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Mercedes-Benz 1972 Convertible
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Chevrolet Banshee
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Also, as our very special guest today liked to put I've never heard it put this way life lessons through cars.
And even though our motto is every car tells a story, that could be a secondary motto, as mentioned.
Let me toss it over to my esteemed co-host, Doug.
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Doing great.
Great to be back with you.
So what are we seeing in the numbers and what are we seeing in the trends for analytics, before we bring our special guest into the conversation here, as you mentioned, we've got as far out as India.
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We know this through the magic of analytics, so, yeah, so.
What's new on the blog?
What's new on the website?
Yeah, so.
I introduced a new blog, set it up.
One entry so far, christian, you'll be the second one.
I just wanted to give our viewers, listeners, I should say, background into what the inspiration of the blog, or actually the podcast, was, and, christian you, you're really a big part of it.
So not going to give it away, but check out the blog, send us some notes, tell us what you think Christian's going to put in his take soon and amen.
One day I'll have to learn how to work the keyboard, but yeah for sure.
And then what?
What'll be fantastic and bring everybody into the conversation.
Here and on your streaming platform of choice, you can find us.
Doug has us propagated everywhere, so all right, thank you for that, partner.
Christian.
Just to round that out, you'll see on our website, carslovecom, at the bottom, all the platforms that we're on.
We're on all your favorite Apple, Spotify, you name it, we're on it.
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Thank you.
Favorite apple spotify, you name it.
We're on it.
Good point, lovely, thank you, yeah, so let's get the conversation rolling.
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Shoot us an email, let's make it happen.
Uh, the show doesn't happen without you in so many ways.
So let's thank you for that, doug.
Let's kick it over to our.
I would like to introduce our guest today.
Our guest today is a departure from our typical interviewee subject.
Our guest today is someone neither of us has met in person but has been in the public her whole life.
Everything secondary, but let's mention cyber security expert entrepreneur, automotive entrepreneur, inspirational, devoted wife and mother.
With a guest like kat, it's sort of it sort of blows up our model in the past because, um, normally it's very easy how to approach an interview subject, but with her she's so accomplished in so, so many fields, it's, how do we even start the conversation?
You might recognize her last name.
Her father was an automotive executive, an entrepreneur in the let me see if I get this right 1950s, packard, 1960s, gm, 70s GM and into Pontiac in the 80s where he started his own car company.
So one could say oil runs in her veins.
Maybe her heart is a two-stroke, naturally aspirated model.
I don't know, maybe that's too personal to ask, but it is brought to our doorstep and we're very happy.
Kat DeLorean, welcome to the show.
How are you this afternoon?
I'm wonderful, thank you for having me.
And it's gasoline in my veins.
I've always said I was born with gasoline in my veins, so yeah.
Thank you.
Thank you for that correction and, as we were talking about at the outset, doug and I, vandy, about a lot of what we're trying to do with the show and as the show finds its feet and finds its voice In our show prep, we were going back and forth with you and you said that something that was important to you was life lessons through cars.
So could you talk about that a little bit and maybe give us an example?
Yes, so I think the way that I described it was.
My father liked Mr Miyagi me when it came to teaching me life lessons through cars, and he did this by literally sending me out to take care of cars.
So he would teach me the value of caring for something that I owned by paying me to go wash the cars.
He would teach me the responsibility of having to, let's say, manage not just your own expectations, but understand how everybody else around you impacts what you're doing, by teaching me to pay attention to the other drivers more than what I'm doing.
And all of these things seem like just basic automotive things.
What do you mean, kat?
He's teaching you life lessons from cars.
He told you to go wash the cars.
He told you to pay attention to people around you.
Yes, but when I look back at how he presented these lessons to me and the way that he encompassed them and I wish I could actually give you a really good example of this but he did it with that je ne sais quoi where one day I just woke up and was like, oh, he wasn't just getting me to wax the cars, he was getting me to understand the value of a hard day's work and showing me how to manage my money by giving me a job or a task to do.
And he did this, though, even outside of your very basic automotive things, because he was an automotive engineer.
We talked about cars constantly, so anything you can imagine that happened in life.
