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		In 1948, Tucker shook the automotive world by founding his own company to sell "The Most Completely New Car in Fifty Years." The car, a fastback, four-door sedan, utilized technological advances gained in World War II and was clearly ahead of its time in terms of styling.
		In 1949, Tucker and seven associates were tried for conspiracy and fraud, but were acquitted in 1950 after what the jury termed a farce proceeding.
		Preston Tucker himself tried to regroup after moving to Brazil, planning a two-seat sports car called the "Carioca." Tucker was never able to pursue that dream, however, dying in December, 1956 at the age of 53.
	www.myclassiccar.com /CoolCars/closeups/tucker/1948tucker/index.shtml (561 words)

	Preston Tucker Biography \| Encyclopedia of World Biography
		Preston Thomas Tucker was born September 21, 1903, on a peppermint farm in rural Capac, Michigan.
		Tucker himself hinted darkly that the Big Three automakers and their supporters were behind the attempt to destroy him because of the threat he represented to their domination of the market.
		However, Tucker was left bankrupt and with his reputation in tatters; as a result, he was forced to sell his remaining assets, including the 51 vehicles that had been completed before the plant was shuttered.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/preston-tucker (1757 words)

	The Showroom of Automotive History: 1948 Tucker
		Preston Tucker was one of the most recognized figures of the late 1940s, as controversial and enigmatic as his namesake automobile.
		Tucker may have been an unfortunate pawn in a bureaucratic war between the housing agency and the WAA, but the battle continued until January of 1947.
		On June 10, Tucker and seven of his associates faced a Grand Jury indictment on 31 counts - 25 for mail fraud, 5 for SEC regulation violation, and one on conspiracy to defraud.
	www.hfmgv.org /exhibits/showroom/1948/tucker.html (1381 words)

	Preston Tucker, we miss you
		Tucker, you may recall if you saw the Hollywood movie named after him a few years back, was the automotive visionary who created an unusual car after World War II.
		Bad management on his part and bad press fed by the established auto companies killed off the Tucker car shortly after it was introduced, and Preston Tucker died a failure.
		Tucker was one of the few real innovators in the American automobile industry.
	aroundcny.com /technofile/texts/tucker.htm (638 words)

	Encyclopedia Smithsonian:Tucker Auto
		The Tucker never entered full production, but its design epitomized automotive trends that were new and significant in the immediate postwar years: avant-garde styling, innovative mechanical features, awakening interest in passenger safety, and efforts by small manufacturers to capture a larger share of the new-car market.
		The Tucker was an exaggeration of these trends and evidence that the desire for change was strong enough to move some fairly radical ideas from the drawing board to the production stage.
		Tucker #1039 (the 39th of 51 Tucker cars made in 1948) was forfeited in a narcotics arrest in 1992 and was transferred by the U.S. Marshals Service to the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History in 1993.
	www.si.edu /resource/faq/nmah/tucker.htm (523 words)

	Preston Tucker - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Preston Thomas Tucker (September 21, 1903 – December 26, 1956) was an American automobile designer and entrepreneur.
		In reply, Tucker stated that he had asked Toulmin to resign "to make way for a prominent man now active in the automobile industry." The "prominent man" turned out to be Preston Tucker himself.
		The suspicion that the Tucker enterprise was a sham and headed for inevitable disaster led Mr.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Preston_Tucker (1345 words)

	Preston Tucker
		Preston Tucker was born on September 21, 1903 in Capac, Michigan.
		He was the designer (with others) of the Tucker automobile.
		Produced by George Lucas and directed by Francis Ford Coppola, a motion picture was made about him in 1988 titled: "Tucker: The Man and His Dream," recounting his attempt to put the Tucker automobile into mass production starring Jeff Bridges.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/pr/Preston_Tucker.html (137 words)

	Free Speaker - Preston Tucker: A Generation Too Late
		By selling stock in Tucker Corporation to the public, Tucker was inviting them to join his enterprise, to become part-owners and accept the risk of ownership--by sharing the profits of success, or the losses of failure.
		Tucker: a Man and His Dream is the story of a dream extinguished by politicians and government bureaucrats who worked hand in hand with servile newspapers, corrupt journalists, and probably the big three automakers--Ford, General Motors and Chrysler.
		Tucker biographer Charles T. Pearson explains the political economic system Preston Tucker had to battle, and entrepreneurs still battle today; "During the Roosevelt Administration there developed a system of government by decree, under which even minor officials practically made and enforced their own laws.
	www.economicthinking.org /Americanhistory/tucker-greg.html (1965 words)

	:: The Official Tucker Club of America :: HCL
		The Tucker Historical Collection and Library (HCL) was established by the Tucker Automobile Club of America, Inc. (TACA) on the grounds of the Gilmore Car Museum in Hickory Corners, Michigan, home of Tucker #1047, in the fall of 2000.
		Daughter of Preston and Vera Tucker, Mary Lee performed a similar role for the christening of the original Tucker prototype, the Tin Goose, in June of 1947 in Chicago.
		Frank, a cousin to Preston Tucker, served as Curator of the TACA Archives from 1990 - 2000.
	tucker.visuplay.com /html/hcl.php (459 words)

