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Title: Tucker Combat Car
Added: May 24, 2009
Author: mrpitv
Duration: 11:28
Description:
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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Tags: auto preston tucker harry miller tucker combat car pt boat b-17 b-29 tucker torpedo
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Youtube Comments: 69
rogerstill71 Says:
Jan 7, 2011 - I want one!
sgtpepper1138 Says:
Jan 16, 2011 - Did you ever get a chance to find out about the Combat Car?
mrpitv Says:
Jan 17, 2011 - I'll send an email to John Tucker today. I totally forgot. thanks for the reminder. If one exists it should be in a museum somewhere.
TheBelldiver Says:
Jan 22, 2011 - Thuscis better than todays armored vehicles in Iraq!
RSprtn117 Says:
Jan 25, 2011 - This would have probably been the first ifantry fighting vehicle ever implemented. That turret mounted 37mm just reminds me of the bradleys supporting in iraq right now except that tucker is faster and probably more practical for road travel in europe.
smartcar111 Says:
Mar 1, 2011 - Did you get a response back?
racerbvd Says:
Mar 2, 2011 - They said that they had a fleet ready for delivery and showed a picture of a bunch, wonder where they ended up??
mrpitv Says:
Mar 3, 2011 - I asked Tucker's grandson and he said that they've all been lost. The Germans invaded the Netherlands before they could get rolling.
mariehansler Says:
May 10, 2011 - I think the whitewall tires should not have been on this thing....but the rest of it was pretty good for its time.
VegardMinde Says:
May 15, 2011 - Todays equipment is trash in comparison !
user6008 Says:
May 20, 2011 - 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 Says:
May 21, 2011 - 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 Says:
May 22, 2011 - there were electric cars that were squashed in the turn of the 20th Century, brother.
mrpitv Says:
May 23, 2011 - 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.
koledapt Says:
May 28, 2011 - 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.
1960markN Says:
Jun 1, 2011 - You say you have seen one? WHERE? How many still exist? I never knew of this until watching this video. This is awe inspiring!
mrpitv Says:
Jun 1, 2011 - 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.
John234pwns Says:
Jul 20, 2011 - That is damn cool.
docspeedshop Says:
Jan 21, 2012 - HOLD THAT TIGER...
madmanmapper Says:
Feb 5, 2012 - We could have been driving electric cars 100 years ago, derp.
sannyf2000 Says:
Feb 22, 2012 - have to say it, it looks like a heavy armored buggy
Myrth1 Says:
Mar 18, 2012 - Because it was a heavy armored buggy, driving super-fast and laying down heavy barrage of fire. Actually building those and version with rocket launchers and you win ANY war which isn't fought in mountains in matter of days, if not hours (depending on country size).
skeilak Says:
May 6, 2012 - The Tuck Combat Car had many innovative ideas, and might have had some use as a reconnaissance vehicle.However, many of it's main features, such as, it's speed (useless under actual combat conditions), the ridiculously complicated, mechanically "soft", and very expensive, plexiglass gun turret, awkward machine gun placement, and high purchase price, all contributed to the US Army's rejecting the vehicle.Tucker did however, sell the turret to Consolidated Aircraft, for use in the B-24 Bomber.
redrocker1055 Says:
Nov 30, 2010 - You have to understand something about the American Government. They only care about the safety of it's soldiers when it's economical to do so. Yes, this should've been made, but quite frankly it was too expensive to put in the hands of average soldiers.