{"id":170648,"date":"2010-01-12T08:01:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-12T13:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2010\/01\/12\/tucker-club-reiterates-doubts-about-authenticity-of-auction-conv\/"},"modified":"2010-01-12T08:01:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-12T13:01:00","slug":"tucker-club-reiterates-doubts-about-authenticity-of-auction-convertible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/170648","title":{"rendered":"Tucker Club reiterates doubts about authenticity of auction convertible"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Allow us to clarify: the Tucker Torpedo Convertible we wrote about recently<\/a> should herewith be referred to as the purported<\/em> Tucker Torpedo Convertible. The droptop claiming to be a Torpedo will be up for auction in Scottsdale soon, offered by Russo and Steele. A note from the Tucker Automotive Club of America, however, states that it knows of no such car ever having been made by the Tucker Corporation. The statement says, in part:<\/p>\n

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“The Tucker Automobile Club of America, Inc. (TACA) has never been presented with-nor have been able to find-any credible evidence to prove the authenticity of this or any other vehicle as being a Tucker Corporation intended convertible and therefore we can not certify it as such.”<\/em><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The club does not say that the convertible in question is definitely not<\/em> a genuine Torpedo. The club’s position is that it has never been able to successfully prove the provenance of said car, “nor has the seller responded to [the club’s] request seeking the engine serial number and data plate information.” Without a single piece of documentation to support the car among the library of papers detailing Tucker’s rise and fall, about the only thing to say for it is: buyer beware. Hat tip to Jeff<\/em>.<\/p>\n

[Source: Tucker Automobile Club of America<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Tucker Club reiterates doubts about authenticity of auction convertible<\/a> originally appeared on Autoblog<\/a> on Tue, 12 Jan 2010 08:01:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Filed under: Aftermarket, Classics, Convertible Allow us to clarify: the Tucker Torpedo Convertible we wrote about recently should herewith be referred to as the purported Tucker Torpedo Convertible. The droptop claiming to be a Torpedo will be up for auction in Scottsdale soon, offered by Russo and Steele. A note from the Tucker Automotive Club […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-170648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170648\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}