A Tucker 48! This rare classic is just one of 51 to leave the factory! It's on display at LeMay - America's Car Museum. #classiccar #tucker48 #Tucker #iconiccar | This Day in Automotive History - Drive History

#FeatureFriday - 1948 Tucker 48 Advertised as "The first completely new car in 50 years," the #Tucker48 featured ingenious engineering that included a rear-mounted, aluminum 335 c.i. six cylinder Franklin helicopter engine, all-independent suspension, safety glass, and much more. Despite high hopes, only one prototype and 50 production models ever left the Chicago factory before the Tucker Corporation went bankrupt amid an SEC investigation. This #Tucker is on display at #LeMayACM on loan from t

The car that killed its own company. Meet the Tucker '48. Built in the late 1950s with revolutionary features decades ahead of its time: seatbelts, a center headlight that turned with the wheels, rear-mounted engine. Big automakers feared Tucker would change everything, so government pressure crushed the company after only 51 cars were made. Today, those rare Tuckers are worth millions, but the brand died because innovation threatened the wrong people. Sometimes being too far ahead kills you. |