Preston Tucker's rear-engine car with three headlights is probably best known from the Jeff Bridges movie "Tucker - The Man and His Dream
The back of the card calls this a "Tucker Torpedo", but the actual production name for the car model was "Tucker 48". It is car #16, and is one of the most "original": the museum bought it right after it was built, and they haven't done a thing with it other than display it.
I've seen many Tucker cars and have ridden in a couple, and I have indeed visited the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan, where this car is located.
This Youtube video shows a Tucker at a convention last year:
Below is an Amazon product selection of Tucker-related items and Jeff Bridges films.
11 comments:
Better late than never for PFF! Great looking car.
That is a sleek looking car!
I am so jealous! Ever since the movie Tucker I wanted to see one (my kids, too - everytime they saw a karmen ghia they'd ask, "Is that a Tucker?") We finally did see one at the auto museum in san diego - but to have actually touched and ridden in one - oh my gosh!! Again, you dman dmarks, you dman!
Great car....great postcard...
Thanks for sharing.
Have a beautiful weekend.
Great car, card and video! I've never seen a Tucker up close or heard one before... a nice treat. Lucky you that you've ridden in some.
You do the most amazing things. Thanks for sharing this. Very cool beans!
'Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith. Senator Bail Organa drives it.'
Really?! I will rewatch it and keep my eyes peeled! That is so cool!
I too am jealous! To have actually ridden in this legendary vehicle - wowwwww.....
Marie: I'm going to get out the DVD and find the tiny scenes of Bail Organa's flying car and try to get a screen capture.
At one time, both George Lucas and his friend Francis Ford Coppola (the maker of the "Tucker" movie) both owned Tucker cars.
I saw a Tucker during my visit to Stone Mountain.
I'm not really into collectible cars. But if I could have a really cool old vehicle, the Dymaxion would be my first choice, and a Tucker would be my second choice.
Maybe I should get a Dymaxion and pull a Tucker behind it.
Of course, there are no Dymaxions. There was only the one and it was wrecked or drowned or something.
Laughing: Actually, one Dymaxion exists. I saw it at the Harrah's museum in Reno Nevada 20 years ago. That is also where I saw the first Tucker I ever saw, at the same museum. The same place also had a gold-plated Delorean.
That Dymaxion in Reno is a hollow shell (looks good on the outside, nothing inside), so the Tucker is more likely to tow it, than the other way around.
The first Tucker I rode in was from Georgia, but it was not the Stone Mountain one.
I think I have pictures of all of these Reno cars.
This is an awesome post. Love the car and the movie. Thanks for sharing.
debby
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