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 ...
Preston Tucker designed the car, but only 51 were produced at the Chicago factory before he faced trial for securities fraud, ...
Preston Tucker was inducted into the Automotive Hall of Fame in 1999, quite an accomplishment for somebody who only built 51 cars. What was it about him that made him so indispensable as an innovator?
This car has been on auction blocks more than anyone else. It has been just sitting there, waiting for an owner most of its life. It is a one-of-one prototype that looks gorgeous and has a price to ...
2020. 2021. 2022. 2023. 2024. No, we are not doing some weird counting experiment. These are the years a dealership in Texas has been trying to sell this car but was ...
"If I had a set of wings, man I know she could fly." So sang Mike Love in the Beach Boys classic "Little Deuce Coupe." Well, Preston Tucker was one step ahead of Mike back in the late 1940s, when he ...
Obsessed with cars since childhood, inventor Preston Tucker (Jeff Bridges) has his first successful auto design partnership in the 1930s and designs a successful gun turret for World War II use. With ...
Some 60 years ago, an obscure Michigan man roared onto the national scene with a dream. His vision was to create a radical rear-engine automobile that would weigh a half-ton less than an ordinary car, ...
Some 60 years ago, an obscure Michigan man roared onto the national scene with a dream. His vision was to create a radical rear-engine automobile that would weigh a half-ton less than an ordinary car, ...
Tucker: The Man and His Dream takes a look at the story of an underdog in Detroit’s auto industry. Credit: Courtesy of the DIA While the film’s technical aspects feel quite fresh, the story beats ...