The Case of John DeLorean: RCR Stories
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- Опубліковано 21 лип 2024
- Description: A brief history of John DeLorean, his rise through the ranks of General Motors, the creation of the DeLorean Motor Company, and the Federal case that brought the whole thing crashing down.
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It's funny how two guys out of PA can make a better documentary than pretty much any tv channel out there
ingusmant English majors with social anxieties make great writers
Rick Sebak is from PA
I'm glad he doesn't overdo it with "dramatic" effects and whatnot, just lets the story speak for itself
ingusmant I couldn't agree more
I won't believe they are human until they come and talk with us little guys here.
Suggestion: The story of SAAB
Magnus Buinevits Donut Media made an "Up to Speed" video on SAAB
Biohazard195 So did Top Gear, but I see that there is potential to do it better than either of those
I second this. SAAB got an unfair death at the hands of the evil "new gm".
GM saved Saab
@@MrJMS814 How did GM did save Saab? Thats like saying FCA saved Chrysler(btw, they didn't)
Still need an RCR about the war between Ford and Ferrari at the 24 Hours of LeMans
Angry Clown 1990 Yes, yes, 100% yes!
There's a somewhat detailed story about it on the Grand Tour.
iamstd2 and an even more lengthy and detailed treatment on Amazon that the Grand Tour used its footage from. “The 24 Hour War”.
Maybe one about the infamous 1955 Le Mans Disaster.
1,000,000%
in 1974.... "Peace Walker incident Occurred"
you have just reached the level of legend in my book now... well done
"War . . . War never changes"
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Problem?
Haha im glad someone else noticed the nods to MGS history throughout the video. In one of them one of the historical milestones is “Major Zero disappears of the face off the earth”
My grandfather owned Visioneering, which was the company that built the Delorean prototype. Almost put him out of business too
I believe Visioneering also built the Vixen 21 prototype if I recall when Bill Collins later started his own company. You should join the Delorean Fanatics group on Facebook. They would love to hear any stories you may have.
"No guts no glory.". I am sure your Grandfather "lived" by that motto, and I am sure that mishap would not have changed his mind.
@Windrammer: Wow! Does your family still own Visioneering??? Finally I found 2nd person who can maybe connect a dot. Did your grandfather ever tell you "where" the stainless came from? My grandfather told me a story of the sorts when i was little, & he would've been the one who cold-rolled that specialty stainless used on the Delorean prototype!!!! There's whole backstory about why the Delorean was made with non-domestic Stainless steel.....he was cut off & blacklisted by his rivals & obscure doc. I saw.... I'm able to confirm this someday "if" this retired industry steel tycoon will tell me!
Don't think I missed those MGS3 references. You're pretty good, Roman
I want an alternative history movie involving John DeLorean saving the company by being a successful drug dealer.
Hell, I want a video game of that. Vice City meets a car manufacturing sim.
Automation II: the Cocaine Cartel Tycoon Game. I'd buy that.
Automation DLC
Breaking Back to the Future
kz1000ps that would be the greatest thing ever
As a footnote. Arthur Anderson, the company that sued him for fraud, went on to represent Enron. AA execs barely escaped doing federal time for misrepresenting the value of Enron. They have been effectively wiped out by penalties and lawsuits.
John Delorean should be looked apon as a aspiring individual who had great talent and a intoxicating personality. He is a example of what shere will power of a human being can accomplish. He's one of the legends "or car god...if you will" of automotive history.
I don't think he was an inherently bad person, none of us know exactly how things played out. But can any of us say we'd have done things any differently in an effort to realize our dreams?? We all can agree we'd do whatever was within our power to accomplish our goals..... And that's the stuff Legends are made from.
He’s also a classic Executive Sociopath.
@@mattkaustickomments As defined by the likes of karl marx. Be careful. Understand the premise of what you were told to think. :)
You are right, 100%, (thank you). It was free men with that spirit, that created our free enterprise system and the industrial revolution that basically got mankind out of the dirt. Things are backwards today, and the American population now sees the propaganda on how great it is to eat bugs. I am glad to see somebody who knows what a hero is, (and they do not come from the state). Thank you again.
IMO, DeLorean and Tucker had the same problem. They thought it was fine to do business with government(s). They had a poor business philosophy, and that philosophy caught the nations free enterprise system on fire and burned it to the ground. For example, communism and our free enterprise system, the philosophies of them,---were never compatible. The results are in.
