45+ Years without John DeLorean...
and a little more with

  • Hardcover: 453 pages with 1,009 photos/illustrations
  • Publisher: Woodbine Publications; 1st edition (December, 2019)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-13: 978-0-9856578-2-6
  • Product Dimensions: 20 x 27 x 3 cm
  • Shipping Weight: 1518 grams
  • ALL PRICES INCLUDE SHIPPING!!
Barrie Wills latest book is a prequel/sequel to his highly successful John Z, the DeLorean and Me (below) and is the story of the rest of his automotive career including:
  • tuition at ‘The University of Jaguar’ with the E-type and XJ6
  • the mishandled formation of British Leyland Motor Corporation
  • intrigue at Kirkstall - the UK’s oldest forge
  • the Leyland National integral bus story
  • bringing the Reliant Robin and Scimitar GTE into production
  • job near-misses with Jensen, TVR, Aston Martin, Climax, Stonefield and Lotus
  • the little more with John Z  DeLorean
  • the stillborn Lotus-Sinclair roadster
  • the iconic Sinclair C5 story
  • with Malcolm Bricklin in Malaysia
  • project managing the Lotus Elan
  • assisting the Government of Indonesia
  • the politics behind the MG ‘Lift & Shift’
  • the Arup/PwC ‘Chinese Takeaway’
  • the Smart Roadster-based MG Midget/AC Ace
  • further adventures in Asia and elsewhere  
  • all in a 50-year career in the automotive sectors of 50 countries

John Z, the DeLorean and Me...
tales from an insider

  • Hardcover: 392 pages
  • Publisher: DeLorean Garage; 1st edition (October 21, 2015)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 098565788X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0985657888
  • Product Dimensions: 12 x 9 x 4 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 3 pounds
John Z, The DeLorean & Me is an insider's view of the longest serving employee, director of purchasing and last CEO of DeLorean Motor Cars Limited in Northern Ireland, author Barrie Wills.
  • It is a near history of the DeLorean project with much of the hard work, effort and inspiration contributed by so many written about for the first time.
  • It is illustrated by hundreds of photographs, many for the first time, showing why so many employees considered the project the best of their working lives.
  • It heralds the record 28 months in which the car was engineered, developed and built, whilst a state of the art factory was designed, built, equipped and staffed in West Belfast at the height of The Troubles.
  • It recognizes the pioneering of advanced technology in Europe and the introduction into the UK of simultaneous engineering - now the global norm.
  • It introduces the good humour and camaraderie within the project's different nationalities and between its workforce, drawn evenly from the Loyalist and Republican factions.
  • It highlights what might have been had a restyled Triumph TR8 (rebranded as Healey 3500) been built alongside the DeLorean rebranded as the Healey Gullwing.
  • It describes how the bad listener in Margaret Thatcher thwarted that British rescue through her habitual micro management.
  • It explains how the inspirational but maverick John Z DeLorean destroyed the very project he created, leaving the people of Northern Ireland behind as the real losers.