Tucker engines 589, 334

[@johnboydTx]

Scorpions ... No one like you

[@What.its.like.]

Yeah buddy that’s it =)

[@johnboydTx]

@@What.its.like. not many chances to view a real Tucker 😢 I think they sold fiberglass kit cars after filming the movie??? If I remember right 🤔 Great Episode Happy Motoring ✌️🤠

[@josephgaviota]

Such a great song. I have it on vinyl (of course).

[@andreamills5852]

Awesome !

[@middleclassretiree]

@@josephgaviota- The only way 👍

[@Radiowild]

The "Tucker" radio was a Motorola model 708 and was actually used in pre-war Plymouths initially. The "Tucker" version had an extra station preset with the letters spelled out, and was painted hammer tone bronze while the Plymouths were hammer tone blue. Six volt positive ground. I restored the radio in 2018 that went into the restored Tucker #44.

[@What.its.like.]

Awesome information thank you so much for sharing that

[@SuperForties]

Quite possibly Jay's best engine story yet. Preston T. leased the former WW2 Dodge Main defense plant (Chicago) at a bargain rate, giving him an immediate cost advantage. Four years later, my father worked there when it was an aircraft engine plant run by Ford. Several ex-Tucker guys were hired, since they knew their way around the plant. While I was watching the "Tucker" movie with my dad, he said those guys had nothing good to say about Tucker or the company. But, I suspect they were biased due to unpaid wages and unemployment.

[@jwillys]

Preston Tucker set the pace for a lot of features we see today. From the headlight that turns with the steering to the crash box. The owners of the Swigart Museum in Pennsylvania has 2 Tucker cars. One from the the 80s movie and an actual Tucker Concept. My life and career has been based on the American Automobile, and these vehicles are an important part of our automotive history. Thank you for an informative and history video.

[@What.its.like.]

Long time ago, we featured a tucker on the channel. It was covered at the AACA museum in Hershey… that is a really cool place to go. They have a lot of Tucker stuff there. Happy you dig this episode

[@MegaGeorge1948]

The center cyclops headlight would turn left and right with the steering wheel. So the driver can see around the corner that the car is turning into at night.

[@BrewBlaster]

So because he was doing something different and better, his reputation got dragged through the mud. Funny how history repeats itself,

[@winstonelston5743]

_DIFFERENT_ and _BETTER_ are completely separate concepts. Tucker lacked the engineering development staff to bring a car anywhere close to production readiness, or the Facilities and work force to produce it. The Tucker automobile as released just wasn't that good and (unlike Kaiser) Preston Tucker ignored the advice to get a more conservative product into production in the seller's market of 1946-'48, build up some working capital, and then develop the dream car. Even Kaiser with his fortunes from dallances in other industries (Hoover Dam, the trans-Cuba railroad, Liberty ships...) was unable to maintain profitability after the seller's market cooled off. Other unconventional cars failed in those days (The Davis _Divan_ comes immediately to mind and proposed propeller-driven cars from aircraft builders and [scoff] flying cars). Unlike Davis, at least Tucker avoided jail time.

[@motorlibro]

that wacky hydraulic valve feature meant that when you first turned the key, all the valves were shut and the engine didn't want to turn over- the solution was two batteries to make the starter 'get going'.

[@What.its.like.]

Great information

[@dddevildogg]

The motor would "turn over" but no valves opened until oil pressure was sent to them from the "distributor" This could take a while and required a strong battery,which took a long time to recharge from a generator Also means this thing had three distributors Oil.Fuel and Spark

[@Scooty_scoob]

Seems similar to konnesegg free valve.

[@gregorymalchuk272]

I can't imagine what a sludged up nightmare those hydraulically operated valves and hydraulic distributor would be with 1940s non-detergent oil.

[@What.its.like.]

Right.. I wonder if it’s ever been tried since

[@gregorymalchuk272]

@@What.its.like. I think some large ship diesel engines use hydraulic valves and hydraulic fuel oil distributors. But they have the benefit of modern detergent oils, enormous passages, and the fact that the engines turn at maybe 100 rpm.

[@greggc8088]

Same design on Chrysler's Tigershark 4 cylinder multi air engine. It works OK as long as you keep oil in them. When worked on and having to bleed the air out, you can count on burning up one starter for all the spinning of the engine it takes before the valves will finally start lifting.

[@mikenewman4078]

@What,its.like, oil controlled injection timing is pretty common with high horsepower diesels the Cummins KV 50 comes to mind. The next generation (QSK) used a second fuel rail to vary fuel injection timing over a greater range. I agree with above comments though that leaded fuel sludges your oil up pretty badly, detergent capabilities struggle with that grey poop.

[@daveridgeway2639]

Hi Greg, I totally agree! And get it to work correctly with OUT a PCM (powertrain control module), good luck! Please reply. Dave...

[@sandyt4343]

He was a brilliant designer ,without a doubt. I worked with his nephew , he was the brother of my friends Dad who was also a very Bright man and Apparently went on to be very successful in his career. His nephew was an unusually bright fellow with a great sense of humor.

[@davidcoblentz7468]

Tucker was a brilliant dreamer. He was to trusting he need so actual businessmen who were on his side to fend off the big three. My neighbor restored one it was amazing that the scorpions rock you like a hurricane.