He probably found a way to make the conversation happen by creating an analogy around cars, cause that's what I understood.
I like that, and I can see Doug kind of chomping at the bit, wanting to get in here.
One thing that you wrote that I wanted to say is the life lesson through cars.
I remember when I was learning to drive as a teenager in my father's 1980 Chevy Citation which I wasn't getting any dates in that car I remember a very specific life lesson.
I hadn't thought any dates in that car, but I remember a very specific life lesson.
I hadn't thought about this in decades.
But I remember sitting on a hill and one of the hardest things to do with a standard is to start it from a dead stop on a hill and we were stopped at a red light and I was supposed to not stall the car, progress it.
And not only did I have to do that, but there was kind of a ditch in front of the road.
It was a T.
I had to go right or left, and so my father was kind of a brilliant college professor who didn't suffer fools.
He showed an unusual moment of patience with me and he said hey, son, this is a baptism by fire.
The car is lining up behind me.
You had got to put this.
You've got to not stall the car.
You've got to put it in drive, you got to go right, you got to go left and you can't put us in the ditch here.
Baptism by fire.
Baptism by fire, that is imprinted upon me.
That is imprinted upon me and that's something you said in our back and forth thing before.
The show brought that back to my mind and I know Doug wants to get in here, but I just want to thank you for sharing your story and sharing that memory because it brought that back to me.
I had dinner with him just last week in Baton Rouge, louisiana, and I wish I would have thought about that a little sooner.
Thank you for that, doug, what you got, partner, I know you want to get in the conversation.
Oh, wait, wait, kat wants to get in here too.
She's got two fingers up.
Oh, please, she's also the guest.
We let her go.
There's actually.
You bring that up and I've mentioned this before, so Doug probably already knows he's heard all my stories.
But one of the best life lessons I think my dad taught me was when he taught me how to ride a motorcycle.
I was very small and my brother was already cross-country racing and I just looked up to him so much and I really just always wanted to be like Zach.
So I was about two or something and I wanted to ride his little 50 that Zach was learning and my dad put the kickstand down and he said learn how to fall off and then I'll teach you how to ride.
I kid you not.
I fell off on a parked motorcycle and got an injury so bad my knee was bleeding through my jeans because I landed on the toothed kickstand when I jumped off the bike.
The fact that I injured myself on a stationary bike just trying to get off one one was itself its own life lesson.
Absolutely.
Once I mastered actually falling off the bike, I was then taught how to ride, and not before.
This actually saved my leg when I got into an accident much later and the bike was going to land one way and I was going the other and my leg was in between, my reaction was to jump off the bike.
So he taught me two things.
One if you prepare yourself to fail, you're going to survive instead of die or lose your leg, and that it's okay.
When you fall off, you're going to be okay, especially if you're prepared for that.
So that one thing that he did was such a profound lesson in my life, and that's a good example of how I'm able to look at these things and look back and then say, okay, this had a lot more to do with what else he was telling me than just falling off the bike, which was, in and of itself, a very good lesson.
Thank you for sharing that.
I really liked that and that is something all things in time, all things in sequence.
You can bring that forward in life, forward in parenting, forward in business and with relationships all around you.
What you got, partner, I know you wanted to get in here.
No, no, I think great story.
It's maybe alluded to in my blog, just to add on.
So my late father was an electrical engineer and he worked for Intel Corporation.
I remember being four or seven, whatever age and watching him with his soldering iron and the smoke was cool, right, very cool.
Next thing, you know, I'm burning my finger a little bit, I'm playing with the soldering iron I shouldn't be.
And he's like look, I'm going to get you a soldering iron, I'm going to teach you how to use it.
And so I was seven years old, I had a soldering iron and, fast forward, two years ago I bought my DeLorean let's just say it needed some electrical work.
And I'm in the garage working and I can just hear my dad talking to me about the right way to do things.
He helped, he really inspired me through cars, computers I wouldn't be in the computer world without him Cars he was always scared of me doing dumb things in them, but I survived.
And, like Christian, my dad taught me how to drive a stick shift.
But it was actually my own choice.
My first car was automatic.
I had some friends in high school that had stick shifts.
