My father in law was an investor and he had a box of seat covers. He used to get the newsletter from Tucker. He said that the big difficulty was the Big 3 automakers didn’t want Tucker to get a good price on the steel he needed, and the steel companies were loyal enough to the other automakers that he didn’t. The Tucker was nearly a copy and paste job from the Tatra built in Czechoslovak in the 1930s.
Thank you so much for sharing that information that’s awesome that your dad was an investor in the company =) it’s sad that the Tucker never came to be
Yes, he was a writer, and musician in the LA area for over 30 years. He acted in about 30 movies over the years. Unfortunitly, he passed in Dec. 2017. He was a great big brother, and miss him a lot.
A great story of a great man. Thanks Jay. I've always believed that Preston Tucker's cars were just too good. He scared the big three to death and so they had to do something to bring him down. And it's obvious they had more connections than Preston Tucker did. I've also after watching the movie, always believe that had Tucker taken his ideas and either sold them outright or licensed them to the big three that he would have been a very very successful and very very rich businessman. His experience serves as a lesson to anyone who is basically an unknown and unheard of and goes against the well-known as to what can possibly happen to you.
Hear you, buddy. I feel the same as you: this great man was squashed by selfish interests but his legacy lives on in the innovations he pioneered back in the late 40s. So, ultimately he triumphed while his opponents covered themselves in shame.
I loved that Movie and helped me understand The man and his dream and the BIG 3 who were scared of Tucker. Love the story and Great job with the history!
Preston made it water cooled because he didn't think the "public" was ready for such a radical engine design. Though his other designs for the car was far out of the box esp. for safety. When America's Smithsonian came to Houston, Texas in the late 1990's, they brought a Tucker 48. I was sooo pleased to see it.
The car is huge in person and there was four Tucker’s in that room the actual tin goose 3 of the four Tucker’s where real one was a movie car it was a crazy experience I was me and a my rap around with like 9 million dollars worth of Tucker’s I was a crazy experience I just wish the lighting was better
Another reason to make the engine liquid cooled would be to make it quieter. Liquid cooled engines are quieter than air cooled. Years ago, I was with my father when he pointed to an open garage and said, "Look! A Tucker!" I had no idea what a Tucker was. So he turned around an I saw a Buck Rogers looking car in the garage. This was around 1963-64.
How magnificent is the 48 Tucker? Very, from the dash to its safety package, and on, to its styling and its many remarkable forward-thinking qualities. What a shame that GM or Ford didn't purchase the company and carry the vehicle forward as a Lincoln or Cadillac update. Imagine where we would be with vehicles, had this happened.
They took everything and didn't have to fight in court because the owner ceased to exist and the owner's boss had been thoroughly discredited and destroyed financially (and himself died just a few years later.)
Awesome story! I've heard of the Tucker 48. I consider it damned unforgivable that Preston Tucker wasn't allowed to continue producing cars. He had such great ideas that someone should've picked it up and run with it.
@What it’s like I don't get why Preston Tucker got in trouble with the SEC (Securities and Exchange Commission) for advertising. He was showing what people will be able to order their Tucker cars with once production started. What idiots the SEC were!
It was a totally different world back then that I did not live in Elon musk kind of sort of did the same thing Preston Tucker did as far as reserving cars goes he is the product of what both Tucker and John DeLorean could be if their ideas succeeded. The story is told a bunch of different ways I guess Preston tucker was taking parts off of junk cars like Fords Chevys Buicks and melting them down and making his own parts he was going to junkyards and finding the cord transmission from the front wheel drive 810 cord and using it on his rear engine power plant. He was a very innovative guy not sure if you watch the Jeff Bridges Tucker man and his dream Jeff Bridges played an awesome Preston tucker
@@What.its.like. Even if that was the case, so what? Didn't most car makers at the time take certain parts from other car makers to produce their *own* products?
Preston Tucker was an innovative genius and he was destroyed because of it. He had intended to use fuel injection, four-wheel disc brakes, seat belts, safety glass, and many other innovations that were probably not covered in the movie. The safety glass performed as designed in a rollover on a racetrack. I have the DVD, the bio-pic and it showed how the big three used all of their leverage and power and influence including a senator to take him down. In the movie it was stated that he GAVE the government the patent for the ball turret which would be used on World war II bombers expecting no payment at all. So he was the ultimate Patriot as well. I'm a movie buff too and I thought this was an excellent picture. Even though the odds were stacked heavily against him he was exonerated at trial, but his dream had been destroyed.
