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Photographs and Images The Indomitable Tin Goose Book: The Indomitable Tin Goose Subtitle: The True Story of Preston Tucker and His Car Author: Charles T. Pearson Publisher: Abelard-Schuman Year: 1960 Notes: There are some scanning errors where the edge of the image is cut off due to the scanner used. These will be re-scanned when a new scanner is available. |
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Title: The man and his car.
Caption: The man and the car. View photo of Preston Tucker and a Tucker 48 - 5.3MB |
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Title: Tucker and Harry Miller at Indianapolis Speedway.
Caption: Tucker and Harry Miller watch qualifying runs at Indianapolis in 1937. The white badge on Tucker's left coat sleeve is an identification marker, or pit badge, giving him the run of the entire speedway. View photo of Preston Tucker and Harry Miller - 8.1MB |
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Title: At the Speedway with the Ford family.
Caption: At the Speedway with the Ford family. Left to right are Henry Ford, senior, Harvey Firestone, Henry Ford II (with back to camera) and Benson and Edsel Ford. Like Harry Bennett, Tucker always referred to the elder Henry Ford as "Mister Ford." View photo of Preston Tucker and the Ford family - 6.8MB |
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Title: Side view of Tucker's 117-mile-per-hour Combat Car.
Caption: Side view of Tucker's 11-miles-per-hour Combat Car, with power-operated gun turret. Army brass decided the car was too fast — they didn't need that kind of speed. View photo of Preston Tucker's Combat Car - 6.8MB |
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Title: Close-up view of the power-operated gun turret.
Caption: Tucker's power-operated gun turret is demonstrated. The entire operating assembly moved up and down and through a complete circle. First turrets were built in Tucker's plant at Ypsilanti. View photo of Preston Tucker's Gun Turret — Model A - 6.5MB |
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Title: First sketches of the sensational Tucker “Torpedo.”
Caption: One of the first artist's conceptions of the Tucker "Torpedo" showed the driver's seat in the center, a rear-engine compartment, a "Cyclops Eye" center lights and doors opening into the roof. View photo of Tucker Torpedo Concept Drawing - 7.8MB |
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Title: First sketches of the sensational Tucker “Torpedo.”
Caption: Tucker's first design had a center driver's seat slightly ahead of seats on either side. The side seats swiveled, as illustrated, for easy entrance. Later, Tucker decided on a conventional front seat for first models. View photo of Tucker Torpedo Concept Drawing - 6.4MB |
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Title: Air view of the Tucker plant in Chicago.
Caption: Air view of the Tucker plant, formerly the Chicago Dodge plant, built and equipped at a cost of more than $170,000,000 to build engines for B-29 Superforts. Tucker's lease included an option to buy the plant for $30,000,000. View photo of Tucker Factory in Chicago - 7.6MB |
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Title: George Barringer at the wheel of a Tucker “Torpedo” Special.
Caption: George Barringer at the wheel of the Tucker "Torpedo" Special, one of the rear-engine racers built for the Gulf Oil Company by Harry Miller. It qualified easily in 1946, but was forced out by gear trouble. View photo of George Barringer Tucker Torpedo Special - 7.3MB |
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Title: Engineers and mechanics hail Tucker at the World Premiere.
Caption: Grinning engineers and mechanics hoist Tucker to their shoulders after working all night getting the Tin Goose ready for its World Premiere. Nobody knows how the name "Tin Goose" originated, but it was used affectionately by the men working on the car. View photo of Preston Tucker and Engineers & Mechanics - 6.8MB |
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Title: Marilyn Tucker christens the famous Tin Goose at the World Premiere.
Caption: Tucker and his wife standy by as daughter Marilyn, 20, clobbers the famous Tin Goose with a bottle of champagne at the World Premiere. Preparations were made for three thousand people but more than five thousand showed up. View photo of Marilyn Tucker christens the famous Tin Goose - 6.7MB |
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Title: Models stand by as the first Tucker car meets the public.
Caption: Three pretty models stand beside the first Tucker. Only 60 inches high, the Tucker was the lowest stock car that had been built in the United States up to that time. View photo of Models and the Tucker Prototype - 7.1MB |
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Title: Tucker and his mother pose seated on the bumper of the first Tucker.
Caption: Tucker and his mother on the bumper of the first Tucker at the World Premiere. She bought the first production car he ever built, and never wavered in her loyalty to her son and his automobile. View photo of Preston Tucker and his mother - 6.7MB |
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Title: Colonel Robert McCormick of the Chicago Tribune inspects the new model.
Caption: Colonel Robert McCormick, center, looks skeptical as Tucker explains mechanical features during a private showing for the Chicago Tribune publisher at the Palmer House. At the left is Lee Treese, Tucker vice president in charge of production. View photo of Colonel Robert McCormick, Preston Tucker, and Lee Treese - 6.3MB |
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Title: Colonel Robert McCormick of the Chicago Tribune inspects the new model.
Caption: Colonel McCormick tries the Tucker out for size. He found he had more room with his hat off. The Colonel was six feet four inches tall. View photo of Colonel Robert McCormick in a Tucker - 5.5MB |
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Title: Roy Durstine and Floyd D. Cerf, two of Tucker's associates.
