Start your own car museum with this masterpiece: Tucker 48
Posted on 11-03-2016 at 18:03 by Dizono – 41 Comments”
Perhaps one of the most legendary American cars, with a dramatic history. Which you can read after the break.
The Second world War caused a long stop of the development of cars. In America there were from 1941 onwards, no new cars being built and developed, and the first models after the war, production went to were five-year-old models from before the war. When Preston Tucker in 1947 hyped and futuristic Tucker 48, as presented, the interest was also huge. 3000 people came to the factory to have a treintour through the complex to get in and witness the unveiling of two prototypes.
That was not without a fight. The night before the premiere were the heavy prototypes by their suspension failed and the self-developed 9.65-litre flat 6 was so noisy that Preston the band early on as hard as possible to play. The six huge pistons were also barely in motion, the battery of its own was not powerful enough to start the car. The 200 hp strong block, that idling ran with only 100 revolutions per minute, eventually repeating the stage of production.
Instead, he bought a manufacturer of helicopter and aircraft engines, and built up their air-cooled flat 6 to go to water cooling. At the same time, he stressed that all current contracts of the company, that at that time the largest supplier of engines to the aviation industry in the US was. A pretty stupid move for a fledgling car manufacturer, that the dollars are correct and needed.
To get money gave Preston Tucker for 17 million dollars in shares, and later he would also licenses dealers to sell it for $ 8000. This fresh dealers were able to get a Tucker order, while customers through an accessory to buy through the Tucker Accessories Program their place on the waiting list were able to secure.
1600 people had Tucker adopted to the thousands ordered Tuckers to build. Insofar as it was not, because after 36 built had the factory slot. This was particularly due to an investigation by the authorities into fraud concerning the Tucker Accessories Program. The indictment was eventually dismissed, but the negative publicity did Tucker the tie. A handful of employees built another 14 instances out of already fabricated parts and made a final copy, just not print. This is later reduced, bringing the total number built Tucker 48 remains stuck at only 51 copies. Almost all of the copies are still in existence, but given the rarity, they appear rarely to purchase.
That there will be one under the hammer going, then feel free to particular. This blue copy is on may 14th in Monaco auctioned by RM Sotheby’s. In Europe, which is the only Tucker in the Old World cruising. What is the expected return on investment is going to be makes RM Sotheby’s is not known, but go out of several millions of dollars. In 2010, a copy afgehamerd at 1.13 million dollars, in 2012 paid someone a small three million, for instance. The Tucker of Star Wars creator George Lucas even had a sweet $ 15 million in costs. Not a bargain, so’n Tucker.
Gallery: Tucker 48
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