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20/01/2020 12:45 pm
Tucker '48 at the AACA Museum
My visit to see the Tucker collection at the AACA Museum in Hershey, PA This is worth the trip. My Dad brought me to O'Keefe Motors, in Trenton, NJ to see the original Tucker in 1948. Sylvester Motors, in Princeton, NJ, and Pastor Chevrolet, were two other dealers who hoped to carry the Tucker, back in 1948.
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Tucker Gray sedan
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Tucker Maroon sedan
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Preston Tucker's office.
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My Tucker radio head with it's original box. Found at Carlisle, PA swap meet, at least 25 years ago.
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20/01/2020 5:49 pm
David Knight
Richmond, Virginia. USA
21/01/2020 1:02 am
Thanks for sharing your experience Ray. I really love seeing your Tucker radio and it's original box. What a great find.
21/01/2020 7:20 am
Ray, Al, John, and David. Thanks for sharing your stories, pix/vids of this exceptional automobile.
I appreciate it even more today. The only actual Tucker I saw was at the Coppola Winery in California. I cannot recall if it was used in the movie, but this would not surprise me given its owner.
22/01/2020 2:31 pm
My only memory is from a full-page ad in the Omaha newspaper.
As a young car guy, I was blown away. A headlight that steered with the car? Huge space in the passenger compartment? Amazing safety features? Air cooled engine? I asked my Dad what this meant, & he explained that more competition and new technology was being sought in the Post-WWII economy. The Tucker offered so much & was still pretty practical. It certainly didn't have the deep pockets of Kaiser Aluminum, but what it did offer was what the US government should have been excited about.
(Thinking of the valuation of car companies, I see that Tesla's valuation is now exceeded only by Toyota!)