[@randyfitz8310]

Excellent presentation! As a very young child in the early 1960s, I recall seeing a green car in the grocery store parking lot with a center headlamp and it was on that must’ve been a Tucker. I have seen a silver one being driven in San Francisco as well as a yellow one in the Academy of Art University car collection. Francis Ford Coppola has one at his business in Sonoma County, which I’ve had the pleasure of seeing several times.

[@What.its.like.]

Happy you dig this episode =) thank you so much for sharing that memory

[@julieanddavidmyers6641]

I loved the Tucker car movie...I wonder how accurate it was? I saw a real Tucker at the Imperial palace car museum in the early 90's in Vegas. So cool looking. They also had an extra engine on display too. It's a shame these did not reach production.

[@I.Live4oldcars.prospecting]

Awesome video. My Tucker story is when I got to sit in a Tucker. Was a dream come true.

[@What.its.like.]

Awesome I’m so happy you got to sit in one they are really cool and a lot bigger in person

[@I.Live4oldcars.prospecting]

@What.its.like. thank you. Yes they are big inside.

[@leedaniels7196]

One of my favorite cars of all time!.Thank you for this upload!.😎

[@What.its.like.]

You bet thank you so much for watching

[@johnpinckney4979]

Got a laugh out out of that Tucker car radio. Back in the early 1970's, we had a bunch of them in our high school electronics class. I brought one of them home. My father said it worthless. It ended-up in the trash... Good show!

[@What.its.like.]

That’s crazy you just threw it away. I was thinking it would be really cool to have one Tucker accessory.

[@billwendell6886]

What that would Ebay for now......

[@winstonelston5743]

Tucker Story: I heard a weird car exhaust sound when driving in traffic in Atlanta about fifty years ago. I looked over and there was a green Tucker stopped nect to me by The Varsity drive-in restaurant near the georgia Teck campus. The car was about the same shade of green as my '73 Dodge Coronet, later nicknamed _The Green Latrine._ I remember the Tucker being rather loud in comparison to most of the other cars of the mid-seventies with a distinctive popping sound rather than a purring note of a smooth-running eight-cylinder, ir even the slant six in a Valiant.

[@What.its.like.]

Awesome story. Thank you so much for sharing that.

[@YuTbCensorship]

Maybe 10 years back, read in a Auto Magazine someone was building Repro Tuckers in Fiberglass using the Molds to build Fiberglass Truckers for the Movie. These Fiberglass Repro Tuckers were to be powered by Front Wheel Drive Cadillac Eldorado Engines and Transmissions placed in the rear of the Tucker. They may have produced a car or two. Does anyone know what happened???

[@railtrolley]

Ida Automotive. A reain/fibreglass plastic bodied replica, and powered by a Cadillac Northstar drivetrain. A front wheel drive set-up, so it could be easily adapted to a rear engine drive unit for the Tucker replica.

[@thejackofalltravels8267]

No Tucker stories except I saw 3 at once in Vegas they’re cool. My 95 Yr old Mom loved riding in her Dads20s 30s Franklin air cooled 6 or 8 near Syracuse NY

[@P_RO_]

I can't remember for sure because it was over 50 years ago but I believe it was Tom McCahill who covered a Tucker in a magazine article when I was a kid. On the test-drive he took the car to 115MPH and said it had more, but being an old and rare car he didn't go any further. In the Tucker's day few cars could actually do 100MPH much less top it. Dad always said that the big carmakers bought up all the steel on the market causing Tucker to fail, and they didn't want Tucker to succeed because his car was so much better than anything they had, which in many ways it was. Financing and bad business decisions is what did Tucker in- it wasn't his car that did it.

[@What.its.like.]

Was that review taped or was it an article I’d love to find it

[@P_RO_]

@@What.its.like. It was a magazine article. Dad subscribed to Popular Science and Popular Mechanics back then so it would almost certainly be one of those two.

[@rogercamp6071]

Tom McCahill did road tests for Mechanix Illustrated back in the day so that was probably the magazine it was in I read an article in Rod and Custom magazine in early 1969 in which they did a test on the one that was at the time in the Harrah's collection,I think it was in the February issue as memory serves correctly.

[@What.its.like.]

@@rogercamp6071 thank you so much for that information. I saw a couple videos of him testing cars like the 58 edsel Tom McCahill what is the Jeremy Clarkson before Jeremy Clarkson he had a way of really describing things..

[@rogercamp6071]

Yes he did,I had a subscription to MI when I was in my teens mostly for "Uncle Tom's road tests and his Mail for McCahill column he was one of a kind!!

