Archive for January, 2011
T-Bucket Buyer Beware!
Thanks to the Internet, if you’re looking for a T-Bucket for sale, it couldn’t be easier. Depending on how far you’re willing to go for your dream bucket, the choices are almost limitless. But with so many T-Buckets for sale today, you still have to be very careful.
The Tucson T-Bucket Raffle, Part 2
Talk about a great looking raffle prize! Check out this T-Bucket built for the Tucson Police Officers Association Foundation by Hot Rods in the Desert. With tickets only …
“Styline Customs Chuck Miller” Book Review
You’ll learn how Chuck built his first T-Bucket, drove it all Summer and on the day after Thanksgiving applied his creative talents to convert it in 8 weeks into the Ridler Award winning Fire Truck at the 1968 Detroit Autorama.
What Do You Know About Mike’s Unrestored Survivor T-Bucket Built in 1968?
I enjoyed looking at this handsome T-Bucket in the video and something kept nagging at me that it looked vaguely familiar. A few days later, I picked up my all-time favorite issue of Rod & Custom magazine …
Baron and Tucker Hot Rods’ New T-Bucket Kits
I was unfamiliar with this new name in the world of T-Bucket kit building and decided that when the opportunity presented itself I would try to learn more. So, I recently had a brief meeting with Baron and Tucker proprietor …
Tweedy Pie T-Bucket Sells for About Half What it Did Four Years Ago
This historic T-Bucket was originally sold by it’s builder, Bob Johnston, to Ed “Big Daddy” Roth for $1150. By early 2007, when stupid money was bidding up every hot rod of any significance, it sold for $335,500. Last Friday, it sold for …
The “Lively Set” T-Bucket Sold for a Fraction Asking Price
This T-Bucket with history just sold at the RM Auctions January, 2011 Arizona event for just slightly more than a quarter of its asking price 60 days ago. How come?
The Two “Low Blow” T-Buckets
Little did Scott Ellis know when he started laying out the original Low Blow T-Bucket on his Fresno garage floor in the 1970s that a decade later and 5,000 miles away another hot rodder would be so inspired …
The Bumpkin Pumpkin T-Bucket was For Sale — Again
If you’ve always wanted to be the star of the Halloween Parade, scare small children, incite chasing dogs and draw gape-mouthed stares at every car show and cruise …
Scott Ellis’ Original “Low Blow” T-Bucket
The late 1970s was a strange era in hot rod history. With its blown hemi, wild flames and mean and low stance, Scott Ellis’ T-Bucket stood out like crazy — in a crazy, good way!
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