John DeLorean: The Missing Pieces

John DeLorean's early years growing up during the great depression. His family's deep roots in the Detroit auto industry and it's labor unions. The impact of the city's racial tensions on his life. His early career and innovations at Packard Motor. The early events that would lead to John DeLorean becoming one of the most influential automakers of all time.

Explore John DeLorean's early days at General Motors and the rise of the iconic Pontiac GTO. Dive deep into how the JZD was responsible for the stellar success of Pontiac in the 1970's. See how the automotive establishment pushed back on his "outlandish" ideas and stifled his vision of the automotive future.

John DeLorean was instrumental in getting air bags to become a standard safety system in cars. He pioneered some of the early work on electric vehicles, and consulted on the design of the moon rover. Learn about these and many other lesser known DeLorean accomplishments in his latter years at GM. All while he continually fought GM management to pursue his vision of what automobiles should be.

Learn what finally drove John DeLorean to quit General Motors and risk it all to start his own car company. Years of stifled innovation, insider politics and outright sabotage led the brilliant engineer to quit one of the largest auto manufacturers in the world, and pin all his hopes on a dream.

Follow John DeLorean as he ventures out on his own after leaving GM.  Journey through his years as a consultant, his work with Malcolm Bricklin, the hiring of trusted former GM employees to prototype his dream car: The DeLorean Safety Vehicle. JZD begins his "tell all" book that would become known as "On a Clear Day You Can See General Motors."

The construction of the first Prototype DeLorean DMC-12, known as "Proto 1." begins. John has his first child, Katherine, and makes preparations for a DeLorean dealer network. John receives two competing and compelling offers to fund a factory and production operations: one from Puerto Rico, and another from Northern Ireland.