This seems to most presage the VehiCross, from that other weird little car company.

No love for the Cowboy?

I kinda absolutely love it. Shame it wasn’t produced.

Instead of wasting so much time on hopeless rustbuckets, this is a project DT needs to work towards. Of note: Pacer interiors look rather decent, and were far more contemporary than their other cars at the time.

I love AMC weirdness. They seemed to be a lot like America’s version of Citroen.

The Nash Metropolitan had covers over both the front and rear wheels, giving it a sort of boat-like look.

“...which is most notable by the use of regular jackstands set under the car so it could use those big Goodyear Tracker A-T tires, the same one used on the Cherokee.”

WANT.

Considering how 90% of the vehicles on the market nowadays are exactly this—chunky station wagons—AMC gets the gold star for being way ahead of the curve.

Of course, we’ll never know whether Tucker could have delivered on all that promise—especially the part about true mass production at a competitive price. Manufacturing scale-up, cost controlled mass production while hopefully keeping quality decent, and figuring out your next act while doing so are all difficult and…

Those smaller independents were never seen as a threat to the Big Three because none of them were truly mass-market cars, -- they never sold anywhere near as many vehicles. They knew their place and just stayed in their own small market segments, never trying to directly compete.

I don’t buy it. Sure, a Tucker that’s little more than a VIN would probably still be worth $1M, and this is an exceptional customization. But I think it’s all it is, and the dealership is trying to pass it off as a far more valuable original. Being that the doors would have needed to be enlarged and the seats adjusted,…

The Securities and Exchange Commission constantly kept Tucker under a microscope and in 1949, Tucker and six Tucker Corporation executives were indicted on mail fraud, violations of SEC regulations, and conspiracy to defraud. Tucker eventually won the battle, but lost everything in the process.

Meh. It’s nothing a chrome vinyl wrapping won’t fix. 

So are these dudes.

For double the standard Phantom price, he could have bought like 52 Kia Souls and just drove each one for a week and Duke of Hazard that shit every Sunday. I should be an investment advisor. 

You mean like this?

I’ve actually often wondered why the ultra-rich tend to content themselves with regular off the rack luxury cars, and why completely bespoke cars aren’t a more common thing with them.

Ah! The Mad King Ludwig way of being Rich. I believe we had a President from that school of thought recently. I wonder what he’s up to now.... (PS, I seriously doubt this is our Ex-Potus’s car. Too much class and not enough gold).

That’s what I think when I see an Escalade on 24's.

Honetly, I was expecting some fancy coachwork.  This just looks like a regular Rolls with cutom oder specs and ulphostery.  “Lesser” companies like Aston Martin/Porsche/Bentley do this stuff all the time.