Because of its long, low, and somewhat bulbous design, the concept resembled a torpedo, which led to the project's unofficial name. The Torpedo looked good, and the public loved it, spurring Tucker on ...
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 ...
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, ...
Automotive history is filled with quirky, forgotten creations, as well as controversial figures. The story of the Tucker 48, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
BETHLEHEM, Pa. (AP) — Sean Tucker is building the car of his great-grandfather’s dreams. With a curvy body and “Cyclops eye” center headlight, the Tucker Torpedo was the vision of automobile pioneer ...
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 ...
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