ARUNDEL, Maine — You can meet the Tucker Family at the Maine Classic Car Museum on Saturday, Sept. 27, and hear the inside ...

"Other Tucker owners are calling about getting their cars restored as well," Neezer said. Many of the features planned for the Tucker, a car that was considered outlandish in its day, have become ...

The car is Tucker serial #1047 -- the 47th car off the assembly line. The car is finished in "Waltz Blue," named after and matched to the favorite dress of Preston Tucker's wife.

Preston Tucker, for whom the car was named, started his car company in 1947, and it produced only 51 of these giant, oddball, rear-engine luxury cars before going belly-up in 1948. All of them are ...

”People don`t know what it is,” says Peter Kesling of his Tucker car. ”When they see it, they can`t imagine that it`s 40 years old. Of course, now that the movie has come out, mor… ...

He later built race cars and the Tucker Turret, a swiveling machine-gun turret used in World War II. After the war, and years of sugar and meat rationing, America’s biggest appetite was for cars.

Sad story about a man and his dream: Man was Preston Tucker, dream was a car unlike any other ever built. Skip to content. All Sections. Subscribe Now. 59°F. Friday, July 4th 2025 ...

There are all sorts of conspiracy theories that find our way to us. Virtually all of them consist of “My Turboencabulator gets 100 mpg on pure water, but Big Car doesn’t want it to happen!” ...

After that, you’d think cars might be a let-down — unless the car was a Tucker. Tucker needed a factory and in 1946, he set his sights on the 475-acre Dodge plant in Chicago, which had built B ...

This was not a good day for Preston Tucker. Last-minute problems occurred. Two of the independent suspension arms broke due to the heaver weight of the prototype model. The experimental 589-cubic-i… ...