20th Mar 2005
John DeLorean, Most Arrogant Man Alive, Dies
I notice that one-time great car exectutive John DeLorean just died at age 80.
Aside from the Back to the Future movies that featured the memorable “gull-winged” DeLorean car, I did have one connection to it: my high school girlfriend’s father, Mr. K., owned one, which he let me drive on one or two occasions (in addition to the one or two occasions I drove it without his permission). It was a pretty cool car if you were 17.
What prompted me to write a post about it, however, was this snippet from the LA Times obit:
But after becoming a self-described born-again Christian during the months while he awaited trial [for a drug deal allegedly as an attempt to rescue his struggling car company, but which ultimately ruined him], DeLorean did concede that, over the years, there were some things he had done wrong.
“I think my ultimate sin — and it was really terrible — was that I had this insatiable pride,” he told journalist Robert Scheer in a Playboy magazine interview about two years after the acquittal. “Looking back at it, I see that I had an arrogance that was beyond that of any other human being alive.”
So, he’s supposedly recognizing his fatal flaw, and yet he lays claim to “an arrogance that was beyond that of any other human being alive.” Doesn’t that seem…pretty arrogant? I mean, no one else alive was possibly even a little bit more arrogant? I’m not sure he learned his lesson at all.
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