The Tucker on display at the National Museum of American History. Cade Martin. Francis Ford Coppola’s car connection began at birth, or even before.

However, they were air-cooled and that would never work for a proper road car. Tucker engineers managed to re-engineer the Franklins with water cooling, giving birth to the Tucker flat-6, a 5.4 ...

The story of the Tucker 48, also known as the Tucker Torpedo, has both. This oddball car, which never became a ...

In the ever-evolving world of automotive innovation, not every revolutionary idea results in lasting success. History is paved with the stories of carmakers who dared to break the mold—only to break ...

Obsessed with cars since childhood, inventor Preston Tucker (Jeff Bridges) has his first successful auto design partnership in the 1930s and designs a successful gun turret for World War II use ...

LAPORTE | Dick Stokes was living in Michigan City while his father drove around the Midwest selling dealerships for the first 1948 Tucker automobiles about to be mass-produced, when legend ...

Preston Tucker was inducted into the Automotive Hall of Fame in 1999, quite an accomplishment for somebody who only built 51 cars. What was it about him that made him so indispensable as an innovator?