My father had a Tucker, bought it used, right after Tucker went belly up.
He bought it because he had always been a Science Fiction buff, and the car looked 'futuristic'.
He always laughed his a-- off when guys talked about 'the big companies put Tucker out of business because the car was so advanced'.
They were cool, innovative, and stylish.
They were not good cars.
Like the Delorean, the Bricklin, and about one hundred other odd ball but interesting car lines, they were cool, innovative, and either impractical or poor quality.
The build quality and overall quality of his Tucker was godawful.
My father really, really wanted the car to be good, but after a few years of it mostly sitting (never did have very many miles on it) he finally sold it for very little. No collector value at that time, as no movies had been made about it, yet, and frankly, when people looked at it, and drove in, (when it drove) they walked away.
Takes a LOT to get a line of cars reliable, well made and salable at a fair market price.
The Tucker is just one of hundreds of makers who could not hit any of the three points, despite some, in retrospect, cool ideas.
It is funny, the more years pass between people who actually drove the cars, as cars, vs. people who read books or watch movies about them, the better the car gets.
