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It's a 1948 Tucker 48 (see the plate on the rear bumper?). Find a copy of the movie "Tucker: the Man and His Dream" to get the full story about how Preston Tucker tried to start a car company with a great deal of safety and other innovations to a new automobile design, but ended up getting put out of business by the Big 3 automakers and a U.S. Senator.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tucker_48

 

Wow! Very cool! Motor in the back! You know it's rare when you google something and they keep showing the same 3 cars. Read a little about it. Sounds like Senator Mcarthy wasn't the only one making grandiose, baseless accusations at that time... too bad

 

1948 Tucker Torpedo.

 

Way back in the 50's I used to see a Tucker around our small town and in Peoria, nearby. I'm thinking they were different colors. So two Tuckers.
At a museum in Chicago and another at the old Studebaker museum in South Bend, Indiana was another Tucker. So two more.
Remember a Tucker at Henry Ford Greenfield Village museum and a museum in Michigan.
This was long ago so any could be the same car at another location.
Over the years in and around Illinois I remember several Tuckers being driven, possibly to events.

Retired to Florida in 1994. One was often at the Daytona Speedway fall car show. Several other places, maybe museums around Florida, I saw Tuckers.
I always liked them because of the oddities and had no idea there were only 50 or 51 ever made.
It also seems like new Tuckers were being built, maybe in central Florida, and a few NOS Tucker parts were used to make a few more.
I've seen so many Tuckers that I'm all tuckered out trying to remember!

 

I saw Lucky Lee Lott just a few miles south of where we now live, at the small airport on the next road to the west. I must have been very young then but much of my life I attempted to drive like hell.
Back them the cars were more like late 30's and 40's cars.
I'm sure I commented before, while riding around in central Florida we saw a few Lee Lott yellow cars. I'm thinking those were Hudson Hornets setting in a front yard with signs to show they were retired stunt cars. Then again maybe they were Nash's like these. I believe they got a discount for using them to show the abuse those cars could handle and how they remained upright after jumping off ramps and other obstacles.
The last I remember the Lott name was in politics or real estate....... or both in central Florida.

Lott and the Teter boys taught the Dukes how to jump obsticles.

 

I actually saw one of those Chrysler turbine cars. We were on our Senior Class Trip to Washington DC. I had stepped outside the hotel and was waiting at a stop light to cross the street. It had stopped at the light as I crossed the street. It was pretty neat....pure science fiction back in them days.