I was looking at some photos from the Great Scale Train Show in Timonium, MD last October. Is that a TUCKER automobile with the Baltimore Transit Peter Witt car?
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It is a Tucker, but uncertain of scale from angle and perspective of photo. Tuckers were made in 1:43 scale and are easily found, readily available in various colors.
Could be a Solido. Bought these decades ago.
Rusty
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Yes the Road Signature series Tucker is 1:43. Here are a couple of photos.
lewrail
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Yes it is a Tucker Torpedo for sure! I had eight or so at a Tucker Dealership, ( all 1:43 scale ) once upon a time, on my layout. Sorry I don't have photos of the dealership.
And yes they are easy to find today.
I've got a green one. Made by Matchbox/Dinky. Azgary
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Didn't Brooklin make those, too? I see a lot of models of them, given they made, what, less than 20 of the prototype cars? I wonder if any real dealership ever had
has many as eight of them, or more than one demonstrator? Too bad about Tucker...
Detroit wanted to block anything but very miniscule annual mechanical progress, just sheet metal changes, but later, they got run over by imports, anyway.
Originally Posted by colorado hirailer:
Didn't Brooklin make those, too? I see a lot of models of them, given they made, what, less than 20 of the prototype cars? I wonder if any real dealership ever had
has many as eight of them, or more than one demonstrator? Too bad about Tucker...
Detroit wanted to block anything but very miniscule annual mechanical progress, just sheet metal changes, but later, they got run over by imports, anyway.
Yes it is a shame about what happened to Preston Tuckers great auto company. His design and thinking was light years ahead of the Big Three. He was passionate about his cars and was definitely someone who thought outside the box. If his company had actually been allowed to go on, I truly believe he would have vastly revolutionized the American Automobile Industry overall. The Big Three would have had to come up with fine quality designs and produced top quality products to compete with Preston Tucker.
Actually Tucker produced 51 of the Tucker 48s which the public later nick named ... the Tucker Torpedo. I actually saw a real Tucker back in 1990 at a car museum in Strassburg Pa. Wow!!! What a car ... especially for 1948!!! The museum is no longer there unfortunately.
Although I no longer have a Tucker dealership on my layout, I do haul Tuckers of many colors in my MTH auto rack car. The Tucker will always live in Patsburg!!!!!!!!
Bill,
I think you'll like this old thread of mine.
https://ogrforum.ogaugerr.com/topic/the-tucker-torpedo
George
Great photos! Those Tuckers look sweet on a 3-rail layout!