Caption: Roy S. Durstine, left, head of the Durstine advertising agency in New York, and Floyd D. Cerf, who handled the $15,000,000 stock issue, and Tucker. These two men helped put Tucker in business. View photo of Roy S. Durstine, Preston Tucker, and Floyd D. Cerf - 7.5MB |
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Title: 150,000 wires and letters pour in to Tucker's headquarters.
Caption: More than 150,000 wires and letters from all over the world poured in after Tucker's announcement of his new rear-engine automobile. View photo of Tucker fanmail - 6.5MB |
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Title: View of the first chassis, showing the “589” engine.
Caption: The first chassis, showing the "589" engine set crossways between the rear wheels. The aluminum suspension arms were later replaced with rubber-bonded torsion arms. All four wheels were independently suspended. View photo of Tucker Chassis with 589 Engine - 8.5MB |
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Title: Floyd D. Cerf hands Tucker a check for 15 million dollars.
Caption: Floyd D. Cerf hands Tucker a check for $15,007,000 at conclusion of the stock sale. The check might have been for the $20,000,000 originally planned if the stock hadn't been barred in California and Michigan. View photo of Preston Tucker, Floyd Cerf, and stock sale check - 7.4MB |
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Title: Gene Haustein at work on the new safety windshield.
Caption: Gene Haustein, one of Tucker's "monkey wrench engineeers," at work on the safety "pop out" windshield. View photo of Gene Haustein - 7.9MB |
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Title: Eddie Offut holds the windshield that popped out safely.
Caption: Eddie Offut holds the left end of the windshield that popped out, as advertised, when the car rolled over during a test run on the Indianapolis Speedway. Offut had only a slight bruise — the car was driven away after a tire was changed. View photo of Eddie Offut - 7.4MB |
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Title: A gala floor show at the Stevens Hotel in Chicago.
Caption: Tucker, sitting at a front table in the Boulevard room of the Hotel Stevens, find lines of the dancers just as fascinating as lines of his new automobile. The occasion was a gala party which climaxed the first annual stockholders' meeting. View photo of Preston Tucker and dancing girls - 6.5MB |
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Title: Mr. and Mrs. Tucker at the celebration for the car's first birthday.
Caption: Mrs. Tucker blows out the candle signifying the first anniversary of the Tucker car. Although the car had never had another official birthday, there are still Tuckers running with more than 100,000 miles on the speedometer. View photo of Vera Tucker - 6.1MB |
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Title: Stockholders tour the plant via a sightseeing train.
Caption: A sight-seeing train jammed with Tucker stockholders pauses for a look at the plant machinery. To most of them, the first look was the last, as the first annual meeting was the last annual meeting. View photo of Tucker Corporation Stockholders - 6.0MB |
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Title: Side view of the Tucker 48.
Caption: Side view of the Tucker 48 with Preston Tucker at the wheel. View photo of Tucker 48 driven by Preston Tucker - 6.5MB |
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Title: A Tucker getting plenty of attention from motorists.
Caption: A Tucker '48 idles at 50 miles an hour along South Cicero Avenue near the Tucker plant, while motorists behind speed up for a better look and cars in front slow down to watch while it goes by. View photo of Tucker 48 on the highway - 6.3MB |
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Title: “Not Guilty” is the verdict of the Chicago Grand Jury.
Caption: "Not guilty" is the verdict of the jury in Chicago. Grinning happily is Frank J. (Spike) McAdams, who, with his law partner, William T. Kirby, handled Tucker's defense during the four-month trial. View photo of Preston & Vera Tucker with attorney Frank J. McAdams - 5.7MB |
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Title: Tucker receives a visit from Prince Bernadotte.
Caption: Tucker on the comeback trail. Nobody could remember the man seated at the left who appeared in a brochure advertising the Ypsilanti Machine and Tool Company until long after the brochure had been printed. Tucker had a vague idea he might be the King of Denmark. He is Prince Carl Bernadotte of Sweden. View photo of Preston Tucker and Prince Carl Bernadotte - 5.1MB |
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Title: An encouraging fan in '49.
Caption: An encouraging fan in '49. A dollar bill accompanied this letter. View photo of Letter to Preston Tucker - 9.1MB |
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Title: A proud owner writes—after eight years.
Caption: A proud owner eight years later. View photo of Letter to Preston Tucker - 9.1MB |
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Title: A note from a loyal stockholder.
Caption: A note from a loyal stockholder. View photo of Letter to Preston Tucker - 9.3MB |
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Title: Nick Jenin and his fabulous collection of Tuckers.
Caption: Nick R. Jenin of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, who owns the world's most complete collection of Tucker rear-engine cars. Jenin recently picked up his tenth Tucker at a price of $6,500. View photo of Nick Jenin and his Tucker collection - 6.1MB |
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Subject: Nick Jenin's signature in The Crittenden Automotive Library's copy of The Indomitable Tin Goose
Date: 19 November 1962 Location: McCormick Place, Chicago, Illinois 
View photo of Nick Jenin's signature - 1.3MB |
