“Tucker thought of the automobile as a malleable object ... Whether Tucker would really have jump-started automotive history will never be known. Test drives of his inventions have yielded ...

The brainchild of Michigander Preston Tucker, the Tucker 48 was to become the car of the future, offering features nobody had thought of with the style, class, and quality everyone wanted.

Automotive history is filled with quirky, forgotten creations, as well as controversial figures. The story of the Tucker 48, ...

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 ...

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 is not just a relic of automotive ingenuity but also a piece of Hollywood history, having starred in the 1988 film "Tucker: The Man and His Dreams," produced by George Lucas and featuring ...

The history is riddled with conspiracy theories and partisan assumptions, but the reality is that, by March 1949, the Tucker Corporation folded. It left behind 51 Tucker 48 automobiles ...

The dealers wanted to buy out Tucker’s controlling interest in the auto company and put in a boss with “a background of successful… experience.” Preston Tucker said that he would step down ...