#Preston Tucker

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Preston Tucker: The Man and His Dream

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Tucker 48 Sedan

A car ahead of its time.

(National Museum of American History, Washington, D.C. January 2023)

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Exclusive: Preston Tucker’s Rare Home Movies Narrated by His Son - King Rose Archives

From King Rose Preston Tucker (1903-1956) was an innovative American automotive designer and entrepreneur best known for his development of the Tucker 48, also known as the “Tucker Torpedo.” Born in the small town of Capac, Michigan, and raised in the bustling automotive hub of Detroit, Tucker was a true car enthusiast from the get-go. He dreamed up the Tucker 48, also famously known as the…

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Tucker: The Man and His Dream (1988) directed by Francis Ford Coppola

If you haven't seen this film, you probably should.

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Tucker: the Man and His Dream (1988). The story of Preston Tucker, the maverick car designer and his ill-fated challenge to the auto industry with his revolutionary car concept.

As visually sublime as you'd expect given the creative team behind it, but this late-80s Francis Ford Coppola film never quite lands its tone. At points, it almost feels like a musical, despite there being no songs, and Jeff Bridges' performance veers a little too often into caricature in a way that leaves me pretty cold. Still, even mid Coppola is better than a lot of other films, and it's effective dismantling of the post-WWII American Dream is really compelling stuff. 6/10.

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14 - Best Birthday Gift

Part 15

The Texas Tire Family

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Pushing open the bedroom door in our apartment I smiled brightly seeing that my husband was still peacefully asleep in our bed. He was doing his best to earn more money since Dale was getting tired of running his shop. I could tell that he was interested in opening up a tire shop since he was looking to work for Mandy’s dad. “Georgie, I have a surprise for you. Wake up sleepy head. I made some waffles.”

“Oh hey babe…you didn’t have to make me breakfast in bed.” He rolled over onto his side so he was facing me. His hair was a mess more than its usual curly mess and he still had his sleepy morning voice.

Sitting the tray down on the bed he scooted over where we could both sit on the bed. “Well I think that my husband and father to my two beautiful children should be treated well on his birthday. Especially when he is turning eighteen years old. That is a big deal.”

“Oh man I totally forgot. You are the best Y/n.” He sat upright starting to quickly dive into eating the waffles and bacon. Laying my head against his shoulder I smiled watching him for a few minutes. I would be turning eighteen in two months so then we would both be adults.

He turned his head holding out the fork feeding me a piece of waffle talking with his mouth full of food. “So what are we gonna do today. Movies or something?”

“I was thinking dinner at the Mexican place. I convinced Meemaw to make you some of your favorite foods for tomorrow night and let the kids help her make it. But tonight I want it to just be us.” I explained leaning forward pressing my lips onto his.

He moved his freehand up to rest against my cheek drawing me in closer to kiss him. He smiled, breaking it when we heard some tiny feet running towards our bedroom. “That sounds perfect, darlin’.”

“Hi daddy!” Aurora and Evelyn both giggled running inside climbing up onto the bed. The pair tackled their father in hugs and kisses almost every morning but this time they were longer since I said it was his birthday.

He made them both giggle and cackle their heads off when he tickled the crap out of them singing a song that he was taught as a child. “The stars at night are big and bright deep in the heart of the Texas. The prairie sky is wide and hot deep in the heart of Texas…remember always four claps never three.” I smiled knowing that no matter how old they are we could never stay mad at them. Our girls would be our whole world.

“What exactly were you two thinking. Stealing the truck and driving through downtown!” I raised my voice at our two daughters sitting in the lobby chairs of where the guys worked at.

Aurora raised her hand trying to say something but she had nothing. “Mom I, we just wanted to see Uncle Sheldon and Aunt Amy.”

“So you didn’t think to wake us and up ask could we take you!” I shouted at her.

Evelyn jumped backwards in her chair whimpering at my raised tone. I never ever really yelled at them until right now. “You guys were too busy with the new baby…”

Georgie turned his head in our direction. He was leaning his back against the wall, arms crossed over his chest frustrated with them. “Well that doesn’t excuse what you two did. You two aren’t allowed to watch tv for two weeks when we get back home and no random trips to Dairy Queen either. You both understand that?”

“I’ll ride back with Penny and Montana. I think it’s better if you have them with you.” Spinning around on my feet I crossed my arms over my chest. He nodded, staring down at me, handing me my jacket that I had thrown off terrified that they were injured when we first came inside.

Penny came inside from one of the doors waving to us when she walked up. “Hey, I can follow you guys home. You know, keep an eye on them if you want. That way you two aren’t worried about little Montana.”

