Automobile industry, most notably with general motors. may 26, 2004 · engineer, father of the pontiac gto and of his own failed sports car, john delorean is dead. After the detroit native joined packard as an engineer in 1952, he. mar 20, 2005 · john delorean, the flamboyant automobile industrialist whose dream of running his own car company dissolved into bankruptcy, died saturday evening at. mar 20, 2005 · john z. Delorean, the flamboyant auto executive considered the father of the pontiac gto, the man who walked away from general motors to start his own sports.
