And Tucker #1010 Sells for....

[Tucker Fan 48]

Tucker #1010 came to auction shortly after 1:00 PM in Scottsdale AZ today.
The car was formerly owned by Don Wright.

Gooding & Co was the auctioneer and partial owner of the car.

The final results of todays auction were $ 725,000 and the car was sold !

The buyer was bidder #278

[TuckerCar]

$725,000 plus fees ($797,500).

Video of the sale is available on our Facebook page, http://www.facebook.com/pages/Tucker-Au ... 0336624536

[TuckerCar]

And mdsbob gets second place for second quickest posting!

I guess we all lose the fantasy bids we placed last week.

[Prototype]

Not a bad price! Hopefully it will be restored they way it was when built (with the proper color) and so forth. At that price, the buyer obviously has the $100K+ to restore it and not hide it in plain sight for 50+ years! .

[Tucker Fan 48]

More like $300,000. It is EXTREMELY rough

[Tucker Fan 48]

Hopefully the buyer won't be disappointed to find there is no evidence of the car running at Bonneville,
no one has ever taken apart the rear end to see if the are any special high speed gears, we have
not ever verified Al Slonaker ever owned it, and it has 109,800 actual miles.

Other than that everything else said was accurate. It is a 1948 Tucker and.... well I guess that was it
for the accurate stuff.

[Phantomrig]

Other than that everything else said was accurate. It is a 1948 Tucker and.... well I guess that was it for the accurate stuff.

[Phantomrig]

I guess we all lose the fantasy bids we placed last week.

almost 800,000, i didnt think it would even go for half of that.

[Tucker Fan 48]

Reports are that the buyer is an older gentleman from Nebraska. Congratulations whoever you may be!
Hopefully you'll join our little group of Tucker lovers. Maybe someone knows who the buyer is and can let
us know.

[Tucker Fan 48]

$725,000 plus fees ($797,500).

Video of the sale is available on our Facebook page, http://www.facebook.com/pages/Tucker-Au ... 0336624536

Almost like watching Mystery Theater 3000...great running commentary

[Tucker Fan 48]

So Gooding and his partners doubled their investment. I wonder how Mrs. Wright feels about it now?

[mdsbob]

So Gooding and his partners doubled their investment. I wonder how Mrs. Wright feels about it now?

Can you share more of the story involved with the comment above?

Thanks,
Bob

[bdstokes]

Just wanted to add a couple of comments about Tucker #1010. Then new owner is a dealer/collector out of Nebraska, his initial reaction was the car would remain as is, and parked at his business. Based on current values of completed Tuckers, I believe the purchase price was in line. I inspected the vehicle Sat. am before the show (Thanks to John Munson @ Gooding and Co.) and found the car in relatively solid conditition, rockers and floor were in good condition, sheet metal had alot of dents and a bad repaint, damage around front area of center headlight and a portion of center headlight of linkage missing, inner fender sheet metal had very little rust through. Engine compartment was mostly complete. Left front park light was missing. All in all I found the car in pretty good shape considering the length of time this car has been sitting, please understand it would take a
200,000 to 300,000 dollar restoration to bring it all the way back. I overheard several serious car people say they would get it running and leave the rest of it alone. I base these opinions from my 40+ years of car experience both professionally and as a hobby. My dad drove #1014 as the Tucker distributor from Columbus, Ohio, it was one of five Tuckers that were initially sold outside the Tucker Corpuration. Because of that backround I have enjoyed following Tucker cars and have been lucky enough to have inspected about twenty percent of the cars that were produced.

