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12-23-2008 @ 09:33:12 AM |
| Posted By : Skid |
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Sure is a clear picture, considering how old it must be.
This car almost undoubtedly still exists (none of the four destroyed Tuckers were known to be blue, unless it's car #42, of which no known picture exists).
Based on the color, it could be Tucker #7, #14 (currently owned by Francis Ford Coppola), #19 (the most likely candidate, since the color is almost exact and it was sold new in California), #25, #31, #43, or #47.
[Edited by Skid on 12-23-2008 @ 09:35:53 AM]
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12-23-2008 @ 09:47:21 AM |
| Posted By : Skid |
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For the record, the four destroyed Tuckers:
#18: Originally off-white colored, destroyed in a broadside car accident in Michigan in 1953. The car's frame (sitting in someone's garage in Grand Rapids) and front clip and rear fenders still exist.
#23: Originally silver or grey, owned by the Tucker Automobile Club of America president who was attmepting to restore it in the 1970s. Destroyed in a garage fire, all components scrapped as the damage was immense.
#27: Originally black, was rolled over at Indianapolis speedway for testing purposes. Technically still exists as a heavily damaged shell, was purchased by a musuem in Roscoe, IL recently for $28,500. The car is currently wearing the original front clip and rear fenders from car #18, complete with original (poor) paint.
#42: Color unknown. Stolen in Memphis, TN in the 1950s, found on the banks of the Mississippi river partially burned and vandalized. Supposedly scrapped, although parts of the transmission (cont.)
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12-23-2008 @ 09:57:49 AM |
| Posted By : Skid |
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#2, (cont.) have since been discovered. #42 was a very special Tucker, also, since it was one of only two built with an automatic transmission (the other being #26, which is still perfectly preserved and on display in Virginia).
Not quite destroyed:
#46: Original color unknown, customized in the 1950s and converted to front-engine with Oldsmobile power. Is currently painted custom gold, has a Mercury 390 CID V8, and has tuck-n-roll interior and a steering wheel/dash out of a different vehicle.
#10: Original silver car, currently stored in Washington, has a few components missing. Has been somebody's slow restoration project for a long time. Is well-preserved, though.
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12-23-2008 @ 11:10:43 AM |
| Posted By : Skid |
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#4, Tucker #24. I didn't list it in post #1 because it appears to be a lighter blue than the car here, but it could just be the photograph.
Anyway, that car is currently on display as part of the Smith Collection in Lincoln, Nebraska.
[Edited by Skid on 12-23-2008 @ 11:11:52 AM]
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10-28-2009 @ 10:44:25 PM |
| Posted By : Skid |
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#2, I've since found out that Tucker #42 was originally maroon, and #23 was originally red.
The rollover car (#27) was actually dark teal, rather than black, and that's thought to be the car that was customized into that bogus "Tucker convertible" that's been making the rounds.
[Edited by Skid on 10-28-2009 @ 10:47:35 PM]
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2-26-2010 @ 10:50:05 AM |
| Posted By : Skid |
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#7, Since then I've discovered that Tuckers were only originally offered in six colors, and only one of them was blue, also the most common color offered, with 12 built. 11 were maroon, 9 were silver, 7 were green, 6 were black, and 5 were beige. Every Tucker that's another color has been repainted.
Clearing up my earlier color confusion: The "dark teal" #27 car was actually blue originally, the #10 car was also blue, #23 was maroon, and #46 was also maroon.
As for the car pictured, the lack of a gas door on the front fender makes it one of the first 25 built....that narrows this one down to either #2, #5, #10, #14, or #24.
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2-26-2010 @ 04:09:57 PM |
| Posted By : Skid |
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#9, Sadly, that one was #23, the one that burned up in the garage fire. It's probably the only Tucker that doesn't still exist in some form (whole or in parts).
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2-26-2010 @ 04:24:38 PM |
| Posted By : Skid |
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Here's a complete, hopefully informative list of every Tucker car, to span the next few posts:
"Tin Goose" prototype: Maroon. Restored in the 1980s, currently at Swigart Antique Auto Museum in Huntingdon, PA.
#1: Maroon. Part of a private Tucker collection in Virginia.
#2: Originally blue, was repainted gold many years ago. Privately owned in California.
#3: Originally maroon, restored as a darker-than-stock shade of maroon. Tucker suspension, rear fenders, and front bumper was slightly revised starting with car #3. Privately owned in California.
#4: Originally silver, restored as a reddish-copper color. Displayed at the Toyota Automobile Museum, in Nagakutecho, Japan.
#5: Originally blue, repainted green years ago. Used in the "speedway" scene of Tucker: The Man and His Dream, before switching to a customized Studebaker for the rollover scene. On display at the Tallahassee Antique Car Museum in Florida, alongside the wrecked Stude
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2-26-2010 @ 04:33:15 PM |
| Posted By : Skid |
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#6: Green. Private owner in California.
#7: Originally green, restored as dark blue. On display at the LeMay Museum in Tacoma, WA.
#8: Originally beige, repainted as metallic red. On display at the Chicago Vintage Motor Carriage in Illinois.
#9: Silver. Apparently still owned by Lucasfilm, who funded the restoration back in the 1980s. Resides in California.
#10: Blue. In need of restoration. Privately owned in Washington state.
#11: Beige. Privately owned in Montana.
#12: Originally maroon, restored as bright red. Privately owned in Indiana.
#13: Silver. On display at the Swigart Auto Museum, alongside the "Tin Goose."