	The History of The Tucker 48 - Gizmo Highway Auto Guide
		Preston Tucker was tried for fraud in relation to his failed car company but was later found not guilty.
		Tucker who spent most of his youth admiring cars then later building racing cars and selling cars, decided he needed to make a car that was not only better than what the other manufactures were making at the time but would really compete in sales, so he set about setting up the Tucker car company.
		Various setbacks and delays gave tucker a lot of bad publicity, something he claims were caused by the press having a bias to the three large established automakers at the time.
	www.gizmohighway.com /autos/tucker_48.htm (549 words)

	:: The Official Tucker Club of America :: History
		The Tucker story is the subject of the 1988 film "Tucker: The Man and His Dream" by Francis Ford Coppola.
		Tucker's "Tucker Turret" gun turret was used during World War II Tucker's prototype "combat car" armored personnel carrier was rejected because it went too fast.
		Preston Tucker was working on this when he died.
	www.tuckerclub.org /html/history.php (425 words)

	CATCHING DREAMS: PRESTON TUCKER'S FIGHT FOR FREE ENTERPRISE
		Tucker revels in the honor of living in a country so great that this opportunity is available to all.
		Their creation may look like everything Tucker had promised, but despite its appearance and the fact that the engineers were able to save the concept of the rear engine; the car really couldn't be further from the original conception that had gained so much publicity.
		Tucker's resilience is a silent shot at those who call him a failure, and his reprisal is his unfaltering faith in the belief that "it's the idea that counts, and the dream."
	www.quebecoislibre.org /05/050515-12.htm (2017 words)

	1948 Tucker "Torpedo" four-door sedan - Only 51 made - Click on photo for much more info.. photo - Ken Leonard photos ...
		Few people knew that Preston Tucker was a veteran of the automobile industry, with sales experience at Dodge, Studebaker, and others, when in 1948 he surprised the world with "The Most Completely New Car in Fifty Years".
		Ironically, Tucker Corporation still had the funding to proceed with production, but Preston Tucker was a disheartened man, and with the public support for his new car gone, the decision was made to auction everything off.
		Tucker's favorite color and Preston Tucker chose this color personally in a special tribute to her.
	www.pbase.com /image/17158573 (1213 words)

	Tucker: The Man and His Dream: Special Edition (1988)
		According to New York Magazine, Tucker: A Man And His Dream is "as fast, sleek and streamlined as the car - the Tucker Torpedo, that Preston Tucker built in 1948." And filmmakers Francis Ford Coppola and George Lucas celebrate Preston Tucker as the ultimate believer in the American dream.
		While the film appears to stick pretty closely to the factual details of Tucker's life and career, I couldn't help but think this was a thinly-disguised exploration of Coppola's feelings after the failure of his attempt to build his own studio, Zoetrope.
		Tucker had encountered difficulties obtaining enough steel to make cars due to obstructions bolstered by the large automakers.
	www.dvdmg.com /tucker.shtml (2202 words)

	The Tucker
		His name was Preston Tucker and he had a dream.
		Preston Tucker wrote an open letter to the automobile industry in the United States.
		Presumed lost by Tucker aficionados, the car was discovered in 1991, and purchased from the original owner, who also owned the parking garage.
	oldcarandtruckpictures.com /Tucker (730 words)

	Tucker: The Man and His Dream
		Preston Tucker had a dream for a new kind of car.
		Preston Thomas Tucker (Jeff Bridges) is an ideas man. Anticipating World War II, he develops a light mechanized unit for the army.
		Tucker is a light film with the infectious optimism of Preston himself.
	www.meridianmagazine.com /videos/020809tucker.html (843 words)

	Tucker Starring Jeff Bridges,Martin Landau directed by Francis Coppola (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Tucker’s ideas have threatened their way of business and he eventually looses control of his company.
		In 1976 Coppola announced that he was in the development stages on a biopic based on the life of Preston Tucker that would star Marlon Brando as Tucker.
		All in all Tucker: A Man and His Dream is a great film, and despite the mediocre turnout at the box office, it easily holds a place among Coppola’s very best.
	www.ambidextrouspics.com /html/tucker.html (589 words)

