John Z, The Delorean & Me - Tales From An Insider

Author: Barrie Wills, ISBN: 9780985657888, Hardcover Book, Published in 2015, 392 pages.

John Z, The DeLorean & Me, illustrated by hundreds of photographs, tells of the hard work, effort and inspiration by so many in Dunmurry, Hethel, Coventry, Irvine, New York and elsewhere, who consider it the best time of their working lives. It heralds the record 28 months in which the DeLorean car was engineered, developed and manufactured, whilst a state-of-the-art plant was designed, built, equipped and staffed - all at the height of The Troubles in Northern Ireland recognises the pioneering of advanced technology and the introduction of ‘simultaneous engineering' - now the global auto industry norm describes the camaraderie within the workforce, drawn evenly from the Loyalist and Republican factions puts the phone taps used by the FBI that illegally entrapped John DeLorean, into context and highlights crucial political impacts on the project discloses the fine detail of the receivership and ‘the first sensible business plan’ of a British consortium of investors, in which a restyled Triumph TR8 was to be built alongside the DeLorean describes for the first time how Margaret Thatcher thwarted that rescue bid; the influence on the demise of the project of Jock Bruce Gardyne MP, the newspaper columnist who became Thatcher's Economic Secretary; and how John DeLorean finally destroyed the very project he created.