Preston Tucker, owner of the Tucker Corp, tries to prove to investors that a car can be manufactured with engines in the rear.
This photo was published exactly four days after the company ceased operations of the Tucker 48. Only 51 cars were ever produced. Among other negative publicity, top newspaper columnist Drew Pearson reported that the car was a fraud because it could not go backward and it went “goose-geese” going down the road.
But what horsepower!
I Don't Get It 
Goose Geese? What? Why were they shocked by a rear engine car in 49. The VW was around. Today all open wheel race cars are rear engine. Of course I do remember the kerfuffle that arose when Lotus challenged the Offie roadsters at the 500. And those were car people. So maybe their opinions of old man Tucker in 49 isn’t surprising
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I wondered about the VW as well. Extra points for use of kerfuffle.
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Cool; but what does Goose Geese mean?
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That’s what the Life article said. It doesn’t make sense to me either.
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Jobs that Americans don’t want anymore: pretending to be an engine.
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Ha! Let’s just stop pretending all together. Except for Facebook and all social media.
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