I know how weird the story is... I'm just here to watch you tell it. Slowly, as I sip this moderately enjoyable Scotch.
God you sound like my boyfriend Jake XD
Your boyfriend, Jake, sounds like a moderately interesting chap.
Beer.....
You should give him a rusty trombone too
Civ V...
Please could you talk about the collapse of British Leyland
This would be great. Such a mess of infighting, union disputes, government interference and poor management choices.
30 part series there!
@@keyser1884 Infighting, union disputes, poor management choices,---all stem from government interference. In fact, the entire failure of our free enterprise system is due to government interference, as the largest factor of the problem. Anything else can be fixed relativity quickly in a true free market, like the depression of 1920.
@@EarthSurferUSA You clearly have no idea of even basic economics. Here's just one problem of no regulation, back in classical Greek times, some guy cornered the market by buying all the olive presses and put the prices right up. So they invented a new word, Monopoly and had to do a rule to stop that, ever since then we've evolved and had to make more rules to make the market fair or people exploit others, or there is no safety or quality, because those are overheads, remember? so we actually tried that long ago and each time with each new innovation there are now problems and new people trying to corner markets or exploit others, so companies have to be broken up, like IBM, the MS and now people are talking about Amazon and Google.
Save the silly fairy stories for your own mind and don't waste other people's time with them, eh?
@@EarthSurferUSA lol
YES RCR STORIES IS BACK OMFG
Nicholas Hillyer Happiness has returned to my life
This is probably the ideal story for dry RCR wit.
Another great RCR Story as always. I feel another great episode would be the legend of Preston Tucker. Truly a great visionary that was ahead of his time.
Idk how long after yall look at the comments but i wanted to let yall at RCR know that i for one love these RCR stories and have watched each atleast 5 times. i am a dork and a history major hoping to somehow make a life out of automotive history so these are like gold mines for me and make my week whenever a new one gets uploaded lol.....im writing this rather than work on a term paper in true college spirit.
Really if the Delorean DMC12, had regular doors instead of gullwing doors and steel body instead of stainless, it would have been a legit but forgotten sportscar like the Renault Fuego, instead of a cult classic.
The company knew that they had to build something over the top in order to be remembered.
K Koundouris true
OR John Z. Delorean was 6-foot-a-million and wanted a car that he could get in and out of without cracking a vertebra.
the DMC-12 just needed to be faster honestly
We had a Renault Fuego when I was a kid. I thought it was the coolest car.
This guy's giving me the motivation to finish grad school and get another part of my cpa done with.
One on Smokey Yunick would be awesome. What a guy!
I have watched a few documentaries on Delorean. And yours is the most complete explanation I have ever heard. Thank you!
Simply outstanding... I've seen docos, movies about Delorian, this surpasses them all, well done RCR.
This is meticulously researched and really well presented and even though I thought I knew the DeLorean story, I didn't know all of it. You don't give yourself enough credit, Roman
I love these. Thank you, Roman (Nick) for these truly captivating accounts of car history. They are beyond quality work. Please keep them coming if you can.
Just watched a bunch of these, and wanted to say thank you. Thank you for taking the time to do the research and analysis for these. Thanks
Great Scott, Marty ... another DeLorean episode!
haha
Thanks Roman, I enjoyed that. It's always an interesting story from whichever angle you look at it.
Absolutely amazing, as always. The Delorean is my attainable dream car, and the background story has always complicated that when I tell people as much. This is a great and neutral telling of the story and gets into more context than most others. Thanks.
That was a real ride. It had everything! Drugs, bankruptcy, a monorail. Good stuff, Roman! Thanks for sharing this.
Give us a story about AMC next!
I will never stop loving the DMC-12. My grandfather bought one new and I fell in love that day. I have never managed to find one I could afford and now they are getting out of my price range.
John was a fantastic engineer and brilliant auto designer.!!! I was very lucky and met him in California and had lunch with him in Atherton. He loved Pontiac... RIP John
Damn Roman, you killed it! I can't help but absolutely adore this channel, but this particular segment has made me a fan for life. This is exactly the focus and story we needed, leaving out all the BTF heresay. Seriously, thanks for your keen investigative and narrative skills on this personal hero.
I like the subtle trolling of using a photo of the 1982 Bonneville, a/k/a the Worst Bonneville Ever, when discussing JZD's involvement in the development of the '57 Bonnie.