@@What.its.like. I was practically in tears the first time I watched that movie and realized what rabid capitalism looks like. It's totally dog eat dog. The world might be a very different place if his cars had succeeded and been mass produced. Who knows how many thousands of lives would have been saved on the highways because of the safety features alone? We will never know.
Me too I did a video on Preston tucker John Delorean and Elon musk if you have a chance you should totally check it out I think it’s one of the best videos on this channel so far.. th-cam.com/video/-k_NjsvP9tw/w-d-xo.html
The 1932 -35/1946 Stout Scarab was the earliest vehicle with a rear wheel drive I know of but it stayed in prototype form through out the the 8 that were made (5 survive to this day) so it largely depends if your talking about prototype to production or just models that were prototypes. Their actually a very interesting car to talk about, I know of one thats over at Hannah's auto museum in Reno Nevada the last time I looked.
Awesome, I totally forgot about the stout scarab. From what I remember there was only 9 produced that would be a really cool car to do I’ll have to see if there is one in a museum close to here. One thing I forgot to mention they know where most of the cars are.
Dear Mr. "What's it like", keep these wonderful videos coming, 'cause when one of them goes viral your channel will Take off like a rocket! You got the right idea and the right presentation, with interesting stuff, a varied array of cars and depth of information. I like Camaros and Mustangs, sure, but that's a beat track, everybody is doing it. To me the best you have to offer is when you bring sometimes obscure stuff from a time nobody is actually putting that much effort to in YT, such as late 40s early 50s.
Thank you that really means a lot it’s just trying to figure out the car that will do that the metro video sort of done that maybe a Crosley? The weird stuff does good on the channel for some reason the muscle cars don’t. When I started TH-cam I wasn’t sure the direction I wanted to go new cars concept cars vintage classic cars. Everyone is doing new cars and exotics. Why not focus on 30s 40s 50s 60s 70s cars especially ones that don’t get the time of day like mustang and Camaro gets I eventually want this to be to go to Classic Car channel for all the weird and obscure things that nobody else wants to touch.. like Hudson Nash crosley willys packard studebaker Oakland white international de soto imperial Edsel etc
They were called "The Great Generation" because many of them went through The Great War, Followed by The Great Depression, and then World War II. Most of them were born late 1880's.
A few years ago, I had the privilege of restoring the Tucker radio in Tucker#44. Here's the story on that car and the radio in it. - th-cam.com/video/GNz9Au-WHeo/w-d-xo.html
Great video. I was so happy to see mention of the Cord, my father had a 1937 Phaeton 812 supercharged convertible. The fiberglass movie version, be cool if somebody made those for purchase.
The Tucker was an amazing car. Such potential. A terrible shame that it never was aloud to succeed. Side note, my first car was a British Jowett Javelin. It also had a flat floor boxer engine. It was a magnificent performer for its day. Jowett went bankrupt in 1954. Sadly. However they produced the world's longest running car engine. The flat floor 2 cylinder 800cc. It was introduced in 1906 and continued production until 1955. After International Harvester bought the Jowett factory. Not one single modification was made to this little engine in 49 years.
Good, comprehensive, well researched video. As you mentioned there many more details about the entire Tucker Torpedo and Preston Tucker story. I agree the movie was interesting and “moving” because I too was a little emotional watching it. Preston Tucker had wonderful dreams but luck 🍀 wasn’t on his side, as well as sometimes he bit off more than he could chew. If he had just a little more time, money and luck Tucker would have changed the American auto industry. And that’s why the Big 3 nudged the SEC and Congress to stop him. From what I’ve read Drew Pearson bad mouthed the car and refused to look out the window and see the real, drivable cars in the street. You did a lot of research and presented it well. There was an issue of Motor Trend in 1974 and most of the magazine was devoted to the new legislation for safety cars. 2 articles in the issue were about the 1974 Volvo 144 and how it already had some of the safety features. The other was about the Tucker Torpedo and how it had some of the safety features Congress was now demanding U.S. auto makers include. Wow 😯, talk about ironic.