“Uh thanks Penny. That’s great.” I responded following her outside watching our daughters climb in the backseat of her car. Georgie and I went to his truck with me carrying Montana in my arms. Shutting the passenger door with my right hand I cradled my son in my arm’s just watching him sleep like his daddy until what Eve said came back to my mind. “Do you think that Eve was right…that we are focusing too much on this little guy?”

Georgie sent me a look having one hand on the steering wheel. “In his defense he ain’t even one year old yet. So they have nothing to be jealous about.”

“Don’t act like you don’t think about it. Remember when growing up with Sheldon you and Missy always felt left out or ignored. I don’t want anything like that to happen to our girls.” Glancing in his direction we stopped at a red light where he rested his freehand to my cheek being able to tell it was worrying me.

“Hey, stop worrying about it. They are old enough to know that we have to give him extra attention right now since he is a baby. We won’t do what my parents did to them. I promise.” He vowed simply before we made the rest of the drive back to our place. The girls were sent off to their room leaving us alone laying in our bedroom watching Montana sleep in the crib.

Laying my head on Georgie’s chest where he wrapped his arms around my waist. “Even though I am angry at them I can’t stay mad at them forever. Honestly we couldn’t even make it an hour without them on your birthday once.”

“You’re right about that, darlin’. He replied, kissing me gently where I ran one hand through his curly hair remembering his eighteenth birthday.

We entered the restaurant where I was wearing a dark green dress and a Jean jacket thrown over it. I had some ankle brown boots on it. Georgie had on some jeans with a red shirt and we had Connie watching the kids for us. “You really didn’t have to take me out tonight. Especially since we are having dinner with my family tomorrow.”

“Georgie, don’t worry. You deserve to have some fun on your birthday. You only turn eighteen once in your life so let me treat you.” I shrug my shoulders, forking some of his chimechonga since we decided to split just one.

He smiled, shoving some food in his mouth pointing the fork end at me. “It is weird though by this point Eve would have been starting a food fight.”

“Oh right. Remember the time when Aurora decided to stick the cheese sticks in her mouth and pretended to be a walrus. I almost spit out my food that night.”

Georgie snorted, picturing the memory. “The victory dances that they would do when they managed to beat us at bowling when they can use the bumpers…huh crap Y/n. I think we have to head home.”

“You’re missing them too don’t you?” He nodded to my question where I grabbed my coat following him toward the door throwing some money down on the table. He pushed open the door to Meemaw’s house seeing that the girls were passed out under some blankets on the couch meaning that his meemaw was asleep in her own room.

He leaned his elbows on the back of the couch smiling down at the little angels. “Thank you for taking me out for Mexican. But I just want to stay right here. These two make my birthday great.” He kissed me slowly and I smiled. “I love you.”

“I love you too and happy birthday.” Laying my head on his shoulder I smiled Intertwining our hands together. “They really are the best thing to ever happen to you and me.”

Comments really appreciated ❤️

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Six count ‘em six South Park bbies

Original (rough) wbf sketches under the cut:

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The Electric Prunes - I Had Too Much To Dream Last Night

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The Holdovers (2023) Review

History teacher Paul Hunham must remain on campus over the Christmas holidays at a remote prep school with the holdover students, with just Angus Tully remaining after a few days and Mary Lamb the grieving cook for company, they are about to all find out that sometimes you just get thrown together with the people you really need in those moments. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Continue reading The Holdovers…

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Bad movie I have The Holdovers 2023

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Amigos: chegou a mais recente edição do programa: "Cabine de Som", via MKK webradio, a de número treze!

Segunda-feira, dia 12 de fevereiro, a partir das 23 horas, com repetição no sábado, dia 17 de fevereiro, às 15 horas. Mais duas repetições na segunda (dia 19 - 23 horas) e sábado (dia 24 às 13 horas).

Nesta edição, teremos o som exuberante da Black Music no trabalho de Billy Preston, e o sensacional Blues de New Orleans praticado por Dr. John. No segundo bloco, teremos o Folk-Rock europeu do Stealers Wheel e o Country-Rock norte-americano do tradicional grupo: The Marshall Tucker Band. Depois, vem o Rock Progressivo italiano da década de setenta, através dos espetaculares grupos: Museo Rosenbach e Quella Vecchia Locanda. Para encerrar, no quarto bloco ouviremos duas pérolas do Rock Progressivo brasileiro da década de setenta, os grupos: Moto Perpétuo e O Terço.

