T he DeLorean DMC-12 may not be the fastest or the most expensive car, but it has real claim to the title of the most ...

John DeLorean gave this brand new DeLorean DMC-12 to his wife Cristina Ferrare in 1982, three years before they divorced. Now it's going up for auction, with only 13,540 miles on the odometer.

Like the DMC-12, success was not to ... on a small trove of goodies like blueprints to the non-starter bus plant, a brochure for the DMC 80, and a random DeLorean certificate of achievement.

The DeLorean DMC-12 is perhaps one of the coolest cars ever made that never really made it as a successful product. The car ...