[@Imnotyourdoormat]

*Tucker utilized a Helicopter Motor for his new car. Years later CHRYSLER basically did the same thing but different with their **_"Gas Turbine Car."_** Few would argue the Gas Turbine found its niche in life as a helicopter engine.*

[@mikeholland1031]

And tanks

[@Imnotyourdoormat]

@@mikeholland1031 *The **_M1 Abrams_** does everything exceptionally well doubt I'd change a single thing on it. But it does have 1 serious weakness. It's a **_Gashog._** So just like WW2s Tiger it has to pull a fuel trailer behind it. P-51s used to take them out with 50-cals. However, I still wouldn't trade away its **_Gas Turbine_** with ALL that power. Gobs of Power. "Drunk" with Power. hahaha LOL.*

[@Walkercolt1]

From 1968 'til 1971/'72 I worked at a filling station pumping gas and checking EVERYTHING. I think in '68 I filled-up a Tucker Torpedo from up at Claremore,OK and we were on OK 11 thru Tulsa (North Peoria Ave.). I remember it being one of the prettiest GREEN semi-metallics I had ever seen. Late '40's cars weren't known for quiet engines, but the Tucker was nearly silent. I remember having to "hunt" for the fuel filler pipe on it!!! One of the Tucker's down-falls was the cranky-wanky Cord trans-axle. IF he could have used the Peugots transaxle (a four speed) capable of handling over 400 HP and 450 ft/lbs (used in French Tanks!!!) the Tucker would have been MUCH cheaper to build and sell. The 1936 Cord Tranny was obsolete and out-of-date the day it was designed. His plans for a fuel injected Franklin bumped-up to about 350 CID@ 7.5:1 CR should have given him 170 HP and torque out the ears. The unbelievably RARE 1946-47 Chrysler Meadowbrook Sedan with the Canadian-built Imperial (license-built Daimler engine) V-12 (401 CID) with mechanical direct-to-cylinder fuel injection (and a $4897 base price!!!) could pull stumps and you'd never feel the engine running. You could buy (order and PRE-PAY) $679 for a new '46 Ford Tudor Sedan. My grandpa did, and got a '47 with an $80-ish "surcharge" 17 months later! He soon traded for a '48 Chevrolet DeLuxe Business Sedan (4 door) with vacuum-shift (put it in first, pull-away from a stop and it'd go into neutral WITHOUT TOUCHING THE SHIFT LEVER, then YOU moved the lever up into second and with touching the lever OR CLUTCH, it shifted in to third. The only "manual" Paw-Paw didn't grind or wreck the synchronizers on!!!

[@What.its.like.]

Thank you so much for sharing this story =)

[@buildingracingvideos4714]

When I was a kid I used to love the Tucker movie that was on HBO back in the 80's

[@61rampy65]

I still have one of the posters they were handing out!

[@timothysotelo3868]

I worked for a company in 2001 and the CEO was a huge car guy. When I went to Argentina on business he sent me on some wild goose chases looking for some Tuckers made in Argentina. I never found them. But I ran into some locals that would back up his claim.

[@What.its.like.]

What a great story. Thank you so much for sharing that memory…

[@arielo_archivo_audiovisual]

It's a mith i'm from argentina. Tucker never produced cars here. Neither have north American tuckers here. We have many kaiser cars . Henry kaiser founded IKA (industrias kaiser argentina) in the early fifties

[@carlmontney7916]

My dad once told me at one time he worked at Hudson making their cars. He and some other fellow workers had planned to go to work building Tucker automobiles when the production ramped up. Needless to say that never happened.

[@What.its.like.]

Cool story

[@palcooper6374]

My Aunt had a tucker car! When I was young she told me that no one new how to work on it so if it broke down sje would leave it on the side of the road. ! This was in the 50 's

[@What.its.like.]

Wow that’s crazy thank you so much for sharing that story =) what a cool memory

[@BillyT.-jy6dg]

When I was 10 I lived in Virginia Beach. One day my father came home and he had a weird yet really cool radio. It had our last name on it. The radio mounted vertically and had the word Tucker on it. My last name. We moved to Mississippi and I asked him about it. He said he threw it away. That was 42 yrs ago. We didn't know the Tucker car existed then. Wish I still had it.

[@What.its.like.]

Great story I wish you would have kept that radio as well

[@bparksiii6171]

Well done presentation. So glad you was able to get the info together for this episode, an interesting feat of engineering to adapt a helicopter engine for automotive use, almost like Chrysler engineering a jet engine to work in the turbine cars. Just think with today's technology with fuel injection and other enhancements the Tucker and the Dusenberg engines could made even more powerful. If I had the pocketbook to buy one, it would buy either Tucker 001, or the only Tucker convertible.

[@What.its.like.]

The engine episodes are getting harder to do because there’s ones that I’ve been putting off that are going to take forever like the Pontiac V8 Cadillac V8.. I want to do the Northway engines before getting into the Cadillac V8 Also, would love to start covering some foreign stuff like I was thinking maybe doing the very first Bugatti engine it’s finding information Chrysler straight eight is another episode that I’ve been working on finding the dates of when they started and stopped as hard for that series .. but yeah I think you’re gonna totally dig this episode. It’s pretty cool there’s a lot of brochures of this one stuff on the screen is just as good as the information.

[@bparksiii6171]

@@What.its.like. You might consider maybe throwing in a series of transmissions here and there like a Ford toploader, or muncies or some series of automatics or overdrives, if the community would be interested . The Chrysler book is on the way to you, it may have some dates on the 8's for Chrysler, Dodge and Desoto

[@geebs76]

@@What.its.like. Those episodes sound good. Any chance of you doing the 6-cylinder Continental Red Seal engine? I'd also be very interested in seeing an engine episode about the Tatra V-8 engine family. I would love to see a video about the old Moskvich factory. I remember a Car and Driver article from the 1970's about it. They said it was the last totally self-contained auto factory in the world. Raw materials went in and cars came out. They even made the tires there. I've been looking for more information ever since but haven't found much. It'd probably require heavy google translate usage. Unless you know Russian.

