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Fast and powerful for its day, the Tucker 48 was also designed with occupant safety in mind, a consideration that took the big three more than a decade to come around to, and then

The Tucker 48 Convertible is painted Waltz Blue, a color said to come from Mrs. Vera Tucker's favorite dress.

Just 51 Tucker 48s (50 production cars plus the "Tin Goose" prototype) were ever built. The end.

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The Tucker 48 was designed in Michigan, and built in Chicago in a vast factory that is now the site of the "Ford City Mall" on Cicero Avenue.

ever caught up? As the Tucker 48s were rolling off the assembly line Preston was already busy devising improvements that would be built into future production runs.

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New Tucker 48, an appropriate name given that he and his crew at Ida Automotive and Rob Ida Concepts in Morganville, NJ, built the car, frame up, from scratch, inspired by and

But the New Tucker 48 is something different and built for another reason, going back, in fact, to 1947, when Bob Ida's father, Joe, and his uncle, Dominick, scraped up

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Hudson, the Tucker 48's interior floor was below the level of the sill, and the width of the front and rear bench seats was not compromised by encroaching wheel wells.

Though it looks like a Tucker 48, to achieve their goal, everything on the car was hand-fabricated. The only actual Tucker part is the center section of the grille that was a gift from John Tucker Jr.

After his first automotive venture with the Tucker 48, Preston managed to salvage his machine shop in Ypsilanti, Michigan.

What eventually became the Tucker 48 was originally promoted as the Tucker Torpedo. None Tucker Torpedo's were ever produced.

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But by that time, the Tucker 48 had effectively been torpedoed and its inventor left indelibly in debt.

our New Tucker 48 makes a great crossover from American Classic to contemporary custom. After all, Preston Tucker, and Alex Tremulus were hot rodders, and the forward thinking design shows that.

It has been said that the Tucker 48 was "the most important American car" (which sounds like a quote from Preston Tucker himself.

intents and purposes, a newly finished Tucker 48, completed upon the specially box-wrapped ovular body/frame #57 from the Tucker Experimental Department.

The Tucker 48 sedan was unlike any other car in the world when it was introduced.

Only 51 Tucker 48s were ever made. The car's prototypes faced insurmountable design problems and soaring costs wiped out any profits.