With a partner who had been instrumental in the early success of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Tucker persuaded Henry Ford to sponsor a racing team with 10 advanced design cars to race in 1935.

When Tucker said he was going to build a car with cutting edge features, he pulled out all the stops. Many ideas he got came from spending time in the garages at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway ...

Tucker insisted on making the first car the way he had described it to the ... It required a 24 volt starter motor powered by three hundred pounds of batteries. Clearly, the Tin Goose had problems ...

We start with a hypothetical car suggested by you, I draw it, and then try and think through the world it would be in. It's fun. The really important factor about the survival of the Tucker Motor ...

In the late '60s, the car’s suspension was changed from the original Torsilastic rubber system (a Tucker patent ... wasn’t reproduced back then). The motor has a replacement water pump ...

To recap, Preston Tucker launched his eponymous car company just after World War II with a design that was radically different from anything offered by established automakers at the time.

Tucker claimed the engine was capable of accelerating the Torpedo to 60 mph in 10 seconds and up to a 120-mph top speed. Total engine weight was just 320 pounds. While only 51 original cars were ...