I took a good part of the beginning from the 3 automotive visionary’s episode honestly that was one of the best episodes on the channel sort of bummed no one really watched it lots and lots of information packed into that episode. But preston tucker guy had ideas and got shutdown by just about everyone during his life
It’s I think a myth that the “big 3” did something to stop him, I think they knew he would fail, and were if they paid any attention at, they were all just sitting back and watching. The SEC did the right thing, back then they were very protective to make sure that investors weren’t cheated, that there weren’t stock market collapses, and recessions and depressions. Unlike nowadays with “value based investing” where the SEC just watches bubbles collapse and investors get fleeced again and again. Tucker didn’t have a car, but he was telling investors that he did. I don’t think he was ill intentioned, just the opposite, but his dreaming led the whole enterprise into a situation where investors were misled and would most likely lose their investments. The Franklin engines like all aircraft engines were hand built, individual cylinders, engine block case halves, all bolted together by hand. Very expensive, each engine would have been 2-3 times the price of the car. A car brand - company could not have been founded on that basis. Not to mention that apparently the engines had magnetos and didn’t even have a spark advance, as aircraft engines work mostly at one constant RPM (75% power), unlike auto engines.
I never understood why Tucker made the engine water cooled. The helicoper engine was air cooled He had vents on the rear fenders that were for brake cooling why not make it for the engne too.
I have photos of # 26 and # 47 tucker that i have seen , the first on i seen was in Canada Quebec , on my way to school in to 1974 75 , 76 , 77 . I did stop twice to look at it , and talk to some one on my pedal bike lol . No body home :( did not have a camera until 1979 . So don’t know what # that was :( what is the # on the one on your video ?
I’m not sure they had three tuckers there that were real and they had one that was a movie car I still can’t get over how big the Tucker is it’s really big probably the same size if not a little bit bigger than a 1950s Hudson Commodore
How do you think of International Scout Or International Travel -All vehicles ? They were SUVS when SUVS weren’t cool. In the 60s and 70s. They quit making them before 1980. I think.
@@What.its.like. When I was going to community college in the 1970s I worked part time for an International truck dealership and they had some Travel-Alls and Scouts that they were selling.
Preston Tucker was a genius and an innovator! He was what Tesla is today! Way ahead of it’s time! He just got screwed by the jealous big three and the greedy government! Beautiful cars indeed! And I’m glad that almost all of them survived the chopping block! They still look modern by today’s standards!
Yeah he was I did an episode with Preston tucker John delorean and Elon musk honestly thing it’s one of the best videos on this channel and no one watched it which is sort of sad. But if you haven’t watched it please check it out it’s really good
If you think about it...Tucker was the first "Go Fund Me" guy. He had the idea, was working on the product, and asking for money to get his company going.
The big 4 were likely paying people off to destroy very credible and innovative competition? This is where companies can collude to control a market, and minimise their costs in doing so.
It was super weird I don’t know if it even worked I think the test chassis a tour converters were actually on every wheel it was going to be all wheel drive
Quality control on fit and finish on Tuckers was far below contemporary builders. Restorers have trouble getting these thing back into show condition because they were soft on precision, panel fit, and bo line. To restore as new wouldn’t be satisfying because flaws were everywhere. I do love the story though.
The Tucker had swing axle rear suspension, proven a disaster in the early 60s Chevy Corvair, being Unsafe at any Speed. the title of a Ralph Nader book. Nowadays, there are no swing axle cars in production.
US gov. afraid of him the big 3 hated him wanted too crush him like a bug. What better way too kill his dream Stop him while the alarm clock is dinging. I like his concept cars I like his ideas wish I could afford one you can be sure I would own one.
I made a video with three automotive visionaries it’s really good no one watched it it talks about what Preston Tucker John DeLorean could have been it could’ve been the Elon musk of their days.. It’s definitely worth checking out
In 1941 there were only 8 companies still .making cars in America FDR thought that was too much like a monopoly. His plan : After the Depression and the war were over we will help people create new car manufacturers, so the industry would have plenty of competition. The Department of defense owned a huge factory that made airplane engines, and would soon stop making them after the war. The next product was the Tucker. After Roosevelt Died, Truman took over, and nobody cared about this project. The big 3 were eager to start making 1946 cars, they thought, screw the socialists, empty the big factory and they could start making all those 1942 cars people wanted to buy, in the big factory. The lawyers read everything they could about Tucker. They saw that he did somethings that were on the border between legal and illeagal to raise money. Tucker won his case in court, but by the time the trial was over. the. DOD had already cancelled the Tucker project.
