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: ...
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 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 ...
Tucker Carioca rendering by Thom Taylor, courtesy Rob Ida Concepts. Preston Tucker viewed failure as a necessary milestone on the road to success. A year after a jury found him not guilty of charges ...
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...
1935 Miller Ford V-8 Indy Car. Photos by Maggie Pinke, courtesy Mecum Auctions. In 1935, genius race car constructor Harry Miller entered into a deal with Preston Tucker and the Ford Motor Company to...
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...