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I'm watching the movie "Tucker" on EPIX on demand. A couple months ago Marta and I were coming back to Omaha after breakfast in Council Bluffs, IA. We saw what looked like a Tucker car that had been smashed down to the bottom of the window level headed in the direction of the metal recycle yards. There is only ONE Tucker not accounted for. Mathematically I don't think it was a Tucker and that the driver didn't know what it was.
I hate to use wikipedia, but it has the list: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1948_Tucker_Sedan#Tucker_.2748_legacy
Remaining Tucker '48s today and original configuration:
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onehandle
(51,122 posts)At a casual glance, they can look like a Tucker. Saw one at a car show today.
rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)onehandle
(51,122 posts)Just grabbed that pic from the 'net.
rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)RC
(25,592 posts)headlight in the middle. This was in the early 50's. It was a Studebaker, because the name was on the car.
Omaha Steve
(99,653 posts)When I was coming home on I-80 on July 6th, I did see a 50's Studebaker convertible that had probably been to a car show.
Morning Dew
(6,539 posts)Lots of great cars to look at!
We were heading back to Minnesota from Missouri and decided to stay overnight in Des Moines. We tried for Altoona so we could be near the casino but the hotels we checked were full - wound up in Ankeny instead.
Egalitarian Thug
(12,448 posts)That 1951 Studebaker always reminds me of Steelyard Blues.
uncle ray
(3,156 posts)the Tucker from the crash scene in the movie was actually a Studebaker customized to look like a Tucker.
Brother Buzz
(36,440 posts)I worked in Sonoma the summer Coppola filmed 'Tucker' in the town. I swear I saw dozens of the modified Studebakers driving around all summer. They may have been the same half a dozen cars I saw every day, but one might logically assume Coppola had fifty of them made up, and the shop boys were simply out joyriding the product of their labor; one doesn't drive a genuine Tucker to run errands.
Egalitarian Thug
(12,448 posts)John82
(2 posts)That ain't no Studie, It's a Tucker 48, very rare car and only 47 around plus replicas.
leveymg
(36,418 posts)Last edited Sun Jul 21, 2013, 11:54 PM - Edit history (1)
Did it look like this? On Edit: the main designer of the Tucker was Alex Tremulis; he and Exner were part of a small group of visionary designers that included Raymond Loewy who influenced each other as they filtered in and out of the Ford Advanced Styling and other Detroit studios in the 1940s and 50s.
OmahaBlueDog
(10,000 posts)Millions of hours have been spent, as Bill puts it, turning over rocks and chasing countless leads to assemble a collection of this magnitude. As a result, museum visitors can witness a stunning array of history-making cars, engines, parts, toys and memorabilia. Youll see countless rare and one-of-a-kind items, all presented in beautiful displays and dioramas that will make you feel like youve taken a step back into the past!
They have Tucker #24 in "Waltz Blue"
Call ahead. During summer they are open every day, but most of the year it's Fridays only, and they only allow visitors to enter in a tour that's given once per day at 2 PM.
Sorry to disappoint, the car you saw was not a Studebaker heading to the scrap yards, it was an actual Tucker. No 1023, painted in priming grey was stored in a warehouse when the warehouse caught fire. A steel girder fell and crushed the car. [link:http://www.oldcarsweekly.com/news/editors-picks/tucker-tally|
cyberswede
(26,117 posts)- See more at: http://www.oldcarsweekly.com/news/editors-picks/tucker-tally#.dpuf