Tucker collector David Cammack dies

[mahatmakanejeeves]

Sad news. David Cammack had more Tuckers in one place than anywhere else on Earth. (That's my best guess. Am I wrong?) That place would be Alexandria, Virginia.

Ever since I first read about the collection, I wondered where in Alexandria those cars were kept.

Preston Tucker's Memories and Machines Live On in Old Town Warehouse

Last summer, I finally set about trying to figure it out. With Google maps and Wikimapia, it didn't take long. I'm angry with myself now, because every time I'd go by the building, which lives up to its reputation of being nondescript, I'd think, "You know, I ought to give him a call, because I'd like to see those cars." I never got around to it, and now it's too late to go see them in Alexandria.

Tucker collector David Cammack dies

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Tucker collector David Cammack dies

[FredStembottom]

1. I've seen 2 or 3 Tuckers in my lifetime....

....never know where they will pop up.
Like, in the middle of South Dakota in one of the most memorable and weird museums I have ever seen.
http://www.pioneerautoshow.com/

[Kolesar]

4. What a great collection

I drove by it three times in the last ten years and never knew it was there.

[FredStembottom]

5. It's very different.

Too bad it all seems so uncared for

[mockmonkey]

2. Now playing on Netflix

Tucker: The Man and His Dream

I always wondered where they got the cars for that movie.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

3. "If you've ever seen the 1988 Francis Ford Coppola movie Tucker: The Man and His Dream...,

you've seen two of David's cars."

David Cammack

[mahatmakanejeeves]

6. AACA Museum reveals plans for Cammack Tucker exhibit, $500,000 capital campaign to fund it

AACA Museum reveals plans for Cammack Tucker exhibit, $500,000 capital campaign to fund it
http://blog.hemmings.com/index.php/2013/11/26/aaca-museum-reveals-plans-for-cammack-tucker-exhibit-700000-capital-campaign-to-fund-it/

Daniel Strohl Nov 26th, 2013 at 8am

Years in the works, the AACA Museum’s planning on the new permanent home for David Cammack’s Tucker collection kicked into high gear earlier this year when the collection made its way from Alexandria, Virginia, to Hershey, Pennsylvania, following Cammack’s death.

This week, the museum released their vision for the exhibit and announced a $500,000 capital campaign to fund its construction. At the time the largest collection of Tuckers and Tucker memorabilia – consisting of three complete cars (#1001, #1022, and #1026), a test chassis, multiple Tucker engines, and tens of thousands of blueprints – Cammack arranged for the donation of the collection to the museum, a natural continuance of the willingness to share the collection with other Tucker and automotive enthusiasts when he had it housed in a nondescript warehouse in Alexandria. “I wouldn’t want it if I had to keep it in a safety deposit box,” he said at one point. “Who wants something like that? You can’t enjoy it and nobody else can. That’s not my nature.”
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Cammack, who began collecting Tuckers in 1972, died this past April at the age of 85. The AACA Museum moved his collection to Hershey over the summer.

For more information about the Cammack exhibit, visit AACAMuseum.org.

They got away without my seeing them. I kept saying to myself that one of these days, I'm going to try to see those cars. I never did.