Sunday, January 07, 2018

Delorean... 2 early investors? Johnny Carson, who chipped in $500,000, and Sammy Davis, Jr., who went for $150,000.

All of these investors probably rued their decision to break out their checkbooks for DeLorean, but Carson probably had the biggest regrets. His experience with the DeLorean DMC-12 started on a bad note; the first time he took one for a test drive around the block it broke down. Worse still, Carson was behind the wheel of his 1981 DMC-12 when he was arrested for driving under the influence in 1982.

The British government invested $140 million in the company in the hopes that a job-creating production facility in Belfast would tamp down sectarian violence and stimulate the local economy.

http://mentalfloss.com/article/54600/5-things-you-might-not-know-about-john-delorean

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