The 1971 Street Rod Nationals in Memphis, Tennessee followed the success of the inaugural event the year before. That experiment at bringing together East and West coast street rodders for the first time drew over 600 street rods to a city that wasn’t on anyone’s vacation destination list: Peoria, Illinois. Memphis, on the other hand, … Read more
Twitter hot rod tweets are growing like crazy! As you may know, the social media site/app Twitter has 284 million monthly active users and 500 million Tweets are sent per day. Now, more and more of those tweets relate to hot rod and T-Bucket interests. TBucketPlans.com has been on Twitter since 2009. But, we’ve really … Read more
A Bird T Bucket kit inspired legions of teenage hot-rodders-to-be in the 1960s and 1970s. The advertised prices were eye-popping and even a $1.25 an hour minimum wage grocery bagger could save up to order one. It so happens that I’m familiar with the Bird T-Bucket pictured in this article, having first encountered it at … Read more
A how to build a hot rod DVD makes the ideal holiday gift. It’s the perfect time of year to kick back and view something inspiring and instructional. A good how to build a hot rod DVD gets one ready for the hot rod building plans that may be part of a New Year’s resolution. … Read more
Your Happy Hot Rod Holiday Exclusive Gift from TBucketPlans.com This holiday season we want to show just how much we appreciate the support and encouragement we get from all of our followers at TBucketPlans.com. We searched everywhere for just the perfect gift that T-Bucket and hot rod fans would really appreciate, could exercise their mechanical … Read more
Linda Vaughn, Miss Hurst Golden Shifter, captured the attention of most male hot rod, drag racing and other motorsports fans in the 1960s and 70s, before cosmetic silicone enhancement became the norm. So, it was only natural in the ’70s after Hurst had expanded beyond motor mounts and shifters with the acquisition of the Airheart … Read more
Congratulations to the winners of our Hot Rod How-To eBook Library Giveaway: James Butsch, Rusty Jones, Larry Spence, and Ernest Valenzuela. The lucky winners names were drawn November 17th and they were each sent a prize notification. We hope you enjoy your Chester Greenhalgh eBooks as much as Chester did putting them together. The Chester … Read more
Hot rod builder/editor/author/archeologist Pat Ganahl called it the best rod magazine cover ever produced: the eye-grabbing January, 1971 Rod & Custom featuring Danny Eichstedt’s Leg Show T-Bucket. Calling it a “mind blower” for the street, the R&C story pointed out the irony of how such a radical departure from ‘traditional’ hot rodding was winning shows, … Read more