Here’s a nice, relaxing slide show for your viewing enjoyment. In 2006, I returned to beautiful Mountain Home, Arkansas, again for the National T-Bucket Alliance Nationals. Kinda’ wish they still held them there. Always looked forward to the scenic drive on the twisty, wooded Missouri and Arkansas backroads. The local barbecue joints served up good [...]

I’ve previously lamented the fact that the only T-Bucket themed song of which I was aware was the silly 1960s “Bucket T“, which had been recorded by no less than Jan & Dean, The Who and Ronny and the Daytonas. Man, groups sure were hard up back then to record any hot rod themed song! [...]

My July, 2010 edition of Rod & Custom was waiting for me with the regular mail when I arrived home last night (I know, it’s not yet May and the July issue arrives? I’ll let the magazine industry explain that one). So, I start flipping through it and my eyes immediately are drawn to a [...]

Here’s something to be cheery about in 2010. Chester Greenhalgh wrote “How to Build a T-Bucket Roadster for Under $3000″ in 1986. With the recent eBook rerelease I wondered what inflation had done to that proposition over the past 20+ years. According to the official U.S. Government “Inflation Calculator”, based on the Consumer Price Index, [...]

Just for fun, here’s a slide show featuring just some of the buckets that caught my attention at the 2005 T-Bucket Nationals hosted in Mountain Home, Arkansas by the National T-Bucket Alliance. Kick back and enjoy.

With its nickname being Spanish for “The Cockroach”, it’s likely no insult was intended toward Ed Iskenderian’s iconic 1924 T-Bucket roadster. It’s more probable the moniker referred to the fact that Isky purchased the beginnings of this car for $4 in 1939 from his best friend, John Athan. He then tossed away the flimsy Model [...]

In 1964, the best selling instrumental rock group of all time (with over 110 million albums sold worldwide and now inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame) introduced their 14th and possibly most influential album, “The Ventures in Space”. The best-selling album’s alluring cover featured a romantic young couple in a striking white [...]

The June, 1963 cover of “Rodding & Restyling” magazine featured an interesting variant of the T-Bucket style: a 1927 T phaeton body abbreviated by chopping off everything behind the front doors and with a grafted on pickup bed of sorts. What really caught my attention, though, was that it was Y-block Ford powered. I had [...]

Up until 1962, pretty much every T-Bucket that had appeared in the Big 3 car magazines (Hot Rod, Rod & Custom, Car Craft) had been from the West Coast — California, more specifically. So, it was quite a shock to see a really dramatically unique T-Bucket appear in both Hot Rod and Car Craft that [...]

The T-Bucket phenomenon was really building momentum by the mid-1960s when Ray Sisemore’s multi-part “How to Build a Hot Rod” series began chronicling a bucket build orchestrated by Ted McMullen of U.S. Speed Sport in Santa Fe Springs. Not long after that, a young San Francisco Bay hot rodder who mounted all the wheels at [...]