[@jasonburguess]

24 volt electrical systems have been in military vehicles since 1941, and in civilian vehicles since 1950. They consist of 2 12 volt batteries wired in series. They can be found in every military vehicle from the m35a2 to the military chevy trucks.

[@What.its.like.]

Thank you so much for that correction.. but as far as manufacturer putting 24 volt in a vehicle from the factory aside from the military it hasn’t been done besides the cyber truck

[@JefferyHall-ct2tr]

Hi Jay! Ahhhh. . .the 589 Tucker! It's said that Harry Miller had some input on the design before his demise in 1943. Harry Miller was FOR SURE the inspiration for the rear engine layout and disc brakes, which he used on his Miller-Gulf special which ran at Indy in the late 1930's and the 1940's. Preston Tucker actually bought this race car and ran it under his sponsorship in the late 1940's. Fortunately, he did, because it is the one that the IMS Museum has. The only Tucker stories I have are that I remember it at a car show in Indianapolis in the 1970's. It was a gold one. Later on I was able to get close up and personal with the one in the collection of Bellm's Car Museum in Sarasota, FL. Was able to look inside the front of the car which was kind of plain, but WAS safer than the run of the mill cars of the 40's. The museum sold the Tucker later on along with several other cars. But the museum is still there and has MANY cool cars. It is now known as the Sarasota Car Museum. I can't remember if I sat in the Tucker or not that one time but it sure looked comfortable! The dash was padded, and you could duck down into the "Safety Chamber" in case of an impending crash. Pretty Neat!

[@What.its.like.]

I totally forgot that he worked with Harry Miller.. I actually went back and watched an older episode that I did that I always thought was the best episode that I’ve ever done it was on Preston Tucker, John DeLorean, Elon musk not a lot of people watched it, but I feel like as far as information goes that episode had more information in it than any other Episode I’ve ever done the presentation could use a little work but everything comes in time, right? But anyway, thank you so much for sharing all of that information. Greatly appreciate it. There are so many cool museums out there definitely need to check out some more that’s for sure.

[@stevewehner9540]

Preston had several things that were working against him, sheet steel, production manager all working for the big 3. Sheet steel was for the big 3 and his production manager was trying to change his design to a front engine car.

[@ThreenaddiesRexMegistus]

Imagine the available torque from this original 589ci engine? Would possibly have made a decent alternative for light aviation with some workarounds.

[@thestevedoughtyshow27]

The gas station in the movie was in West Pittsburg, now baypoint California, which is in Conta Costa country.

[@caseyrevoir]

April 7, 2000 "International camless engine technology has been under development by the company and Sturman Engine Systems, LLC since the formation of a joint venture in 1995. International camless engine technology was demonstrated to the media in an International 8100 truck with an International 530E diesel engine. International is now able to control air to and from the engine without the limitations imposed by a mechanical system of cams and levers. Instead, International camless engine technology uses electronics and hydraulics to actuate the valves."

[@gruberstein]

Actually most military vehicles had 24 volt electrical systems at that time and probably to this day.

[@davidpowell3347]

The ultimate oversized Subaru XT 6 engine? (with impractical overcomplicated valve system? Did Ducati motorcycle figure out how to get a cam lobe to pull as well as push a valvetrain pushrod?

[@THEScottCampbell]

You really should have used a song by Marshall TUCKER!!!

[@What.its.like.]

Yes I should have missed opportunity

[@curtislowe4577]

Tucker was his own worst enemy. He was one of the those big idea guys. Big ideas must be developed. That means research, development, ironing out kinks and having enough engineering resources to get the details right. If PT had lowered his sights and started with a normal engine and transmission he might have succeeded. But he shot his mouth off claiming a fantasy drivetrain that ate up time and resources and in the end couldn't be manufactured. Worst of all the fantasy drivetrain wasn't needed. After essentially 12 years of depression followed by not quite 4 years of war the public wanted new cars and they weren't none too picky.

[@KC9UDX]

If only he could get government subsidies and bamboozle a bunch of investors, a la Musk

[@username-mk8gf]

Wow, so they actually got Freevalve to work.

[@61rampy65]

No cool Tucker stories, except for a certificate for 1,000 shares of Tucker stock, which I'm pretty sure is a reprint. That 589 engine was NOT quiet! The valve actuation mechanism was rather clackity, which led to Preston having the band play louder during the car's introduction. The dual torque converter idea is a pretty good one, with one exception: reverse. I think it would need a separate gearbox for each rear wheel, adding cost and complexity. As always, Jay, excellent episode!

[@What.its.like.]

Thank you for that correction of it not being quite =) great information happy you dig this episode

[@fidobite3798]

I've seen 2 Tuckers in my life, one at a car show & the other was in the old Harrah car museum when I was a teenager...50 yrs ago.😢 It was a sizable car but not attractive to my eye. Interesting motor coverage - thx!!

[@tractorsold1]

The Tucker automobile was an engineering disaster. The suspension was made of rubber blocks, which caused severe toe-in of the front wheels during braking. There were three different designs trying to fix this, but they just had different major faults. The rear wheels had odd patterns of movement, too. And the ride over any bumps was awfull. The lack of multiple forward gears meant too little power at start-up and too much fuel consumption at speed. If you owned one, you'ld know that it's only useful as a show car, you wouldn't want to drive it very often.

