Build a T-Bucket Fiberglass Car Body: Is it for you?

X-Tee-C custom fiberglass car body T-Bucket

People have asked about building their own T-Bucket fiberglass car body. They want to know if plans and dimensions are available for constructing a fiberglass car body for their T-Bucket instead of purchasing one. My answer is that you can rather easily shop around today and find a T-Bucket fiberglass body for under $500. If … Read more

On International Women’s Day We Recognize “Hot Rod Liz Kitzul”

Hot Rod Liz Kitzul T-Bucket

On International Women’s Day, we would like to recognize “Hot Rod Liz” Kitzul, who in 1995 founded “The Lipstick Run” as an event for female hot rodders to travel together to events throughout North America. Liz, of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, has driven close to 200,000 miles in her own T-Bucket on all of the Lipstick … Read more

New Cover for “How to Build a T-Bucket …”

How to Build a T-Bucket Plans Hot Rod Roadster

In case you hadn’t noticed, we’ve adopted a new cover for Chester Greenhalgh’s “How to Build a T-Bucket Hot Rod Roadster for Under $3000: kickin it old skool” eBook. It still has the same great content, but we made a few improvements. The first improvement was to reduce the size of the eBook from 37 … Read more

Top New T-Bucket Videos, 2/22/13

T-Bucket burnout

  T-Bucket hot rod fans have shown us that they love good T-Bucket videos and each week we highlight the best new ones for you. These videos can range from glamour shots of someone's T-Bucket they're proud of or may have for sale, action shots of TBuckets racing or cruising, and even videos that focus … Read more

Frank and Linda Mazi’s Wheelstanding, 10-second, Street-Driven T-Bucket

Frank and Linda Mazi wheelstanding T-Bucket hot rod

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 … Read more

Cost of Building a T-Bucket Keeps Going Down

Klaxon Style Ooga Aooga Ahooga Oooga Horn - car hotrod truck

There’s no denying it. If you’re building a T-Bucket hot rod you gotta’ have a horn. It’s a legal requirement almost everywhere and, besides, you need it to wake up those looky-loos who are dangerously wandering into your lane just so they can get a closer view of the results of your mechanical genius. It … Read more