Tucker prototype bows in Chicago

The production '48 Tucker, designed by Preston Tucker, Alex Tremulis, and J. Gordon Lippincott and Co., featured futuristic fastback styling, doors wrapped into the roof and the center headlight that could track the curves in a road, similar to today's adaptive headlights.

June 19, 2018 05:00 AM

Entrepreneur, auto enthusiast and designer Preston Tucker unveils the radical Tucker 48 Turbo prototype in a lavish ceremony at Tucker Corp.'s Chicago plant on June 19, 1947.

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