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Micki Maynard · Want To See What A $3 Million Car Looks Like? Come To Grand Rapids This Weekend
January 23rd, 2012
The 1948 Tucker Torpedo
Classic car buffs were dazzled this past weekend when a 1948 Tucker smashed records at the Barrett-Jackson Auction in Scottsdale, Arizona. The Tucker, one of just 51 built, sold for $2.91 million, including transaction fees. a significant markup over its original $2,450 sticker price.
If you’re in the vicinity of Grand Rapids, Mich., this weekend, you’ll be able to see what a car like this looks like. The Torpedo owned by the Gilmore Car Museum in Hickory Corners, Mich., will be on display at the Michigan International Auto Show. It’s the same color and model as the one sold on Saturday.
The Gilmore Tucker was last put on display at the show in 2004, when it was valued at a mere $5,000, according to a press release. It has only 51 original miles, untouched paint and the factory grease pencil markings on it.
Tucker was a company with deep ties to the industrial Midwest. It was the brainchild of Preston Tucker, an entrepreneur from Ypsilanti, Mich. He built his cars in a vast factory on Cicero Avenue in Chicago that is now home to a shopping mall and the corporate headquarters of the Tootsie Roll Company.
Here’s the trailer from the film Tucker: The Man and His Dream, directed by Francis Ford Coppola.