I'm like nah, I'm going with this.
And I was hooked.
Good stuff, good thing to know.
My dad taught me how to ride motorcycles so I knew the concept of shifting my whole life.
But I had multiple people try and teach me how to learn how to drive stick on various cars.
One was a 1987 IROC Z28 with a 200-pound racing clutch.
You can only imagine how that fared Not well.
So here I am thinking I don't know how to drive stick.
And my father and I used to go to the gym every morning together and one day we're working out and I said dad, when we get home will you teach me how to drive stick on the NSX?
And you heard all the weights in the room drop and one guy looks over and goes John DeLorean's daughter doesn't know how to drive a stick shift.
My dad packed up all of his stuff and said come on, we're going.
And he took me home.
I got behind the wheel of that car.
I didn't stall it once, I didn't drop it, I just drove it and I was like we should go back and tell that guy I already knew how to drive stick.
You just didn't know it yet, I just didn't know it, yet I just didn't know it yet how old would you have been at this time?
Could you triangulate at all, when that would have been?
Yeah, I would have been 18, 18 years old at that time.
Good deal, so yeah.
So let's take a step back, if we can Now.
Which was your first car, or would you consider that your first real car?
A lot of what we do is to take the guests all the way back to the very beginning, so was there some kind of important moment in the beginning, or your first car, or so my first car was a Morgan.
No joke, I used to tell people, oh I had a kit car, and then I posted it on Instagram and somebody goes that's a Morgan.
And then I went that it is, my first car was Morgan.
I was like three.
There's a picture of me in diapers driving this car around our farm.
I like to joke, that's my first car, nice.
My dad traded an old bulldozer, so my first car story has four cars, four first cars.
My dad traded an old farm bulldozer for a 1972 convertible Mercedes two set and it was this gorgeous blue color, like royal blue, with this burgundy interior.
He swapped.
Actually I think it was a 1970 body with a 19 V six body with a 1972 V eight in the.
He made me a GTO Mercedes and he gave this to me at 14 years old.
He didn't buy it for me because he traded old farm equipment.
For my 16th birthday he put a giant subwoofer and speakers in the trunk.
So here I am in this classic, tricked out Mercedes.
That's just all really old and beautiful with this bumping system.
And so that was the car that I first drove, but my first car that I bought when I was a teenager and I got to go through the we'll buy you a car thing for the people who are extraordinarily fortunate enough to have parents purchase their car Christina said oh, you can spend $25,000 and get a cute car like a Honda or a Jetta or something.
Well, it was about 30 grand but if I got it used I could get a brand new Z28.
So I was like 25 grand, I know what I want.
And we went to the dealership.
I got the dealer prep model, so it had 3,000 miles on it but still got the financing because it was never registered and it was the same blue that my Mercedes was, which is, or I guess, coincidental.
Um, but this car and and I I think I told you guys in the pre-show stuff I don't really talk about her much because I consider my first car really Babs, which is my Trans Am.
There's that whole story.
But this was my first car and I drove it everywhere.
I drove the heck out of it.
It's the car I got pulled over going 126 at gunpoint on highways.
But we called her Christine because she had a temperament and this car would only behave around certain people and so if I wanted to break, loose the rear end, no matter if I did a break stand, I couldn't do it if she didn't want to do it.
So we she was like, so temperamental and when I left I had to.
I left her back in California and I went to New York to go modeling.
She wouldn't start.
She actually would not start from the day I left, and then they ended up having to sell the car because it was like this car is dying, refused.
Nobody knows what happened.
There was no reason for it.
When I would go back to California it started right up for me but nobody else could drive her.
So we called her Christine and that's my first actual car that I had before I got my Trans.
Am Was Christina a stick shift.
No, she was an automatic.
Nope, yeah, she was, that's okay.
Because, see, I hadn't done the whole stick shift thing yet.
No, I'm with you.
I'm with you.
Stick shift in traffic, especially in California.
Well, it's not even so much the traffic thing.
I don't mind that as much.
As far as getting a car in manual transmission, that particular car, I got the one I could get, because if I bought a new one I would have gotten a manual transmission.
