DeLoreans on Parade

Date: Saturday, March 11, 2006
Place: St. Patrick's Day Parade, Chicago, IL
Contributor: Rich Weissensel

The luck of the Irish was with the St. Pat's Day Parade organizers and the participants as well as those who came to see the parade. We had 9 DeLoreans participate in the parade, and We're happy to report the club got almost a minute of TV coverage on both Ch. 9 and Ch. 7. With 9 cars, we drove in a 2-1 2-1 2-1 formation, which looked great on TV from the high camera angle. We had plenty of time to clean and detail our cars prior to start of the parade and it certainly showed from those high camera angles used by both TV stations.

Although we were unable to get the advertising plugs in for DCS 2006 and the DeLorean 25th Anniversary events this June, it was very good exposure for the DeLorean marquee, even if the TV announcers do not always get the facts straight (sometimes perpetuating false rumors).

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Video segment (.WMV file) of local network coverage by ABC (Ch 7) and WGN (Ch 9)

NOTE: Video is quite large (~9.5MB).

To download right mouse-click here --> parade.wmv and choose Save Target As. Change "Save As File Type" to "All Files" and make sure to add ".wmv" at end of filename.