Tucker Torpedo Tin Goose specs

0-60 in 7 seconds with 166 Hp and a curb weight of 4189 Ibs?

The engine is located at the rear!
Did no one watch the movie about this car?

The only Tucker that is even worth mentioning is maybe the Tucker convertible and even that is a stretch, for they were all dirk ugly!

@ Fastestlaps: actually i make a mistake. the "Tin Goose" actually had 4WD drivetrain. The other different is their suspension and tyres. "Tin Goose" had racing tyres which can make the car run into 124 mph but the standard Torpedo only can run maxly @ 100 mph because the tyres can't hold the grip faster than 90 mph

Those differences between regular Torpedo and "Tin Goose" are too minor to allow for a separate page.

This will have to merged with regular Torpedo page.

"Tin Goose" is the first production Tucker. It's suppose to have a 589 Cu flat engine with strange transmission with no reverse gear. But later, It converted into Franklin O-335 H6 engine with Tucker Y1 Transmission. The only different thing from other Tucker is the suspension. This car had Rubber disk type 4 independent suspension while the other got Rubber Torsion Tube 1, 2 and Rubber Sandwich.

Every lead has lead to a dead end. Pieces of the car's 'Tuckermatic' transmission have been found, but there is no physical evidence to tie it to the car. This is possibly the most haunting and bizarre case of a missing Tucker, and the only Tucker left unaccounted for for more than sixty years.

Each of the 51 cars (fifty including the original "Tin Goose") produced by Tucker were different in some way. In fact, the cars themselves were prototypes when they were sold, each car existed purely to correct a fault or problem posed by the car built previously to it.

Of the 51 cars auctioned to the public after the corporation folded in 1949, only 47 are accounted for. Tuckers of no. 1018, 1023 and 1027 were destroyed; #1018 sideswiped a tree in New York state, #1023 was destroyed in a fire at a warehouse in Deland, FL and #1027 was rolled during testing at Indianapolis by the Tucker, Corp. in 1948.

Tucker No. 1042 was auctioned as incomplete and the only car from the Tucker plant to be sold without an engine in 1948. From that date onwards, the car is unaccounted for and rumors exist that it was used in a 'Bash a Tucker' fundraiser in the 1950s or may have been hauled off from its storage location by a disgruntled renter who wanted the car crushed. Its location was unknown until 1973 when automotive writer Memmo Duerksen began following up on a story of a Tucker car that had been discovered abandoned along the banks of the Mississippi River in Memphis, TN, by a local policeman around 1960. He reportedly took possession of the remains, but he spent some time in hospital after a large motorcycle accident, and when he returned home the car was missing. No photos of Tucker No. 1042 are known to exist, and there are no clues as to the car's current location.