But I had to get I got, you, got you.
My Trans Am, though I desperately wanted a manual transmission and I couldn't find one.
I couldn't get one.
I saw the ad in the paper, in the magazine that said to a bug, it's a 320 horsepower blender and I said my God, I need this car.
That is the most gorgeous car I've ever seen in my life and that would have been 1997, 98.
And so the internet wasn't a thing and I couldn't just go look one up.
And they shipped.
The year I bought her there was 2,700 made, unlike the years after where they made about 10, 15,000.
So this particular model was very special edition, very limited run, and they shipped almost all of them to Florida and California.
And I was in New York.
So I called every dealership on the Eastern seaboard.
Nobody had one in black manual, but I could get a silver convertible manual or a white manual T-tops and I would not drive a convertible because they were governed and I didn't want a white car.
So I went to my dad and I said Dad, please, I need your help.
Do you know any Pontiac dealers that could get me this car?
He probably did.
If there was a guy who did you the name of a Pontiac dealer.
It would be your dad, yeah, fantastic.
So he called one of his old dealers in Akron, ohio, and I drove from New Jersey to Ohio, which is exactly the break-in, so it's 500 miles.
So I drove from New Jersey to Ohio and I picked up the car but I had to get still an automatic because nobody had a black in manual transmission and I just I didn't want a white car.
I would have taken a silver manual transmission with T-tops but not a convertible.
So I drove the car home 55 miles an hour.
All 500 break-in miles.
You're a liar, total liar Is that true, 100% true, because I drove out there with he is an engineer Because.
I drove out there with friends who had to follow me.
They were not happy, but the car got home and I drove it up the driveway and my dad came out Again, this is a story I tell all the time.
He came out and he looked at the car.
I parked it with the door open and the hood up and he walked around the car like a proud papa.
And then he sat in the car and he looked at me and he said I named this car.
Did you know that?
I did not know what that whole scene meant.
Right until this past year One, it never occurred to me that the first car I bought with my own money was a Pontiac and that had to make my dad happy.
Never occurred to me until somebody pointed it out.
Not sure why, but-.
Awesome coincidence, awesome Well played.
But his words were interesting to me.
Why would you look at me and say I named this car, you made this car?
No, he didn't.
It was his consolation prize for Chevrolet stealing the Banshee.
They took the Banshee from him and they let him rebadge a Camaro, so he had nothing to do with it but rebadging.
But that's also not true.
Anybody who knows anything about the F bodies back in the day and the F body shootout and the Camaro versus Trans Am, you know the Trans Am's just a little bit better.
Always he put better suspension on the Pontiac to just.
I mean I could be crude about but basically stick it to Chevrolet for what they did to him for stealing the Banshee.
So that's my Babs and that's how she was found and purchased and brought home and why I consider her John DeLorean's Firebird.
And she is still with you, Babs, correct?
Sort of she's not in running condition yet.
She was restored by my hopefully son-in-law.
Yes, I think I read that your future son-in-law.
Yeah, she needs a little bit.
She needs a couple body panels and her brakes.
Mostly done, but she's not back on the road yet.
Nice, nice, and, if I remember correctly, that is the big thing on that WS6 package was the Ram Air, correct, correct, yeah, yeah.
So the big bump in the hood.
Yeah.
Yeah.
You either loved it or you hated it.
Beautiful car, and did you say it had T-tops?
I think he did.
Yes, yes, definitely T-tops.
Awesome, yep, love it, love it.
And even though this is a family show, what does Babs stand for?
You can say it, we'll bleep it if it's really bad, it's my badass bitch.
Nice, nice yeah.
I was a teenager sort of still when I got her, so you know I mean, but that she is definitely, that car is mean, I love that car.
You know what else is badass, and I'm just going to throw this out there.
You can uh confirm, deny or just uh deny or just uh wink, and we'll move along.
But how about a harley davidson edition ford f-150?
We have, look, our research staff here is so deep.
We have phalanxes of lawyers and fact checkers.
Not really it's just uh.
But I and before before you say anything, I have to tap the chip in here I know a guy who was a Harley nut and you meet this guy and every stitch of clothing is Harley Davidson on this fella.
