Preston Tucker's Speed Shop
Preston Tucker's Speed Shop
Preston Tucker's Speed Shop is brought to you by Preston Tucker LLC, a company founded by Mike and Sean Tucker. Mike and Sean are identical twins and the great-grandsons of the creator of the Tucker 48, Preston Tucker. Their company focuses on the preservation of the Tucker legacy through various Tucker-related activities. Mike and Sean have been team members on several Tucker 48 restoration projects and manufacture/source many of the unique or hard-to-find parts for the Tucker 48. They search the globe for Tucker Corporation and dealer memorabilia and work with museums and car shows around the world to share the Tucker legacy.
Their merchandise is available at tuckercorporation.com
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too cool...
That is a very rare car I think they only made 50 and isn't she a beautiful color❤
All I can say Mr Tucker was a very enterprising man for what GM Chrysler and Ford did to him they should be paying his family reparations for the what they did to his family they totally destroyed this man's life overnight it's a disgrace and I cannot believe nobody's held them accountable
Interesting content. Enjoyed it.
Looking at post WW ll America, Tucker wouldn’t have had longevity with his corp. The name of the game is volume. How many units can you make? Build more, sell more at a cheaper price! We all know also that the big 3 had low, medium, and upper end models to appeal to all those folks clamoring for new cars.
Very cool
My Bellanca airplane has a Franklin/Aircooled Motors 6A4-165-B3 engine very much like this.
Great respect to these gents who have clearly moved heaven and earth to preserve this important part of automotive history. However, as a long time automobile mechanic and degreed engineer, by the looks of all of the running changes to so few vehicles, many of those changes major like moving from transverse to longitudinal engine and a complete change in engine strategy, IMO, Tucker would have been much wiser to make all of his engineering changes to low volume or single prototypes before committing to the huge overhead and capital equipment costs associated with a mass production factory. Most of this would be much easier today with CAD design and the associated 3D printing and milling. This and other modern, computer enabled prototyping tools might have allowed Tucker to survive had they been available post war.
Heard the legend or myth over the years , never saw the movie. After chassis walk around it's totally not doable , was he going to sell for 15,000 back then and then you throw it away after twenty thousand miles? There's a reason flatheads lasted through the sixties...
ECHO….ECHO…..ECHOOOO
Sounds pretty good.
Wow just discovered this site .. Porsche and Tucker are my 2 favorite car designers. The movie was fascinating. Definitely subscribed to this site!!
thanks for calling it what it is - an Engine , not a motor !!
Franklin failed in the market, to Lycoming and Continental, for building annoying things like helical plastic gears. Some Franklin motors or parts are made in Poland. Most aircraft motors do not adapt to smooth idling in traffic. They have undersized, but hot camshafts.
A unique automobile indeed!
You have to record a bit and play it, the audio is really bad!
Replayed it running. I simply had to.
Most aircraft engines produce maximum power at 2,500rpm. Automobile engines reach maximum power at a much higher rpm.
Spare me the 2x,I can fast forward myself if I want.
What a gorgeous sounding car ❤
Love the video!! My dad rode in a Tucker when he was 8, he passed last year. He talked about all the new features that the car had that was far above the top three at the time. My grandfather had apparently won the Tucker dealership for Hillsdale Michigan right before they killed the Tucker. Said the demo car had a neon sign on the back that said “you’ve just been passed by a Tucker”.
Thanks guys. Did you say how long the chassis was/is? And have you heard about the convertible seen kicking around? Does Jay Leno have one?
I used to have a copy of the documentary movie. I must have watched a dozen times. What a vision Preston Tucker had. He had the Big 3 on the run. (Kind of like what ElonMusk has). It was terrible that they were the main elements of his demise.
Show the old trucks
This hurts, from the air cooled engine to the water cooled is inside manufacturing genius fir rhat time. Its just disappointing, this man would if been great, the engine would of changed things for that time in astronomical heights if technology. Very disappointed, with people of that time up to now.
So, what made this engine produce torque like a diesel engine but have low horsepower? I mean, the Volkswagen four doesn't do this!
Look, the big auto, people, shut this man down. He had the most innovative big horsepower engine and it would have shut down competition! The car, the headlights, to the engine and transmission, the production of that car would have changed the world, the corvair, the VW, the Porsche, the torque tube cars, this engine and automobile would have led the way to way earlier technology... Nuff said
I really wish they would have explained the shift mechanism. Could not see the passenger side of the steering column. Is there a shifter on the column or is there some type of preselector on the dash? Please explain. Thankyou.
Runs so smoothly. Beautiful!
The best car in the world was made already. And it's Tucker
Classic yet modern.how the hell is that possible.the finest car i have ever seen in my life
Tucker was one bad ass builder.
Why did Tucker not let Franklin Engines keep making money for him?
Love to see the family. That's what its really all about.
I admire Tucker for having dared the fire those big companies bring. I admire Elon Musk precisely and exactly because of how he learned from the Tucker experience. Tesla will fail in the long term because of the protectionism in Tesla's proprietary used vehicle maintenance system, but he has succeeded thus far because he learned from Tucker.
*"AT LAST WE MEET FOR THE FIRST TIME FOR THE LAST TIME!"* Spaceballs Movie!
Enjoyed! Around 12 years of age I wanted to become an automotive designer. I took a car styling class at a community College and enjoyed it. My interest in car styling has waxed and waned over the years. I read about the 48 Tucker in Tad Burnesses Auto Album. A book made available in 3rd or 4th grade as a sort of incentive to read. Each student sent away for a book on a subject of the students interest and we waited the several weeks to recievd the paperback book. I loved Auto Album by Tad Burness. Tad had collected drawings he personally made of vehicles that interested him as he grew up and published the black and white drawings in one volume paperback.Your relatives Tucker Automobile was featured in Auto Album which I read about. I also have seen the movie Tucker twice; and enjoyed it. I didn't realize untill a few years ago, that Howard Hughes was involved with the production of The Tucker or there was a connection in court or some connection to the Tucker being produced. Thanks for sharing your grandfathers vision of a unique automobile.😅
was that a rear engine?
Lapel mic's?!?!
this is a horrible disign.
Imagine if they'd developed a 4x4 station wagon. Back then would have probably been wood paneled. That would be a family car ahead of its time.
Wow that has to be one of the quietest engines ever made. That really purrs
That thing purrs like a kitten.
Sounds like a quiet IO540,
Perhaps its a good thing that I dont own one... I'd drive it on a regular basis. It wouldn't be a "trailer queen", it'd be a "weekend warrior". I agree with Jay Leno. Take a 100 concourse-point car, drive it till its a 50 point car, then have it restored again. If you got pockets deep enough to drop $2,000,000 on what is essentially a toy, you can certainly afford to spend half a million fixing it back up to showroom-new condition. And with, what, 98 engines available and only 50 cars in existence? Yeah, I'd occasionally flog that thing just for the thrills!
Preston Tucker is one of my top three innovative engineering heroes ❤ And yes, I believe the big three were definitely in on his demise. Such a shame 😢
Million dollar plus automobile.
Such a crime that the Big 3, squashed Preston and his innovative design.
Rest well Mr. Tucker. You changed the automobile world and are not forgotten.
Preston Tucker was brilliant. I’ve always remembered the rare roast scene from the movie. The man knew how to make a point.