[Tucker Fan 48]

Just wanted to add a couple of comments about Tucker #1010. Then new owner is a dealer/collector out of Nebraska, his initial reaction was the car would remain as is, and parked at his business. Based on current values of completed Tuckers, I believe the purchase price was in line. I inspected the vehicle Sat. am before the show (Thanks to John Munson @ Gooding and Co.) and found the car in relatively solid conditition, rockers and floor were in good condition, sheet metal had alot of dents and a bad repaint, damage around front area of center headlight and a portion of center headlight of linkage missing, inner fender sheet metal had very little rust through. Engine compartment was mostly complete. Left front park light was missing. All in all I found the car in pretty good shape considering the length of time this car has been sitting, please understand it would take a
200,000 to 300,000 dollar restoration to bring it all the way back. I overheard several serious car people say they would get it running and leave the rest of it alone. I base these opinions from my 40+ years of car experience both professionally and as a hobby. My dad drove #1014 as the Tucker distributor from Columbus, Ohio, it was one of five Tuckers that were initially sold outside the Tucker Corpuration. Because of that backround I have enjoyed following Tucker cars and have been lucky enough to have inspected about twenty percent of the cars that were produced.

Thanks for making your first post! It's great to have another person that saw the car comment about it. I agree with most of your accessment of the car but after spending several hours of going over it from top to bottom I saw a lot of surface rust on the undercarriage and in other various places on the car. I'm sure there are probably a few areas that will need some extra care in doing the restoration but its a good car to start with. I'm sure you'd agree it is certainly not rust free as one of the sellers keeps insisting even though everyone there could see it with our own eyes. It is missing the relays and a few other pieces off the transmission along with the parts you mention. I agree overall it is still a pretty complete car. I heard several people say they'd leave it alone but with that horrible paint job on it and the interior eaten away it seems like it deserves a little attention.

Your estimate on the restoration cost is also accurate. It will really depend on if the owner wants a 100 point car or is just satisfied with something that looks good. Fred Hunter spent over $300,000 restoring #1017 and it is flawless. I'm sure for $200,000 he would have had a very nice looking car but that wasn't what he was after. I sure most of us base our estimates on doing it right. It'll be up to the new owner to figure out how he wants the car to look.

Maybe you can fill us in on who the new owner is so we can invite him to our little corner of the internet.

Did you happen to ask anyone there about the documentation of their claims about the car? I asked and was told they found it on the internet. No one has ever come up with anything that proves a Tucker ran at Bonneville and I was hoping they had discovered something. Just wondering if you got the same story?

I also wanted to mention the Tucker in Columbus OH was #1012, sold in July 1948. Tucker #1014 has spent its entire life after leaving the factory in sunny California. You are correct that #1012 was one of the first 5 of the 21 Tuckers sold outside the company. The other 29 were sold at the plant auction. Any idea where the car went initially after it left Columbus? Also, to your knowledge, was it driven a lot during those months in Columbus?

Again Congrats on making your first post. Hopefully you won't wait so long to post again

[bdstokes]

Thanks for correcting the car number on my dads car, unfortunately my father passed away several years ago so all this info is in my head, I have a call into the new owner to make sure it is O/K to use his name , I do not want to upset the gentleman. As far as my fathers car, it was all over southern Mi., Ohio and Indiana, he drove it all the time, my mother mentioned the heater did not work well in the midwest winter, she said "it went like the dickens". I owe Jay a couple of stories for the news letter, as he provided some information when I was trying to understand a history of a Tucker car last year. I quess I need to get those articles completed. As far as the rust you speak of, I believe it to be surface only, and certainly nothing to worry about. The guys that brokered the vehicle initially, are from the Denver area, I have known one of them for quite some time,and I believe he was pretty close in his description of the vehicle. My adage has always been if you want a good car when finished, you better start with a nice one, I think #1010 fits that bill. I noticed in one of the previous messages,it involved the subject of the escalating price of the vehicle thru the selling process, and whether the original owner would be happy, unfortunately it takes money to make money and I have seen this process before in the car world. I had a chance to buy this vehicle when it first hit the market, but it was out of my range. I'm just excited another Tucker has seen the light of day, and hopefully won't go back in hiding for another half century.






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