Actually, I don't know if his underwear is, but everything outwardly is the shirt, the glove, the jackets, the shirts, the shirts, everything he wears the shirt, the glove, the jacket, the shirts, the shirts, everything he wears.
His commitment to the brand and to the culture is absolute.
So when I saw that, I just wanted to throw that out to you and see if you could say a few words about that.
That's a special car.
No, that's a special car, that's a badass truck frankly.
B-A-T, so that truck.
I'll tell you something I've never told anybody before.
I don't think oh, scoop, I believe so when I bought that car, my dad gave me just the.
I only got a very tiny inheritance, a very small one, less than six figures, and I mean it's a lot.
Most people get nothing.
But he gave this to me and he's like I'm sorry, this is what you get.
If you go, if you go spend it on a car, I'm gonna disown you boom.
John delorean said that to his daughter no, because he knew me, because I took took that check immediately to the Ford dealership and I bought that truck in cash.
I did not listen to him, I went right down and I bought this.
For those who don't know, the Harley Davidson F-150 was a Ford Lightning pickup truck that was super fast and really fun to drive.
Absolutely gorgeous, fun to drive, absolutely gorgeous.
And the one that I had had custom leather interior that was black and silver to match the paint job on the car.
Um, it had custom taillights and a tonneau cover and video players in the seats.
Everything it was totally tricked out.
It was.
I love this car.
We ended up selling her when we moved to Texas.
We needed to get a bigger truck and I didn't want to sell the truck at all, but I needed an F-250.
And so the person I sold it to I sold it to a gentleman named Bill, who I still talk to and know, and with a contract that says if you ever sell this car, you have to sell it back to me for the price I sold it to and know, and with a contract that says if you ever sell this car, you have to sell it back to me for the price I sold it to you for Meaning.
I'll still pay him what he paid 10 years ago, knowing that it would be worth a lot more.
Right, but this car is super special because it's the truck I got married in my husband.
His dream wedding was a drive-thru.
I want to have a wedding at 20 years.
I don't want to start off my marriage in debt.
I don't want to do this whole big party.
I want to celebrate surviving with you.
Not, let's have the party at the beginning, all right?
So his parents his dream wedding was a drive-thru.
His parents were like nobody's ever going to do that.
You'll never find a girl who would do that.
I was like I don't care, let's go, let's just go.
So we got in the truck and we drove to Vegas and my Polaroid is a wedding Polaroid in the Ford F-150, harley Davidson edition seatbelt and all.
That's the story 40 bucks.
That car tells a story.
Let me tell you.
Thank you for sharing that.
Thank you for sharing that.
Well, partner, it's happened again.
You know what's happened again.
We have not even scratched the surface with Kat and we're almost 29 minutes into this discussion.
So, partner, I'm going to hand the baton to you and see if you have any closing thoughts, questions, observations for Kat, and then we'll let her talk about things that are on her mind and then we'll wrap up the show.
What you got.
Yeah, yeah.
So, as I've said, I'm a DeLorean owner, also a 1990 300ZX owner.
Long, wonderful story about that car that I will share in a subsequent episode.
But it's very special to me, the car I wanted in high school that my best friend the one who got me into driving stick shifts in high school owned.
And he had one.
He was a only child, he wrecked everything that he was given, very spoiled, and that car got me because I don't know, it was 91.
I was trying to figure out what I was going to do college-wise, growing up around computers.
I wanted to do anything but that.
But I had this little unknown, not well-known thing in 90s ADHD amongst other things, probably some ASD, and I couldn't concentrate in college.
So I went off and became a computer guy and got involved in Novell, network, netware for those people in your 40s and above, learned ArcNet and I forgot about that car until I was going through some rough times in my life and I tried to find my friend and I found out he had passed away.
And then I started having and I'm giving away too much I started having dreams about that car again.
I hadn't thought about that car in 30 years.
Like you don't see them every day.
You might even see a Trans Am more often than a 300 ZX, I don't know Right, actually, I see more DeLoreans because I'm in a DeLorean club.
Speaking of which, I did drive a DeLorean five speed with a V8 over the weekend, friend of mine in the club.
