time
20:24points for you,
20:27just watch your head.
20:29Whoops,
20:30I did it.
20:30I died.
20:39I killed you!
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