From the family archive

Thousands of pages. One at a time.

The family holds thousands of pages of Tucker records and photographs. We open them a little at a time, here and in the films.

From the factory records

Seven cars. One racetrack.

In the fall of 1948, seven brand-new Tuckers went to the Indianapolis Motor Speedway to be driven hard. This is the engineers’ road test report: acceleration in each gear, fuel use, and how the cars handled. One of the seven, #1027, rolled. The driver walked away.

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Tucker Corporation road test report, Indianapolis Motor Speedway, October 1948

U.S. Design Patent 154,192

Preston Tucker’s own drawing of the car.

Filed March 15, 1947, three months before the Tin Goose was unveiled, and granted June 14, 1949. The inventor on the patent is Preston T. Tucker.

Patent drawing, side view of the Tucker automobile
Sheet 1. Fig. 1, the side view.
Patent drawing, top view of the Tucker automobile
Sheet 2. Fig. 2, from above.
Patent drawing, front and rear views of the Tucker automobile
Sheet 3. Figs. 3 and 4, front and rear.

The family album

Preston Tucker and his car.

Photographs kept by the family.

Preston Tucker with a Tucker at the Chicago plant
Preston Tucker at the Chicago plant.
Preston Tucker, holding a model of the Tucker '48, kissed by his wife Vera
Preston and Vera Tucker the day he was acquitted, January 1950.
Preston Tucker crouching beside a Tucker
Up close with the car.
Preston Tucker presenting the car on stage
Presenting the car at a showing.
Preston Tucker standing beside a Tucker at the plant
At the plant.

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