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 ...

rear-engine car with the engine being a modified air-cooled helicopter motor from the war that generated 166 horsepower and weighed only 320 pounds. The Tucker had performance as well ...

it was used for speed testing at Indianapolis Motor Speedway and also demonstrated the capability of Tucker vehicles in a promotional film. See All 85 Photos Before he died, Tucker sold the car to ...

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 ...

The Tucker 48 might not have been able to take flight on a clear afternoon, but the short-lived muscle car would go on to become a favorite of director Francis Ford Coppola, becoming the subject ...