TuckerEssay Preview: TuckerReport this essayTucker: The Man and His DreamThe movie, Tucker: The Man and His Dream, is the story of a man named Preston Tucker and takes place in the 1940s. Preston Tuckers dream was to design and build the greatest automobile ever made. At first, he began by bringing home drawings of his dream car, which was to be called the Tucker Torpedo. He showed the drawings to a man who would eventually become his partner, Abe. Initially, Abe doesnt like the idea of building a car, but he didnt know anything about cars.
Tucker placed an advertisement in a magazine about his car, and the public became excited. The car would have an engine in the rear, a middle headlight that turned with the car, and a windshield that would pop out when the car was in a wreck.
In the meantime, Robert Bennington, who was the CEO of Ford, became worried that the Tucker Torpedo may put Ford out of business, so Bennington made a deal with him to allow him to buy a plant to build the car in. This also gave Ford a reason to be involved in building the car. The deal stated that Tucker must make at least fifty cars in one year in order to keep the plant, and the first car needed to be presented to the public within sixty days. Abe invested $6,000 to help Tucker build the first car.
On the day of the presentation, the car was built but had no engine. Therefore, they had some problems getting it on stage, but once it was on stage, the thousands of people who attended the presentation cheered.
After that, Bennington announced to Tucker that he wanted to change the car. He didnt want the engine in the rear of the car, and since the Big 3, the three largest automobile makers in the US, were buying all of the steel, there was not enough for Tucker to buy to build his cars. Tucker protested the Big 3. A man named Howard Hughes, who owned a steel company, told Tucker about a helicopter company who needed to sell steel. So Tucker bought a helicopter engine and converted it to a car engine, and the car worked.
After Tucker protested the Big 3, he was spied on by people who worked for the Big 3 companies. They accused him of not running his business properly, but it was not true. Abe got scared because he had already served three years in prison for bank fraud and did not want to get caught up in another mess, so he resigned. Then, there were commercials out that told the public that Tuckers car was built piece by piece from a junkyard. Eventually, the government started a full investigation on Tucker and charged him with fraud. Tucker lost most of his investors from this, and had already spent too much money trying to build the car. He did make all the cars, but he did not make the fifty car minimum in time and lost his plant. He
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For a while, Tucker was in the middle of his retirement. Even after his retirement, he had no more money to spend on his old projects. But when one of the executives of Big 3, who took time out of his time to sell Tucker’s old cars, called him and said that his $50,000 would be sold for $200,000 by Tucker, he knew that the company at least had some legal standing, and had decided that a lawsuit against him would be much better off being dismissed. Some years later, a lawsuit was filed against Tucker on a public claim of fraud. The jury found that Tucker did not violate any laws, and that they could take the jury’s verdict of the case and the damages. It didn’t matter that Tuckers was bankrupt, because they were making the money, he was going full speed and going bankrupt. So, the other three executives got on with things—a fine, and a $50,000, and that’s how things actually happened to them.
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At the time of filing the suit they couldn’t sell the car, because they were too big, so they’d pay lots of money to get in on Tucker’s investment. But there was another way they could keep Tucker on record and put it on the record.
If they took a look at him, they would see that he was still the CEO—not a guy anymore. At the time, nobody knew that. Even today, now I can’t even buy a Tucker.
And when the time came to file the suit against him, none of his friends and business associates would ever know that Tucker had actually been working for the Big 3 companies. Then they would call the Big 3 on their phone, tell them that Tucker had just sold his car for $200,000 but had been evading the cops for years, and they would write an article asking to be a witness. Eventually, they could not write it.
Then, after going on strike for ten months, Tucker sued the owners of the old buildings and the city to get their money back, and he sued the owners of some other big buildings. He was trying to get the government to let him buy the townhouse that was going to be demolished, and one of the owners of the townhouse was also the owner of the townhouse that was to be sold for $200,000. So, with a lawsuit filed against him, Tucker had to stay in jail and got paid, and now in prison, maybe for a little over twenty years. And one of Tucker’s friends was caught up in the lawsuits, and found out that he bought the townhouse through the Big 3 corporate lawyers.