nightcrawler in los angeles

Chapter 134 DeLorean Motor Company
Rather than seeing a car factory, it would be better to see a used car repair shop that has long since closed down.

The nearby ruined walls and overgrown weeds made Tao Xi, who came out of the sewer, feel desolate. If it wasn’t for an old white man guarding the gate of the factory, even Marco would have thought he was coming. Wrong place.

"Marco! Are you sure this is the [DeLorean Motor Company] you mentioned!"

Marco looked at the surrounding environment in disbelief and muttered in a low voice: "Fortunately, we put the RV back, otherwise we would have to find a car for rescue due to the road conditions here!"

Tao Xi saw Marco standing behind him with a suspicious face and didn't know what to mutter.

Tao Xi walked towards the old white man at the gate of the factory on his own: "Is this [DeLorean Automobile Company]?"

The old white man frowned and looked at Tao Xi in confusion, then looked at the alarm clock behind him: "Ah! No! There's no one left! My son is still in the factory!"

The old white man replied tremblingly by Tao Xi's ear as if he was afraid that Tao Xi would not hear.

"Did I say this is the [DeLorean Motor Company]?"

"There's no one left! You go to another place to see, we don't recruit people here!"

When Marco saw this, he dragged Tao Xi into the factory gate, and Tao Xi whispered when he entered the factory again: "Master! We're going in!"

"Go in! Nobody!"

"Hey! Marco! The old man can hear you!"

Marco glanced back at the old man and said gossipingly to Tao Xi: "That may be De Laury's father. Since De Laury's prison factory closed down, his sons have all remarried with their mothers. In England, only his father came to Los Angeles to sell the remaining cars from [Delaury Automobile Factory]."

"Oh! Hate the poor and love the rich?"

Marko waved his hand nonchalantly and replied: "There is no way. Since 81 [Delaury Automobile Factory] has placed a total of 9200 car orders, and the first batch of delivered cars was sold in time, but the second The second batch of 1000 cars fell into his hands because Delao Rui was imprisoned for taking drugs."

When Tao Xi heard Marco say that the boss of the factory took drugs, Tao Xi immediately asked, "Does he really use drugs?"

"It is wrong to say that William Collins, the designer of their factory, was an engineer of Lotus before, and now works part-time in my repair shop. He has put a lot of effort into our RV!"

"If it weren't for him, I wouldn't know about Delao Rui!"

Hearing what Marco said, Tao Xi nodded suddenly. Marco loves cars, but it might be okay to let a man who came out of the sewer steal a car from Marco, but if Marco builds a car The trolley is estimated to hang!
Unless Marko also has a radio that works like the one he has.

There are many factories in the factory, many of which are used to store some industrial waste or tires, but more factories are empty.

The further you go into the factory, the more chaotic the factory is, and the more auto parts on the ground.

"Look there!"

Tao Xi followed the direction of Marko's finger and suddenly saw a silver-gray car. Although the appearance of the car looked a little cumbersome, the way the car opened the door immediately attracted Tao Xi.

A fat, gray-faced man got out from under the chassis of the car and said to Tao Xi, "It's cool! Isn't it? It's called a gull-wing door!"

Tao Xi saw a trace of wealth from that big fat man. If he hadn't had money in the past, it would be difficult for ordinary white people to get fat.

"You are Marco? William Collins just told me that you are coming today!" John Delore greeted Marco eagerly, and before Marco could say a few words, he was greeted by John DeLore was dragged near the car.

It seemed that the two of them had communicated before, but Tao Xi didn't care but looked at everything in front of him with interest.

The entire factory of [Delao Rui Automobile Company] is about 60 acres, and the area of ​​this factory can be much larger than the land behind Tao Xi's factory in the United States and Australia.

After arriving here, Tao Xi could see that there were still some production equipment in some factories, but these production equipment were different from what Tao Xi saw in the Toyota factory.

There are either some cranes or some car suspension parts. Several broken car sites are neatly stacked in the corner, and there is a monitoring room not far away, but the screens in the monitoring room have been smashed to pieces.

"Because of cost reasons, this factory in Los Angeles was only used to assemble cars."

"Most of our work is done by the car factory in Northern Ireland. We are actually second-hand dealers in the car industry!"

