The Tucker Corporation was merely a flash in the late 1940s pan, but it remains an incredibly intriguing story in American automobile history. The company's turmoil, conspiracy, and demise is a story ...

Automotive history has a lot of stories to tell and one of the most intriguing is the story of Tucker. A short-lived brand in the 1940s named for its founder Preston Tucker, it had one model that was ...

The Tucker 48 is perhaps one of automotive history’s greatest flops. What started as a big post-World War II ambition to take on Detroit’s booming “Big Three” (General Motors, Chrysler, and Ford) ...

Some people have likened historic automotive industry figure Preston Tucker to Elon Musk. Tucker has been described with words like “a gifted entrepreneur and technological visionary who challenged ...

21 Apr 2025, 14:40 UTC · By: Razvan Calin // The car is a Tucker 48 that was not finished on the assembly line; it was completed in the 80s, and the builder’s family sold it to Preston Tucker’s ...

There are all sorts of conspiracy theories that find our way to us. Virtually all of them consist of "My Turboencabulator gets 100 mpg on pure water, but Big Car doesn't want it to happen!" Virtually ...

It might not be impressive that Preston Tucker only built 51 of his car of tomorrow, but find one of the 47 surviving cars today in any condition, and the rear-engined Tucker 48 will continue to amaze ...

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 ...

This isn’t another 48, if you can call a Tucker 48 that; this is Preston Tucker’s personal car, chassis number 1029. After undertaking high-speed tests at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Tucker and ...

The Tucker Corporation was merely a flash in the late 1940s pan, but it remains an incredibly intriguing story in American automobile history. The company's turmoil, conspiracy, and demise is a story ...