How to Build a T-Bucket Hot Rod Roadster

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T-Bucket and Hot Rod Truck Plans New Year’s Sale – 2011

T-Bucket and Hot Rod Truck Plans New Year’s Sale – 2011

| December 31, 2010 | Comments (0)

Save 20% on Chester’s Hot Rod How-To eBooks: Only $8! Complete your collection and enjoy them both this New Year’s weekend. Sale starts …

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Pip Biddlecombe’s “Low Blow” T-Bucket

Pip Biddlecombe’s “Low Blow” T-Bucket

| December 28, 2010 | Comments (2)

A few years ago, while surfing the web, some photos of a super-low supercharged T-Bucket really caught my eye. Then, I was shocked to notice the steering wheel on the right hand side …

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Is This the “Perfect” T-Bucket?

Is This the “Perfect” T-Bucket?

| December 22, 2010 | Comments (2)

I’m happy to share these photos as an example of what I believe to be the perfect example of a traditional T hot rod roadster, and I’m just one of many who have …

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A Great Stretched Body T-Bucket Roadster

A Great Stretched Body T-Bucket Roadster

| December 20, 2010 | Comments (1)

I was evidently too busy drooling over all the beautiful detail embodied in the front end of this well-constructed Florida stretched T-Bucket to ask the owner/builder his name …

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A T-Bucket Golf Cart?

A T-Bucket Golf Cart?

| December 19, 2010 | Comments (0)

Built on a lengthened Club Car chassis and powered by an electric motor capable of speeds up to 30 MPH, I can only guess this T-Bucket concoction was intended either for …

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Maybe Santa Really Does Drive a T-Bucket

Maybe Santa Really Does Drive a T-Bucket

| December 17, 2010 | Comments (0)

Otherwise, why are there so many images of Santa in Model T-like conveyances from the purely traditional to the more modern T-Bucket hot rod?

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Double Trouble T: Four Times the Fun

Double Trouble T: Four Times the Fun

| December 16, 2010 | Comments (0)

So, what drives a transplanted New Zealand hot rodder to take on scratch building a 1927 T roadster with not one, but two, all aluminum Ford 4.6L DOHC modular V8′s?

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Tweedy Pie T-Bucket Back on the Block at RM Auctions Jan. 2011

Tweedy Pie T-Bucket Back on the Block at RM Auctions Jan. 2011

| December 15, 2010 | Comments (0)

With a $200k high bid not meeting reserve at the Mecum 2010 Monterey Auction, the legendary Tweedy Pie T-Bucket made famous by Ed “Big Daddy” Roth and originally constructed by Bob Johnston goes back on the block …

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A different Kind of Bucket: Steve Scott’s Uncertain-T

A different Kind of Bucket: Steve Scott’s Uncertain-T

| December 14, 2010 | Comments (6)

In 1965, Car Craft magazine unveiled the “Uncertain T” with unprecedented fanfare. How about a cutaway on the cover, a 3-page feature story, a mini-feature on how to scratch build a model of the car, and the introduction of …

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Just Can’t Believe Jim Hoffman’s T-Bucket is “Ex-Junk”

Just Can’t Believe Jim Hoffman’s T-Bucket is “Ex-Junk”

| December 13, 2010 | Comments (1)

Jim likes to refer to his T-Bucket as “Ex Junk”, but I think Jim’s definition of junk rests on a higher plain than my own. It’s quite clear that he didn’t scrimp when it came to detail, because this car is loaded with clean, functional and …

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