Wow, I just got to say wow.
And DeLorean, I'm talking to the daughter of the man, right, it's such a pleasure and we're sharing all these great stories.
So, yeah, with that-.
Just look at the smile that's completely frozen on Doug's face.
Oh wait, I think Zoom just stopped working.
So moving along quickly, Kat.
It has just been such a pleasure.
Thank you for being gracious with your time, Fantastic guest, and I know there's a lot going on in your life, but would you like to tease anything you have coming up in the coming weeks and months?
I know you had some things going on in summer.
Would you like to?
share that.
Yes, yes, actually.
So please follow me on.
Instagram is my main account because I'm a photographer and that's what I like, and Facebook is what Facebook is.
So, at Kat DeLorean anywhere you want to try and find me, you can look up Kat DeLorean and you'll find me.
Please follow me and DeLorean Next Gen Motors.
That's where you'll be able to keep up on what we're doing.
We have some very exciting new things that are going to be announced and launched this month, and then we have a very exciting project that we're working on with our students for the summer that we'll be announcing in the next coming months.
I will be doing a SEMA virtual education seminar that's currently scheduled for the end of April.
But I will be doing a SEMA virtual education seminar that's currently scheduled for the end of April, but I may be moving to May.
So please go onto the SEMA learning website and check out and register for my virtual seminar.
Besides that, please reach out to me.
If you want to schedule me for anything, do it by email, but I do try and answer my DMs.
I love that.
I have the superpower of joy to just give you guys a smile by responding to you, so please do it.
It takes me a while to get back to you, but sometimes people like that four months after they sent me a message they get a surprise hello.
So that's it.
Thank you very much for everybody following me and supporting me.
I love talking to you all and sharing these stories.
It's really a lot of fun.
Well, thank you, and you are welcome here anytime.
And so to our audience.
What, uh, what can we say?
Another one in the books here.
Check us out at cars lovecom.
Cars, lovecom.
Remember, every car has a story.
This podcast only moves forward because you choose to share.
Check us out at Christian at CarsLovecom.
He's Doug at CarsLovecom, and we're streaming all over the place.
Have we propagated the entire internet yet?
Parker, how's that working?
You can find us on.
I listen to Apple Apple Podcasts, but really we're everywhere else right.
Your podcast platform of choice, yeah, apple Spotify, but really we're everywhere else, right.
Your podcast platform of choice, yeah.
Apple, Spotify, Google you know where to get us.
Amazon Intune.
Yes, we're on all the big ones and even the little guys, Definitely.
So all right.
So our audio engineer is going to take us out on some cool sounds, some great music.
Thanks again, everybody.
We'll see you next week, Take care.
Thank again, everybody.
We'll see you next week.
Take care, thank you Bye.
Thank you.
About this episode
Kat DeLorean shares her unique perspective on life lessons learned through cars, influenced by her father, the legendary John DeLorean. She recounts how her dad taught her responsibility and resilience through automotive experiences, from washing cars to learning to ride a motorcycle. The conversation dives into her first cars, including a tricked-out Mercedes and a temperamental Trans Am named 'Christine.' With anecdotes about family, cars, and personal growth, Kat offers a heartfelt look at how automotive culture shaped her life and career.
Kat DeLorean offers an intimate look at automotive nostalgia and family legacy in this very special episode. As the daughter of the legendary John Z. DeLorean, Kat’s earliest car memories involve the iconic gull-winged DMC-12 itself – including her first time behind the wheel of her family’s own DeLorean. She shares heartfelt stories of how classic cars and her father’s larger-than-life career shaped her values, from bonding over engine tinkering to the life lessons learned during Sunday drives. Listeners will hear car history anecdotes from the frontline of an automotive dynasty, but also relatable tales: Kat’s first “regular” car, the song on the radio that reminds her of dad, and how preserving these car memories has become her mission. With a tone that’s both reverent and warmly personal, Growing Up DeLorean delivers a treasure trove of car culture insight and emotional resonance.
By episode’s end, you’ll feel how every car – whether a famous sports car or a family sedan – can carry the legacy of love, heritage, and hope from one generation to the next.
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