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Preston Tucker (1903-1956) and his Tucker 48 inspire admiration -- and debate -- to this day. Tucker built 51 cars before a shortage of money and a surplus of bad publicity closed his company. Some think the Big Three conspired to destroy him. More likely, he was overwhelmed by the enormous cost of building an automobile company from scratch. Tucker raised over $20 million, but he probably ...
Jul 11, 2021 · Some people have likened historic automotive industry figure Preston Tucker to Elon Musk.Tucker has been described with words like “a gifted entrepreneur and technological visionary who ...
Width. 79.0 in (2,007 mm) Height. 60.0 in (1,524 mm) Curb weight. 4,200 lb (1,900 kg) The Tucker 48, commonly but incorrectly referred to as the Tucker Torpedo, was an automobile conceived by Preston Tucker while in Ypsilanti, Michigan and briefly produced in Chicago, Illinois in 1948.
Apr 25, 2016 · The late Preston Thomas Tucker was born in 1903, in Capac, Michigan; he was the son of a railroad engineer, who was unfortunately killed when Tucker was 4. At the age of 13, he started working for General Motors as an office boy for the Cadillac Division in Detroit.
Preston Tucker, American History Illustrated. Tucker Model: #1001 Engine: Franklin O-335, six-cylinder horizontally opposed, 334 cubic inches,166 hp Tucker #1001 was the first car off the prototype production line. It utilizes the Tucker Y-1 transmission, a Tucker-modified Cord 810/812 front-wheel-drive unit.
Aug 12, 1988 · Tucker: The Man and His Dream: Directed by Francis Ford Coppola. With Jeff Bridges, Joan Allen, Martin Landau, Frederic Forrest. The story of Preston Tucker, the maverick car designer and his ill-fated challenge to the auto industry with his revolutionary car concept.
Preston Thomas Tucker was born September 21, 1903, on a peppermint farm in rural Capac, Michigan. He grew up in the suburban Detroit community of Lincoln Park where, even as a child, he was fascinated by anything having to do with automobiles. He learned to drive at the age of 11 and quit school two years later to become an office boy for ...