#14: Blue. Owned by Francis Ford Coppola, one of two he owns. Resides in San Francisco.
#15: Green. Part of The Stahls Collection, in St. Clair Shores, MI.
#16: Black. On display at the Henry Ford Museum, in Dearborn, MI.
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2-26-2010 @ 04:41:15 PM |
| Posted By : Skid |
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#17: Originally green, restored as a non-stock metallic green. Privately owned in Colorado.
#18: Beige. Wrecked in Michigan in 1953, only a few body panels and the running gear still exist.
#19: Originally black, restored as blue. Private owner in California.
#20: Originally maroon, restored as a light, silvery blue. Owned by the Hani Corporation of Japan.
#21: Black. Privately owned in California.
#22: Silver. Part of the same Virginia collection that houses #1.
#23: Maroon. The only Tucker ever raced, in a NASCAR race in the early '50s. Broke down on the first lap. Burned up in a garage fire in Florida, apparently in the 1970s.
#24: Blue. Part of The Smith Collection in Lincoln, NE.
#25: Originally silver, restored as a dark blue. Has non-stock hubcaps. Part of The Goodwin Collection in Frankfort, IN.
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| #14 |
2-26-2010 @ 04:47:21 PM |
| Posted By : Skid |
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#26: Originally maroon, restored as bronze. One of only two Tuckers with an automatic transmission. From #26 onward, the fuel tank was moved to the front and the suspension was redesigned again. Part of the same Virginia collection that houses Tucker #1 and and Tucker #22.
#27: Blue. Rolled during factory testing, a role played by #5 and a Studebaker stunt car in the film. Has since been rebuilt into a convertible, which the owner tries to pass of as test chassis #57, a "factory convertible."
#28: Originally beige, restored as white. Tupelo Automobile Museum, Mississippi
#29: Silver. Privately owned in California.
#30: Black. Petersen Automotive Museum, Los Angeles.
#31: Blue. Privately owned in South Dakota.
#32: Silver. Harrah's Auto Collection, Reno NV.
#33: Maroon. Privately owned in Maine.
#34: Blue. The Cofer Collection, Tucker GA.
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2-26-2010 @ 04:54:26 PM |
| Posted By : Skid |
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#35: Black. In need of restoration. Very little is known about it. Privately owned in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
#36: Maroon. Privately owned in Nevada.
#37: Originally blue, restored as Maroon. Owned by Francis Ford Coppola, on display at his winery in Rutherford, CA.
#38: Green. Privately owned, whereabouts unknown since last sold in 2006.
#39: Silver. Seized by the government from a drug dealer, given to the Smithsonian Institute.
#40: Beige. San Sylmar Museum, Sylmar, CA.
#41: Black, restored as beige. Privately owned in California.
#42: Maroon. Stolen and vandalized in Memphis, TN in 1957, then scrapped. One of two Tuckers with an automatic transmission...The auto trans and complete frame are still known to exist. Recently, a door and hood turned up for sale on Ebay that are likely from this car.
#43: Blue. Privately owned in Arizona.
#44: Originally green, restored as brown. Privately owned in Ohio.
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2-26-2010 @ 05:02:03 PM |
| Posted By : Skid |
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#45: Originally silver, restored as black. Privately owned in Ohio.
#46: Originally maroon. Customized into a front-engined car painted pearl gold, with a 1964 Mercury frame and Ford 390 engine. Rumor has it the owner is gathering parts to restore it to completely stock, and may purchase the frame for #42. Resides in California.
#47: Blue. Gilmore Car Museum, Hickory Corners, MI
#48: Green. Past owner customized it with a ton of tacky extra chrome and silly little whistles and signs, all of which has never been removed. Privately owned in Wisconsin.
#49: Blue. Privately owned in Surrey, England.
#50: Maroon. On display at Dicks Classic Garage, San Marcos TX
Tucker test chassis:
#51: Built as a complete car out of spare parts in the 1980s. Painted maroon. Considered to be "Tucker #51," even though the factory didn't build it.
#52: Still unfinished, but largely complete. Has the front sheetmetal from #18 Private owner in Illinois
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| #17 |
2-26-2010 @ 05:09:34 PM |
| Posted By : Skid |
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#53: Sat outdoors and rusted away.
#54: Mostly rusted away. Much of its body was used to build #51.
#55: Mostly rusted away. Speculated that the rear of the body was used to customize #27 into a convertible.
#56: Rusted away.
#57: A revised prototype Tucker body, which a wraparound rear window and new fenders, meant to be an "updated" 1949 model. Photographed as late as 1950, current whereabouts unknown. Current owner of #27 tries to claim his convertible is the "real" #57 prototype.
#58: Rusted away. Did not carry the revisions of #57.
That should be everything, at least as far as my research has found.
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2-26-2010 @ 07:42:10 PM |
| Posted By : Skid |
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#18, I've only seen #39, at a Smithsonian traveling display in Birmingham in 1997.
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3-08-2010 @ 06:19:00 PM |
| Posted By : Skid |
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#15, Finally, some info on the Brazilian Tucker (#35). Apparently it's part of some wealthy family's estate dispute going back to the 1970s, which sounds like a massive clusterfuck. The car was also a failed front-engine conversion: It's currently sitting on a 1940s Cadillac frame with Cadillac interior. The original engine is still known to exist, but the original frame is missing.
Info and pictures: http://www.tuckerclub.org/bbs3/view...?f=3&t=1793
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