#CROSSMOBILE TUCKER MOVIE#

#CROSSMOBILE TUCKER MOVIE#

The 1988 movie Tucker: The Man and His Dream is based on the saga surrounding the car's production. The 48's original proposed price was said to be $1,000, but the actual selling price was closer to $4,000. Ferguson had a role in the Tucker Corporation's demise.

Tucker suspected that the Big Three automakers and Michigan Senator Homer S. Only 51 cars were made including their prototype before the company was forced to declare bankruptcy and cease all operations on March 3, 1949, due to negative publicity initiated by the news media, a Securities and Exchange Commission investigation, and a heavily publicized stock fraud trial (in which the allegations were proven baseless and led to a full acquittal).

The Tucker 48, commonly referred to as the Tucker Torpedo, was an automobile conceived by Preston Tucker while in Ypsilanti, Michigan and briefly produced in Chicago, Illinois in 1948. Rear engine, rear-wheel drive, 4-wheel independent suspension (rubber torsion tube (no springs) with shock absorbers)īoxer-6 (horizontally opposed), OHV, 334.1 cubic inches (5.475 L) (4.50' bore × 3.50' stroke), 7.0:1 compression ratio, 166 bhp, 372 lb⋅ft (504 N⋅m) torqueĬord 810/812 Tucker Y-1 (Modified Cord 810/812) Lawson, Alex Tremulis, Read Viemeister, Budd Steinhilber, Tucker Madawick, Hal Bergstrom, Philip S.

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