[@bobmccurdy8881]

It's a shame what happened to Tucker big three with the help of the fed destroyed him.

[@12yearssober]

They did that to alot of makers.

[@ronniedale6040]

You know its a nice story about the big 3 taking the little man out. But realistically once GM came out with their OHV v8's in 49 with fully automatic transmissions the tucker would have been terribly obsolete and complicated at the same time. Tucker would have had to have had this car be an immediate success and that very day start designing a completely new car with the money. That absolutely was not in the cards. Lawsuits or not.

[@Waveluth]

My uncle collected rare cars in his whole but SHORT life. He purchased a new 1954 Corvette and took off the tires and wheels and packed them in grease paper. Then he covered the car with 3 car covers. He did this to ALL HIS CARS. He wanted to put them back on the road after 50 years and thus have a perfect collection of mint condition rare cars. Unfortunately he died at the age of 44 and my aunt who is now 106 years old kept them all just like her husband had. They are kept in a heated and cooled facility on the property of her mansion. We are not close at all unfortunately. My dad was one of 13 children and she was the oldest. Today they sit in the heated and cooled barn today just like they were when my uncle bought them. Last time I spoke to my cousin he said there were @11 cars in the barn but he it was hard to be sure because the barn is so big. There are 4 pallets of brand new Chrysler hemi motors , and 2 Tucker sedans same color same mileage: one with 27 miles on it and the other 654 miles on the speedo. A 1923 Rolls Royce limousine ( looks just like the Munster mobile )🤣 Several Mercedes (4 to be exact!) I don’t know a lot about Mercedes vintage cars but there are 2 Convertible’s and two strange looking hardtops. The roofs are split windows?? The doors open up gullwing style. I didn’t know they made those kind of doors back then. They appear to be late 50’s or early 60’s. There are a few large older sedans from the 30’s maybe??? I have no idea what they are other than the fact that they are American made cars from the 40’s both are from Cadillac. Man I wish I had been closer to her over the years just so I could see them up close and personal. The last time I PERSONALLY saw these cars was at a family reunion in 1968. My uncle even took out a weird Mercedes Benz from @1900 Or so. It was a weird looking thing with a big flywheel on the horizontal and a chain drive of some type. It had a single stick to steer it and the throttle was a lever on the steering stick or whatever it’s called. It was a great day and we had a ton of fun playing in the barn amongst the vintage cars. I wonder what they are worth today?? She will NOT sell a single nut or bolt of that collection. My uncle even purchased spare wheels , interior parts, new bumpers wrapped in grease paper on the walls. It crazy to think that these cars will NEVER be for sale EVER!! She has made arrangements for their continued care from now until the end of time I guess. I wish she would change her mind and share them with the world but she’s not interested the least bit. She is very wealthy and sees no advantage to selling them. Her own sons aren’t allowed to touch them nor are they being left in their care. They will inherit hundreds of millions of dollars but NOT THE CARS!! Talk about sticking to the plan no matter what. I respect her for taking care of them and seeing that they continue to be kept in the condition they were new. Pretty cool huh ?? Geez all I want is that Corvette???? Never gonna happen🤣🤣🤣✌️🇺🇸

[@What.its.like.]

Great story does she ever let anybody come down and take videos of cars?

[@Waveluth]

@@What.its.like. I wish!! She is very protective of her husbands collection. I’m not sure when this group of rare cars will ever be shared with the public but to be perfectly frank, my aunt is 106 years old??? She’s the only remaining member of her family of 13 bros. and sisters. She still drives???? She still goes to work 4 days a week at her husbands store which she has kept open since his death in 1971. So who knows???? It can’t be that much more time. I’ll let you know though. Let me call my cousin ( her son) he is a reasonable guy. I’d be happy to ask him for you. ✌️😎

[@What.its.like.]

Awesome just curious. Where are you located?

[@1Esteband]

@@Waveluth Fascinating story, would love to hear updates.

[@guykwalter1693]

I actually saw two with my own eyes, one in the Ford museum the other in Las Vegas at Harrahs. Harrahs Tucker was driven and looked a bit rough. The Ford museums Tucker was perfect, and flawless.

[@What.its.like.]

Awesome

[@SteveLinney-w8q]

I've read that the engine came from a helicopter thanks for the video

[@What.its.like.]

You bet happy you dig this episode

[@ernestoclaudodip9671]

I saw the movie , it is excellent and shows how dirty were the 3 Grands , GM , FORD AND CHRYSLER.

[@What.its.like.]

I loved the move Jeff bridges played a great Preston Tucker

[@curtislowe4577]

It was a movie not a documentary or history. 🤦🏼‍♂️

[@mikemoore9757]

My story is that a man I knew years ago played poker with Tucker once. Joe and the movie crew he was working with also borrowed an airplane from Howard Hughes when there's was redlined, and he met Hughes in his office. Joe also had some dealings with Jimmy Stewart when Stewart had the P-51 racing plane. This guy had a interesting life. Rip Joe.

[@What.its.like.]

