As the holiday glow begins to fade, New Year’s resolutions confront the hard reality of implementation, and work schedules resume, it could be easy to lapse into a feeling reflected in the slate-gray Michigan winter skies. But your friends in the Henry M. Leland Chapter of the Society of Automotive Historians want to push that sentiment aside and begin the new year of historic automotive activities with a great program on January 25. And you are invited!
Barry Levine will present the story of the automotive career of the dynamic, charismatic, talented and flawed John Z. DeLorean to SAH Leland Chapter members and guests on Saturday, January 25, at 1:00 pm at the Ypsilanti Automotive Heritage Museum at 100 East Cross Street in the Depot Town section of Ypsilanti, MI 48197. Barry will cover DeLorean’s early years at Chrysler and Packard, his meteoric rise through the product planning and executive ranks at Pontiac and Chevrolet in the wake of the GTO and other cars, and the DMC project and its aftermath.
Barry Levine wrote about John Z. DeLorean for the March-April 2023 issue of Michigan History, the magazine of the Historical Society of Michigan. A prolific writer on historical subjects, Barry has also contributed stories for Michigan History on the legendary Dodge Main plant, Chrysler’s astounding recovery in the loan guarantee period of 1979-82, and GM’s nearly-overnight comeback from the disastrous 1953 Livonia Hydra-Matic transmission plant fire. You may also know Barry from his work at The Henry Ford and his volunteer activities with the Yankee Air Museum in Belleville.
Please join us on January 25. Admission to the museum is $10. Free parking is available at the museum.