It was the car of the future! In the late 1940's, a charismatic man named Preston Tucker got America excited about his innovative, futuristic car design...
Sid and James welcome Steve Lehto, attorney, author and automotive journalist to talk about Tucker: The Man and His Dream, Francis Ford Coppola's surprisingly accurate portrayal of a man who sold his dream to the country, only to get squashed by the government and the big three.
Steve has some amazing stories and the group also discusses Tucker's eerie similarity to Elon Musk. We also talk about the car itself, the Tucker 48 (sometimes called the Tucker Torpedo) and its quirky, ahead-of-its-time features!
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Find Steve all over the place:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMljRGC0eBJrxbUorWEnasg
http://lehtoslaw.com/
http://www.roadandtrack.com/author/3026/steve-lehto/
https://www.amazon.com/Steve-Lehto/e/B001JPA7O4
https://jalopnik.com/tag/steve-lehto
