Tucker Convertible on Ebay

[john]

Tuckeroo,
Had to smile about your remark regarding guessing until Judgement Day.

Everything you wrote above is in good observance and you are correct, in our opinion, with what you wrote.

As with us, we spent many hours reviewing many different photographs and researching, we ourselves did not notice it until the 11th hour.
This and some other very serious issues made our minds up for us to walk from the car.

We were swept up in believing, in full, what we had learned until we noticed this in the picture, we did not even realize/see it until after we had posted the picture on the site.

For the heck of it, lets see if anyone does pick out the one outstanding thing between the two pictures.There are actually 2-3, but the one in itself changes everything in the story.

It has nothing to do with absent parts, rust, incomplete panels or anything like that.

You will laugh to yourself when you figure it out or find out because it is so obvious, again, don't feel bad as we missed it probably 100 times.

Tell ya what Tuckeroo, email me your # through the site here and I will call you and tell you what you have missed, we can't let you hang in Limbo as you have put forth good faith and writting, let alone Judgement Day is too long>>>>>>>.

One thing Tuckeroo, you must agree to let everybody else guess and post for a short time, they too will be surprised on how much this one singular point changes everything being said,
This has went on for many many years, a few days can't hurt anything to let others post what they see, can it.
John

[TUCKER]

Also there are 3 front fenders on the color photo of the parts and the mack 1/4 panel om that photo was never used so it need to be cut where the wheel well is welded to. It look like just new never used parts in there. Where did this parts lot go? were they the parts sold in a lot with parts of 1027, 1018 and a test frame number 1052? I attached a picture.
this frame had nothing welded to it and all the panels were clamped down with clamps when they sold this parts lot!

[TuckerCar]

If the entire story was that the car was being worked on in the experimental section, as a "skunkworks project hidden away," they wouldn't have the car sitting there as a tour group passed through.

[TUCKER]

That is true "Tuckercar", it was not a secret project, just the new model for next years Tucker.

[Tommy]

Why does the pic posted by Tucker have a drawing of a convertible taped to the side of the car ? When was this pic taken ? Was this lot sold by the same guy that sold the convertible to Benchmark ?

Also I would say the pic of the uncut 1/4 panel,fenders,front end half and frame dont look anything like the Life image body. The parts are raw, like Tucker said, and the Life pic body looks like it is ready for a back fender or had one taken back off.

I like the idea of the convertible Tucker and I think anything that sparks interest in Tuckers is good. I think it is made up of mostly Tucker parts and would call it a Tucker as much as Chicks Tucker #52. It looks like they are using all steel too and not fiberglasss to finish it. I do not think it was comissioned by the factory to be a convertible but its still very cool. I saw someone even added info about it on the wiki page like it was a factory prototype.

[john]

First off Tommy,
We are not sure where this picture came from, just possibly it was from the collection of parts and a car that sold in Michigan quite a few years ago.
There was a story that this car was the convertible, if someone else knows for sure, maybe they will post.

We have never seen that rendering that is taped to the car.
THIS is NOT the convertible rendering that the previous owner had with the material viewed when we were purchasing the car, again, maybe somebody else can post to clear that up.

Tuckeroo & Tucker,
we do know that the previous owner gathered/traded parts from the mid west and over by the east coast.

Yes, we agree that a bunch of the parts look almost new in the picture of the Mystery Tucker, you must remember that this Mystery picture was taken when the previous owner picked up the Tucker in the 70's, we can say and verify that it was an old original picture taken back then.

The extended doors were tucker pieces welded and leaded together, so were the fenders.

The white box in the mystery tucker picture, >> if you look very close, it ccontains part of the convertible rear top frame that seals and mates to the qrt window/glass of the top.
You can go to other pictures posted on the site here and see the three holes that match the holes with the top installed "by the previous owner" before benchmark purchased it.
Reference the wooden block picture holding the top and look back where the top frame ends where it would seal to the qrt glass.

Again, this is the picture that was taken ions ago when the previous owner purchased the car.

We can not answer the other few questions in truth, don't want to speculate, maybe someone else may post a response???

If you send your phone number via the clubs email, we will call and tell you what the problem is between the picture of the big back window Tucker and the photo of the Mystery Tucker Tuckeroo.

Got a kick out of the TOP SECRET addition to the one picture, guess Preston either did not know they would pass that way "or" somebody else at the plant screwed up "or" they just figured that military personal wouldn't realize what it was???
John

[TUCKER]

The car with the convertible picture was in the RM vintage motor cars in Michigan November 15-17, 2002 at the Novi Expo Center, Novi, Mi.
I have the catalog where it was listed to sell

It is Tucker chassis # 1052 that was reserved for testing with cowl of 52 only on it and panels from 1027, 1018 and two motors, extra doors, extra bumpers, and more which sold on October 1950 to Ezra Schliph. They said they had original Tucker blueprints when they listed it to go with the car also. Lots more on this add of this car with the convertible drawing on the windshield.

[TUCKER]

hope you can read it yourself better. It go with the Tucker 1052,1018,1027 parts lot (car with convertible picture on window)

[Tuckeroo]

hope you can read it yourself better. It go with the Tucker 1052,1018,1027 parts lot (car with convertible picture on window)

I concur, your 3:05PM posting is not the same as the Benchmark car, it is mostly Tucker 1027, which was contemplated to be turned into a four-door convertible by at least one previous owner, but no claim was made that that was anything more than outright customizing.

[TUCKER]

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[john]

TuckerCar, Tucker,Tuckeroo, Larry and John Dore,
You guys are cool and I do so enjoy working with all of you to get to the bottom of #57.

Tucker and Tuckeroo,
the very last posts you two placed gets, in part, to the heart of the matter.

The answer is in the the big back window Tucker picture and the Mystery Tucker picture.
This one point together with some other very serious issues caused us to walk from the car.
Tuckeroo, thanks for sending your number, you will laugh and kick yourself for not seeing the obvious tonight when we talk and you find out >>>what it took us "forever to see ourselves."
John

[TUCKER]

see the doors and the door has been made longer on the mystery Tucker as it looks to me but I may be wrong.

[john]

Tucker,
The doors are original Tucker and were with the Tucker when the previous owner purchsed it in the early 70's.
This is based on the original early picture and the previous owners statements.
They were personally inspected at the time my partner was there and were extended to make a larger door.
John

[TUCKER]

Here is a picture that was uploaded to the internet on December 9 2002 to the following page

http://www.bellesdantan.com/Tucker/Page ... Tucker.htm

[Tuckerfan1053]

Clearly a photoshop job.