Hi Bill,
I'm not sure if he actually owns one, but they did have two short videos
that played the the museum. One was and interview with Coppola and George
Lucas aboy the making of the film. He did say that he remembers the
anticipation of seeing this car from all the advertising promotion when he
was a boy.He said that the fact that it never happened is part of what
drove him to want too make the movie and tell the man's story. So that is
not a rumor as I heard it straight from his mouth.
The other film was a compilation of period films on the promotion and
making of the Tucker. They were in color and B/W too. They even had some
footage of one that rolled at 90 miles an hour and was still drivable. Also
the driver was apparently not injured. I don't know how much of that story
was real or hype, but these were very fast cars for there day.
Gerard
At 7:18 AM -0700 4/5/01, BILL wrote:
>Gerard,
>
>I had heard that Francis Ford Coppola (Marin resident as well I believe)
>owned one or a couple of Tuckers and was one of the reasons he did the film.
>Any truth to that rumor? Maybe that's who owns the gold one.
>
>Herby
>64 MK II Sprite - HRBYTOY (under construction/de-construction)
>billh@aaai.com
>www.herbytoys.com
>
> -----Original Message-----
>From: Gerard Chateauvieux [mailto:pixelsmith@gerardsgarage.com]
>Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2001 12:11 AM
>To: James Kleemeyer; spridgets@autox.team.net
>Subject: Re: Gerard's SWAG pics-Tuckers
>
>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.
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