First Production of DMC DeLorean

Date: January 21, 1981 • Location: Moneymore, United Kingdom

The DeLorean Motor Company completed the first production car of the DMC DeLorean at its factory in Northern Ireland.

The DeLorean Motor Company (DMC) was an American automobile manufacturer formed by automobile industry executive John DeLorean in 1975. It produced just one model, from early 1981 to late 1982—the stainless steel DeLorean sports car featuring gull-wing doors. Its history was brief and turbulent, ending in receivership and bankruptcy in 1982. In October 1982, John DeLorean was videotaped in a sting operation agreeing to bankroll drug trafficking, but was acquitted at the subsequent trial on the basis of entrapment.