Lovely as always. Bring a former DeLorean owner myself, nice to hear more of the story from other people. C:
This is a treat! Good to have you guys back.
Group B rally next please! These are dope, Nick, I look forward to every one. Good job.
I'd like to add a few things that's not included. The DMC-12 was meant to carry a Citroen-developed Wankel rotary engine, but cancelled the project when it became prohibitively expensive (it was mean't to power all Citroens). The PRV unit was federalised for emissions and only produced 128hp in US-spec; testing in NIreland with a Euro-spec engine produced 160hp and 0-60 hit under 8 secs. (sources say 7.8). The car is basically a reskinned Lotus Esprit S2, they are much closer than cousins, more like siblings. Colin Chapman was implicated in the fraud part of the story, there was deemed to be enough evidence for imprisonment but he died before indictment.
The DeLorean is in no way a "reskinned" Lotus. DeLorean commissioned Lotus to design a platform, but didn't use it because it would have been too expensive, so they designed their own platform. Lotus never designed or built a rear engine car and never would have, their design was mid engine. That didn't stop DeLorean from putting Lotus badges on the early cars, until Lotus made them take them off. I was a mechanic at a DeLorean dealership back in the 80s and I can assure you that they were horrible cars, and every employee at the dealership would have agreed with me. John DeLorean was a con man.
Colin Chapman was also the reason Number Six drove a Lotus in The Prisoner.
@@barryervin8536 What a load of tosh.
@@chrisp7214 Whatever you say. If you wish to continue believing in the delusional myth that the DeLorean was a good car, feel free.
This is such a cool channel. Thank you for what you guys do, there was obviously a lot of effort put into this video.
As always, your RCR Stories are excellent. Well done on this one. I enjoyed the MGS references as well.
Wonderful storytelling as always, Roman. Hasn't been an RCR Story I don't like yet, keep it up!
What a great story am glad that it was told. I Got to Meet Mr. DeLorean at the 1997 DMC Meet in Cleavland. What a great and humble man he was. It was an Honor.
1 HOUR OF PURE RCR STORIES
THANK YOU
I appreciate this video infinitely more now that I know what you gave up to work on it, Nick. I'm glad that my stupid comment on Twitter ages ago put a smile on your face, and I hope that smile carries forward despite all.
RCR Stories are my favorite RCR's!! Keep them coming please!!
Outstanding! These are the best RCR videos by far, because the content is fascinating and the delivery is more diverse than Mr Regular's style
GREAT JOB ROMAN! I love these, keep it up, and dont doubt yourself. You're great at this. Thanks
This is my favorite content on RCR. Period.
Pretty damned insightful epilogue there, H-Canon man! You summed up the most valuable part of, “The Meaning of Life”! Excellent documentary sir!
Really starting to love this channel! All stuff of interest to me! Keep it up!
This is amazing... I love these episodes, you learn so much. Awesome story!
Thank you, Roman. This is epic. See you at the New York show, maybe. Let's see this story get 100K+ views!
This was awesome! I love listening to these and your podcasts when studying or doing homework.
Getting my DeLorean ready for spring while listening to this.
Suggestions: Maybe something from the British motor industry. Colin Chapman, McLaren, Aston-Martin...
Superb documentary, really enjoyed that.
Outstanding research and story telling, Roman. Just a small tid-bit, the DMC-12, Giorgetto Giugiaro, the surname is also read as Gi in Giorgetto, so "Jioo-jah-ro". Love your work, man, can't wait for more stories.
I LOVE your narration style! Thanks for the education and entertainment!
I like this style of video, good to sit back and listen too.
Sorry to have only just discovered RegularCars. What an Industry Geek you are. Love this!
So good. Writing. Narration. Slide show. Length. Inflation adjustment on costs and salaries. Just great
My friend has an uncle with one of the gold plated DeLoreans. It's long since been in a museum. But it's still a pretty crazy thing to be able to claim.
This was absolutely fantastic - well done, gentlemen...well done, indeed.
Ending left me with goosebumps. GG Roman, keep this going.
Your documentary’s are superb it’s what you do best.
Another amazing job! Thanks, really enjoyed it! And you do a great job with the narration, didn't notice any speech impediments.
You guys are making car content that's entertaining enough for me to watch with my girlfriend, who barely cares about cars. Love it.
Very good writing on your closing RCR. Great summation.
Thank you for this!!!!!!
love RCR - keep it up guys.
