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I can only encourage anyone with an interest in either automotive history, great entrepreneurs, Francis Ford Coppola, Joe Jackson music, Howard Hughes or Jeff Bridges (not necessarily in that order) to watch the 1989 movie Tucker. Absolutely brilliant as far as I'm concerned (but don't look for any mention of the XP-57 in it, there's none!). As a footnote, this is the only movie where Coppola dropped the "Ford" in his name, being credited as plain "Francis Coppola". It is said that this was his own silent way of bashing the Ford company without ever mentioning it by name in the movie (Ford, among other misdeeds, made sure to that Tucker's projects failed).

[QUOTE="Stargazer, post: 199412, member: 3129"] I can only encourage anyone with an interest in either automotive history, great entrepreneurs, Francis Ford Coppola, Joe Jackson music, Howard Hughes or Jeff Bridges (not necessarily in that order) to watch the 1989 movie Tucker. Absolutely brilliant as far as I'm concerned (but don't look for any mention of the XP-57 in it, there's none!). As a footnote, this is the only movie where Coppola dropped the "Ford" in his name, being credited as plain "Francis Coppola". It is said that this was his own silent way of bashing the Ford company without ever mentioning it by name in the movie (Ford, among other misdeeds, made sure to that Tucker's projects failed). [/QUOTE]

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