In some ways Tucker sorta parallels Tesla. Both auto companies had their teething pains, but Elon Musk had the capital to keep Tesla aflot while they worked out early production issues. Tesla STILL has quality control issues with randomly picked cars off the assembly line differing in fit and finish. Buy a Tesla today and you might get a gem, or a lemon. Part of Tesla's problem here is how rapidly they are adding 'improvements' and tweaking their assembly process. In Tucker's case, he was still doing design work on the car up until the end and didn't quite get it right. If he had more time and the SEC had left him alone Tuker might just as well followed the same path that Tesla has. BTW, Musk DIDN'T create Tesla, he bought the company just before they started selling their first model, the original roadster. If Elon hadn't bought Tesla, they likely would have only been a brief flash in the pan, just as Tuker was.
@@What.its.like. - What happened to Tucker was he tried to launch a car company from scratch with insufficient resources. Kaiser-Frazer had 50 million 1946 dollars along with whatever remained of the Graham-Paige car company to launch their new car line and it wasn't enough.
There's a video by the Chieftain on here where they go a bit more in depth to the Tucker Tiger's tests done by the military, it's pretty interesting. th-cam.com/video/itZDvMFXH10/w-d-xo.html
Awesome information thank you so much fir sharing that =) if you have the link go ahead and post it I’m sure there’s people that check out the tucker wanna see more videos on the Tucker tiger as well =)
I still think that the big three strived to discredit his finances to put him out of business. His product was way too far ahead of them. GM was still doing Harley Earl fenders on both ends. Ford needed another year to launch the bullet '49 and six years to engineer the Y-block. Chrysler's best engine was still the indestructible but weak flathead six and design was Harley Earl wannabe. Someone with balls should actually drive a Tucker 48 and tell us if the damned thing was even driveable!
I saw the episode where Leno went there that was an epic episode.. I would be happy to ride in a Tucker.. and shoot over the guys shoulder that’s driving so it would be like you driving it it would be great
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My father in law was an investor and he had a box of seat covers. He used to get the newsletter from Tucker. He said that the big difficulty was the Big 3 automakers didn’t want Tucker to get a good price on the steel he needed, and the steel companies were loyal enough to the other automakers that he didn’t. The Tucker was nearly a copy and paste job from the Tatra built in Czechoslovak in the 1930s.
Thank you so much for sharing that information that’s awesome that your dad was an investor in the company =) it’s sad that the Tucker never came to be
My brother was an actor in the Tucker movie. He played an attorney. He always said that Preston Tucker was a scape goat to the big three.
That’s awesome =) thank you so much for sharing did your brother play in any other movies besides tucker
Yes, he was a writer, and musician in the LA area for over 30 years. He acted in about 30 movies over the years. Unfortunitly, he passed in Dec. 2017. He was a great big brother, and miss him a lot.
What's his name
Preston Tucker was a fascinating man with a fascinating story & an innovative & extrodinary car!!! Thanks for sharing another fun video!!👍👍
Thank you for digging the content
Thank you Jay, you are the Best !!!!
=) I want to hit this car again
Remarkable man, and pioneer all things automobile.
It’s a really sad story the Preston Tucker story.
Not unlike DeLorean in some respects, but DeLorean had the money to build more than 49 cars.
A great story of a great man. Thanks Jay.
I've always believed that Preston Tucker's cars were just too good. He scared the big three to death and so they had to do something to bring him down. And it's obvious they had more connections than Preston Tucker did.
I've also after watching the movie, always believe that had Tucker taken his ideas and either sold them outright or licensed them to the big three that he would have been a very very successful and very very rich businessman.
His experience serves as a lesson to anyone who is basically an unknown and unheard of and goes against the well-known as to what can possibly happen to you.
Tucker got screwed but love his happy go lucky attitude.. =)
I have been there outstanding museum
They are all super nice and have amazing cars on display =)
Excellent video, u really out did urself on this one.
Thank you it means a lot a lot went into that one.. =)
Hear you, buddy. I feel the same as you: this great man was squashed by selfish interests but his legacy lives on in the innovations he pioneered back in the late 40s. So, ultimately he triumphed while his opponents covered themselves in shame.
Totally agree =)
I loved that Movie and helped me understand The man and his dream and the BIG 3 who were scared of Tucker. Love the story and Great job with the history!
Thank you glad you enjoyed this episode
@@What.its.like. Do You Know if the Tucker movie is available on dvd or maybe available on line on TH-cam?
