Taking place at Northern California’s Monterey Jet Center on August 14 and 15, Monterey Car Week’s Broad Arrow Auction will host a roster of impressive supercars and sports-car classics. Yet one ...
Developed by Preston Tucker and produced in 1948, the Tucker 48, often called the Tucker Torpedo, is one of the most intriguing vehicles ever designed in the US. It's also among the rarest, with only ...
In 1948, when the American motoring industry was getting back on its feet, one car company wanted to revolutionize the entire industry with a marvelous automobile. The proposed vehicle was touted as ...
On January 22nd, 1950, Preston Tucker, founder of the Tucker Car Corporation, was found not guilty of 25 counts of mail fraud, five counts of violating SEC rules, and a single count of conspiracy.
Francis Ford Coppola’s car connection began at birth, or even before. He was delivered at Detroit’s Henry Ford Hospital, and Henry Ford himself sometimes attended rehearsals of the Detroit Symphony, ...
A Tucker 48 restored by the Pennsylvania College of Technology’s auto restoration program took a best-in-class award at the Moda Miami classic auto event in March. Ty Tucker, the great-great-grandson ...
Preston Tucker, an automotive engineer who helped to design Miller racing cars before World War II, almost realized his ambition of producing a "completely new" passenger automobile after the war. He ...
Preston Tucker’s curious creation, the Tucker ’48 would likely be relegated to a few footnotes in automotive publications and obscure web links, were it not for faithful collectors and historians who ...