[geeks] F*n sweet car... has anyone seen this car yet?

Andrew Weiss ajwdsp at cloud9.net
Fri May 10 23:44:28 CDT 2002


On Friday, May 10, 2002, at 08:27 PM, Chris Byrne wrote:
> I can't provide an online refernce offhand but I can talk about what 
> I've
> read. GM basically had an internally competitive system where the 
> divisions
> would try and screw each other or outdo each other. In about 1960 
> Pontiac
> was really seething about the corvette, the '57 belle aire, and in 
> general
> their poor image as an old lady car company. Plus Bunkie Knudson thought
> that chryslers 300 series was a nifty idea sales wise. So they started
> thinking about what they could do to really put an exciting car on the 
> map,
> and hired John DeLorean to do it. This sarted out with taking the 
> relatively
>
Heck just give me my favorite car in the whole world... 1981-83 DMC 12 
baby...yeah!

Andrew



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