Category: T-Buckets of the 1970′s
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.
The Story of Poncho the 1923 Ford C Cab (in his own words)
I rolled off the assembly line at Henry Ford’s truck plant along with many other trucks. I wasn’t the smallest on the line nor was I the largest. I was designed as a light duty commercial truck with a flat bed for …
“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.
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 …
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!
Dan Holck’s Awesome Blown Flathead Ford T-Bucket
The first time I saw this awesome, low-slung T-Bucket in a magazine it blew me away. It had the coolest profile I’d seen and, as I’ve mentioned before …
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