T-Bucket Blog Archive

Bird Engineering T-Bucket Kit

The Bird T-Bucket Kit Plans

Back in the 60s every red-blooded American boy had three things on his mind: girls, sports and hot rods! To feed that insatiable interest, along came...

2011 T-Bucket Nationals Report, Part 10

As president of the National T-Bucket Alliance, it’s only fitting that Bill “Weelstang” Darr had one of the more distinctive...

2011 T-Bucket Nationals Report, Part 9

Ben Griffin’s beautiful, blue ’27 T roadster is all Ford and a study in what a clean hot rod should look like. Of course, the...
Todd Mullins 1923 T-Bucket roadster pickup

2011 T-Bucket Nationals Report, Part 8

Todd Mullins drove all the way from Bartlett, TN to Dayton, OH for the 2011 NTBA T-Bucket Nationals in his more-fun-to-the-mile T-Bucket known as...

2011 T-Bucket Nationals Report, Part 7

This black T-Bucket with tasteful white pinstripes, white interior, wide whites and classic Ford hubcaps captures a great, nostalgic look for Victoria...

2011 T-Bucket Nationals Report, Part 6

I remember seeing this Texas T at the first NTBA (then National T-Bucket Association) Nationals I attended in Hannibal, MO back in 2001. Tim Taylor...

2011 T-Bucket Nationals Report, Part 5

If you’re a fan of the 1926/27 style T-Bucket, and you like traditional looks and dig track roadsters, then you just gotta’ love Stumpy...

2011 T-Bucket Nationals Report, Part 4

When I first spotted Richard Hebert’s T-Bucket at the 2011 NTBA Nationals, I was struck by its unique low-slung appearance but had a nagging...
T Bucket Nationals 2011 Carl Tschopp

2011 T-Bucket Nationals Report, Part 3

I must apologize for my lapse in 2011 T-Bucket Nationals reports — just too many things going on this summer to keep up with blog posts...

2011 T-Bucket Nationals Report, Part 2

I just had to stop and admire the work of Mike Reynolds of Lexington, Kentucky: not because I'm a U.K. alumnus but because I was crazy about all the...

2011 T-Bucket Nationals Report, Part 1

I took over 300 photos and 11 short videos, which I will start posting here in a new multi-part report. I'm starting with one of my favorites...

Build Your Own Stretched T-Bucket Body

Bob Hamilton, "star" of the StreetRod 101: Hot Rod Frame and Chassis Construction dynamite 4-1/2 hour DVD we recently introduced at our new sister...

High Performance Machines Meet for Last Goodbye

As a hot rodder and T-Bucket fan, you respect speed and performance. So, you're probably saddened that in a shade over 72 hours from now the NASA...

Happy T-Bucket Independence Day!

235 years ago … on July 4th, 1776 … this great nation, the United States of America, in a struggle for what was right and free, was...

Look for us at the T-Bucket Nationals

Taking T-Bucket photos and videos. Just look for the guy in a gray TBucketPlans.com t-shirt toting the "Genius at Work" bag and say hello. I look...

“Plastic” T-Buckets?

Three years prior to the introduction of the first fiberglass T-Bucket body, the car-loving world was all excited about the possibilities of...

Palmetto, Florida T-Bucket Show Tonight!

Last-minute notice that the Palmetto, Florida, First Fridays Car & Bike Show tonight, June 3, 2011, will feature T-Buckets!...

Wintec Fabrication moves to new, larger facility

Wintec Fabrication, the home of the stretched T-Bucket Wintec Roadster, has moved into an expanded 6,000 sq.ft. facility one mile north on the same...
Free Chapter from How to Build a T-Bucket Roadster for Under $3000

FREE Chapter from “How to Build a T-Bucket

Chester Greenhalgh knows you'll be so blown away by the money-saving, helpful T-Bucket hot rod building information in this Free Chapter that you'll...

Mid Florida Cruisers T-Bucket Meet: June 26, 2011

If you're in Central Florida and have a T-Bucket, know somebody with a T-Bucket, or are interested in T-Buckets, then mark your calendar...