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Originally Posted by mcrews
"There was the '55 Chevy with the shift linkage that'd get stuck between gears,"
In 1955 Delorean WASNOT at GM!!!!!
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First, that list of GM cars are the ones I (or my family when I was learning to drive) actually owned, so that I have direct, personal knowledge of them, not hearsay.
Second, my point in mentioning the '55 transmission linkage is that in 197x, when the Vega came out, DeLorean was influential in GM's management, and by your own statement, responsible for the Vega. Yet despite his statement that "Vega will be the highest quality product ever built by Chevrolet." GM had to have known about that transmission linkage problem for at least two decades, but never bothered to fix it. So either DeLorean deliberately lied, or he was ignorant to the point of incompetence.
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FACT: there was NEVER a 2 FOOT fin on a Pontiac (where Delorean worked until 1965)...
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Did I say there was? I specifically stated that it was a '59 CHEVY. You're quite free to look at images of its tailfins. In fact, 2 feet is rather an understatement, as they extend nearly from the center of the body, which (per Google) is 79.9 in.
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Look the “Peter Principle’ in full force ----.
" DeLorean's years of engineering at Pontiac were highly successful, producing dozens of patented innovations for the company, and in 1961 he was promoted to the position of division chief engineer."
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So what is this, if not exactly the Peter Principle in action. He was apparently a competent engineer, so got promoted to management. Now maybe you're so in love with this guy that you want to argue that he had absolutely no connection with GM's manifold management & production failures of that period, but I don't think that's going to fly. If he was so darned good, why did he stick with GM so long?