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...
Why? Because my brain parasite from Alpha Centauri demands it, and we don’t want to anger Brzzyxxyx. We all remember what happened last time Brzzyxxyx got angry. We all serve Brzzyxxyx. So let’s chec...
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...
A trio of Playboy convertibles were displayed by owners David Kaplan and Lee Singer at the 2014 Hemmings Motor News Concours d’Elegance. Front-to-back: 1949 convertible #97; 1947 Prototype convertibl...
Tucker gallery at the AACA Museum. Photos by the author, unless otherwise noted. With just a fraction of its peak membership and dwindling engagement, The Tucker Automobile Club of America has reache...
This Tucker 48 replica was built by Rob and Bob Ida at Rob Ida Concepts in Morganville, New Jersey. Rob’s Grandfather signed up as a Tucker dealer in New York City in 1947. Even though the company we...
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, ...
Ausgeträumt Ja, der Tucker 48 hatte auch einen Rückwärtsgang. Der war 1948 natürlich bei allen Autos selbstverständlich, aber Tuckers erster Prototyp, der die Interessenten hinhalten sollte, hatte ke...
Photo courtesy The Henry Ford. Automotive safety didn’t start with Ralph Nader, of course. Plenty of people, startled by annual highway death figures in the tens of thousands and growing, concerned t...