I believe it’s on TH-cam
Preston made it water cooled because he didn't think the "public" was ready for such a radical engine design. Though his other designs for the car was far out of the box esp. for safety. When America's Smithsonian came to Houston, Texas in the late 1990's, they brought a Tucker 48. I was sooo pleased to see it.
The car is huge in person and there was four Tucker’s in that room the actual tin goose 3 of the four Tucker’s where real one was a movie car it was a crazy experience I was me and a my rap around with like 9 million dollars worth of Tucker’s I was a crazy experience I just wish the lighting was better
Another reason to make the engine liquid cooled would be to make it quieter. Liquid cooled engines are quieter than air cooled.
Years ago, I was with my father when he pointed to an open garage and said, "Look! A Tucker!" I had no idea what a Tucker was. So he turned around an I saw a Buck Rogers looking car in the garage. This was around 1963-64.
How magnificent is the 48 Tucker? Very, from the dash to its safety package, and on, to its styling and its many remarkable forward-thinking qualities.
What a shame that GM or Ford didn't purchase the company and carry the vehicle forward as a Lincoln or Cadillac update. Imagine where we would be with vehicles, had this happened.
Tucker got screwed.. it’s a sad story all the way around..
They took everything and didn't have to fight in court because the owner ceased to exist and the owner's boss had been thoroughly discredited and destroyed financially (and himself died just a few years later.)
really
Awesome story! I've heard of the Tucker 48. I consider it damned unforgivable that Preston Tucker wasn't allowed to continue producing cars. He had such great ideas that someone should've picked it up and run with it.
Totally agree
@What it’s like I don't get why Preston Tucker got in trouble with the SEC (Securities and Exchange Commission) for advertising. He was showing what people will be able to order their Tucker cars with once production started. What idiots the SEC were!
It was a totally different world back then that I did not live in Elon musk kind of sort of did the same thing Preston Tucker did as far as reserving cars goes he is the product of what both Tucker and John DeLorean could be if their ideas succeeded.
The story is told a bunch of different ways I guess Preston tucker was taking parts off of junk cars like Fords Chevys Buicks and melting them down and making his own parts he was going to junkyards and finding the cord transmission from the front wheel drive 810 cord and using it on his rear engine power plant.
He was a very innovative guy not sure if you watch the Jeff Bridges Tucker man and his dream Jeff Bridges played an awesome Preston tucker
@@What.its.like. Even if that was the case, so what? Didn't most car makers at the time take certain parts from other car makers to produce their *own* products?
@@What.its.like. I loved *"Tucker, the Man and his Dream",* starring Jeff Bridges.
Preston Tucker was an innovative genius and he was destroyed because of it. He had intended to use fuel injection, four-wheel disc brakes, seat belts, safety glass, and many other innovations that were probably not covered in the movie. The safety glass performed as designed in a rollover on a racetrack. I have the DVD, the bio-pic and it showed how the big three used all of their leverage and power and influence including a senator to take him down. In the movie it was stated that he GAVE the government the patent for the ball turret which would be used on World war II bombers expecting no payment at all. So he was the ultimate Patriot as well. I'm a movie buff too and I thought this was an excellent picture. Even though the odds were stacked heavily against him he was exonerated at trial, but his dream had been destroyed.
Yeah what happened to Preston Tucker was totally unfair..
Thank you so much for adding all of that added information =)
@@What.its.like. I was practically in tears the first time I watched that movie and realized what rabid capitalism looks like. It's totally dog eat dog. The world might be a very different place if his cars had succeeded and been mass produced. Who knows how many thousands of lives would have been saved on the highways because of the safety features alone? We will never know.
Me too I did a video on Preston tucker John Delorean and Elon musk if you have a chance you should totally check it out I think it’s one of the best videos on this channel so far..
th-cam.com/video/-k_NjsvP9tw/w-d-xo.html
Thanks for the Tucker car video.
Thanks for watching
The 1932 -35/1946 Stout Scarab was the earliest vehicle with a rear wheel drive I know of but it stayed in prototype form through out the the 8 that were made (5 survive to this day) so it largely depends if your talking about prototype to production or just models that were prototypes. Their actually a very interesting car to talk about, I know of one thats over at Hannah's auto museum in Reno Nevada the last time I looked.
