Get a bunch of car crazies together late at night and someoneeventually will bring up one of the biggest oddball autos of all time- the Tucker.
The bizarre-looking, mechanically inept Tucker car and itscreator, the flamboyant, fast-talking, nattily attired PrestonTucker, soon will be on the lips on many.
That's because they're the subject of a new movie, "Tucker: TheMan and His Dream." The movie, directed by Francis Ford Coppola andproduced by George Lucas, is benefiting from some of the bestHollywood hype in years.
Only 51 Tuckers were built in 1948 at a war surplus plant onChicago's South Side before the project collapsed. By that time,Preston Tucker …
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