Pauta e locução: Luiz Domingues. Edição e produção: Markko Mendes. Foto: Lincoln Baraccat

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Bill McCoskey's - Reflections on Tucker Motor Company Failure

This is a follow up on yesterdays, “Why Did the Tucker Motor Company Fail?” post. As those of you who visit here frequently will be aware, Bill McCoskey often shares some fascinating insights from his long experience in the car restoration world. Bill’s comments on the Tucker article are so interesting I’m posting them here as an article in its own right. Thanks as always Bill please keep…

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MINOR CHARACTER MARCH MADNESS

Get ready for a March Madness Tournament for all the kid characters who exist only in the background, or only once, or just not nearly enough times in South Park. Each poll will last a day, with multiple polls going every day (at least for the start). I tried my best to pick truly minor characters but if you think one isn't minor enough or are sad I forgot one... sorry I don't feel like rearranging the entire tournament at this point 😅

Each character has been sorted into seeds 1-16 based on how prevalent I think they still are in people's memories and then paired up just like regular March Madness (i.e. 1 vs 16, 2 vs 15, etc) so apologies if some early match ups seem unfair. It'll hopefully make any upsets that much more exciting!

And now... the bracket!

See the match ups and follow the rounds below the cut.

ROUND 1—BRACKET 1

Damien Thorn vs Katie Gelson

Annie Knitts vs Sally Darson

Bradley ("Cartman Sucks") vs Baahir Hassen Abdul Hakeem

Mark Cotswolds vs Thad Jarvis

Nelly vs Flora Larsen

Jason White vs Josh Myers

Lizzy vs Cartman's kids (Post Covid)

Charlotte vs Lexus

ROUND 1—BRACKET 2

Gregory of Yardale vs Isiah Jordan

Gary Harrison vs Esther

Rebecca Cotswolds vs Alejandro White

Hebert Pocket vs Marcus Preston

Sophie Gray vs Heather Williams

Terrance Mephesto vs Corey Lanskin

Blanket vs Kyle's kids (Post Covid)

Mercedes vs New Kid/Douchebag

ROUND 1—BRACKET 3

Tricia Tucker vs Davey Solokov

Christophe/Ze Mole vs Lisa Berger

Estella Havisham vs Yao

Kevin Stoley vs Bridon Gueermo

DogPoo Petsuski vs Larry Feegan

Lola vs Tammy Warner

Filmore Anderson vs Chris Donnely

Bill Allen vs Porsche

ROUND 1—BRACKET 4

Leslie Meyers vs Kip Drordy

Thomas vs Brimmy

Trent Boyett vs Francis

Millie Larsen vs Gavin Throttle

David Rodriguez vs Tammy Nelson

Powder/Sally Turner vs Douglas

Kelly ("Rainforest Shmainforest") vs Jenny Simons

Fosse McDonald vs Ferrari

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thread of shit i love about fo4 cos despite playing this game from day one i still find new things to adore

tucker memorial bridge. fucking hilarious

The Infinite Jet Trashcan

how NPCs can pick up weapons and ammo autonomously to use in combat (such as when preston picked up a flamer during taking independence and started TORCHING the mirelurk queen during one of my playthroughs)

swann just straight up throwing rocks at your head

when you target an owned brahmin or cat and it has a name 😭

haters will get me for this but i love the skeleton/toilet gags. they always get me

the way deathclaws/yao guai/oversized enemies can sometimes PICK YOU UP AND THROW YOU??? absolutely terrifying

the survival mechanic of being able to fill bottles with being introduced So cleanly in vault 111… chefs kiss

nick valentine, the man the myth the malewife. i’m kissing himmmmmmm

more to be added later

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Character Name Ideas (Male)

So I've been browsing through BehindTheName (great resource!) recently and have compiled several name lists. Here are some names, A-Z, that I like. NOTE: If you want to use any of these please verify sources, meanings etc, I just used BehindTheName to browse and find all of these. Under the cut:

A: Austin, Aiden, Adam, Alex, Angus, Anthony, Archie, Argo, Ari, Aric, Arno, Atlas, August, Aurelius, Alexei, Archer, Angelo, Adric, Acarius, Achilou, Alphard, Amelian, Archander B: Bodhi, Bastian, Baz, Beau, Beck, Buck, Basil, Benny, Bentley, Blake, Bowie, Brad, Brady, Brody, Brennan, Brent, Brett, Brycen C: Cab, Cal, Caden, Cáel, Caelan, Caleb, Cameron, Chase, Carlos, Cooper, Carter, Cas, Cash, Cassian, Castiel, Cedric, Cenric, Chance, Chandler, Chaz, Chad, Chester, Chet, Chip, Christian, Cillian, Claude, Cicero, Clint, Cody, Cory, Coy, Cole, Colt, Colton, Colin, Colorado, Colum, Conan, Conrad, Conway, Connor, Cornelius, Creed, Cyneric, Cynric, Cyrano, Cyril, Cyrus, Crestian, Ceric D: Dallas, Damien, Daniel, Darach, Dash, Dax, Dayton, Denver, Derek, Des, Desmond, Devin, Dewey, Dexter, Dietrich, Dion, Dmitri, Dominic, Dorian, Douglas, Draco, Drake, Drew, Dudley, Dustin, Dusty, Dylan, Danièu E: Eadric, Evan, Ethan, Easton, Eddie, Eddy, Einar, Eli, Eilas, Eiljah, Elliott, Elton, Emanuel, Emile, Emmett, Enzo, Erik, Evander, Everett, Ezio F: Faolán, Faron, Ferlin, Felix, Fenrir, Fergus, Finley, Finlay, Finn, Finnian, Finnegan, Flint, Flip, Flynn, Florian, Forrest, Fritz G: Gage, Gabe, Grady, Grant, Gray, Grayson, Gunnar, Gunther, Galahad H: Hale, Harley, Harper, Harvey, Harry, Huey, Hugh, Hunter, Huxley I: Ian, Ianto, Ike, Inigo, Isaac, Isaias, Ivan, Ísak J: Jack, Jacob, Jake, Jason, Jasper, Jax, Jay, Jensen, Jed, Jeremy, Jeremiah, Jesse, Jett, Jimmie, Jonas, Jonas, Jonathan, Jordan, Josh, Julien, Jovian, Jun, Justin, Joseph, Joni, K: Kaden, Kai, Kale, Kane, Kaz, Keane, Keaton, Keith, Kenji, Kenneth, Kent, Kevin, Kieran, Kip, Knox, Kris, Kristian, Kyle, Kay, Kristján, Kristófer L: Lamont, Lance, Landon, Lane, Lars, László, Laurent, Layton, Leander, Leif, Leo, Leonidas, Leopold, Levi, Lewis, Louie, Liam, Liberty, Lincoln, Linc, Linus, Lionel, Logan, Loki, Lucas, Lucian, Lucio, Lucky, Luke, Luther, Lyall, Lycus, Lykos, Lyle, Lyndon, Llewellyn, Landri, Laurian, Lionç M: Major, Manny, Manuel, Marcus, Mason, Matt, Matthew, Matthias, Maverick, Maxim, Memphis, Midas, Mikko, Miles, Mitch, Mordecai, Mordred, Morgan, Macari, Maïus, Maxenci, Micolau, Miro N: Nate, Nathan, Nathaniel, Niall, Nico, Niels, Nik, Noah, Nolan, Niilo, Nikander, Novak, O: Oakley, Octavian, Odin, Orlando, Orrick, Ǫrvar, Othello, Otis, Otto, Ovid, Owain, Owen, Øyvind, Ozzie, Ollie, Oliver, Onni P: Paisley, Palmer, Percival, Percy, Perry, Peyton, Phelan, Phineas, Phoenix, Piers, Pierce, Porter, Presley, Preston, Pacian Q: Quinn, Quincy, Quintin R: Ragnar, Raiden, Ren, Rain, Rainier, Ramos, Ramsey, Ransom, Raul, Ray, Roy, Reagan, Redd, Reese, Rhys, Rhett, Reginald, Remiel, Remy, Ridge, Ridley, Ripley, Rigby, Riggs, Riley, River, Robert, Rocky, Rokas, Roman, Ronan, Ronin, Romeo, Rory, Ross, Ruairí, Rufus, Rusty, Ryder, Ryker, Rylan, Riku, Roni S: Sammie, Sammy, Samuel, Samson, Sanford, Sawyer, Scout, Seán, Seth, Sebastian, Seymour, Shane, Shaun, Shawn, Sheldon, Shiloh, Shun, Sid, Sidney, Silas, Skip, Skipper, Skyler, Slade, Spencer, Spike, Stan, Stanford, Sterling, Stevie, Stijn, Suni, Sylvan, Sylvester T: Tab, Tad, Tanner, Tate, Tennessee, Tero, Terrance, Tevin, Thatcher, Tierno, Tino, Titus, Tobias, Tony, Torin, Trace, Trent, Trenton, Trev, Trevor, Trey, Troy, Tripp, Tristan, Tucker, Turner, Tyler, Ty, Teemu U: Ulric V: Valerius, Valor, Van, Vernon, Vespasian, Vic, Victor, Vico, Vince, Vinny, Vincent W: Wade, Walker, Wallis, Wally, Walt, Wardell, Warwick, Watson, Waylon, Wayne, Wes, Wesley, Weston, Whitley, Wilder, Wiley, William, Wolfe, Wolfgang, Woody, Wulfric, Wyatt, Wynn X: Xander, Xavier Z: Zachary, Zach, Zane, Zeb, Zebediah, Zed, Zeke, Zeph, Zaccai