	Joyrides \| Hot rod builders pay homage to dad and Preston Tucker's dream
		Although if you are going to see a Tucker on the street, Ypsilanti is the most likely place as it was the home of Preston Tucker, the automotive engineer who almost realized his ambition of producing a "completely new" passenger automobile after World War II.
		Preston Tucker and his business associates leased a former Dodge aircraft plant in Chicago after the end of World War II.
		In 1947, Joseph Ida saw photographs of the new Tucker Torpedo and was so taken with the car that he pooled his savings with his three brothers to invest in a Tucker dealership in Yonkers, N.Y. It would be called Ida Brothers Tucker.
	info.detnews.com /joyrides/story/index.cfm?id=310 (1413 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The failure of Preston Tucker’s automobile corporation was such a highly public event in the late 1940’s, it was able to attract interest then, well as some forty years later.
		Preston Tucker spent most of his adult life working in the automobile business, mostly as a salesperson. He worked for the Pierce-Arrow Corporation in the early 1930’s, for which he became a successful manager.
		Tucker: The Man and His Dream was meant to present Preston Tucker in the best possible light to the masses of filmgoers seeing the movie.
	hss.fullerton.edu /amst/5xx/Scott-AMST502T-S03.doc (5688 words)

	Tucker Antique, Vintage and Classic Cars For Sale
		History: The 1948 Tucker Sedan or Tucker '48 Sedan (also nicknamed Tucker Torpedo) was an advanced automobile conceived by Preston Tucker and briefly produced in Chicago, Illinois in 1948.
		Tucker ad-libbed on stage for two hours while emergency repairs were carried out.
		One report says that Tucker was pulled over by a police officer intent on getting a better look at the car.
	www.antiquecar.com /index/listings/category986.htm (1178 words)

	1948 Tucker Sedan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The 1948 Tucker Sedan or Tucker '48 Sedan (also nicknamed the Tucker Torpedo) was an advanced automobile conceived by Preston Tucker and briefly produced in Chicago in 1948.
		Tucker had promised 150 hp (112 kW), but his innovative 589 was not working out, so another engine was sourced.
		The New Tucker is built on a hotrod chassis with a lowered suspension.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tucker_automobile (1431 words)

	Tucker Plot Synopsis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Tucker found himself blocked from access to raw materials when Chrysler and GM threatened Tucker’s suppliers, telling companies that they would place their business in jeopardy if they sold to Tucker.
		The Tucker Corporation went into receivership, and all assets of the company were sold for eighteen cents on the dollar, including the fifty-one cars he had now completed.
		In spite of the destruction of his company, Preston Tucker went on to other successful projects including a pneumatic pump which was used in oil production, and the freon cooling system presently used in refrigerators.
	teacherweb.ftl.pinecrest.edu /crawfor/apmicro/tucker/tuckersynopsis.htm (1451 words)

	The Tucker Automobile meets the Mills Jukebox
		Preston Thomas Tucker (1903-1956), among his other accomplishments attempted to build the This "Car of Tomorrow", what was to be called the "Tucker 48".
		Tucker had powerful enemies which included the major automobile manufacturers who considered him a threat.
		Around the same time Tucker was attempting to build his automobiles in Chicago, Mills was producing jukeboxes not far away.
	tomszone.com /Tucker.html (772 words)

	Tucker: The Man and His Dream (1988) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Plot Outline: The story of Preston Tucker, the maverick car designer and his ill fated challenge to the auto industry with his revolutionary car concept.
		Preston Tucker was a man with a dream.
		But the truth is that there was never a chance that Tucker would ever be able to deliver on his promises.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0096316 (411 words)

	Automotive History Online
		The first car we are going to showcase is the Tucker Torpedo or the Tucker 48' as it has come to be known as.
		Preston Tucker intended to mass-produce a "car of the future" with advanced safety, styling, and engineering features.
		At the time of his death Preston Tucker was working on a new car to be built in Brazil.
	www.automotivehistoryonline.com /tucker.htm (635 words)

	Sound design for a dreamer
		Tucker holds the distinction of having been the first feature film to be mixed at the then newly opened facility.
		It's not unlike during the premiere sequence [when the Tucker car is first shown to the public] where I used a comic squirt for the oil coming out of the car before it catches on fire.
		Eddie [in Tucker] is a comic character, if there's any in the movie, and to use these comic sounds in conjunction with him underscores his character and his point of view.
	www.filmsound.org /beggs/index.htm (1862 words)

	Preston Tucker Summary
		Preston Thomas Tucker(September 21, 1903 – December 26, 1956) was an American automobile designer and entrepreneur.
		He is most remembered for his 1948 Tucker Torpedo, an innovative post-war automobile which many believe changed the automotive indu...
		Explores the life and dreams of businessman and would be automaker Tucker Preston.
	www.bookrags.com /Preston_Tucker (184 words)

	:: The Official Tucker Club of America ::
		Preston Tucker was a car-crazy kid who hung around auto speedways and grew up to create an automobile--the Tucker--that was years ahead of its time.
		He was a man of pioneering spirit, ingenuity and daring, who revolutionized Detroit in the 1940s with his stunning "Car of Tomorrow." It was streamlined, futuristic and fast--the car every American dreamed of owning, at a price most people could afford.
		A man of endless enthusiasm, Tucker publicized his model all over the country to wild acclaim.
	www.tuckerclub.org (122 words)

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