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    The Tucker 48, commonly but incorrectly referred to as the Tucker Torpedo, was an automobile conceived by Preston Tucker while in Ypsilanti, Michigan,...
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  • Wolf 48, a phone network brand of Three Ireland "Forty Eight", a song by Karma to Burn from the album V, 2011 48 Doris, a main-belt asteroid Tucker 48, a...
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    Preston Thomas Tucker (21 September 1903 – 26 December 1956) was an American automobile entrepreneur who developed the innovative Tucker 48 sedan, initially...
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  • 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 between...
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  • Look up Tucker or tucker in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Tucker may refer to: Tucker, Arkansas Tucker, Georgia Tucker, Mississippi Tucker, Missouri...
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    "Peashooter", it was developed by the Tucker Aviation Corporation under Preston Tucker, who later became famous for the Tucker '48 Sedan. To minimize weight, the...
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    applications for aircraft engines, including production vehicles such as the Tucker 48 and prototypes such as the Chrysler Turbine Car, Fiat Turbina, and General...
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    Justin Paul Tucker (born November 21, 1989) is an American professional football placekicker for the Baltimore Ravens of the National Football League (NFL)...
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  • 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 both...
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    (2016-02-23), The Tucker 48: The Greatest Car That Ever Could Have Been, Cheat Sheet, retrieved 2017-02-01, It was out of this environment that the Tucker emerged...
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    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 a...
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    American manufacturers briefly produced cars with flat-six engines—the 1948 Tucker 48 (water-cooled, based on the Franklin O-335) and the 1960–1969 Chevrolet...
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    advocated in the 1930s by car safety pioneer Claire L. Straith. In 1948, the Tucker 48 became the first car with a padded dashboard. One of the safety enhancements...
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  • controversially-styled car causing a company to fail echoes that of the Edsel, the Tucker 48, and the later DeLorean. The Edsel was a controversially styled car named...
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    Company Studebaker Stutz Motor Company Thunderbird Talbot Trabant Tucker 48 made by the Tucker Corporation Twentieth Century Motor Car Corporation Wartburg...
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    the life of Preston Tucker and his attempt to produce and market the Tucker '48; Coppola had originally conceived the project as a musical with Marlon...
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    largest permanent collection of Tucker 48 automobiles in the world. Named for David Cammack, a historian and collector of Tucker automobiles, the entire collection...
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    most prominent cars in the collection are a 1934 Duesenberg Model J, a Tucker 48, and a handful of cars built for films, such as The Great Race, How the...
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    Tata Pixel and Tata Magic Iris Tatra 77, 87, 97, 600, 603, 613, 700 Tucker 48 'Torpedo' Volkswagen Type 62 and Type 82 Kübelwagen, Kommandeurswagen...
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    Hillman Imp Vespa 400 ZAZ Zaporozhets ZAZ Zaporozhets Engine Alpine A110 Tucker 48 Simca 1000 Škoda 1000 MB Renault 4CV 1960 Renault 4CV longitudinally-mounted...
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    flat-six Chevrolet Corvair (1959–1969), Porsche 911 (1963-present), and Tucker 48 (1947–1948). The opposite layout, front-engine front-wheel drive, was...
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    market. Although a directional headlight was previously seen on the 1948 Tucker 48 'Torpedo', Citroën was the first to mass-market adaptive headlights. The...
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    that Preston Tucker (whose family owned the Ypsilanti Machine Tool Company) designed and built the prototypes for his Tucker '48. Tucker's story was related...
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  • immigration policy). The song mentions "Tucker's blood", a reference to Preston Tucker's ill-fated Tucker 48. Throughout the White Stripes later years...
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  • debut) and starring Chris Tucker and Charlie Sheen. It is the first of four collaborations between Brett Ratner and Chris Tucker, with the other three being...
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    musician; attended Lincoln Park High School Preston Tucker, automobile entrepreneur, designer of the Tucker 48 Michigan portal United States portal City of Lincoln...
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    but engine company owner Preston Tucker diverted all of its aviation resources to support his ill-fated Tucker 48 automobile project, and the aircraft...
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    – designed by Budd Steinhilbur, who was a well known designer of the Tucker 48 automobile. Budd's Caballitos were also adapted for battery-swapping at...
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  • (1939), Tucker 48 (1948), Chrysler Town & Country Convertible Coupe (1948), and Mercedes-Benz 300SL "Gullwing" Coupe (1955). The museum's Tucker 48 is production...
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  • Tony Craig Tucker (born December 27, 1958) is an American former professional boxer who competed from 1980 to 1998. He won the IBF heavyweight title in...
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