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Morris, tsk tsk... That's the ignorant myth of Tucker.
Tucker's show car, his prototype, _that_ was hand-built from, yes, some scrapyard parts.
But all 51 of the production cars had 4-speed manual transmission with vacuum linkage.
And it _was_ a spectacular car. You could roll it over and then drive it away. It had seatbelts when none of the big 3 would offer them, a central headlight which turned with the steering to illuminate the road ahead in a turn.
And in the greatest American tradition, the big three used their political influence to destroy him.
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