1media/1948_Tucker48-thumb.jpgmedia/Tucker_01.jpg2020-07-27T12:35:59-07:00Anne-Marie Maxwell326ac6eff123bb3f77fb517c66299be8b435b4793751419plain2020-08-27T10:13:16-07:00Anne-Marie Maxwell326ac6eff123bb3f77fb517c66299be8b435b479The Big Three automakers felt so threatened by Preston Tucker’s new sedan that they conspired to sabotage his efforts. They enlisted the help of Michigan senator Homer Ferguson, whom many suspect of engineering an SEC investigation into the company. The suspicion of fraud dampened the public’s appetite for the vehicle, and only 51 of the vehicles were ever made (about one-fifth of the total produced can be seen here on the assembly line). Many of the 47 Tuckers that survive were reunited onscreen for a 1988 Francis Ford Coppola biopic about the car designer.