Thank you for the DeLorean Story. Powerful last sentence to live by and remember.
Great listen. I had no idea how accomplished DeLorean was before the DMC12. The Roman has found a calling in automotive story telling.
Major Zero. A MGS reference? Very coool.
Great presentation...the info/story was just what i was looking for
We need the story of malcolm bricklin. He brought Subaru to the US, created his own car company, then brought the freakin Yugo.
Honestly.... I'm mostly subscribed to RCR these days just for RCR Stories. Keep it up, Roman!
Loved it. Goo-jar-ee-oh. You put the eye in Italian pronunciation. All kidding aside, a lovely treatment of an important story with RCR charm (don’t-sue-me pics and video)
About time we got more RCR Stories from Roman. Can't wait for the next one.
Thank you for making one of the few accurate, fact-based DMC stories I've ever seen. Fantastic job. As an owner I get hit with every misinformed and stupid twist on this story you can imagine, it's nice to have someone tell the story straight for a change.
watched this thoroughly in one sitting, would do a few more times. something about RCR stories beats podcasts
I love these stories Roman. I watched all 67 mins while sipping on a nice Bourbon. I have a notoriously short attention span, so that's saying a lot!
Hey Roman, i love your RCR stories, keep up the good work
Dash cunning story telling...as always...well done mr. the Roman
As a delorean dmc 12. Owner this was really well done Mr regular thank you Alex
Alex Brooks The Roman does these
2bit MarketAnarchist thank you I did not notice the voice. Good job Roman
Alex Brooks NP my dude
I love these car stories, good job Roman!
Interesting story, and a great telling. Thanks Roman.
My folks had a '73 Vega. The shifter was held onto the linkage by one bolt that would periodically come loose. So every so often you'd be driving and suddenly couldn't shift anymore so you'd have to stop the car, get out, crawl under the car, and hand-tighten the shifter connection in order to get home so you could use some tools to make it last a bit longer. Real quality machine there.
Hey, For your next reveiw could you please do the 2000 Hyundai Tiburon? The shortly produced version with four headlights and coke bottle styling? It's a super overlooked car that attempted to compete with the Miata and Celica.
I saw one of these on the road near me just yesterday. I think it's the first time I've seen one being used outside of shows.
An excellent telling of the tale. Eventually, I'd like to see you do one on Bricklen. A similar man, but New Brunswick instead of Ireland...
Once again Roman, that was some damn fine research and reporting. Many years ago I studied the hell out of this story; to this day I thought that I had a real grasp on the life and times of JZD. Thought that I had found all of the important bullet points. As with any time someone thinks that they know all the aspects of a story, of course I didn't. Thanks for the history lesson.
Fantastic writing, well done Roman
Is hard to get used to roman's voice but when u do is worth it
Once again a good tale from the Roman, I like how it went into the man himself, not the DeLorean story itself which has played itself in perpetuity since it happened. Makes me wonder, what if the Roman told a story of Preston Tucker in the same vernacular?
Just watched the whole thing, what a great story mahk
If Monday car reviews are the yin of RCR, then RCR stories are the yang. One is stronger for having the other.
Another great video Roman please keep them coming lisp and all.
I am so stoked.
Rcr story time is best time.
Wow, what an interesting person. Great documentary, I hope you do more like this.
Awesome man!! thank you for all of your research!
So happy these are still a thing!
ps: do Ferdinand Piëch?
you mean porche?
Gerrad Reynolds No, I mean Piëch. Grandson of Ferdinand Porsche and 10% owner of the Porsche holding company, he was once voted auto executive of the century. He worked motorsports at both Porsche and Audi, developed the 5 cylinder diesel for Benz and then headed to VW, with pet projects like the Phaeton and Veryon (he owns two), and LOTS of messy stuff, like a weird merger where Porsche tried to buy VW and Piëch got the CEOs of both fired.
Ben Beauvais I'm with you on that.
siralanlordsugar No, I mean grandson. Piëch was born in Vienna, Austria, to Louise Piëch, (née Porsche) Ferdinand's daughter. Louise had some rather exceptional 911s over the years, too.
kind of crazy to hear the name of my college mentioned in a video. I'm about to graduate with a degree in car design and I've seen john's children/grand children walking through our clay sculpting studio when I was a freshman. good video.
Pre chevy delorean is a true role model who cared about family values and the value of hard work. I want to follow in his footsteps and become an automotive engineer