Great story thank you so much for sharing that memory

[@bennyboogenheimer4553]

When my Uncle turned 16 in 1954, he and his Dad, and brothers went to a used car lot in Philly on Broad St. (RT 611). The guy had a ton of newer cars up on the front line, $200.00, to $1,200 dollars. Then he had some ODD BALLS, 2 Tuckers #5 & #32. Dad said neither ran, so the mechanic ran and got a tractor trailer's Battery 24V to jump start it. Both fired right up. They looked under the hood, but of course no engine up there! The Owner told them $600 a piece, or $1,000 for both!! My Dad wanted the one, but my Uncle Bob saw a 51 Chrysler for $400, so it killed the deal. Dad said the Chrysler had duel points, and the 10 years Bob had it, it never ran right, and drank gas 7mpg. The guy also had 4, 1930's Duesenbergs. Dad said you haven't lived untill you've put your foot into a Supercharged 6.9 liter 320 HP 3 ton car, on the Pa turnpike. 160 mph felt like 35 mph.

[@What.its.like.]

Awesome story thank you so much for sharing those memories hindsight is always 2020 you’ll never find a deal like that again 2 tuckers for $1000, how much were the Dusenberg’s? It’s hard to believe that there was a time when those cars were just old cars.

[@bennyboogenheimer4553]

@@What.its.like. I know RIGHT! 1948 to 1954, and the cars were $3,100 New with every Tucker option. My Dad used to kick himself all the time, for not buying the 2 Tuckers. He had the $1,000 Cash in his pocket! He said the problem was there was NO extra parking in his neighborhood. I asked him why didn't you buy both, and just give the other to your Brother?!? He laughed at me, and said He still had his Baptism money! He was asking $2,000, to $5,000 for the Duesenbergs. Dad said they were all cars meant to be scoffer driven. So even though he was 5'8" there was very little room behind the wheel. They didn't know anything about the Duzzies, it was my Grandfather who spotted them, and asked about a test drive. Dad said driving the Duzzie was fun, buuuuuuut you looked like one of the Beverly Hillbillies driving it with the top down. My Grandpa was friends with a fellow from Brewrytown, Philadelphia, Pa, Grover Bergdoll who owned and raced 7 different Duzzies, and Fiats before WWI. All given the #8, because he was the 8th out of 12 kids. He flew Airplanes, and had even gotten his federal pilot's license from Wilbur Write, after 2 hours of flying over Philly in 1909. If you ever get to Valley Forge, there's an Archway that is a small version of the Arch de Triumph in France. Grover flew his Fokker Dr3 threw the arch, while being chased by 3 US Government Camels to show the War was just going to be a meat grinder of new technology. He offered to join, but only as a piolet/instructor, the Government said NO, so he went MIA. After winning the War the US closed all the beer makers down, and we went from 4,000 here in Philly to 6, after proabortion was lifted. Imagine closing down all of silicone valley, with one Presidential signature! That was Brewerytown in 1920. Bergdoll's Brewery lasted till 1950's, when the neighborhood went very ungentrified.

[@daveridgeway2639]

Hi Justin, good video! The 1988 movie; "Tucker: The Man and His Dream" by Paramount Pictures, is a good documentary, that I saw in the movie theater in 1988. By the way, you just gave me the incentive to order the DVD for my DVD inventory. Please respond. Dave...

[@What.its.like.]

I love that movie it was a great movie. I think Jeff Bridges played an excellent Preston Tucker.

[@geebs76]

This is hardly a cool Tucker story but my Dad's family knew a lady who lived in Wheeling WV who had one.

[@What.its.like.]

Awesome =) wonder if they still have it

[@THEScottCampbell]

"My Guitar Wants To Kill Your Mama" - Frank Zappa

[@What.its.like.]

No one like you scorpions

[@middleclassretiree]

Very cool video today, the big 3 did Tucker dirty just like they did John Delorean, maybe you could do a video on the big 3 and their dirty tricks

[@What.its.like.]

You have to watch this episode it’s the best episode I think I’ve ever done as far as information.. I also got to do a Chrysler turbine car, which I think is another super underrated episode. There is information in that episode that I haven’t seen in any other video even the Haggerty video which came later. kzbin.info/www/bejne/Y5zCf52pq7Vsqtkfeature=shared

[@Flashman36175]

So that's what hzppen to Franklin. Never knew, even had a franklin air engine.

[@What.its.like.]

Going to do an episode on Franklin as an engine builder not entirely sure when maybe that will be this week coming up engine episode who knows lol

[@mickvonbornemann3824]

Franklin Motors was eventually sold to Poland & still exists

[@JayMalone26]

Tucker Story: I was at sale and a guy was selling license plates. He had a set of brand new, never mounted, 1948 Illinois plates. I forgot the number but it was low; like #47. The seller told me Tucker reserved the first 50 plates in 1948 for the release of the Torpedo. So that set of plates was destined for a Tucker but never happened. He was asking $5,000. I purchased a 1980 Presidential Inauguration license plate instead w/ just a single "0" stamped on it. Plate 1 is for the president and 2 is for the vice president. No clue what 0 for. Maybe the guy who lost!

[@What.its.like.]

Sweeet story

[@paradiselost9946]

non-tucker story... followed a car with a CROWN as a number plate? not the word. a picture. of a crown. wtf.

[@John-i5q3p]

Tucker called the big auto manufacturer heads together .. to shame them .. for neglecting safety features, showing them mangled cars and dead bodies .. They decided to sink Tucker ..

[@patracy]

The military has used 24v systems for nearly 75 years on their trucks.

[@What.its.like.]

