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 ...

He later built race cars and the Tucker Turret, a swiveling machine-gun turret used in World War II. After the war, and years of sugar and meat rationing, America’s biggest appetite was for cars.

Tucker was in his early forties and had a varied career up ... While involved in a lawsuit against the US government over ...