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Tucker No. 1014
at the Rubicon Estate |
Your intrepid blogger drove to Northern California this weekend to see his
20th Tucker. In so doing, however, I was in for a bit of a surprise. As far as I knew,
Tucker No. 1037 was on display at the
Rubicon Estate, the Rutherford, CA winery of director
Francis Ford Coppola. Coppola is beloved of Tucker fans for directing 1988's
Tucker: The Man and His Dream. However, rather than Coppola's maroon
No. 1037, the
Centennial Museum at the winery prominently displayed his blue
Tucker No. 1014 among the movie memorabilia and vintage magic lanterns and zoetropes. Of course, this blogger also took the opportunity to (responsibly) sample the wares of the
Niebaum-Coppola winery at the
Rubicon Estate!
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Niebaum-Coppola Winery
at the Rubicon Estate |
The Napa Valley wine country is only about an hour's drive from the cities of the San Francisco Bay Area. A great deal of
Tucker: The Man and His Dream was filmed in the Bay Area, including
San Francisco City Hall (standing in for the
Chicago Federal Courthouse), an abandoned
Ford assembly plant near San Jose (the
Tucker Corporation factory) and a Victorian farmhouse in the nearby city of Sonoma (for exterior scenes of the
Tucker family home in Ypsilanti, MI).
(Post and photo credits: Kit Fox)
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