T-Buckets of the 1970′s
Frank and Linda Mazi’s Wheelstanding, 10-second, Street-Driven T-Bucket
You may have seen this wheelstanding T-Bucket before. The photo has been widely circulated to dispel the myth that you can’t get a T-Bucket to hook up traction-wise and because it’s sporting full street equipment and also because if you look closely you’ll notice a cigarette nonchalantly hanging from the lip of the T’s builder [...]
How Harry Willett’s “Phoenix” 1923 T Became a Show Car
In the late ’60s, Harry Willett was service director for Chicago’s largest Buick dealer and at night in his home garage he was applying stunning paint jobs to most of the funny cars being built in Chicagoland at the time. He’d also built a wicked fast little T-Bucket street rod that was powered by a [...]
History: Bill Keifer of California Custom Roadsters, interviewed by Eric Geisert of STREET RODDER magazine
We’re very proud to be partnered with the legendary T-Bucket building shop, California Custom Roadsters (CCR), in the marketing of the new digital version of their time-tested T-Bucket frame and suspension plans. First introduced in 1973, literally thousands of T-Buckets have been built using the CCR plans. This would not have happened had it not [...]
Review of the Famous California Custom Roadster, CCR, T-Bucket Frame Plans
The single most enduring package of information relating to T-buckets and their ongoing popularity is the T-bucket plans of California Custom Roadsters. Read this review from 35 years ago to discover why …
California Custom Roadsters T-Bucket Chassis Plans Digital Edition is NOW AVAILABLE
The California Custom Roadsters T-Bucket Chassis Plans are for scratch building the famous Bill Keifer Chassis, the most practical chassis for show and go for almost 40 years. Most chassis builders in the street rod industry have patterned their frames and front end design after CCR’s ’15-’25 “T” Chassis. This chassis has been proven and [...]
2011 T-Bucket Nationals Report, Part 11
Seeing Fred Cossell’s dramatically panel painted T-Bucket is like going back in time to a major car show of the 70s when “Fad T’s” were in their heyday, winning America’s Most Beautiful Roadster awards with some regularity. Fred’s Indy-based roadster has all the winning elements: chromed rear axle and high arch spring as well as [...]
The Bird T-Bucket Kit Plans
Back in the 60s every red-blooded American boy had three things on his mind: girls, sports and hot rods! To feed that insatiable interest, along came a new hot rod supplier — not from southern California, but from the small Midwestern town of Fremont, Nebraska. Who could resist the urge created by the 1965 Bird [...]
Speed Scene Live airs T-Bucket report
Legendary hot rod and racing announcer Bob Beck has a regular feature on Speed Scene Live. It’s called the Great American Auto Scene (G.A.A.S.) and Bob’s report on the history and significance of T-Buckets begins at about the 27 minute mark of the show. Here’s the link where you can watch it …
Stolen T-Bucket Alert
This yellow T-Tub was stolen from the owner’s driveway in Northern California. Although it’s not, it is very similar in appearance to an Andy’s Instant T. A reward …
Storage Wars Meets T-Bucket C-Cab History?
This is the vision I hope to see when that door rolls up. Hmmm, that looks like a fiberglass body mould — why, it looks like a C-Cab, if I’m not mistaken. Wait a minute! Could it be …? Yes, it is — a Dan Woods C-Cab body mould.
