there was one at speedy bills in lincoln neb., is it still there? I saw 2 car in wichita, ks several yrs ago, they held the tucker nationals in wichita near the airport and had a blue one and green one. they fired one up and the owner took a young kid for a ride. they said he was a tucker and that someone from the family always attends the event. he looked like he was having a great time during that ride. and man that car had a really unique sound.
This is a great thread. Thanks for starting it, and to all who contributed. I guess we will always wonder what might have been. For those who may have missed it, the Tucker Club of America site includes the letter that Preston Tucker sent to a lot of newspapers in 1948. It's interesting reading. http://www.tuckerclub.org/html/openletter.html Dave http://www.roadsters.com/
BTW, in case you're wondering whatever happened to that beautiful fastback coupe up in the corner of the ad-it was a quarter-scale model built by George Lawson in 1946, primarily of clay. Then it was photographed outside, airbrush retouched and cut & pasted in front of the Tucker family home in Ypsilanti, MI. I imagine that they thought that if they made the photo small enough in the ad that it would look real-it sure fooled me the first time I saw it. Again...if you have even a p***ing interest in Tuckers, find the book these pictures are from ..." Design and Destiny: the making of the Tucker Automobile" by Philip S. Egan.
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