The 3rd headlight reminds me of a Studebaker's nose.

And those photos.... are at some extreme angles.

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They did build 51 of them, and 47 are still on the road!

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My father was a potential TUCKER dealer in Hollywood, Ca. I don't think the investors pulling out was the main reason for TUCKER'S failure to bring the CAR of the FUTURE into production! From the hand written letter from ORIN TUCKER to all those invloved in the publicity of his car the fact that the manufacturers of the items he needed to complete production all of a sudden refused to supply what they had previously agreed to supply; DELCO REMY FOR GENERATORS, STARTERS AND RELATED COMPONENTS, WIRING HARNESES, AUTOLITE FOR SPARK PLUGS AND WIRES, DISTRIBUTOR COMPONENTS, SYLVANIA FOR LIGHT BULBS, CARTER FOR CARBURATORS ETC, ETC, ETC! My father and his three brothers decided to hold off and see if ORIN could get the needed parts in quantity from foreign companies but that didn't work out because of Government regulations that kept foreign companies from shipping such huge quantities into the U.S. because of the surplus on hand from WAR PRODUCTION that were under the control of the major manufacturers! I took a ride in a TUCKER with my dad and his brothers out to the Mojave Desert, it had a sign that the driver could pull down over the rear window like a window shade that read "YOU ARE BEING PASSED BY A TUCKER, THE CAR OF THE FUTURE!" We pased a number of cars and a few of them tried to catch and pass us but, the driver mearly pressed on the throttle a little harder and left them in the dust! At one point my dad pointed to the speedometer and it was touching 130 mph! What a beautiful automobile! I'm 78 years young and have driven cars faster than it but none as quiet and smooth riding, ORIN really had his head on straight when he designed this automobile!

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