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Originally Posted by jcommin View Post
Legion, I'm sort of with you on this. Admittedly, he is the father of the muscle car and the GTO. A real smart car guy with a huge ego. The other guy that comes close is Lee Iaccoca. Both have been compared to each other - I don't care for either one of them but DeLorean seems to be more of a con guy. He essentially did nothing after his GM days. He builds a substandard card, builds it in a area with little of no technical or manufacturing expertise essentially to prove a point - he was above it all.
I agree with you here. I think Iaccoca made some terrible decisions, but I never felt like he was out to outright rip anyone off for his own personal benefit.

DeLorean may have also fell into the mental trap that because he was right about muscle cars, he was right about everything else.
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