Tucker: The Man and His Dream

The movie, Tucker: The Man and His Dream, is the story of a man named Preston Tucker and takes place in the 1940's. Preston Tucker's dream was to design and build the greatest automobile ever made. At first, he began by bringing home drawings of his dream car, which was to be called the Tucker Torpedo. He showed the drawings to a man who would eventually become his partner, Abe. Initially, Abe doesn't like the idea of building a car, but he didn't know anything about cars.
Tucker placed an advertisement in a magazine about his car, and the public became excited. The car would have an engine in the rear, a middle headlight that turned with the car, and a windshield that would pop out when the car was in a wreck.
In the meantime, Robert Bennington, who was the CEO of Ford, became worried that the Tucker Torpedo may put Ford out of business, so Bennington made a deal with him to allow him to buy a plant to build the car in. This also gave......

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Title: Tucker
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