{"id":2253,"date":"2017-02-07T16:37:30","date_gmt":"2017-02-07T14:37:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogautosphere.creatic-agency.fr\/lheritage-de-tucker\/"},"modified":"2022-11-22T11:16:34","modified_gmt":"2022-11-22T09:16:34","slug":"lheritage-de-tucker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.autosphere.fr\/blog\/lheritage-de-tucker\/","title":{"rendered":"L’h\u00e9ritage de Tucker"},"content":{"rendered":"
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En 2012, la Tucker Torpedo dont les images illustrent cet article a \u00e9t\u00e9 vendu aux ench\u00e8res \u00e0 Palm Beach (Floride) pour 2 915 000$ (ou 2,7M\u20ac). Il faut dire que le produit est particuli\u00e8rement rare et son histoire on ne peut plus riche. Elle aurait m\u00eame d\u00fb l\u2019\u00eatre davantage tant son cr\u00e9ateur voulait faire part au progr\u00e8s technologique.<\/p>\n

Preston Thomas Tucker ne se voyait pas \u00eatre flic toute sa vie et encore moins bosser sur les cha\u00eenes de montage Ford \u00e0 Detroit ou vendre des Studebaker. Sa passion depuis l\u2019\u00e2ge de 16 ans, c\u2019\u00e9tait de retaper des bagnoles dans sa grange. Son r\u00eave, c\u2019\u00e9tait d\u2019en produire. L\u2019Histoire retient que c\u2019est par un v\u00e9hicule militaire qu\u2019il s\u2019est mis le pied \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e9trier. Nous sommes dans les ann\u00e9es 40 et l\u2019id\u00e9e est davantage de fabriquer des armes, des bombes, des avions et des bateaux que des voitures pour monsieur tout-le-monde. Du coup, sa premi\u00e8re voiture fut une Tucker Combat Car qui a s\u00e9duit l\u2019\u00e9tat major avec sa tourelle de combat.<\/p>\n

La voiture du futur.<\/h2>\n

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Au sortir de la seconde guerre mondiale, Preston Tucker se lance. Son id\u00e9e de base est de proposer une voiture qui constituerait un immense bon en avant sur la probl\u00e9matique de la s\u00e9curit\u00e9 automobile encore balbutiante. Le policier qu\u2019il fut assista aux r\u00e9sultats de nombreux accidents de la route. Cela a guid\u00e9 sa pens\u00e9e sur ce qu\u2019il fallait pour s\u00e9curiser les passagers d\u2019une automobile : Un troisi\u00e8me phare central directionnel (lui valant un surnom d\u2019\u0153il de cyclope), un pare-brise \u00e9jectable, un tableau de bord rembourr\u00e9, des freins \u00e0 disque, des ceintures de s\u00e9curit\u00e9. En dessous, Tucker imagine pour sa Torpedo une suspension ind\u00e9pendante aux quatre roues. Le travail d\u2019a\u00e9rodynamique d\u2019Alex Tremulis doit en faire une voiture tr\u00e8s maniable en plus d\u2019\u00eatre rapide avec 6 cylindres en position longitudinale arri\u00e8re d\u00e9livrant environ 165 chevaux aux roues arri\u00e8re. Bien des ann\u00e9es plus tard, son coefficient de train\u00e9e a \u00e9t\u00e9 calcul\u00e9 \u00e0 0,27. Il y a des voitures d\u2019aujourd\u2019hui qui n\u2019arrive pas \u00e0 un tel r\u00e9sultat !<\/p>\n

David contre Goliath<\/h2>\n

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Mais voil\u00e0, les g\u00e9ants de l\u2019industrie automobile am\u00e9ricaine (Chrysler, Ford et GM) ont peur. Ils ont tout entrepris pour faire \u00e9chouer l\u2019entreprise de Tucker. Et ils ont r\u00e9ussi. Au cours de l\u2019ann\u00e9e 1948, la Tucker Corporation eut toutes les peines du monde \u00e0 se fournir en acier, \u00e0 tenir les d\u00e9lais pour la production initiale de 50 v\u00e9hicules \u00e0 Chicago (les 13 derni\u00e8res furent assembl\u00e9s \u00e0 la main par 300 employ\u00e9s sans salaire). On reprocha \u00e0 Tucker un d\u00e9tournement de fonds, de la publicit\u00e9 mensong\u00e8re et d\u2019\u00eatre un escroc\u2026 L\u2019histoire se r\u00e9gla devant le juge. Tucker sauva son honneur en invitant notamment les 8 jur\u00e9s \u00e0 monter \u00e0 bord de ses voitures et d\u00e9couvrir qu\u2019elles roulaient bien. Mort d\u2019un cancer en 1956, \u00e0 53 ans, Tucker ne devint jamais un constructeur automobile. Tout cela est presque parfaitement revisit\u00e9 dans le film \u00ab Tucker <\/em>\u00bb de Francis Ford Coppola avec le g\u00e9nial Jeff Bridges dans le r\u00f4le-titre.<\/p>\n

Quel h\u00e9ritage ?<\/h2>\n

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Oui, les go\u00fbts, les couleurs\u2026 Difficile pour autant de ne pas trouver sublime une Tucker 48\u2019. Mais au-del\u00e0 de l\u2019esth\u00e9tique, la philosophie Tucker a guid\u00e9 bien des ann\u00e9es apr\u00e8s la construction automobile mondiale. L\u2019a\u00e9rodynamique au service de la beaut\u00e9 et de l\u2019efficience. Et surtout l\u2019av\u00e8nement des \u00e9quipements de s\u00e9curit\u00e9 qui sauvent des vies comme priorit\u00e9. Rien que la ceinture de s\u00e9curit\u00e9 !<\/p>\n

50 Tucker ont vu le jour (ajoutez un prototype) jusqu\u2019en 1949. Autant de voitures de collection dont les montants s\u2019envolent \u00e0 chaque fois que l\u2019une d\u2019elles est soumise aux ench\u00e8res. Derri\u00e8re les chiffres, il reste le t\u00e9moignage d\u2019un id\u00e9al automobile.<\/p>\n

Photos : Barrett Jackson<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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