@WesternPacific2217 posted:Patrick, I love your Tucker dealership, and the new boxcar is awesome. The artwork looks period perfect, around 1948! I like your wishful thinking that the Tucker Company made it, but unfortunately none of the 51 hand built Tuckers ever made it to a dealership. Preston Tucker made some BAD business decisions, one of them was selling Dealership Franchises for a car that had yet to be manufactured! It was the wrong way to acquire funds for a company start up. Oops, the SEC didn't like that, because its illegal, and shut down Tucker and his company! Too bad, the car was way ahead of it's time in regards to safety. The Tucker had seat belts, not even racing cars had seat belts in 1948!
It's amazing that Weaver even made a boxcar with the Tucker name, and the fact that you found one at reasonable price is fantastic! Thanks for sharing it!
Thank you Scott! I didn't mention that my Tucker boxcar was brand new too ... it came in a Weaver box with all the foam inserts in place and had never been run ... at least till last night
Yes I've been a Preston Tucker fan since I saw the movie " Tucker ". I loved that his design thinking was outside the box for the late 1940s. The seat belts and the middle headlight that turned with the steering wheel were fabulous safety features! If only if he'd found another way to raise capital to fund his automobile company, I can't imagine the cars he and his company would have designed in the 1950's.