John DeLaury stood behind Tao Xi's buttocks at some point. Marco looked at Tao Xi eagerly and wanted to say something, but he was embarrassed to say something due to the presence of John DeLaury. .

Tao Xi was not in a hurry but pointed to the vicinity: "How much money does it take to resume work here?"

"8000 million! I only need 8000 million to revitalize this place! And I can sell my shares for free!"

"But William Collins, who has been with me until now, needs some motivation, he has worked hard enough!"

When Tao Xi heard the price of [8000 million], his eyebrows twitched unconsciously, but fortunately he was also someone who had seen big scenes, Tao Xi pretended to be calm and asked back: "What about debts? "

John DeLaury replied with embarrassment when he heard Tao Xi's question: "The most valuable thing in the company now is the patent, because I still owe 1100 million US dollars in debt to the Northern Ireland automobile factory, and those patents are still in Northern Ireland. Pledged by the bank."

"OK! I probably know the situation."

When Marco saw Tao Xi turned his head and walked towards the factory gate, he became a little anxious: "What are you doing, Tao Xi!"

"I don't have enough money to buy the big toy you're looking at. Let's go and see the [Ford Auto Repair]."

"Not expensive! Tao Xi, he is really not expensive. William Collins told me in private that if I am interested, we just need to sign the [debt assignment agreement]! John Delore has long wanted to be in the United States If it wasn't for those debts, he might have brought his father back to China long ago!"

Tao Xi said helplessly when he heard Marco's words: "But he needs 8000 million US dollars to resume work. Where are we going to get this money!"

"Pre-sale!"

"We can pre-sell!"

"Didn't you just buy the Clippers? We still have [Yellow Pages]!"

"A car costs $8000, and he can only buy a basic car. As long as the customer adds money, we can continue to provide customers with a variety of unique configurations!"

"But the premise is that the customer must pay a 50% deposit first, and then we can place an order from the factory."

Tao Xi stared at Marco with surprise for a long time, when Marco looked at him firmly, Tao Xi smiled~
In fact, what Tao Xi has always wanted to ask is [Are you sure you came up with this? ], but Tao Xi held back, Marco has grown up, it's time to give him some opportunities to let him grow by himself!
"Okay! Since you like it, then you can do it! John DeLaure can no longer be used. He has a problem. Although I don't know where it appears, I don't worry about him!"

When Marco heard Tao Xi's words, he hung on Tao Xi's body and kept saying some slang words from his childhood.

"You confirm some of the equipment here, and then confirm the ownership of the factory area. If the ownership of the land is not in the hands of John DeLaure, you can go to Long Beach City to find an industrial land and buy it, and build cars there!"

After hearing Tao Xi's promise, Marco has basically lost the ability to think. No matter what Tao Xi says now, Marco is "ok", "ok" and "no problem".

Tao Xi, who left the factory alone, deliberately kept quiet when he saw the old man at the door, but the old man came up to say hello.

"who are you?"

"Who are you looking for?"

"What are you doing?"

Tao Xi pretended not to hear the three questions in a row. Tao Xi's appearance made the old white man very angry.

Walking on the path full of dirt roads, Tao Xi couldn't help but fell silent. It's not that Tao Xi has no courage in this car factory, but that Tao Xi doesn't know how to turn him into money for this unknown thing.

As for moving the factory to Long Beach, Tao Xi simply felt that it was closer to the sea. If this car did not sell in the United States, Tao Xi could find a way to sell it abroad!

Like Africa?South America?Asia?
It is really too difficult to break the old car monopoly in a mature market like the United States. Marko's idea is indeed very novel, but Tao Xi doesn't think it can be done!

The advertisements of Japanese cars and German cars in the United States are not for small shrimps like them to take the lead.

If talking about movies, Tao Xi took advantage of a loophole and broke the monopoly by relying on the drive-in theater, then the car is really worth the money!
Don't look at the awesomeness of [Yellow Pages], the awesomeness of [Yellow Pages] is based on the fact that Tao Xi has spent nearly ten years in the sewers of Los Angeles, so that the group of shameless people are willing to work for food and clothing.

As for whether this automobile factory can be completed, Tao Xi does not know, but Tao Xi is willing to spend tens of millions of dollars for his brother Marko to try it out. If not, there will be his brother!

Tao Xi, who just got into the sewer, didn't know why, his eyelids kept twitching!
(End of this chapter)