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Someone Paid $100,000 for a Tucker Model 48 Non-Functional Prop 19 Dec 2020, 8:05 UTC ·
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Only 51 Tucker Model 48s were ever made in the maker’s short-lived history. This means that, whenever one becomes available, it sells for upwards of $2 million, which, in turn, would mean anything associated with a Tucker also has a high market value. But a fiberglass, non-functional prop that only resembles a Tucker from the outside selling for $100,000?
It happened on Bring A Trailer on December 18: the final bid for a Tucker Model 48 prop car was of $100,000 and the museum-worthy piece changed hands. As news of the sale got out, car enthusiasts online began to wonder about whether this was a superficial purchase worthy of a fool (who, as we all know, is easily parted with his money) or some type of investment into a piece laden with historical importance?
Whoever Bought This Fake Tucker For $100 Grand Is A Chump
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One hundred thousand dollars. That’s a lot of dollars. That’s a pile of dollars so vast that if you really wanted something exotic and interesting, like an air-cooled, rear-engined V8 car with dramatic, bulbous styling you could buy one and still have like $30,000 left over. Or, you could do what the winner of this Bring A Trailer auction did and spend the entire amount on a non-drivable but full-size
model of an air-cooled, rear-engined flat-six car with dramatic, bulbous styling that barely has an interior and is made of foam slapped on an old Ford LTD chassis. If you took that route, I think you might be kind of a chump.