Jim,
Fifty one actually. Yeah, it was really cool to see four in one place at
the same time. The silver one belongs to the Smithsonian (which Blackhawk
is a part of); the yellow one belongs to Bev (forget his last name) who
lies either in San Francisco or Marin County. (I have on occasion seen it
on the road, and I believe Road and Track did a story on it in the last
couple years); The blue one belongs to the daughter of the original owner
(which may be a Tucker family member, I can't remember now) , and I never
did find out who owns the gold one.
"Tucker" was filmed in Marin County (just North of the Golden Gate Bridge).
At that time, I worked for a big electronics retailer there. One Sunday
Martin Landau came in to buy a camcorder and I spent about an hour and a
half helping him out. He was very pleasant. By coincedence, my wife and
then only daughter came into the store. My daughter, who was about 3 or 4
at the time called out "pappa" when she saw me while I was still talking
to Mr. Landau. Because I knew my wife had been a big Mission Impossible fan
when she was young, I waved her and my daughter over to where we were
standing and introduced Mr Landau to my family. My wife was so dumbstruck,
she could barely say anything.
Celebrities were a common occurance in this location and over the years I
worked there I met numerous celebs including Jerry Garcia, Linda Ronstadt,
Robert "Freddie" Englund, Carlos Santana, Huey Lewis, George Lucas, Don
"Father Guido Sarducci" Novello, and Michael Bolton, just no name a few.
Gerard
At 11:38 PM -0500 4/4/01, James Kleemeyer wrote:
>Wow, are all four of those Tuckers real? Didn't he only build fifty of them?
>I've only seen one.
>
> Jim K.
>
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