Hands up if you remember John DeLorean.
If you do, you probably remember him for the stainless steel car with the flux capacitor from Back to the Future, and for being busted for $24 million worth of cocaine, giving a girlfriend a leather-bound portfolio featuring photographs of himself and being buried (when he was dead) in a black motorcycle jacket, blue jeans and a denim shirt with a pair of shades tucked into the zipper.
One thing we do know for sure is that John, with two others at GM, invented the muscle car. In 1957, the American Automotive Manufacturers Association tried to stop carmakers being involved in motor racing. Keen to make his name, the chief engineer of GM's Pontiac division, the self same DeLorean, found the ultimate loophole: make big engines an option.