Tucker ‘48 #1044
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Aug 12 2018
Update #2: On the Road to Pebble: Thumbs-Up to the Tucker 1044 Team!
Congrats to the dedicated and talented Tucker 1044 Team that completed an estimated "two-year restoration" in eight months!
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Aug 11 2018
On the Road to Pebble: Two Days Until a Trip to the Beach!
Roz and I checked out the progress of Tucker 1044 last night in New Jersey before attending the New York Jets pre-season opener. Very exciting!
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Aug 01 2018
FuelCurve.com: Ida Automotive Inc- Where Excellence Takes Shape
FuelCurve.com has posted a profile on Rob and Bob Ida and Ida Automotive Inc where Tucker 1044 is being restored.
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Jul 28 2018
HemmingsDaily: Auto renderings exhibit to focus on early Tucker designs
Daniel Strohl of Hemmings has posted an article on the early designs that inspired the Tucker automobile.
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Jul 24 2018
On the Road to Pebble: John Tucker, Jr. Delivers the Restored Tucker 1044 Radio
I had a wonderful day yesterday visiting Rob Ida and the Tucker 1044 team at Ida Automotive in New Jersey. The big surprise was John Tucker, Jr. showing up and presenting the restored working Tucker radio...with a little help from his friends.
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Jul 17 2018
On the Road to Pebble: The Unique Tucker Cyclops Headlight
Rob Ida, Mike Tucker and Sean Tucker have posted videos and images of the working Tucker 1044 Cyclops headlight with a "very rare NOS Westinghouse bulb".
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Jul 07 2018
On the Road to Pebble: The First Video of the Newly Painted Tucker 1044
Rob Ida has provided the first video of the newly painted Andante Green Tucker 1044- its original color.
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Jun 30 2018
Updated: On the Road to Pebble: Tucker 1948 License Plate 44 Finds Tucker 1044
Thanks to the persistent efforts of Koby V., this 1948 Tucker license plate will be on the Tucker 1044 at the 2018 Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance.
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Jun 21 2018
Automobile Magazine: Saving Preston’s Tucker
Automobile Magazine has posted a wonderful article on Tucker 1029, formerly owned by Preston Tucker and now owned by Mark Lieberman, the previous owner of my Tucker 1044.
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Jun 02 2018
1947 Tucker Franchise Plan Sales Tool Part IV: What You Get When You Buy a Tucker Franchise
A rare 45-page sales tool used by the Tucker Corporation to sell franchises to dealerships in 1947 has been recently discovered. The final section of this four-part series provides the financial rationale for purchasing a Tucker dealership.
