A visit with Mr. X and Tucker #48, Auburn Indiana...1992

[plancor 792]

Clem, could be this fellow has used the body number instead of the serial number. Very easy to do as the Serial Number is in small numbers at the bottom of the Data Plate and the Body Number is in large numbers above the Serial Number. Your Tucker Serial Number 1017 has Body Number 1014 and Tucker Serial Number 1014 has Body Number 1017. So it is possible he was talking about Tucker 1014 .
Richard

[Westi nghouse1963]

Clem,

Wow, you are in it for the money apparantly. It probably kills you that young peole have an interest in anything that might swell your bank account another five six or seven figures. It was a FAR different time in 1992, and Tucker's were NOT million dollar babies as they are today nor were they trailer queened by newer tight bunged owners who were afraid to get a smudge on the paint. Also I was a "different person". You werent there in 1992 when Natmus was a brand new entity, and there was so little funding to make it the place it is today. As to the car being dusty it was. It had nothing to do with ACD lack of care in the vehicle. It had to do with money and manpower. IT was left in that building unprotected at the OWNERS request. They diddnt seek him out to store it there.

As to you cringing at me sneaking a sit in the car...well unless you were raised with a stiff pole up yer back, you did some unsavory and kid like behaviours yourself back when you were that age. to tell me different is to tell me a lie. At lease I have a saga to post on my love and interest in an automobile, and presumably Tucker is pretty awe inspiring..that burns stronger ever time I see some shoofly post something ridiculous like you did.

I did run the gears thru the slots, as if it would do any damage. The next time you sit in your floorshow "throw the gear lever, with the car off of course", and see that it will do nothing. Considering that I did punch the radio buttons, and popped the cig lighter makes me just like any living breathing youngster who has a passion in the automobile.

As to the Gilmore car..... Well lemme tell you that before it became their showcar, they displayed it behind a rope a scant FOOT away from my hand. And you don't think that I ran my finger around that headlight..that I did sir. I did NOT sit in the car, but i definitly ducked behind the rope quickly to get a picture of me next to the car that controlled my thoughts for many years of my young life. To say you've never done such a thing is pure hoohah!

And yes Peter Kessling DID own, and presumably still owns car number 17? Did you ask him directly if he owns it. I sure did. Mr. Kessling also let me sit in his Tucker with it off, as much as Gary Vick did in #48. And I see that you were "corrected", by a moderator that you have a completly "different" car, and not the one that is still in the museum in LaPorte Indiana. His car was there as well as a few out at the Auburn Inn, where there was one "tight" owner who let me know he did not like my buckleless shorts near his prize. I got the picture and backed away.

The last time I was in Auburn Indiana was in 2002. At that point the car #17 was still there and wasn't so far away from the crowd that I did not see the machine not getting touched and admired VERY closely by people touching the new million dollar baby.

I've met countless family members John Tucker Jr, Marilyn Lee Tucker Mc Andrew, and person(s) who own Tucker's as well and feel and have said that I'm a perfectly wonderful young man, and have invited me to sit in their cars also. In fact I'll do just that when I go and visit Patricia Swigart whom I had the great honor to talk to at GREAT length at the Hudson Museum Ypsilanti Heritage Automotive Museum, for over an hour. She invited me to sit in her Goose....

Yes, that would be the TIN GOOSE..the very first car of them all, and pricless. Why because now I do the RIGHT thing and ask ahead of time. I am still and always will be an avid part of this group, as you should be as well. But be better informed to circumstances and mindsets before you post somehting completly awful destroying my ability to share what has made me happy in my Tucker dreams.

Thanks

Chad M. Schieberl

Ann Arbor Michigan

[plancor 792]

Chad,
May I correct you. Dr. Peter Kesing has never owned Tucker Serial Number 17. He ownes Tucker Serial Number 1012 and that car has Body Number 1012.
Richard E. Jones

[Westi nghouse1963]

Mr. Jones,

I stand corrected. Mr. Kessling owns #12.

Why 17 stood out in my mind so.

Thanks

Chad Schieberl