Harry P.

Another example... "I'm a Believer." Huge hit by... the Monkees. Right? Well, yes, the Monkees had a huge hit with their version of the song, but the original was by Neil Diamond...

Here's a reverse twist on the "Cover versions of well-known songs" idea... well known songs–big hits–that were actually cover versions of the originals... only almost nobody knew it! For example, everyone knows "Black Magic Woman" by Santana. But was it actually by Santana? No! The original was a Fleetwood Mac song! Yep, it's true...

Yes! The lyrics were great! Too funny...

"He died grinning on live TV. Hanging there he looked a lot like you, and an awful lot like me"...

"Once there was this girl who wouldn't go and change with the girls in the change room. But when they finally made her, they saw birthmarks all over her body. She couldn't quite explain it... They'd always just been there"..

"Grandmas sit in chairs and reminisce... Boys keep chasing girls to get a kiss. The cars keep a going faster all the time... Bums still cries, "Hey buddy, have you got a dime?"

"Her weapons were her crystal eyes, making every man mad. Black as a dark night she was, Got what no one else had."

I like that color on that car.

"Rockets, moon shots... Spend it on the have-nots. Money, we make it... Before we see it, you take it"...

Wow! That is so sharp and clean! Beautiful craftsmanship.

"She was common... flirty. She looked about thirty. I would have run away, but I was on my own"...

Spectacular! And I really like the interior colors. Nicely done...

Not much new to report today... been working on the chassis and engine. Nothing of any particular interest there, it's all pretty standard stuff. I'll post a photo or two of the chassis and engine when I'm ready, but of course the real meat of this thread is the woody body, which I have yet to start on. As soon as I do, progress pix will be forthcoming...

Now that's cool! My plan is to have a lower rear compartment, below the main rear doors, accessible by a door that opens downward like a station wagon tailgate. A setup like this on a slide-out tray would be too cool! Dang, Skip... you've put that into my head now and I think I might just have to give it a try!

Not yet. I've been kicking it around in my head. Right now I'm leaning toward a pale, muted yellow (pretty much the color of the molded plastic body) with black wheels and black interior. I think that might look nice against the wood tones of the body and the black roof, but I might change my mind. At this point at least, I'm leaning that way.

Kit? I'd love to have the real car! I see one around here now and then, the guy must live locally. What a spectacularly beautiful car. And from what I have read, the performance is just about as spectacular. Now if they could only figure out how to cut that MSRP by 50%...

I won't name names, but I have it from a very reliable industry insider source that at one point the decision had been made to produce a styrene Tucker kit. But the kit never was put into production due to other, unrelated circumstances at the company. Has it not been for those other circumstances that had a big effect on the company, we would have a Tucker kit today. So the idea of a Tucker kit isn't as crazy as some of you guys think.

A football team moving from one city to another has nothing to do with players breaking the rules of the game. Two completely different things.

Actually, the reason there were only 50 built is because in post-war America, the Big Three had nothing but leftover pre-war designs to sell, while the Tucker was brand new and different. The Big Three didn't like the upstart Tucker Corporation upstaging them, so they worked with Michigan senator Homer Ferguson and the SEC to put Preston Tucker on trial on bogus, trumped-up charges. Tucker was found not guilty by the jury, but it was too late. Tucker was broke and the company died.

It looks like the Pontiac Aztec of RR woodies!

I think he was being sarcastic...

They could also do a "new" Tucker...