Almost two months ago, I read the headlines about a Top Alcohol drag racer who lost his life in a tragic accident at an NHRA event in Washington. It wasn’t until almost a month later that the familiar name hit me: Mark Niver. This was the same Mark Niver whose T-Bucket captured my imagination when [...]

Just happened to be in Southern California on a weekend that coincided with the El Segundo Police Officers Association 13th Annual Main Street Car Show. I’ve attended before and I really like this kind of car show where the main street in town is blocked off and you get to leisurely wander while viewing the [...]

The most complete Hot Rod book ever written! 250+ pages comprehensively reveal every detail of how to build a T-Bucket roadster from everyday materials and junkyard parts. Build it yourself and save thousands of dollars compared to a T-Bucket kit car or searching all over for a T-Bucket “For Sale” — while customizing it to [...]

CCR ad from 1975 No doubt about it, probably the single most enduring package of information relating to T-buckets and their ongoing popularity would be the T-bucket plans sold by California Custom Roadsters. Over 30 years ago, in the now defunct Rod Action magazine the late Joe Mayall did a very detailed review of the [...]

No. Such a book doesn’t exist, but I love the popular “for Dummies” series of “how to” books for the same reasons that tens of millions of other people do: everybody wants easy to read information that clearly explains how to do the things they want to do and presents it in an innovative, entertaining [...]

While my personal preference for T-Buckets is more toward the 1915 through 1923 versions, my love of the genre encompasses them all. I really had to stop and inspect further this immaculate 1927 T-Bucket roadster on display at the 2010 Buckethead Bash in Mountain Home, Arkansas. The dramatic blue paint and graphics were perfectly complemented [...]

I could be accused by some as being taste-deficient, because I’m a sucker for the late 60s/early 70s psychedelic paint jobs, which incorporated panels, fogs, fades, bursts, lace, cobwebs, ribbons, stripes, murals, etc. in flakes, pearls and candies with the net result being sensory overload. While at the 2010 Buckethead Bash, sponsored by Spirit Industries [...]

While checking out all the T-Buckets at the 2010 Buckethead Bash in Mountain Home, AR, a beautiful black T-Bucket with flames caught my attention for several reasons: the overall look, the incredible detail — and “what’s up with that top?” I decided to spend a little more time with this one and took a short [...]

A couple months ago, I posted about the 4th Annual T-Bucket “Buckethead Bash” to be held in “beautiful” Mountain Home, Arkansas. I’m not just tossing the adjective beautiful around. The drive to Mountain Home is almost as enjoyable as the “bash” itself. Don’t believe me? Just take a look at this photo I snapped out [...]

“A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car.”  – Kenneth Tynan And, according to New York theater and music critic Jon Sobel (of BlogCritics.org), “The internet is a double-edged sword – while it stimulates thought, it also makes it easy to magnetize large groups of samesayers.” And that’s just [...]