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Preston Tucker A Ypsilanti man creates a truly new car for the postwar market, changing our perceptions of mobility during a time of innovation.

Spring 1945

Automobile manufacturers are rushing to build more cars. Production lines are running at full capacity. Workers, including the veterans returning from war, are making overtime pay. Some manufacturers are even flying in automobile parts to recently converted war production facilities, relying on Mafia connections to source steel and other materials at triple the normal prices. The end of the second world war is crating a huge demand for new cars, and manufacturers are responding.

However, the postwar car market was rather disappointing, at least to people who wanted new, exciting designs, and not just warmed over prewar cars with minor mechanical changes. Although in 1949 Ford would revolutionize the automobile industry by producing an entirely new automobile, many others saw the writing on the wall much earlier than the Big Three.

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Wikimedia Commons and Jack Snell

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