Gooding & Company topped the Scottsdale auction sales chart in 2020. Not in overall sales, as Barrett-Jackson’s volume yields a total haul that dwarfs the other auction houses, but in terms of indivi...
Whatever your opinion on Preston Tucker or his short-lived automobile company, it’s an undeniable fact that his cars carry a strong following. Give plenty of credit to Francis Ford Coppola’s Tucker: ...
The Tucker 48 is rare. Preston Tucker’s struggles with funding his start-up auto company, including a fight with the SEC he eventually won, resulted in a mere 50 cars produced plus the original “Tin ...
2020 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray. Photo courtesy of Chevrolet . Only days after its long-awaited reveal, the all-new mid-engine 2020 Corvette Stingray C8 will appear at the Petersen Automotive Museum...
Preston Tucker. Image courtesy Tucker Automobile Club of America. It’s been 70 years since Preston Tucker was forced to shut the doors of his Chicago automobile factory, and the controversy surroundi...
Tucker 48 chassis 1028. Photos courtesy Bonhams Auctions. By September 1948, Preston Tucker had little left to lose. Production at his Chicago plant was all but halted by an SEC investigation, while ...
Tucker 48 chassis 1044 arriving at the Simeone Foundation Automotive Museum. Photos by William Murphy unless otherwise noted. Seven decades after the demise of the Tucker Corporation, its automobiles...
Tucker 48s on the lawn at Pebble Beach in 2018. Photo by Bill Rothermel, courtesy AACA Museum Inc. The AACA Museum Inc., in Hershey, Pennsylvania, is home to the largest collection of Tucker automobi...
The Cammack Tucker Gallery. Image courtesy AACA Museum, Inc. Seventy years after the closure of his namesake automobile company, and 63 years after his death in December 1956, Preston Tucker remains ...
Rückblick Es ist ja nicht so, dass uns die Geschichten ausgehen würden – es ist so, dass «radical» einfach zu wenig Zeit hat, all die tollen Stories zu verarbeiten, die wir uns erarbeiten. Ein aktuel...
Images courtesy Steve Tremulis. For any other company, design renderings largely serve as a means of selling company executives on a car. Renderings of Preston Tucker’s postwar car of the future mean...
Rob Ida’s Tucker Torpedo body. The wooden buck was based upon a 3D scan of the original scale model. Images courtesy Rob Ida unless otherwise noted. Before there was a Tucker 48, there was a Tucker T...
Last 1948 Tucker 48 assembled from original parts for sale on Hemmings.com. From the seller’s description: This beautiful Tucker was constructed by Classic and Exotic Restorations of Troy, Michigan, ...
Rückblick Beginnen wollen wir den Newsletter 48-2016 mit einem Blick in die Welt von social media. Am Wochenende hatten wir auf Facebook eine paar Bilder eines Mercedes-Benz 190 E 2.5-16 Evolution II...
Tucker 1044, at rest in its former Ohio home. Photos courtesy Mark Lieberman. Mark Lieberman knows a thing or two about Tuckers; he’s owned three, two of which have gone on to set record prices in pr...
Earliest proposal by ex-GM designer George Lawson was called the Tin Goose, had pivoting, skirted front fenders. Tin Goose sketches appeared in early ads (below), but later ads showed Alex Tremulis’s...