On Thu, 14 Aug 1997, James Charles Ruwaldt wrote:
> There was an article in Road & Track shortly after the movie came out.
> It sounds like Jeff Bridges' Tucker was a lot nicer and more honest than
> the real guy. Some of what happened to him was investigation by the IRS
> or the FTC over some unethical business dealings, so he wasn't just
> crushed out by the frightened big three.
I don't think the environment that Tucker worked in was any less
nice... C'mon the man could sell freezers to eskimos. Sometimes it
takes a scoundrel to succeed. We shouldn't throw stones at someone
who "used the system" and bent the rules... Certainly his competition
did. Could you just imagine what cars would look like if he got away
with it? He would have been a hero.
Greg Petrolati
gpetrola@prairienet.org 1962 TR4 (CT4852L)
"That's not a leak... My car is just marking its territory!"
Greg Petrolati, Champaign, Illinois
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