“Top 3” T-Buckets from Hunnert Car Pileups Past
My picks for the “Top 3” T-Buckets from past Hunnert Car Pileups. All have the 1960’s T-Bucket look and one is a real survivor with extensive history.
The Tarantulas’ T-Bucket Instrumental
If T-Buckets weren’t so doggone popular, nobody would be inspired to write cool tunes about them. When’s the last time you tapped your foot to a groovy ’34 Ford instrumental? We’re very happy to be able to share with you another T-Bucket instrumental titled “T-Bucket” (what else?) by a group named The Tarantulas. This is … Read more
Cal Automotive: Fiberglass T-Bucket Body Pioneers, Part 2
It starts with an institutional food service size mayonnaise jar. As you may have noticed in the Custom Associates ad in Part 1 of the Cal Automotive story, interested parties could send in twenty-five cents for information. It was Bud Lang’s idea that when the mayonnaise jar filled up with quarters they would use them … Read more
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 … Read more
Happy Birthday, Model T Ford: Born October 1, 1908
There would be no T-Buckets today if it were not for this momentous day 102 years ago. October 1, 1908 is marked as the birthday of perhaps the greatest singular automotive creation, the Ford Model T. Ford’s gift to the world, brought a revolution in the automobile industry. It was the perfect combination of low … Read more
Cal Automotive: Fiberglass T-Bucket Body Pioneers, Part 1
We know from The Real History of the Fiberglass T-Bucket Body that ‘glass Model T bodies were first introduced in 1957 by the Diablo Speed Shop. But, that fledgling venture only produced a couple of bodies, one of which was sold to Buzz Pitzen who built The World’s First Fiberglass T-Bucket Hot Rod. However, the … Read more
Mark Niver: He Crossed His Last Finish Line a Winner
Originally published Sept. 6, 2010 Almost two months ago, I read the headlines about a Top Alcohol drag racer who lost his life in a tragic accident at an NHRA event in Washington. It wasn’t until almost a month later that the familiar name hit me: Mark Niver. This was the same Mark Niver whose … Read more
“Top 3” T-Buckets from El Segundo Main Street Car Show
Just happened to be in Southern California on a weekend that coincided with the El Segundo Police Officers Association 13th Annual Main Street Car Show. I’ve attended before and I really like this kind of car show where the main street in town is blocked off and you get to leisurely wander while viewing the … Read more