• Thumbnail for Preston Tucker
    Preston Thomas Tucker (21 September 1903 – 26 December 1956) was an American automobile entrepreneur who developed the innovative Tucker 48 sedan, initially...
    36 KB (4,849 words) - 04:40, 18 May 2024
  • Jeff Bridges as inventor Preston Tucker. The film recounts Tucker's story and his attempt to produce and market the Tucker 48, which was met with scandal...
    41 KB (4,389 words) - 17:45, 8 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Tucker 48
    The Tucker 48, commonly but incorrectly referred to as the Tucker Torpedo, was an automobile conceived by Preston Tucker while in Ypsilanti, Michigan,...
    65 KB (5,288 words) - 04:22, 11 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Preston Tucker (baseball)
    Preston Michael Tucker (born July 6, 1990) is an American professional baseball outfielder who is a free agent. He has previously played in Major League...
    17 KB (1,483 words) - 08:23, 20 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Tucker armored car
    initiatives of American industrialist Preston Tucker during World War II was the Tucker armored car (also known as the Tucker Tiger Tank even though it was not...
    4 KB (446 words) - 17:51, 6 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Tucker gun turret
    industrialist Preston Tucker first developed the turret for the experimental Tucker armored car in 1938. Steve Lehto in his biography of Tucker, asserts that...
    4 KB (412 words) - 20:03, 27 September 2023
  • Thumbnail for Tucker XP-57
    "Peashooter", it was developed by the Tucker Aviation Corporation under Preston Tucker, who later became famous for the Tucker '48 Sedan. To minimize weight,...
    3 KB (296 words) - 22:55, 9 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Jeff Bridges
    he portrayed automobile entrepreneur Preston Tucker in the Francis Ford Coppola directed biographical film Tucker: The Man and His Dream which earned positive...
    67 KB (5,236 words) - 02:35, 23 August 2024
  • Look up Tucker or tucker in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Tucker may refer to: Tucker, Arkansas Tucker, Georgia Tucker, Mississippi Tucker, Missouri...
    2 KB (317 words) - 02:49, 19 December 2023
  • Thumbnail for Ypsilanti, Michigan
    Ypsilanti that Preston Tucker (whose family owned the Ypsilanti Machine Tool Company) designed and built the prototypes for his Tucker '48. Tucker's story was...
    56 KB (5,594 words) - 14:50, 11 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Tucker Carlson
    Tucker Swanson McNear Carlson (born May 16, 1969) is an American conservative political commentator and writer who hosted the nightly political talk show...
    365 KB (30,781 words) - 22:22, 15 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Francis Ford Coppola
    producer, and directed Tucker: The Man and His Dream the year after that. The film is a biopic based on the life of Preston Tucker and his attempt to produce...
    152 KB (14,063 words) - 14:15, 13 September 2024
  • until Preston Tucker hired him to design the 1948 Tucker Sedan. As Phil Egan described in his book, "Design and Destiny: The Making of the Tucker Automobile"...
    8 KB (835 words) - 22:10, 14 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Christian Slater
    His other notable films include roles in The Name of the Rose (1986), Tucker: The Man and His Dream (1988), Windtalkers (2002), Alone in the Dark (2005)...
    46 KB (2,844 words) - 01:11, 24 August 2024
  • Turbine Car: The Rise and Fall of Detroit's Coolest Creation" and "Preston Tucker and His Battle to Build the Car of Tomorrow.", This book also was listed...
    14 KB (1,314 words) - 16:24, 15 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Lincoln Park, Michigan
    and as a city in 1925. Preston Tucker, famous for his controversial financing and development of the revolutionary 1948 Tucker Sedan, grew up in Lincoln...
    19 KB (1,759 words) - 18:57, 2 June 2024
  • politician Preston Tucker (1903–1956), American entrepreneur Preston Tucker (baseball) (born 1990), American baseball player Rachel Tucker (born 1981)...
    24 KB (3,065 words) - 09:04, 1 September 2024
  • at the request of Preston Tucker (noted for the Tucker 48 automobile), who wanted Campini to help him with his new corporation. Tucker asked Campini to...
    3 KB (326 words) - 08:20, 27 September 2023
  • Thumbnail for Lustron house
    intrigue in government, Preston Tucker, who proposed to produce a radical new automobile, acquired the plant. In turn, Tucker shortly failed in his business...
    23 KB (2,629 words) - 16:37, 12 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Douglas B-18 Bolo
    dorsal, and ventral gun turrets. At one point, Preston Tucker's firm received a contract to supply Tucker remote controlled gun turrets but these were unsuccessful...
    25 KB (3,099 words) - 12:36, 12 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Henry B. Plant High School
    Stills, Nash and Young musical group Kyle Tucker, baseball player for the Houston Astros Preston Tucker, former MLB player, currently playing in Korea...
    13 KB (1,010 words) - 08:18, 11 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Chip Foose
    Project Design, in Santa Barbara, California. Encouraged by Ford and Preston Tucker designer Alex Tremulis, Foose started to attend the Art Center College...
    14 KB (1,422 words) - 10:16, 15 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for West Virginia's 2nd congressional district
    Marshall, Mineral, Monongalia, Morgan, Ohio, Pleasants, Preston, Randolph, Ritchie, Taylor, Tucker, Tyler, Upshur, Wetzel, and Wood counties. The district...
    34 KB (515 words) - 20:16, 2 September 2024
  • actor Preston Robert Tisch (1926–2005), American businessman Preston Tucker (1903–1956), American automobile designer and entrepreneur Preston Valien...
    6 KB (724 words) - 04:14, 26 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Vector W2
    Ziff-Davis: 36–40. Retrieved 8 July 2015. Linde, Arvids (15 April 2011). Preston Tucker & Others: Tales of Brilliant Automotive Innovators & Innovations. Veloce...
    3 KB (293 words) - 21:21, 12 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Howard Hughes
    [original research?] In Tucker: The Man and His Dream, (1988), Hughes (played by Dean Stockwell) figures in the plot by telling Preston Tucker to source steel...
    138 KB (16,062 words) - 01:35, 7 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Henry Ford
    (1920s) List of richest Americans in history Outline of Henry Ford Preston Tucker Ransom Olds William Benson Mayo Cwiek, Sarah (January 27, 2014). "The...
    106 KB (13,093 words) - 20:38, 29 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Gerald Wiegert
    vectormotors.com. Retrieved 14 September 2016. Linde, Arvid (May 11, 2011). Preston Tucker and Others: Tales of Brilliant Automotive Innovators and Innovations...
    7 KB (539 words) - 16:53, 17 September 2022
  • 1950s, Sakhnoffsky teamed up with Preston Tucker (after Tucker's tumultuous acquittal from an SEC trial over the Tucker 48 sedan) funded by investors from...
    5 KB (488 words) - 23:01, 5 September 2024
  • American immigration policy). The song mentions "Tucker's blood", a reference to Preston Tucker's ill-fated Tucker 48. Throughout the White Stripes later years...
    3 KB (256 words) - 20:49, 5 September 2024