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
Building a T Bucket hot rod is one of the best decisions you’ll make. Building a T Bucket hot rod or street rod is easy. Building a T Bucket hot rod that’s both good-looking and great-performing and doing it on a shoestring budget is easy too — if you make the right choice and follow … Read more
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
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
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
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
OK, so I was a tad premature in announcing three years ago that it looked like Rod & Custom magazine was going to build a T-Bucket project car! Anyway, I was happy to see the cover of the April, 2013 R&C with Ed Roth car and memorabilia collector George Goodrich’s “Tweedy Pie-inspired” T. (Personally, it … Read more
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