T-Buckets of the 1980′s

1985 Street Rodder “Project California T” Sweepstakes T-Bucket Lives

1985 Street Rodder “Project California T” Sweepstakes T-Bucket Lives

The “Fad-T” fanaticism that burned white-hot in the late ’60s and ’70s was still smoking. So, it was only natural that STREET RODDER had a terrific looking T-Bucket. sweepstakes car in its August 1985 issue

Continue Reading »

Chester’s Traditional Flathead T-Bucket Found! — kind of

Chester’s Traditional Flathead T-Bucket Found! — kind of

“Hi Chester – I think I owned your red T-Bucket back in 2004,” was the message that produced a very pleasing discovery.

Continue Reading »

Bob Hamilton’s Oakland Roadster Show Winning Track T Roadster

Bob Hamilton’s Oakland Roadster Show Winning Track T Roadster

Starting in his small home garage, Bob Hamilton built a fiberglass-bodied 1927 Ford Track T roadster that won its class in 1989 at the Grand National Roadster Show.

Continue Reading »

The Two “Low Blow” T-Buckets

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 …

Continue Reading »

Pip Biddlecombe’s “Low Blow” T-Bucket

Pip Biddlecombe’s “Low Blow” T-Bucket

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 …

Continue Reading »

T-Bucket Déjà Vu All Over Again

T-Bucket Déjà Vu All Over Again

It was baseball great Yogi Berra who coined the expression, “It’s déjà vu all over again”. I found myself uttering this famous Yogiism while flipping through the ad-dense back pages of the November, 2010, “Street Rodder” magazine and seeing this ad for the Baron & Tucker Hot Rods 23 ‘T’ body and chassis kits for [...]

Continue Reading »

Chester’s eBook Addendum No. 2: Tie Rod Ends and Radius Rods

Chester’s eBook Addendum No. 2: Tie Rod Ends and Radius Rods

“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 [...]

Continue Reading »

Is There Life for a T-Bucket After the Show Car Circuit? Ask Albert Almeida.

Is There Life for a T-Bucket After the Show Car Circuit? Ask Albert Almeida.

This past weekend, I happened to be in the Sunshine State and decided to drop by the Sun T’s of Central Florida show and cruise at Old Town in Kissimmee. Quite a nice turnout of very nice T-Buckets and a very friendly, infomative bunch of T-Bucket lovers. They had a lot of cool buckets on [...]

Continue Reading »

Chester Greenhalgh: T-Bucket Genius!?!

Chester Greenhalgh: T-Bucket Genius!?!

The following is a personal blog post from New Year’s Day, 2009. It was a great start to my New Year because it brought me into contact with the long incommunicado Chester Greenhalgh and through our friendship has brought us to where we are today with TBucketPlans.com. A lot of disparaging remarks have been made [...]

Continue Reading »