But Coppola would soon come to admire a more obscure automotive icon: Preston Tucker, father of the unlucky Tucker ’48, a cutting-edge car that was never mass-produced because of the inventor ...

A controversial inventor and entrepreneur, Preston Tucker, saw this as the perfect opportunity to step in and build a car of ...

Preston Tucker, an automotive engineer who helped to design Miller racing cars before World War II, almost realized his ambition of producing a "completely new" passenger automobile after the war. He ...

One of the guys who bought Tucker 1051 is the great grandson of Preston Tucker, the inventor of the car. For him it’s obviously a connection to his family’s past – you can tell he’s ...