But civilian vehicles is cyber truck the first one

[@patracy]

@@What.its.like. also untrue. Toyota 70 series LC's, lots and lots of busses, lots of civilian commercial trucks, tractor trailers. And if you want to stretch it even more, lots of tractors and equipment are 24v. Even speaking of the civilian world, Tesla is half a century behind to claim that.

[@What.its.like.]

I’m not by any means a Tesla fanboy I just didn’t know if that claim was true or not

[@Neil-ru7kw]

I wonder how far , milage wise , the later engines would go . 50k , 100k , more ??????

[@billwendell6886]

I saw an ad for one in a car rag 1980ish, about $15000, selling point was cruise at 120mph at 1800 all day long. They pop up in tourist trap museums. As for the song, I can't remember because it was utterly forgettable....

[@JustinMiales]

I had a Crosley little station wagon, Regis shoes that are around the yard to clean up weeds and sticks and stuff and you couldn't kill that car

[@What.its.like.]

Awesome =)

[@andreamills5852]

Scorpions --Rock you like a hurricane ?

[@johnboydTx]

I can see that 👏👏👏✌️🤠

[@What.its.like.]

No one like you scorpions John Boyd got it

[@draggonsgate]

As brilliant and innovative as Tucker was, he was a terrible businessman. Had he never cancelled the aircraft contracts, he could've leverage the company for operating capital for the car, thus voiding the courts. He could have hit the big 3 head on with their bull. The car itself was advanced, should've stuck with a boring tried n true powertrain until the car had a solid rep. Then start playing around with experimental stuff.

[@PRH123]

Yes he shouldn't have cancelled those contracts. But the Franklin engine wasn't going to make the tucker successful. Aircraft engines are assembled individually by hand, and are engineered very differently from auto engines. Their cranks are 5 times as massive as an auto engines, they're designed for low rpm torque, and run at max 2500 rpm. An aircraft piston engine alone costs as much as or more than a whole car with an engine. Tucker would have had to totally redesign the manufacturing of the engines, for mass production, which would have been a massive investment. Unjustifiable based on the small number to be manufactured.

[@MimicoBungalow]

1:46 what's a war war two high?

[@What.its.like.]

Not having anything new to buy for years and having the money but nothing worth spending it on

[@ifixboats5066]

Me and the engine both have a stroke of 5 inches

[@winstonelston5743]

6:17 If you pause at 6:17 you will notice that the '47 Kaiser as proposed was different under the body shell in every way possible from the thoroughly conventional car that made it to market, and Henry J. Kaiser was richer than God. Preston Tucker was a huckster and a promoter, but he didn't have a viable product. The legacy car makers gad no need to sink the Tucker. in 1945-'47bthey were selling everything they coud get wheels and an engine into at premium mark-ups over the list prices and customers were lined up for ocver a year for the promise of a new car to be delivered. Kaiser bought the moribund Graham-Paige to get his hand on Joseph Frazer's expertise and understanding of car manufacture. GM provided Hydramatic transmissions and other components to the independent manufacturers. If it had been the Big Three's intention to wipe out the smaller companies, they wouldn't have done that.

[@What.its.like.]

I totally want to do an episode on a Front Wheel Dr., Kaiser they were supposed to make, but ran into issues tried to do too much too fast much like Tucker

[@winstonelston5743]

@@What.its.like. But, unlike Preston Tucker, Henry Kaiser had more money than God and he had a competent partner who knew when to go conventional.

[@What.its.like.]

Hahaha I didn’t know Kaiser was that rich

[@vick.1349]

@@What.its.like. Kaiser built WWII Liberty and auxiliary ships and was in on large construction projects like the Hoover Dam and for a while associated with the Spruce Goose.

[@dddevildogg]

Things were going pretty smooth for GM with that great Hydramatic transmission.But one day 1953 the entire plant burnt down,forcing every body in GM's lineup to use other transmissions Pontiac had to use Chevy's PowerGlide, Caddy & Olds were adapted to Buick's Dynaflow

[@markmalasics3413]

Another classic example of "why do people refrain from hiring professional narrators?"

[@What.its.like.]

Another classic example of people being jerks.. I know I don’t have the best voice in the world but at least I’m a real person and I’m here to tell you that no one is perfect. Everyone gets a free voice on this channel. I’m gonna leave your comment up so people can see what a jerk you are. I told the guy I don’t have the budget to hire Morgan Freeman. Not everybody gets the MrBeast budget.. If you don’t like my voice, you can always mute it and watch the subtitles. It’s great information. I can’t change the voice God gave me. it’s honestly something I struggle with and a little bit insecure of even after doing 500 episodes

[@KC9UDX]

Coulda woulda shoulda. The Amiga really was far better than any other personal computer. But it wasn't a Chevy and people want Chevy because.

[@giantgeoff]

Franklin from Syracuse NY

[@What.its.like.]

Yes

[@brianhiles8164]

88 hp from an engine of nearly 10 liters?! _How is this even possible?_ A magnesium oilpan is not sufficient compensation for this little power.

[@What.its.like.]

Yeah clearly wasn’t running right

[@samuelb6960]

Imagine if Preston tucker and ettore Bugatti became partners.

