Tucker '48 Automobile Bulletin Board

by **Mickey** » Sun Feb 23, 2003 8:12 pm

Hi everyone. I just saw Ida Automotive's website. Does anyone know how much they want for a new Tucker 48? Has anyone ordered the brochure? Do you think it is worth the ten bucks?

by **jay** » Mon Feb 24, 2003 9:29 am

I believe IDA AUTOMOTIVE had offered their Tuckers at $150,000 - 175,000 but they are not currently building any. I understand that they completed two and both have recently been offered for sale at auction. 
 
Jay

by **pingding22** » Sun Mar 09, 2003 1:38 am

Hi I have also been searching for a replica and ive finally found it you do have to build it using a doner car the kit is $8,000 and it is in NJ please feel free to email me at pingding22@hotmail.com

by **Kareem 2004** » Thu Mar 13, 2003 3:44 am

My name is Paul and I am a huge Tucker fan out in Minnesota. I was wondering where I could get a complete Tucker donor kit in Minnesota and if I can make my own steel frame to fit it. I was also wondering if a 1998 Lincoln Continental powerplant (275 hp Intech) would be the appropraite engine/transaxle assembly to use.

by **pingding22** » Thu Mar 13, 2003 11:13 pm

Howdy Paul, 
Contact Bill Pomering at the TUCKER AUTOMOBILE CLUB and ask for Chick Deleronzo's address and phone number he can far tell you better info than I can when writing Chick ask for a price guide and info on the kit it will tell you everything you need to know. 
 
Brett Ping

by **Powerflow6** » Wed Mar 26, 2003 1:03 am

I recently queried Ida Automotive about how many New Tuckers have been produced. I was surprised at the resistance I encountered in answering my question. I was told that the quantity produced is "confidential." I appealed but I still did not get an answer or explanation for the confidentiality. I was offered the opportunity to buy a New Tucker for $230K and a brochure for $25 - both prices of which conflict with the information I've seen on this board and information I've read elsewhere. I expected an enthusiastic, welcoming response to my inquiry of the New Tucker. I guess my expectation was too high. I still see no reason why such information would have to be protected. 
 
Anyway, I no longer have the "warm fuzzies" to further pursue an order for a New Tucker from Ida Automotive. Heck, for $230K I might as well hold out for the real thing. 
 
On another note, I wonder how the 2 that were allegedly produced by Ida Auto (according to one of the posts here) are holding up?

by **pingding22** » Wed Mar 26, 2003 1:18 am

I know what you mean about IDA Auto they were not very friendly with me either so I thought hell with them but I did find a Tucker kit that you have to buy then build and IDA is based on these replicas because the guy who has these kits helped them come up with all there stuff his name is Chick DeLeronzo in New Jersey he is a very nice man and you can contact him through the Tucker club just subscribe to the Tucker tribune and then with that email address of the editor ( I think) he is the editor but anyway ask him for Chick's number and address and when you talk to Chick ask him for a sales pamplet stating how much everything is and there you go you will have your TUCKER the kit is only about $8,000 but I believe it is well worth that money and Chick is a much nicer man than IDA!!! Oh one more note Chick was the one who built the cars for the Tucker movie and also built the car in the roll over scene in the movie out of a studebaker and it was called the STUCKER but anywho contact the Tucker club and ask for Chicks phone number and address and he will tell you everything you need to know. He also own an origanl Tucker number 51 one of the ones that Tucker never finished and that alone is worth the time and effort of contacting him. Good Luck. 
 
Brett Ping 
Dallas Texas

by **Powerflow6** » Wed Mar 26, 2003 1:25 am

Brett, 
 
Thanks for the scoop. I'm glad to know that I'm not the only one who has encountered Ida and received similar treatment as I did. Yes the $8K kit is far more economical than the $230K (or whatever) price tag for an Ida Tucker. 
 
I browsed the boards some more and found someone mentioned that Ida stopped building their version after 2.5 due to excessive cost. If that is what happened, then I see no shame in that...why didn't Ida just say so? Oh well, I'm over it - like you. 
 
Thanks again! 
 
Jason 
Jackson, TN

by **plancor 792** » Wed Mar 26, 2003 7:13 pm

Chick Delorenzo did not build the 4 replicars that were used in the movie nor did he build the Studebaker built for the roll over scenes. The four replicars were built by Mike Fennel Enterprises of Los Angeles, CA. Chick had his uncompleted Tucker in Richmond CA for the making of the movie, however it or no part of it was used in the movie. He had purchased it from the Poll Museum in Zeeland, MI. I know, I was there and was hired by Lucas Films Ltd to work on the 22 original Tucker's there for the movie. 
Richard E. Jones 
Tuckermch@aol.com

by **pingding22** » Wed Mar 26, 2003 10:52 pm

Dear Sir, 
I am sorry but I dont tottaly belive you on that subject I have talked to chick for numerous hours and have clippings of articals written on him stating that he was the one who built those cars and therfore I must believe him although you may have been on the set you may have your people in the wrong order. 
 
