Taking place at Northern California’s Monterey Jet Center on August 14 and 15, Monterey Car Week’s Broad Arrow Auction will host a roster of impressive supercars and sports-car classics. Yet one ...
The 1948 Tucker 48 is one of the strangest cars in American history, dreamed up by the equally remarkable Preston Tucker. Its development was even stranger, with the original concept calling for a ...
Most, if not all, know the story of the 1948 Tucker sedan. Yes, there was a movie, and it’s well worth watching. But even if you’ve never seen or heard of a the machine, one look at Preston Tucker’s ...
Automotive history is filled with a plethora of designs that were ahead of their time, some of which have faded into ...
2020. 2021. 2022. 2023. 2024. No, we are not doing some weird counting experiment. These are the years a dealership in Texas has been trying to sell this car but was ...
AUBURN, Ind. (WANE) – The Auburn Cord Duesenberg Automobile Museum (ACD) has announced it has been loaned a rare 1948 Tucker from the Richard H. Driehaus Collection at Chicago Vintage Motor Carriage ...
A 1948 Tucker Model 48 offered at no reserve will cross the auction block of Worldwide Auctioneers Saturday, August 31, in Auburn, Indiana, to benefit the Mayo Clinic for cancer research. The ...
LAPORTE | Dick Stokes was living in Michigan City while his father drove around the Midwest selling dealerships for the first 1948 Tucker automobiles about to be mass-produced, when legend has it, the ...
The Big Three—General Motors, Ford and Chrysler—have long ruled over the American auto industry. But somehow that didn’t stop ambitious automakers like Preston Tucker from working to find a place in ...
So what was the question, there? Was there a question? As a 12 year old kid, I'm sitting there playing with my toy cars, I saw this incredible movie and I wanted a toy Tucker and I bought this little ...
One of the great "what-ifs" for automobile historians is the fate of the Tucker. Brash businessman Preston Tucker saw a chance to jump into the auto business after World War II. He designed a striking ...
Preston Tucker had great ambitions for his new automobile. A stock sale in mid-1947 raised nearly $20 million; 2000 dealer franchises brought in another $8 million. A vast aviation engine plant in ...