Awesome, I totally forgot about the stout scarab. From what I remember there was only 9 produced that would be a really cool car to do I’ll have to see if there is one in a museum close to here. One thing I forgot to mention they know where most of the cars are.
Tatra too. Porsche scaled it down to create the VW.
Most automobiles of that era were rear wheel drive. Few, however, had rear mounted engines.
The museum you refer to is Harrah's, not "Hannah's".
I've seen that movie about Tucker and it is a very, very good movie and it seems to be 100% based on real facts.
Jeff Bridges made for an excellent Preston tucker
Dear Mr. "What's it like", keep these wonderful videos coming, 'cause when one of them goes viral your channel will Take off like a rocket! You got the right idea and the right presentation, with interesting stuff, a varied array of cars and depth of information.
I like Camaros and Mustangs, sure, but that's a beat track, everybody is doing it.
To me the best you have to offer is when you bring sometimes obscure stuff from a time nobody is actually putting that much effort to in YT, such as late 40s early 50s.
Thank you that really means a lot it’s just trying to figure out the car that will do that the metro video sort of done that maybe a Crosley? The weird stuff does good on the channel for some reason the muscle cars don’t. When I started TH-cam I wasn’t sure the direction I wanted to go new cars concept cars vintage classic cars. Everyone is doing new cars and exotics. Why not focus on 30s 40s 50s 60s 70s cars especially ones that don’t get the time of day like mustang and Camaro gets
I eventually want this to be to go to Classic Car channel for all the weird and obscure things that nobody else wants to touch.. like Hudson Nash crosley willys packard studebaker Oakland white international de soto imperial Edsel etc
@@What.its.like. and I’ll be there to see these videos! Cheers!!
They were called "The Great Generation" because many of them went through The Great War, Followed by The Great Depression, and then World War II. Most of them were born late 1880's.
A few years ago, I had the privilege of restoring the Tucker radio in Tucker#44. Here's the story on that car and the radio in it. - th-cam.com/video/GNz9Au-WHeo/w-d-xo.html
Awesome thank you for sharing that =) I wonder how many tucker radios and seat covers are out there
Great video. I was so happy to see mention of the Cord, my father had a 1937 Phaeton 812 supercharged convertible. The fiberglass movie version, be cool if somebody made those for purchase.
=) going to make a point to hit more 30s cars in 2023
The Tucker was an amazing car. Such potential. A terrible shame that it never was aloud to succeed.
Side note, my first car was a British Jowett Javelin. It also had a flat floor boxer engine. It was a magnificent performer for its day. Jowett went bankrupt in 1954. Sadly. However they produced the world's longest running car engine. The flat floor 2 cylinder 800cc. It was introduced in 1906 and continued production until 1955. After International Harvester bought the Jowett factory. Not one single modification was made to this little engine in 49 years.
I’ll look for a jowett javelin I’ve never heard of that car before
Good, comprehensive, well researched video. As you mentioned there many more details about the entire Tucker Torpedo and Preston Tucker story. I agree the movie was interesting and “moving” because I too was a little emotional watching it. Preston Tucker had wonderful dreams but luck 🍀 wasn’t on his side, as well as sometimes he bit off more than he could chew. If he had just a little more time, money and luck Tucker would have changed the American auto industry. And that’s why the Big 3 nudged the SEC and Congress to stop him. From what I’ve read Drew Pearson bad mouthed the car and refused to look out the window and see the real, drivable cars in the street. You did a lot of research and presented it well. There was an issue of Motor Trend in 1974 and most of the magazine was devoted to the new legislation for safety cars. 2 articles in the issue were about the 1974 Volvo 144 and how it already had some of the safety features. The other was about the Tucker Torpedo and how it had some of the safety features Congress was now demanding U.S. auto makers include. Wow 😯, talk about ironic.
I took a good part of the beginning from the 3 automotive visionary’s episode honestly that was one of the best episodes on the channel sort of bummed no one really watched it lots and lots of information packed into that episode. But preston tucker guy had ideas and got shutdown by just about everyone during his life
It’s I think a myth that the “big 3” did something to stop him, I think they knew he would fail, and were if they paid any attention at, they were all just sitting back and watching.
The SEC did the right thing, back then they were very protective to make sure that investors weren’t cheated, that there weren’t stock market collapses, and recessions and depressions. Unlike nowadays with “value based investing” where the SEC just watches bubbles collapse and investors get fleeced again and again.