Brett Ping

by **plancor 792** » Thu Mar 27, 2003 12:56 am

You are entitled to believe what you want. However trusting in Chick DeLorenzo will not be getting the truth. He has continually put articles out as to his involvement in the making of the movie. I am aware of one article that appeared in a New York newspaper where he said he was involved with his car. He is wrong and is lying. I knew him years prior to the making of the movie and can tell you he does not tell the truth. I was there when the four replicars were delivered and saw the work that was done on them to keep them from overheating. Delorenzo was there for awhile. Were you to get a copy of the "Tucker " Crew List, revised May 1, 1987 you might note that the Replicar Car Builder was Mike Fennell 25655 Springbrook Ave. Saugas, Ca 91350. Best you quit believing what DeLorenzo says. He is full of hot air or worse. He had nothing to do with the movie other than being invited out for a day while they were shooting the car scenes. He used the money Lucas gave him to use his car to pay for his transportation out, then stayed with my friend Russ in his trailer that Russ had parked on the set. His vehicle was in such poor condition it was not used as well as two other vehicles in the scenes in the movie. I have copies of my paychecks where Lucas paid me. I don't think he can produce any. Also I have letters from Francis Ford Coppola plus other items to prove I am correct in the above. And I am not ashamed to show my name. 
Sincerely, 
Richard E. Jones

by **plancor 792** » Thu Mar 27, 2003 3:16 am

Clarification, 
The "Tucker" Crew List was a list of all those persons who in one capacity or another had something to do with the production of the movie.Eight pages long it starts out with the Executive Producer George Lucas and his telephone number, goes all the way through those involved, including Production Department, Art Department,Set Decoration Dept.,Props Dept., 
Construction Dept., Camera Dept., Grip Dept., Electric Dept.,Wardrobe Dept., Make Up / Hair, Sound Dept., Special Effects Dept., Editorial dept., Transportation Dept., First Aid and Stunts. It list names, telephone numbers and in most cases the extension numbers and or beepers for those people. 
It was put out by Tucker Production Office in San Rafael, Ca. 
As I recall DeLorenzo did drive one of the Tucker automobiles in some of the scenes in the movie. No idea which one but it definitely was not the vehicle he sent out to Richmond, CA. 
Richard

by **pingding22** » Thu Mar 27, 2003 3:58 am

Dear Sir, 
I do apologize for questioning you and your past with the Tucker I do ask however to forgive me! As you were right because I called Chick up after seeing that message and he told me the facts as I had misunderstood him. I do have 1 question for you though would you mind emailing me at franklinflat6@yahoo.com so I can talk with you about the movie? There is some info I need pertaining to the Tucker and a few of its scenes please email me soon. 
 
Brett Ping 
 
franklinflat6@yahoo.com

by **etfshtx12netzeronet** » Thu May 01, 2003 3:53 am

Hi Mr. Jones 
You tell it like it is. Hope you can make the Convention this year. 
Thanks 
Ed Way #709 
PS Bring or send a copy of that crushed Tucker!!!

by **jfollis640** » Mon May 05, 2003 9:43 am

Greetings all, 
 
After reading the above posts I felt compelled to write on this subject. 
 
Please allow this to serve as a 
“Certificate of Authenticity” 
for one Richard E. Jones, also known here as plancor 792. 
 
~ Richard Jones was one of the co-founders of the Tucker Automobile Club of Ameirca which organized in 1973. 
 
~ Richard Jones is the foremost Tucker historian and mechanic. 
 
~ Richard Jones has worked on and restored several Tucker automoibles over the years. 
 
~ Richard Jones has spent his lifetime doing exhaustive research in the Tucker saga and saving vital Tucker Corporation documents and history in the process. 
 
~ Richard Jones was half of a two man team that was hired by Lucas Films Ltd. to get in running order and maintain the 22 original Tucker autos used in the film Tucker. 
 
~ Richard Jones has graciously loaned TACA's Tucker Historical Collection and Library approximately 8 hours of film footage documenting his involvement "behind the scenes" of the movie Tucker. 
 
~ Richard Jones is THE Tucker Historian / Researcher that I can only apsire to be! 
 
With the upmost respect - 
 
Jay A. Follis 
Director 
Tucker Historical Collection and Library

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