- This sedan is the 39th of 51 samples the Tucker Corporation built in 1948. Preston Tucker intended to mass-produce a car of the future with advanced safety, styling, and engineering features. The automobile has its engine in the rear, an area where the front passenger can crouch during a collision, and a center headlight that turned with the steering wheel. The sedan's most striking feature is ...www.150.si.edu/150trav/imagine/m611.htm