To heck with you guys!!! I'm gonna bid on the 28 Ford woody rat rod listed at the bottom of the auction!!!!!
I am currently engaged in top secret negotiations to buy the Brooklyn Bridge toll rights. I think this car would make a nice ribbon cutter for the opening, no? If any of you guys do win it, lets talk....
If the guy would simply present the car honestly; let's call it a Tucker-inspired custom convertible, rather than some secret, hush-hush "prototype" that no one at Tucker was aware of (that's plain BS there - there weren't but 56 cars there in the plant - they knew about ALL of them!). Plus, the plant was located in ONE building! The seller's whole story is just that - a good story, but one intended to create something from nothing. Pretty shameless, on the seller's part, no doubt.
If it was the real deal then why is it on Ebay ????? Come on now , if it was the real deal it would be on Barrett-Jackson then ! OH that's right , he knows cars ! Never heard of a rag top Tucker , didn't even see any in the movie either ! Would really be nice slambed to the ground !
Neat whether its real or not! But not 5 MIL worth. Somebody will buy it eventually. Famous car lot saying "There's an *** for every seat"
I like how now you can hack up an original car into a never-built body style and call it a "prototype". There's a guy who brings his '55 Nomad with the roof cut off to local Wisconsin shows and claims it's a prototype '55 El Camino. It has a tonneau cover on it, probably because the bed is full of ********.
wow... they've had this car for almost, what... six months or less, and already tryin to flip the ****in thing... there IS a modi*** of truth to the story of the car. NO it was never started AT the tucker plant, but it WAS an idea Preston was kicking around, and YES the parts were stashed away for the very purpose of building the droptop... what the hell, a guy needs to make a buck, and i'd say he's just testing the waters with the price he's got it set at.
If you list less than 4 cars a year it only cost you $125.00 if you sell it. Final price doesn't matter in Ebay motors. No listing fee either. It cost you $20.00 insertion fee every time after the 4th vehicle in a year and if you sell it will cost additional $100.00.
If I had half a billion dollars or so I'd buy it just to make a wicked custom without feeling guilty...
I have some memory of this as well. ( I'm getting older - so can't rememeber if I remember) Like if I remember - Some pile of parts that was bought site unseen for like $ 30,000 through a bankruptcy or something like that. Cob
I don't know about this convert, too much gray area without do***entation, but I like it. Ckeck out the link. I saw Ida's brite blue original prototype at The Syracuse Nats a few years ago, and it's cool. I also saw it goin down the street in Syracuse and the site will stop you in your tracks! The car is a gl*** replica with a Caddy Norhtstar drivetrain in the rear. I understand Ida planned to build 57 of these and you can have one for around $75K. Maybe he should make a convert. http://www.robidaconcepts.com/page/page/1916736.htm
Various real fully do***ented post war concept/prototype cars have sold at Barrett and other auctions over the last few years. At the peak of the market insanity, the best of these have sold for over a mil, one or two as high as 3 or 4 mil. There is no way that this Tucker fabrication is worth 5 mil, unless someone believes the mystery/intrigue of the car adds value. The sellers story does roughly correlate with the article in Old Cars Weekly. However, OCW states very clearly several times in the article that there is no hard prrof of anything in the dtory.
Wow a bunch of cobbled-together old NOS Tucker parts (not at all rare, by the way) loosely strung up to look like a convertible. Some real do***entation besides the hearsay of a line worker and some stamping numbers in addition to A FINISHED CAR might be worth some money, but as it sits, it has three too many zeros in the sell price.
Here's the direct link to the Old Cars Weekly article. The first paragraph is great: "If you want to start a fight, just log onto any Web site where Tucker automobile buffs hang out www.tuckerclub.org is a good place to start and start asking around about the existence of a Tucker convertible. Then put on your helmet and protective cup and wait for the sparks to fly." http://www.oldcarsweekly.com/article/The_Mysterious_Tucker_convertible
I have to raise the BS flag on this one. Doesn't it seem odd that a man/company who's entire marketing scheme was to provide SAFETY in automobiles would even consider a convertible????? Not likely.
I was just over on the Tucker club site and there is a post about that car and they seem to not agree if its fake or not. One guy said he saw the car and the do***entation. he thinks it could be real. but then there are the other that disagree.
that place and this car sound shady to me, my tucker knowledge is limited but the simple arguments placed here either way put the b.s. flag up. i have yet to hear anything good about them, and im pretty closeby...
They should at least get someone to fab up some prints for the car with PROTOTYPE stamped on them! How hard would that be? I'm willing to send them my whole unemployment check, $362, for it.
The whole ragtop Tucker thing might have been BS...that many zeros might have been BS...but it DOES have a buch of folks talking about the E-bay poster and Tucker...I'm just sayin'...
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