Tucker collector David Cammack dies

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6. AACA Museum reveals plans for Cammack Tucker exhibit, $500,000 capital campaign to fund it

AACA Museum reveals plans for Cammack Tucker exhibit, $500,000 capital campaign to fund it
http://blog.hemmings.com/index.php/2013/11/26/aaca-museum-reveals-plans-for-cammack-tucker-exhibit-700000-capital-campaign-to-fund-it/

Daniel Strohl Nov 26th, 2013 at 8am

Years in the works, the AACA Museum’s planning on the new permanent home for David Cammack’s Tucker collection kicked into high gear earlier this year when the collection made its way from Alexandria, Virginia, to Hershey, Pennsylvania, following Cammack’s death.

This week, the museum released their vision for the exhibit and announced a $500,000 capital campaign to fund its construction. At the time the largest collection of Tuckers and Tucker memorabilia – consisting of three complete cars (#1001, #1022, and #1026), a test chassis, multiple Tucker engines, and tens of thousands of blueprints – Cammack arranged for the donation of the collection to the museum, a natural continuance of the willingness to share the collection with other Tucker and automotive enthusiasts when he had it housed in a nondescript warehouse in Alexandria. “I wouldn’t want it if I had to keep it in a safety deposit box,” he said at one point. “Who wants something like that? You can’t enjoy it and nobody else can. That’s not my nature.”
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Cammack, who began collecting Tuckers in 1972, died this past April at the age of 85. The AACA Museum moved his collection to Hershey over the summer.

For more information about the Cammack exhibit, visit AACAMuseum.org.

They got away without my seeing them. I kept saying to myself that one of these days, I'm going to try to see those cars. I never did.