Tucker Combat Car

Before the ill-fated Tucker automobile, Preston Tucker joined forces with Indianapolis legend, Harry Miller to build a lightweight and fast combat car. Using their experience at Indy they created an armor plated speed demon that could reach 115 mph while its three machine guns pumped out 2900 rounds a minute. Unfortunately, the government never bought the remarkable car but they did like his 360 degree machine gun turret. The turret was ended up in PT boats, landing craft and on B-17 and B-29 bombers. His connection to the Navy during WWII may have influenced his decision to name his Post-War dream car -- The Torpedo.

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• auto
• Preston Tucker
• Harry Miller
• Tucker Combat car
• PT boat
• B-17
• B-29
• Tucker Torpedo

[koledapt]

Where is progress the last 70 Years ? With this Vehicle you can winn every Off Road ,Trial,Dakkar etc .Rally Off Today.Compared with this the Jeep is a Ugly primitiv thing.(Hummer too).

Americans constructed great Cars ,this and for Insance the Turbine Cars and never produced them and wondering that there Auto Industrie goes down.

[mrpitv]

@koledapt I did a show about the Chrysler Turbine cars. They were basically jets without wings. Wildly impractical gas hogs but very cool. They could run on tequila, perform or gas. But were never going to be seen a driveway near you -- except for the experimental fleet they loaned out to consumers for publicity.

[user6008]

Back in 1940 the U.S.Government though Tucker's combat car was too fast and would also use much more gas than the jeep. Go figure! Basically Tucker invented the Humvee 45 years before the military actually started using the hummer in 1984. The man was and still is decades ahead of his time. Don't you just love it when big brother stifles technology? p.s. we could have been driving electric cars 30 years ago.

[mrpitv]

@user6008 The government should have given Tucker the greenlight on his combat car but it wasn't the govt that killed the electric car. Cheap oil strangled that baby in its crib in 1901 when a gusher blew at Spindletop, Texas. Electrics struggled for a few years but when GM introduced the self starter in 1911 it basically was all over for electric cars. To stimulate demand for electric cars and more fuel efficient cars govt should have implemented higher taxes at the pump. Political suicide.

[majorporpoise]

@user6008 there were electric cars that were squashed in the turn of the 20th Century, brother.

[mrpitv]

@majorporpoise GM, Honda, Toyota and others did back away from electrics after the California let them off the hook by saying they didn't have to produce Zero Emissions Vehicles. Cars like GM's EV1 were really just PR ploys to mollify the public while its lawyers worked behind the scenes to scuttle the regulations. They weren't ready for prime time. They now have the Volt but its sales are anemic. More PR than real. Transforming the auto sector requires global govt. subsidies.

[WastedCar]

I hope that combat car still existed today..

[CDTbossy]

How cool would it be to have this car!

[docspeedshop]

HOLD THAT TIGER...

[John234pwns]

That is damn cool.

[1960markN]

@ibmtech1 You say you have seen one? WHERE? How many still exist? I never knew of this until watching this video. This is awe inspiring!

[VegardMinde]

Todays equipment is trash in comparison !