balthazar

Yikes. Was actually putting my hands on my #1 choice today : Tempest, then the Cutlass. I'm with Rog tho - go full-size if you want a real car.

^ What's with the round wheel well & the squared wheel well? That crap drives me nuts.

Is anyone really excited about this image? What I mean is, it's certainly nothing radical (not saying ti should be).

#1042 is the unknown 'missing' Tucker in that it's demise has not been verified. It is rumored to have been scrapped in the '50s. The frame & transmission from it survive, the only known pieces ever found. #1018 was scrapped after an accident in '53, some parts have survived. #1023 was destroyed by fire and the remains were crushed. #1027 is in serious disrepair / pieced together with bits from others cars/surplus. Needs total restoration but the major bits are there. This is the car that rolled @ 100 MPH @ Indy during factory testing. 1 prototype, 51 pre-production cars = 52 built - 4 gone (I don't consider #1027 gone, but it's a husk and the club does (unless I am missing another 'goner)). Club tallies do not include the prototype and quote "51" built. 51- 4 = 47 existing (except it's 48- prototype is alive & well). The last recognized car, #1051, was assembled after the factory was closed/gone. It's accepted as real, tho (with an asterisk). But Tucker Designer Tremulis stated emphatically that no convert was in the works, and he would be the first to know. There were a number of body shells after #1051, at least thru #1058, but these were left outside after the 1950 auction, and by the 1970s, were unsalvageable rusty scrap: Great thread here, don't kno if the link will work tho : http://www.jalopyjou...ighlight=tucker Or go to jalopyjournal.com, link to the HAMB, search for 'Tucker' in titles, and check thru 45 pages of different pics. If you go to Post #809 in the above thread (pg 41), it details the full story behind body #1057 (the current convertible), plus has the LIFE pic of this same body in the factory in 1950. It had been pulled from the line and altered with a wrap-rear window opening, planning for the 1949 changes.

^ RIght Olds. #1010 was termed 'barn find' because it had been sitting in a barn/garage since 1956, but it's location was well known to the inner circle guys. There are zero unknown Tuckers left to find.

I would like a linking of online names to real names, plus an isolated soundbite of DF's voice, please.

'sticker performance' cars aren't new from Chevy. >>"The one thing I noted is they were now promoting a new tag it is a Gold Bow Tie with the GM Performance Division "Performance" behind the Bow Tie. They then under it have Vehicles - Parts - Racing."<< Where is this; online? A hanging banner at the event? A brochure/print ad? You did not clarify...

whoa!

Tucker engine is located entirely behind the axle centerline. I don't have a weight distribution number handy (not sure it was ever measured), but the flat 6 was AL. Handling was remarkably good for the period from the majority opinion I've read. BTW- every published weight you see online is wrong- they all regurgitate the weight of the prototype. The non-prototype cars were right about 3850 lbs (most accounts say 4235). I have a cut-away drawing I can upload if you guys need to see it.

Distinct lack of tarpaper, tho; I only see one crumpled piece. It should at least still be attached at the gable end. Prolly a K. Hovnanian build...

Initially, yes. Tucker was working on it's trans, the R1, which had far fewer moving parts than contemporaries. I believe only maybe 2 or 3 (may be only 1) got that trans tho. There was also a full manual in a few cars.

Agreed- it turned out very well. However, I don't think turning one into a convertible added a single thing to the car. It's worse from a design standpoint, IMO. The Tucker works aesthetically at it's zenith as a 4-dr 'torpedo-backed' sedan.

9 built - check the wiki entry. Really cool machine; if you get a chance to see it, do so. First vid does have a degree of deceptive aspect ratio tweaking going on; they were not that wide/low in sectional view.

Yeah; no. Been a Tucker fan for 20 years + now, check in regularly with the TACA board, have my treasured letter from Alex Tremulis safely filed..... the convert is NOT club recognized, it's NOT documented, and it's been completely debunked by Tremulis himself. It's a clone. I've seen the pics; the 'panel rust repairs' were coincidentally located primarily where a roof was cut off, and rear doors were replaced by quarter panel. Yeah.

Right, sure you are.

Oh come on, Bill.

weather.com for central Jersey says 99 Sat, but likely intense thunderstorms, then highs merely in the 80s Sun-Wed. Hang in there, CR!

I got 13 years out of my Viewsonic here at home; it finally sputtered to a stop. I just stripped it down for scrap yesterday. That's a pretty good ROI, IMO.

The c230 was a disaster, I wonder if this will do any better.

Oops- somehow I got used to this, might've been the week at the shore last week. I do stay out of the sunlight, but the temps haven't been bothersome, really, so I'm outside frequently. Yes; I'd like it to be more like 75....

According to this link; it's all the same sheet metal : http://www.classicone.com/wsc/catalog/gm/chevy/camaro/7081camaro/7081camaro.htm

I was under the impression that '70-81's were the same decklid, is that incorrect?

what a bland, boring, image-melting little econobox that is.

Cool- it's on CL right now. Thanks