The Book of John (Z)

Although I didn’t ghost John DeLorean’s book about his time with General Motors, it was a big part of my life. This is my inside story of its creation.

On the morning of May 16, 1973 I sat down with John DeLorean in the modest offices of Grand Prix of America in Troy, Michigan. Background music to our conversation was the buzz of Wankel-powered single-seaters on the one-third-mile track outside, each lap timed and shown to the driver by built-in equipment. This was the business that Jack built, John’s …