This feature travelled 'back to the future'. In 1979, John De Lorean arrived in Northern Ireland promising hundreds of new jobs in creating the ultimate sports car. Within two years the factory grew from a green field site and portacabins to cars rolling off the production line. Three De Lorean workers talk about the excitement of joining the company, their pride in what they were producing and why they think the factory failed.

George Fairman, Alan Hayward and Joe Murray remember their time with the De Lorean factory in "I Was There" (broadcast on 28th December 1995), a BBC Radio Ulster series featuring accounts of events from people who were there as they happened.

Listen to "I Was There"

YOUR RESPONSES

Sarah - Feb '08
Im wondering is the delorean factory still standing in Belfast or has it actually been torn down?

Ed white - May '06
I worked for De Lorean as final assemby foreman along with Tommy Orr, Tommy Troughton and Seamas Higgins and others it was a great place to work I moved to usa in 1983. I still think of those days i lived in dunmurray

John Bassett - Dec '05
The De Lorean is the best thing from Belfast. I live beside it. I have used the track on motor bike plenty of times. I have been inside the factory. All I have to do is drive one, and it's a shame that they are tearing it down for a warehouse.

Fan - July '05
Does anyone know, are there any kind of factory rooms in or around Belfast to the DeLorean car manufacture or has this been planned?

Alex Adams - January '05
De Lorean is the best thing on the planet, I have been in 3.