Tucker Conv. For sale!! Pics

Another great Americans' work reduced to an Ebay joke. What a shame. I'll bet Preston Tucker, Ken Howard, Howard Hughes, Smokey Yunick etc etc etc aren't laughing

Wonder how many homeless Americans could live in that car?

 

reduced to a joke? i bet Tucker is gigglin his ass off.

PS... no homeless people could live in that... it has no top

 

If this is body #57 then isn't this actually the car with the large rear window?

 

i think i might place a bid lol lol

 

There sure are a lot of welding and grinding done to the front end along with the A post in the eBay photos. Looks like its a fake to me with maybe some real left over parts the factory had when it was closed. But no way in hell would it be worth 5 million finished none the less unfinished................

 

its never been presented as a completed tucker, ever. its always been called, and rightly so, a tucker droptop PROTOTYPE

 

Its a fake look at the headlight areas all of the pie cuts and the abortion around the center lamp. All of these parts were stamped and not formed one at a time from a flat sheet. The doors and rear areas would be done by hand if it was a prototype but not the factory stock items.

 

He didnt take my $500, i even went $501 and he didnt take it?

 

My buddy is about 98% sure that car up on the egay auction is not the prototype, but is from Richard Kughn's collection. Someone mentioned this up earlier in the thread to. Heres a link that puts together some info on the Richard Kughn car. Hopfully the dudes with the dough trying to buy this car read up on it!
http://hudsonandrods.blogspot.com/

 

Ha ha ha!!!
I'll take 2!

 

http://www.tuckerclub.org/bbs3/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=57

The stuff at the NOVI 2002 auction was apparently parts of 1018 and 1027 + misc parts. But it was also from the Kughn hoarde. http://www.rmauctions.com/PressRelease.cfm?PressID=432

"The unique Tucker chassis and parts assortment, which
was also part of the consigned Kughn Collection, was
sold to a museum for $29,500. The lot included an
original Tucker chassis plus a collection of Tucker
parts that included a cowl, several body panels, a
door, hood, decklid and several original and
experimental engines. The grouping will be displayed
by the museum as separate parts, rather than
reassembled. "

 

Preston Tucker was having a difficult enough time putting together fifty-something REAL cars in order to satisfy some Federsl judge that the Tucker car was real and not a scam on investors. He surely would NOT have had the time, nor the inclination, to dally with the idea of building a ragtop while all this was going on, much less generate a prototype!

I call this ragtop Tucker a hoax, plain and simple! The "seller" can wish for his $5M all day long, or even a half-million, and either way, he won't get it from any but the most gullible and unknowledgeable buyer, IMO. There is no "mystique" to anything here. When ALL of the particulars, all of the people actually involved in building Tuckers that have been asked over the years; in this case have said clearly that NO convertible body, prototype, or even a thought of building one was considered, there isn't much of anything to debate here.

This car should be called what it really is: a Tucker car built from leftover parts after the factory closed, and owner-fabricated parts, and made into a "what-if?" Tucker convertible concept. Nothing more. Then, the seller would have a much more honest presentation of what he has. The owner thinks he has $5M sitting there. Unfinished! Right.

It may well be "built" from parts left over when the plant closed, but other than that, it's an incomplete Tucker sedan that has been modified as a ragtop, then hopelessly misrepresented as something it clearly is not. Anyone with even a little common sense and a rudimentary knowledge of the Tucker history can figure this one out.

 

True, but a hell of a place to advertise. Everybody looks at "ebay" If it sold for 5 mill,I'd be glad to pay the fees.

 

$5,000,000.00 is just silly! Damn...how far will people go! That's why I hate people.

 

Hey, it's their car, they can do what they want with it. If you have $5 million falling out of your ass to buy it and you don't spend the money and time to verify it's legit or not, you probably get what you deserve. Then again if you have that kind of money falling out of your ass, would you give a crap either way?

I know I don't give a crap either way, but that's why I own a '50 Chevy and a '49 Hudson.

 

They can ask all they want.

 

pssshhh...5 million...wouldn't buy it even if i had that kinda bread..think of how many real Hotrods you could build for that type of money!!