The Delorean was transformed from automotive oddity into a household name in the 1980s, when it starred as the time machine in the Back to the Future movies. But the story of the man behind the distinctive DMC-12 is perhaps even more striking, taking in Hollywood royalty, cocaine trafficking and the FBI. The American actor Lee Pace starred as John DeLorean in Driven, the recent thriller about the mercurial entrepreneur. “John DeLorean set out to make a beautiful, affordable, original car, but it didn’t really work out that way,” says Pace, who has also appeared in the Hobbit trilogy and Captain Marvel. “He was one of the youngest directors at General Motors, he developed the Pontiac GTO and Firebird — his whole identity was bound up…

Source: The Times January 12, 2020 00:04 UTC