The Tucker Torpedo is one of the great what-if stories of automotive history. Preston Tucker hoped to revolutionize the industry with a car unlike any other on the road at the time. However, due ...

Just 51 Tucker Torpedo sedans were built before the company went out of business. Those were 51 special machines, though, with a rear engine (like the iconic Volkswagen Beetle and Porsche 911 ...

Tucker #1043 was hammered sold at $2.65 million ($2.91 million with buyer's fees) during the high dollar afternoon/evening portion of the auction last Saturday.

This oddball car, which never became a mass-production vehicle and was doomed by mechanical and financial problems before it was even built, may not seem a likely candidate for changing the course of ...

Gooding & Co., an auction house that specializes in classic cars, said it will offer a 1948 Tucker Torpedo during its Amelia Island sale on March 9. The car is one of 51 Tuckers built and was ...

By March 1949, after only 51 cars had been completed, Tucker Corp. was forced into bankruptcy, and Preston Tucker himself was removed as head of the company.

Before it arrived in Pacoima, the Tucker’s chrome and body were restored to original specifications at a shop in nearby Sun Valley. Photos: Rare 1948 Tucker 48 “Torpedo” headed to auction ...

The name Tucker has become a cautionary tale in the automotive world for the kind of blue sky thinking, convention-ignoring iconoclast that decides that they can build a car that’s faster, safer ...

As a result, Tucker completed only 51 cars (including the prototype), a number that makes the 48 "Torpedo" one of the rarest American classics out there.

With only 51 cars ever manufactured and approximately 47 still in existence, a Tucker certainly isn't a common sight. Nor was it in its day; the triclops-like front fascia, gentle fastback and ...

The very Tucker Torpedo that sits in the Henry Ford today had been acquired by the Evening News Association as evidence and donated to the museum.

The 1948 Tucker Torpedo is a rare and fairly obscure automobile, as only 51 were built before the company was forced to shut down. Tucker’s story was told in the 1988 film, “Tucker: The Man ...