Helicopter motor from the 1930's !

28 is the only one I've gotten to see up close. The automobile museum in Tupelo, MS had it before they closed down. Wished I could have heard it run.

Wow! For a movie prop, it's very accurate to the real thing.

The spotlight mechanism for the "cyclops" light surprised me when I got a close up look at Tucker #28 in Tupelo, MS years ago, right before the museum closed down. But, mechanically, it makes all kinds of sense. Much easier than making the whole headlight swivel. My only regret was not getting to see it run. Wish the Tucker corporation could have survived; would love to see what they would have come up with for the muscle car era of 60s and gas crunch of the 70s.

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11-19-49: A Federal district court jury today heard testimony that Senator Homer Ferguson, Republican, of Michigan, was "hell bent" on jailing Preston Tucker and that an Internal Revenue Department official in this city told an agent to get incriminating evidence "any way possible."

Senator Homer Ferguson was in the pockets of the Big Three and was instrumental in bankrupting Tucker.

Respectable numbers for a 1940s car

Way ahead of its time fantastic car. Probably the best example of corporate monopoly THUGERY Of the twentieth century....PERIOD! The big three eliminated all competition and it took them less than fifty years. Keep in mind we're talking about literally over a 100 companies since 1900.....That just wanted to produce their own thing.🤨 Big corporations limiting the marketplace......need to go the way of the dodo.... no excuses!!! Bigger is always bad!!!!

The driver side front and rear door handles look like they are different heights. Anyone else think so?

F n lies

Was at the Tucker 40th anniversary the summer of 1988 in Iola Wisconsin. Absolutely beautiful cars, no wonder the Big Three hated them.

The Tuckers 48 is one of the most beautiful cars ever made in my opinion. Top 5 at the very least.

Great to have all this Tucker stuff in there. Next time I visit my sisters in Lebanon, PA, I’m going to make a trip to that museum. Never seen a Tucker in person, just auctions on TV, and read a lot about them, but never saw the movie.

That's A HELL Of A Nice-Looking Car🙂!!

This is so cool!!

Just bought a Franklin Mint 118 scale Tucker a couple of days ago. Awesome looking car.

Pride!!!!!!! and Proud for you guys!

Excellent automotive history lesson and excursion into the past. Thank you for enriching my senses of the pioneers who were indeed the foundation of a most important industry that functioned as a leading part of our HUMAN PERSONALITY and CULTURE.

Your gratitude grandfather was a brilliant man its so sad he got pushed out by the big three. Great video

WTF??? 589 ci??? I had no idea that the displacement was that high!! 589 f-ing ci!!

I know they want to keep it all original, but maybe they could fabricate an adapter and install a Holley or Edelbrock 4bbl!??? That would give it some power. Whaddya think??

That thing is a bloody Aircraft Engine!! Not that there's anything wrong with that!!! Hell...Subarus all have Aircraft Engines!!! The old VWs did as well!!

mic each of the guys with a lapel next time.. the echo.. most of us car guys have tinnitus.. thanks for sharing !

The junk they build today doesn't even come close to a tucker was it conspiracy of the other guys that closed him down they should have helped him instead

Would have wanted one to share the garage with a Cord

I remember finding out about your grandfather when I was in my twenties in the mid-70s. Being an anti-establishment hippie I was horrified at what the big three did to your grandfather! He was so ahead of his time with safety and they were embarrassed and ashamed! How many people did they kill in the pursuit of profits?! I might be 70 today but I'm still the same screaming liberal I was back then!

Twank yiffimoomoo

I wish they showed the inside as well. 😢

Did anyone notice the Center headlight was turned in the direction of the front wheels. What a vehicle, that was way ahead of its time. Preston Tucker a genius, that was shot down.

What does it sound like moving?

Until, you see a Tucker, you really don't understand how advanced these Vehicles were. Respect, to your Grandfather. RIP

The Tucker prototype vehicle had a 589 CI opposing flat six cylinder helicopter engine. The production engines were reduced to 334 CI.

These were repurposed helicopter engines, sweere they not? . . . . .

I wish someone would start making a decent replica package of this car. It was 25 years agead of the big three and a beautiful automobile.

Shit audio , echoing in warehouse ,get lapel mics !

" thank you tucker " ( masterpiece of engineering 👏 😊

Wow is it quiet

Well done....I was not aware of all the prototypes. I had seen one at the Balboa Park San Diego Museum, if I remember correctly it used oil to actuate the valve train. Thanks for the greatly informed narration! :) Jack

What kinda baffles me.... and maybe they would have changed the design in time; but what with Preston Tuckers' time spent with Harry Miller and building racing engines.... why did they end up with such a restrictive intake setup? I mean, OK.... the 90-degree bend from carb to intake tubes is practically unavoidable.... especially with 1940's technology. But the gasket between the carburetor base and the intake "tubes" is just ripe for leakage or failure. You'd have thought, with Preston Tucker's background, and even Eddie Offutt and Jimmy Sakayama's backgrounds with engineering and racing.... why did they not come up with an intake runner set, cast from aluminum; that connected to the carburetor base with a single gasket, and had tuned, individual runners to the intake ports on the head? Sure, it might have cost a few nickles more; but I bet that intake setup is very restrictive with TWO 90-degree bends, and gasket surfaces that would've surely been prone to failure in use. And this wasn't unheard of technology, either. Lots of cars from the 30's and 40's (especially those with pancake superchargers) had tuned intakes with long runners. Even a few short years later, the Dodge "RamCharger" racing team would develop their own setup with tuned runners.... culminating in the "Sonoramic" Rams-Horn induction setups on the 413's in 1959 through 1962. Hell, even the slant six had a tuned intake with long runners!! This wasn't unknown stuff in '47 or '48. But, I understand.... time was very short, especially surrounding the development of the O-335. I suppose the mandate was "Get it Running" as opposed to "Make it run well".

that motor blew out some flames awesome

HELLO YEAH AWESOME!!!! 13OLDOGZ

Scan it, mock up all Tucker's original innovations that got cut And build a more modern new car line, i belive Airbags was on his wish list .

Love the sound of a flat six!

i see u have a 2nd Tucker behind u

What was the fat six horsepower?

When I win the the powerball im buying a tucker and putting on a set of 13x8rev daytons or astro supremes.

I'm wondering how you got parts for that thing and how could you possibly convert from Air cooling to water cooling could you do that with a VW??

Beautiful car, but hearing it snap and pop with flames shooting from the exhaust tips was a real treat. Who knew?