At 03:55 PM 4/8/98 -0300, M.G. Davis wrote:
>On Tue, 7 Apr 1998, John T. Blair wrote:
>
>> At the risk of offending the Delorean owners, the DeLorean is an off
>> shoot of the Brick. The Brick went into design in 70 and production
>> in 74 & 75 with a production run of about 2914. The DeLorean didn't
>> go into design until after Bricklin failed and a production run of
>> about almost 3 time as many units (about 8,000).
>
>Gary wrote:
>Did you know that Malcom Bricklin said (in 1973) that KJohn DeLorean was
>going to be involved with him in the Bricklin project?
Gary, No I didn't. But I did know that DeLorean went in to bail Malcom
out. Malcom asked John what he wanted in return. John said "change
the name to DeLorean". Malcom said NO! John said - then go broke.
John
John T. Blair WA4OHZ email: jblair@exis.net
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