Tucker didn’t have a car, but he was telling investors that he did. I don’t think he was ill intentioned, just the opposite, but his dreaming led the whole enterprise into a situation where investors were misled and would most likely lose their investments.
The Franklin engines like all aircraft engines were hand built, individual cylinders, engine block case halves, all bolted together by hand. Very expensive, each engine would have been 2-3 times the price of the car. A car brand - company could not have been founded on that basis. Not to mention that apparently the engines had magnetos and didn’t even have a spark advance, as aircraft engines work mostly at one constant RPM (75% power), unlike auto engines.
@@PRH123 , He DID have cars. Dozens of them right outside, but Drew Pearson and others refused to even look.
i got to the end of the video and I did see you watched the movie! LOL!
That’s awesome =)
I am surprised that Jay Leno doesn’t own one!
Totally agree
Water cooled engines are good if you want heat in the winter.
That’s true
I never understood why Tucker made the engine water cooled. The helicoper engine was air cooled He had vents on the rear fenders that were for brake cooling why not make it for the engne too.
Yeah puzzled me too. Tatra used flathead ford v8 in the rear of their car just like stout scarab
The center headlight must’ve been similar to the headlights on most diesel railroad locomotives. Or fire engines.
Genius crushed by jealous rivals.
Totally agree
I have photos of # 26 and # 47 tucker that i have seen , the first on i seen was in Canada Quebec , on my way to school in to 1974 75 , 76 , 77 . I did stop twice to look at it , and talk to some one on my pedal bike lol . No body home :( did not have a camera until 1979 . So don’t know what # that was :( what is the # on the one on your video ?
I’m not sure they had three tuckers there that were real and they had one that was a movie car I still can’t get over how big the Tucker is it’s really big probably the same size if not a little bit bigger than a 1950s Hudson Commodore
My folks had a 1950 Kaiser.
Sweet =)
Which model did your dad have?
Did yu ever see the movie "Tucker - The Man And The Machine"? Great movie.
I saw it on TH-cam once
How do you think of International Scout Or International Travel -All vehicles ? They were SUVS when SUVS weren’t cool. In the 60s and 70s. They quit making them before 1980. I think.
Yeah I’ll hit internationals as soon I can find them =) I want to hit all the trucks kb1-12 the metro 1938-1940 D series
@@What.its.like. When I was going to community college in the 1970s I worked part time for an International truck dealership and they had some Travel-Alls and Scouts that they were selling.
Preston Tucker was a genius and an innovator! He was what Tesla is today! Way ahead of it’s time! He just got screwed by the jealous big three and the greedy government! Beautiful cars indeed! And I’m glad that almost all of them survived the chopping block! They still look modern by today’s standards!
Yeah he was I did an episode with Preston tucker John delorean and Elon musk honestly thing it’s one of the best videos on this channel and no one watched it which is sort of sad. But if you haven’t watched it please check it out it’s really good
If you think about it...Tucker was the first "Go Fund Me" guy. He had the idea, was working on the product, and asking for money to get his company going.
I did a video on three automotive visionaries Preston Tucker John Delorean Elon musk it sucks nobody watched it
@@What.its.like. I'll have a look at it later.
Publicly traded ≠ public corporation, and corps is pronounced like core not corpse.
Could you review a 80s square body Chevy caprice wood wagon . Becoming more and more rare these days.
I’ll add that to the list =)
@@What.its.like. legend, keep up the good work 👍
The big 4 were likely paying people off to destroy very credible and innovative competition? This is where companies can collude to control a market, and minimise their costs in doing so.
this car showed Porsche that an air cooled flat six mounted in the rear was good enough
The combat car was too fast?
I know right =)
Boxer engines are used today by Subaru and VW had a boxer engine on the old Beetle
And Porsche still does a boxer too =)
And Toyota shares the '86' series 2 door coupe with the Subaru BRZ. Badge engineered twins with boxer engines.
That’s true thanks for adding that =)
Great video, but it's not Army Air 'Corpse'. It's Army Air 'Core'. There's a difference. 😉
Thank you for that correction =)
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I don’t think I’ve ever seen another engine & trans with the torque converter BEHIND the trans. Weird.
It was super weird I don’t know if it even worked I think the test chassis a tour converters were actually on every wheel it was going to be all wheel drive
Quality control on fit and finish on Tuckers was far below contemporary builders. Restorers have trouble getting these thing back into show condition because they were soft on precision, panel fit, and bo line. To restore as new wouldn’t be satisfying because flaws were everywhere. I do love the story though.
