Burlington man's convertible raising eyebrows in car-collector community
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BURLINGTON — For every success story in American industry, there are dozens of failures. Most notable among them is the Tucker, an automobile made famous in a 1988 film "Tucker: The Man and His Dream" directed by Francis Ford Coppola.
Now, the car is about to get another turn in the spotlight, with the completion of a Tucker convertible once owned by a Burlington man that some enthusiasts have said was a secret prototype for a planned new convertible model.
Others call it a hoax.
The car was owned by collector Allan Reinert of Burlington and eventually sold to Justin Cole, a classic car restorer in Madison.
Both Cole and Reinert told the San Francisco Chronicle they are surprised at the vehemence of the objections.
They say they have eyewitness accounts, some in the form of affidavits, from people who had seen the drawings, reinforced frame, factory number stampings -- and the car being prepared as a convertible -- long before Reinert acquired it.
One such person, John Walczak, a 60-year-old retired banker from Woodstock, Ill., said he had seen the uncompleted car as a convertible in a Milwaukee machine shop in 1971 or 1972.
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