Studebaker buys Packard...

[Randy_G]

Well first let me just say I read this article when I was doing my never ending research for my site. Before you go off I know the real History of PACKARD BUYING STUDEBAKER so no hating on me I kow some of you guys can be tuff sometimes <img src="http://forums.aaca.org/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />. I was reading about John Z Delorean, maybe some of you guys heard of him. Packard engineer moved over to GM just all hell broke loose at Packard. But anyway I saw this article and thought you guys would love to read it too. If the press cannt get history right then what can we believe that they do write, not much. <img src="http://forums.aaca.org/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" />

http://www.motortrend.com/features/c...john_delorean/

Randy_G <img src="http://forums.aaca.org/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" />

Doing my best to keep history on the straight and narrow

[Randy_G]

I would have to agree with you Brian, you very sheldom hear of a automotive exec anymore. They just keep to themsleves and build cars. Delorean was a unique man to say the least. Since he was an ex packard employee I would love to see what he had up his sleeve at the time of his death. Kind of like another famous automaker Preston Tucker who at the time of his death was creating a new car for the masses.

Randy_G

[Albert]

Maybe the paper got a hold of some of the stuff Delorean had his mind or up his sleeves, Maybe things do go better with Coke..

[R W Burgess]

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Maybe things do go better with Coke..

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Isn't it funny, or sad, how those with plenty of money and influence end up getting bored in life to the point of using "fast fixes" to help them get along. <img src="http://forums.aaca.org/images/graemlins/frown.gif" alt="" />

Wayne

[mrpushbutton]

OK--the wikipedia bit on JZDe mentions that "he would become McFarland's successor as head of Research and Development". My good friend Walter mc Coskey was an engineer at Packard from 1952 until 1956, and worked with JZDe. According to Walt, who was a very young man at the time, and very much "with it" today, McFarland was on the early side of the mass-exodus to Ford, his position was vacant because management had all they could do at that time to put fires out and look for money, and no one appointed JZDe to his position, he just moved his crap into McFarland's office, crowned himself "head of Research and Development" and no one in management had the time of day to ask what he was doing , or to say "yes", "no" or "maybe". In the words of Beretta, "that's the name of that tune!>

[batjac]

Also, in the "they can't get it right" department, they say the judge was named after a Rowan & Martin skit. It was named after the Flip Wilson charachter.

[Rusty_OToole]

John DeLorean was a total bullshit artist his whole life. I don't know if he ever planned on making cars, he probably didn't care much one way or the other. His so called car company was just another scam to make a quick buck. He had a long history of such scams. He used to worm his way into some small company as the big shot who was going to take them to the big time, then milk them for all they were worth and dump them after a year or so.He would use his position at GM to pull off these scams, and that is why they fired him or asked for his resignation if you prefer.

At one time I thought he was on cocaine during his car building phase because his thinking and behaviour was that of a real gone coke head. Now I'm not so sure that wasn't his natural personality.

If you study his history as I have you will see he was working the angles and bullshitting his way to fame and stardom from the very first.

On the "here comes the judge" business. The judge character was the invention of an old time black comic named Pigmeat Markham. It was Sammy Davis who used Markham's catch phrase "here comes the judge" on Rowan and Martin's Laugh In program. It caught on, and the management of the show hunted up Markham and put him on the show several times.