[@marksandstrom4248]

The overwhelming factor to me here is grossly inadequate (i.e. incomplete) engineering development and testing. Nearly everything about the Tucker was no more at best than a theoretical prediction. Where does my opinion come from? Decades of working as an engineer in commercial transport aviation.

[@ColtonRMagby]

WYR: All of them.

[@chrisbrown3925]

I sometimes think the corvair was a rip off of tucker.

[@johnboydTx]

Chevys competition for Porsche 🤣🤣 no comparison !!!! ✌️🤠

[@VintageCarHistory]

I'll take the pizza.

[@Hobotraveler82]

❤

[@selfdo]

This video further illustrates the REAL reason(s) that the Tucker 48 flopped. Yes, it had technical innovations. Yes, other automakers had concerns about competing with Tucker in the HIGH END market. However, things like cancelling the air-cooled aircraft engine contracts of the Franklin Aircraft Engine Company that he'd spent $1.8 M of BORROWED FUNDS to get just shows that Preston Tucker was simply a POOR businessman, even though he was a great ENGINEER. Tucker would have been better off to work in collaboration with an established auto maker that had need to expand in the high end car market, like Hudson, Nash, or Studebaker. That would have taken care of his capitalization concerns, and given more ability to compete for raw materials which were in high demand in the post-war era.

[@What.its.like.]

Great insight

[@johnrebus1641]

Is seems like a lot of Tuckers claims were hugely exaggerated - 150BHP would not push a 1900kg /4200lb car to 120mph or even to 60 in 10 seconds. And 30 -35mpg from 334cid with 7:1 compression. A lot of his business decisions seem erratic & questionable. He had some good ideas, esp while Detroit were still snoozing but I think his ego exceeded his ability

[@What.its.like.]

Tom McCahill tested one and got it up to 115 and felt it had more just didn’t push it because of how rare their were.. Toyota Prius has 100 HP and is capable of going 111 miles per hour..

[@chuckmumey115]

That conman ruined Franklin Aircraft engine I insisting that all engines be converted to automobile use .. thus destroying aircraft companies like Stinson aircraft company. Franklin engines were well known and well used in the 1930’s and 40’s . Plus he absconded with millions from the Federal Government and had to produce 48 automobiles before they tossed him in Jail . Thus the big court appearance in 1948 -49. He is no hero!!! It took the employees of Aeromotve/Franklin to buy the company out of bankruptcy and build aircraft engines again but, not to the scale that it was as before Mr Tucker got his dirty hands on the engine company. Franklin limped along until the 1970’s when it was sold factory and all this to PZL Poland and were produced behind the iron curtain. PZL sold out to Pratt and Whitney because they made a copy of the PT 6 Canada turbo prop but Pratt discontinued the Franklin piston line. All parts and new engines are what is left that were built in Poland and they are ready mining out of parts and engines. But, we can thank Mr Tucker for the original down fall of Franklin aircraft engine company .

[@What.its.like.]

Great information and insight =)

[@adamv242]

Pineapple on pizza is delicious. Stop the hate.

[@What.its.like.]

Haha I like pineapple on pizza sometimes personally no hate =)

[@urbexandbrokenthings4806]

this engine is weird, but not practical or high output by even 1940s standards. overhead cam engines were already invented as well as fuel injection. the materials used were an obvious horrible choice as well

[@danrhinehart1134]

Hint.....the engine used in a Tucker was a Franklin Airctaft engine. This is basically the same engine used in the Bell 47 helicopter or Stinson 108. Aircraft engines work just fine when they are operated by people who are trained to use them. Put one in a car and you are going to have problems. Basically Preston Tucker was a wingnut. Even the Tucket was a ripoff of a pre wwii czechoslovakian Tatra.

[@deanstevenson6527]

🥝✔️

[@joehughes5177]

Horrific narration

[@What.its.like.]

Horrific comment real person not AI Don’t have to budget to get Morgan freeman

[@joehughes5177]

You've crafted a wonderful piece on a milestone of automobile history, good help is hard to find

[@What.its.like.]

My voice is something I’ve always struggled with. It’s getting better though…

[@mikco99]

The AI narrator is sooo annoying.

[@What.its.like.]

Not AI real person

[@stevecallagher9973]

this segment is pointless

[@What.its.like.]

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[@David-mo2zq]

The narrative sucks!

[@What.its.like.]

Your ignorance is showing

[@rapidcars1]

The way you say engine and as many times as you say, it is so freaking annoying

[@What.its.like.]

Eh.. if it annoys you drink everytime it’s done you’ll feel better at the end

[@clutchmanly1147]

Many years ago I saw a picture of a Tucker with wheel skirts and I thought it was the bomb. For years I've tried to find that picture online but haven't been successful. Anyone else know of or have a picture of a Tucker with wheel skirts that they could post?

[@What.its.like.]

Is it this prototype www.autoevolution.com/news/unique-tucker-torpedo-prototype-replica-up-for-sale-photo-gallery-83784.html facebook.com/share/p/nG6VqYD5TL6htzj8/? kzbin.info/www/bejne/rJ-cZq2tiM-Fo9Esi=w6tTcEyAFteUOrZ7

[@bensfixitpage341]

24volt was it Jeeps during the Korean war around 1949. I don't think the Cyber truck was the first.

[@What.its.like.]

Very possible but did the manufacturer put that in? I don’t know if cyber truck was the very first one to do 24 V I made that comment to see if there was anything before it.