![]() ![]() Tucker showed the Tucker Tiger Tank to Mechanix Illustrated, which ran an article titled "Armored Tank Attains Speed of 114 M.P.H." According to the piece, published in February 1939, the vehicle's body was welded together and weighed ten thousand pounds. It was also fast, powered by a Packard V12 engine famed engine builder Harry Miller had modified for the application. The vehicle was wheeled, not tracked, so it would more properly be considered not a tank but an armored car. He developed a prototype which he called the Tucker Tiger Tank. Tucker explored the possibility of furnishing goods to the military as the war approached, and he imagined an armored vehicle driven by a powerful engine, racing around a battlefield faster than the lumbering army tanks of the day. Preston Tucker is well known today for the cars he built after World War II, but there is one vehicle he built before the war which–if it still exists–might be worth some money as well. ![]()
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