
Sales Ad Saturday- The Tucker 48 debuts in Chicago
A big day for Preston Tucker for this week’s ‘Sales Ad Saturday’. 74 years ago today, Tucker’s hastily developed prototype, the Tucker 48 was unveiled before an impatient crowd of several thousand people in Chicago. The crowd had plenty of reason to be impatient, as the car was well over an hour late for its premier, and barely made it at all. Accounts differ somewhat about all the different issues plaguing the prototype on the day of its debut, but no one must have been more