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mahatmakanejeeves

(60,922 posts) Mon Apr 29, 2013, 10:06 AM Apr 2013

Tucker collector David Cammack dies

Sad news. David Cammack had more Tuckers in one place than anywhere else on Earth. (That's my best guess. Am I wrong?) That place would be Alexandria, Virginia.

Ever since I first read about the collection, I wondered where in Alexandria those cars were kept.

Preston Tucker's Memories and Machines Live On in Old Town Warehouse

Last summer, I finally set about trying to figure it out. With Google maps and Wikimapia, it didn't take long. I'm angry with myself now, because every time I'd go by the building, which lives up to its reputation of being nondescript, I'd think, "You know, I ought to give him a call, because I'd like to see those cars." I never got around to it, and now it's too late to go see them in Alexandria.

Tucker collector David Cammack dies

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Tucker collector David Cammack dies (Original Post) mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2013 OP

I've seen 2 or 3 Tuckers in my lifetime.... FredStembottom Apr 2013 #1

What a great collection Kolesar May 2013 #4

It's very different. FredStembottom May 2013 #5

Now playing on Netflix mockmonkey May 2013 #2

"If you've ever seen the 1988 Francis Ford Coppola movie Tucker: The Man and His Dream..., mahatmakanejeeves May 2013 #3

AACA Museum reveals plans for Cammack Tucker exhibit, $500,000 capital campaign to fund it mahatmakanejeeves Nov 2013 #6

FredStembottom

(2,928 posts)

1. I've seen 2 or 3 Tuckers in my lifetime....

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Tue Apr 30, 2013, 12:36 PM

Apr 2013

....never know where they will pop up.
Like, in the middle of South Dakota in one of the most memorable and weird museums I have ever seen.
http://www.pioneerautoshow.com/

Kolesar

(31,182 posts)

4. What a great collection

Reply to FredStembottom (Reply #1)

Wed May 8, 2013, 08:18 AM

May 2013

I drove by it three times in the last ten years and never knew it was there.

FredStembottom

(2,928 posts)

5. It's very different.

Reply to Kolesar (Reply #4)

Wed May 8, 2013, 10:00 AM

May 2013

Too bad it all seems so uncared for

mockmonkey

(2,964 posts)

2. Now playing on Netflix

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Mon May 6, 2013, 04:47 PM

May 2013

Tucker: The Man and His Dream

I always wondered where they got the cars for that movie.

mahatmakanejeeves

(60,922 posts)

3. "If you've ever seen the 1988 Francis Ford Coppola movie Tucker: The Man and His Dream...,

Reply to mockmonkey (Reply #2)

Tue May 7, 2013, 08:52 AM

May 2013

you've seen two of David's cars."

David Cammack

mahatmakanejeeves

(60,922 posts)

6. AACA Museum reveals plans for Cammack Tucker exhibit, $500,000 capital campaign to fund it

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Wed Nov 27, 2013, 12:53 PM

Nov 2013

AACA Museum reveals plans for Cammack Tucker exhibit, $500,000 capital campaign to fund it
http://blog.hemmings.com/index.php/2013/11/26/aaca-museum-reveals-plans-for-cammack-tucker-exhibit-700000-capital-campaign-to-fund-it/

Daniel Strohl Nov 26th, 2013 at 8am

Years in the works, the AACA Museum’s planning on the new permanent home for David Cammack’s Tucker collection kicked into high gear earlier this year when the collection made its way from Alexandria, Virginia, to Hershey, Pennsylvania, following Cammack’s death.

This week, the museum released their vision for the exhibit and announced a $500,000 capital campaign to fund its construction. At the time the largest collection of Tuckers and Tucker memorabilia – consisting of three complete cars (#1001, #1022, and #1026), a test chassis, multiple Tucker engines, and tens of thousands of blueprints – Cammack arranged for the donation of the collection to the museum, a natural continuance of the willingness to share the collection with other Tucker and automotive enthusiasts when he had it housed in a nondescript warehouse in Alexandria. “I wouldn’t want it if I had to keep it in a safety deposit box,” he said at one point. “Who wants something like that? You can’t enjoy it and nobody else can. That’s not my nature.”
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Cammack, who began collecting Tuckers in 1972, died this past April at the age of 85. The AACA Museum moved his collection to Hershey over the summer.

For more information about the Cammack exhibit, visit AACAMuseum.org.

They got away without my seeing them. I kept saying to myself that one of these days, I'm going to try to see those cars. I never did.

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