Greg O’s Garage: The Tucker 75th Anniversary Auction and a ‘Tucker- The Man and His Dream’ Movie Prop
An auction at the Tucker 75th Anniversary celebration at the AACA Museum in Hershey, Pa. on Friday evening, June 16th, saw some interesting items going across the auction block. From luggage, to desk sets, radios and Tucker literature, one fun, standout item from the 1988 movie 'Tucker; The Man and his Dream' was the highlight of the auction.
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While not the original Tucker accessory luggage, this set of period correct Samsonite tribute luggage would look at home in any Tucker
An original Tucker Factory employee badge and a diecast model car
...I wonder who the lucky person was who brought home that employee badge? Look for a possible future post on it!
Promotional Tucker ashtray on a pedestal and commemorative coins went quickly
Advertising plates and original Tucker accessory radio
Twenty-one authentic Tucker 48's were used for various scenes in the movie, but the AACA Museum also owns one of the four entire fiberglass, drivable movie replica cars. They also retain replica fiberglass Tucker panels used in scenes showing the factory interior
Up for auction was one of the museums green front passenger doors from the movie
Still shots from the factory scenes show the fiberglass doors sitting close by painted silver to simulate bare steel doors ready from production.
Some of the panels were painted in colors for closer shots of some of the cars. Here in this scene, still in silver on their racks.
After some vigorous bidding, of course the auction's greenish fiberglass door panel came back with Tucker 1044 to its Roslyn waterfront home!
Here it sits waiting for its installation on the wall still painted silver on the inside.
The film movie panel shown against Tucker 1044.
A neat gem of movie memorabilia!
Comments
Great stuff. Nice talking to you at the Morgan Park Show. Thanks
The assembly line movie scene shows the Tuckers with WWs that was not on during the original assembly time. Those Tuckers on the line in the then modern movie times are real Tuckers?
Yes Mark, there were 21 authentic Tuckers used for filming. In the movie, the ‘Tin Goose’ prototype was played by Francis Ford Coppola’s #1037.
However, for cars that are well off in the background, many of those were simple cardboard cutouts.