The Tucker had swing axle rear suspension, proven a disaster in the early 60s Chevy Corvair,
being Unsafe at any Speed. the title of a Ralph Nader book. Nowadays, there are no swing axle cars
in production.
US gov. afraid of him the big 3 hated him wanted too crush him like a bug. What better way too kill his dream Stop him while the alarm clock is dinging. I like his concept cars I like his ideas wish I could afford one you can be sure I would own one.
I made a video with three automotive visionaries it’s really good no one watched it it talks about what Preston Tucker John DeLorean could have been it could’ve been the Elon musk of their days.. It’s definitely worth checking out
In 1941 there were only 8 companies still .making cars in America FDR thought that was too much like a monopoly. His plan : After the Depression and the war were over we will help people create new car manufacturers, so the industry would have plenty of competition.
The Department of defense owned a huge factory that made airplane engines, and would soon stop making them after the war. The next product was the Tucker.
After Roosevelt Died, Truman took over, and nobody cared about this project.
The big 3 were eager to start making 1946 cars, they thought, screw the socialists, empty the big factory and they could start making all those 1942 cars people wanted to buy, in the big factory.
The lawyers read everything they could about Tucker. They saw that he did somethings that were on the border between legal and illeagal to raise money.
Tucker won his case in court, but by the time the trial was over. the. DOD had already cancelled the Tucker project.
What it's like is a car that was not ready for mass production, as is brutally obvious if you read between the two-inch-spaced lines.
Yeah that car was epic tho especially for the time period and no one except kaiser frazer (big three wasn’t doing any new designs)
In some ways Tucker sorta parallels Tesla. Both auto companies had their teething pains, but Elon Musk had the capital to keep Tesla aflot while they worked out early production issues. Tesla STILL has quality control issues with randomly picked cars off the assembly line differing in fit and finish. Buy a Tesla today and you might get a gem, or a lemon. Part of Tesla's problem here is how rapidly they are adding 'improvements' and tweaking their assembly process. In Tucker's case, he was still doing design work on the car up until the end and didn't quite get it right. If he had more time and the SEC had left him alone Tuker might just as well followed the same path that Tesla has. BTW, Musk DIDN'T create Tesla, he bought the company just before they started selling their first model, the original roadster. If Elon hadn't bought Tesla, they likely would have only been a brief flash in the pan, just as Tuker was.
Totally agree =)
The greatest car never mass produced. God took care of the big three that conspired to destroy Preston's company. Gone but hardly forgotten.
It sucks what happened to tucker
@@What.its.like. - What happened to Tucker was he tried to launch a car company from scratch with insufficient resources. Kaiser-Frazer had 50 million 1946 dollars along with whatever remained of the Graham-Paige car company to launch their new car line and it wasn't enough.
They are making Elon Musk to appear unfavorable also Mike Lindell.
I made a promise to myself that I won’t get into politics on this channel because nothing good ever comes of it no matter what side your on =)
I was just saying that those two people are examples of the media today making them appear unfavorable. Political beliefs notwithstanding. 🥹
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There's a video by the Chieftain on here where they go a bit more in depth to the Tucker Tiger's tests done by the military, it's pretty interesting.
th-cam.com/video/itZDvMFXH10/w-d-xo.html
Awesome information thank you so much fir sharing that =) if you have the link go ahead and post it I’m sure there’s people that check out the tucker wanna see more videos on the Tucker tiger as well =)
I wish I was in a timeline where these cars rlly took off
I still think that the big three strived to discredit his finances to put him out of business. His product was way too far ahead of them. GM was still doing Harley Earl fenders on both ends. Ford needed another year to launch the bullet '49 and six years to engineer the Y-block. Chrysler's best engine was still the indestructible but weak flathead six and design was Harley Earl wannabe. Someone with balls should actually drive a Tucker 48 and tell us if the damned thing was even driveable!
Leno and Francis Ford Coppola did it! The director has two and made the movie!
I saw the episode where Leno went there that was an epic episode.. I would be happy to ride in a Tucker.. and shoot over the guys shoulder that’s driving so it would be like you driving it it would be great
Dennis Gage of the 'My Classic Car' show did ride in a Tucker in one of his episodes. It did actually drive.
He should have sued the radio guy.
It was a different time I’m not sure when the first defamation case was?