Editing Preston Tucker (section)

==Legacy==
[[File:1948 Tucker Sedan at the Blackhawk Museum.jpg|thumb|Tucker 48 at the [[Blackhawk Museum]]]]
In 1954, a group of investors tried to revive the Tucker Corporation by soliciting investors, mostly former Tucker distributors and dealer owners, for a new car. This effort was led by George A. Schmidt, former president of the Tucker Dealers Association. They developed sketches for a sleek 2-door convertible, but were unable to generate enough support to get it off the drawing board.

Tucker's defense attorney, William T. Kirby, later became Chairman of the Board of the [[John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation]].

Otto Kerner Jr., the U.S. Attorney who had aggressively pursued the Tucker Corporation, was later convicted on 17 counts of bribery, conspiracy, perjury, and related charges for stock fraud in 1974. He was the first [[United States courts of appeals|federal appellate]] [[judge]] in U.S. history to be jailed. Kerner was sentenced to three years in prison and fined $50,000.

The location of the former Tucker Corporation, 7401 S. Cicero Avenue in Chicago,  became the corporate headquarters of [[Tootsie Roll Industries]] and the [[Ford City Mall]] (the building was owned for a time by [[Ford Motor Company]]). The building was so large that it was divided in two, with a large open area between the two resulting buildings.

Tucker's design concepts for the Tucker 48 included revolutionary ideas in car safety that helped formulate car safety standards.{{citation needed|date=July 2018}} The Tucker family held on to [[Air Cooled Motors|Aircooled Motors]] until 1961, when it was sold to Aero Industries.

The remaining Tucker 48 cars are highly collectible, and examples in very good condition have commanded prices of up to $3 million each. Original [[stock certificate]]s for Tucker Corporation common stock are valuable to collectors, and are worth more than when originally issued.<ref>Catalogued with an estimated value of between $2000 and 3000 by W. M. Smythe & Co. in [[New York City]] in 2003.</ref> Over 10,000 such stock certificates were personally signed by Preston Tucker, making these the most desirable.