The story of the Tucker 48, also known as the Tucker Torpedo, has both. This oddball car, which never became a mass-production vehicle and was doomed by mechanical and financial problems before it ...

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 ...

But this one's got serious pedigree: It featured in the company's promotional film "The Tucker: The Man and the Car," part one of which is embedded below, and it was the family car driven by ...

A note from the Tucker Automotive Club of America, however, states that it knows of no such car ever having been made by the Tucker Corporation. The statement says, in part: Allow us to clarify ...

The cast – which features Frederic Forrest (also of One and Apocalypse) as a key car designer, Joan Allen as Tucker’s sharp but practical wife Vera, and Dean Stockwell in an indelible cameo ...