Many of today’s “advanced” tech features were first seen decades ago, but they didn’t always work
Buyers were in short supply when these cars were freshly minted; now you need to be minted to buy one
Tucker Corporation wanted to build 60,000 vehicles of the innovative 48 annually but eventually went bust
The car started out as a 48 sedan and was in the process of being turned into a convertible when Tucker went bust
The Tucker 48 had many novel safety features, but a shortage of funding meant only 51 were built
The beauty of the Shelby Cobra was that it married big American
This isn’t another 48, if you can call a Tucker 48 that;
We’ll soon see all kinds of aftermarket goodies becoming available for future
Of all the great cars that could have been, the Tucker is
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