Questions about the Tucker '48

[Preston]

Have a lot of questions.... as I've been out of the loop for a while.
I, like most my age, learned of the car when the movie came out.
I was in college and not a week after seeing the movie I was in a
antique store and found a PIC magazine with a double page ad....
Well I was hooked.
About a year after that a Tucker went on the Auction block in Oklahoma
It was a sky blue with the center light replaced with a plate of glass.
Took several pictures, bought the poster, (Never knew what it went for
or where it went.) Anyway.... went home and joined
the Tucker club which I was a member for a year. In that year I
bugged a lot of people of the club. A Gentleman in Florida (Richard?)
who told me of a Tucker destroyed in a Warehouse fire, parted out and crushed?
I remember a gentleman building his own Tucker with fiberglass parts he got through molds made from the movies props. (He also owned a Studebaker)
Got a letter from the gentleman who owns #51, how he hunted it down, how it was used in the movie ( I think it even has some fiberglass in it on the front due to a piece too damaged to use)...
And talked with a man who had owned, or claimed to own some of the bodies that where on the line
when everything was auctioned off.
At this time there were rumors of dies still in existence, unfinished cars sitting in warehouses, a man claimed he was going to build them again
or build the car Tucker was working on when he passed.
So can someone catch me up on some or any of these rumors or old stories?
If there are 51 cars how do we come up with 47 still around? Are we not counting #27. #18 gone, #23 and #42 are gone... Is there any other unfinshed cars out there? Have all the bodies been acounted for?
#46 which has been converted... Does the owner intend to restore/convert it back?
Are there any other cars converted to front engines.
I remember #10 had been damaged years ago. Has it or is it
being restored.... I remeber at the end of the movie saying the remaining
cars are road worthy....Are they?...
Anyway... I'm back... And l can't wait to get caught up on what is going on in the world of the Tucker '48.

[Preston]

Well... I have since learned that the blue car in Oklahoma was number 45 which now has been restored.....
And it is obvious that no one has reproduced the car other than the
fiberglass cars of IDA..
And it seems no one knows if the story of the dies still being in exsistance
sitting in a warehouse somewhere is true or not.
(Though I would think that they'd have been discovered by now)