Building A Dream

[TUCKER]

There is progress going on on the project.

[TUCKER]

Here is another photo of the back of the car being reworked to be closer to a real Tucker. Back window frame is complete along with most of the roof and back doors. Just need to do final adjustments and finish welding all the panels to have a complete Tucker body! The front doors and fenders along with hood and trunk will be finished once the body is on a rolling frame. Will have more photos later.

[Prototype]

Ricardo- I think I see something hiding under a flower pot. Oh, it's Tucker #1051.5! Wow! Very impressive! You do excellent work, my friend! I hope one day to see it up close and in person! What do you have in mind for a frame?

[TUCKER]

Hi, I still need help to continue building this car if anyone can help me in any way. Sorry I have not posted new pictures of it.

[streamliner]

TUCKER

Exactly what parts or services do you need to help keep you going?

Don't get frustrated or give up! Remember, the journey of getting to the finish line is sure to be more rewarding than the final destination itself, so be sure to enjoy the process...

[Natalie]

Hi, I still need help to continue building this car if anyone can help me in any way. Sorry I have not posted new pictures of it.

Just catching up on some reading here...Are you still working on this project, TUCKER?

[Larry Clark]

I am not sure what additional work "Tucker" may have completed since I visited him and his car project back in April. At that time the work completed was essentially what you see in the posted pictures. Seeing the project in person is a moving experience- it is incredible what "Tucker" has done with metal to shape a car that looks exactly like the real thing. It also is a great way to gain a better understanding of how the Tin Goose was developed/built. I am amazed that "Tucker" has been able to do what he has done given that he is not by trade a car body guy. The project likely will yet take a good amount of time to complete. However, for me, seeing the project car just as it is now ranks as one of my best Tucker car experiences. (Incidentally, "Tucker's" father initially began showing me the project car prior to "Tucker" arriving to be with us- his father is a fun/wonderful guide- he is appropriately proud and appreciative of "Tucker's" work.)

Larry

[TUCKER]

Hi, I am still working on the Tucker car and have been making many blueprints from measurments I have been colecting from real Tuckers thrue Tucker owners. I have made many new panels which are ready to be welded togetheonto the Tucker once I know they are what I really want since it is not easy to be welding and cutting parts off again to change them. Wished Larry could have been there longer to see all the progress he did not get to see. The car might had looked almost like in the pictures here but many new parts that I have made were in the garage. Also I just got a frame to put under the car as soon as I move it to its new home in Pearsonville, California where I am putting together a western ghost town which I may open as a museum later this year. It is a 15 acres ghost town I found in the high desert almost two years ago and fell in love with it. Now I will have all the room to build Tuckers and other projects. Very low monthly payments also. I hope to see you all around out there sometime looking at the Tucker I'm building.

[Randy Earle]

You bought a Ghost Town? Wow! I always thought it would be cool to have one. Are you going to name the town? I looked on Google satellite and there seems to be a large auto salvage yard there with a racetrack in the middle?

[TUCKER]

Hi, yes I am buying it in payments since I don't have the money to pay it all at once. The is a big junk yard out there but no Tuckers in it. The ghost town is more north on the left side of highway 395. You can not really see anything from Google. Anyways I am still working on the Tucker even if it looks almost the same. I keep changing things on it over and over again till I get them as close as posible to a real Tucker.

[Tucker Fan 48]

Tucker,
Are you pulling our leg here? A junkyard with NO Tuckers in it? I don't believe anyone has ever posted
that on this site before. You might have a real attraction. Of course you could set your car somewhere
with a fence around it so that no one could get within 50 feet of it. I'm guessing you'd drive people
crazy thinking it was real. Maybe you could charge admission to see it.

[Tuckerfan1053]

He could tell people it was either the long lost 1042, or the uber-secret "Project Marilyn" Tucker!

[TUCKER]

It is a secret Tucker project never finished #1058

[adlambert_in_nh]

This is really cool! I wish I could do something like it, how it going? Do you have a frame yet or an engine and transmission?

[TUCKER]

Hi I hear there is news on this on the last Tucker Topics issue but I have not been able to get mines since I moves to another adress. How is it? Can anyone post a copy here for others to see and read who do not get Tucker Topics. Looks like there is history being made here and I am glad to be part of this and want to thank you all again for helping me this far on the project. I will go on to the end of it till it is a Tucker. Thank you all.