Bob Johnston’s T-Bucket, Later to Become
Beyond Norm Grabowski's "Kookie Kar", one of my other significant influences was a short wheelbase T-bucket built by Californian Bob Johnston, which ...
The World’s First Fiberglass T-Bucket Hot
It's time to update my original two-part story done over ten years ago about Buzz Pitzen building "the world's first fiberglass T-Bucket hot rod" back ...
The World’s First Fiberglass T-Bucket Hot
As noted in Part I, Buzz Pitzen's T-Bucket was the world's first using a fiberglass body. It paved the way for tens of thousands to follow and it ...
T-Bucket History: Marty Hollmann’s Hugely
Martin Hollmann is without a doubt the most underrated T-bucket builder of the 50's and 60's.
I first wrote about Marty's T-Bucket over ten years ago ...
Erv Campbell T-Bucket Then and Now
While checking out all the cool T-Buckets at the 2017 T-Bucket Nationals in Carson City, Nevada I did a double take when I came upon this yellow ...
Norman Letendre Traditional T-Bucket Roadster is
You could say that the Norman Letendre traditional T-Bucket and the Bill Strickland T-Bucket roadster are birds of a feather. They both evidence a ...
Bill Strickland T-Bucket Roadster
In the mid-1950s Tommy Ivo built one of hot rod history's two most influential T-Bucket roadsters. At the time, he had the geographic convenience of ...
Ted Brown: T-Bucket Chassis Designer
It was five years ago today that we lost a man who was one of the most influential contributors to the everlasting popularity of T-Bucket hot rods. ...
The George Gould East Coast T-Bucket
Up until 1962, pretty much every T-Bucket that had appeared in the Big 3 car magazines (Hot Rod, Rod & Custom, Car Craft) had been from the West ...
Don Brusseau T-Bucket: 1949 to Today
In 1967, I was fascinated by the incredible detail of the Don Brusseau T-Bucket that appeared in two of the major magazines that year. I originally ...
Hot Rod Santa and His T-Bucket Sleigh
On Christmas eve we're happy to repost this popular T-Bucket Hot Rod Santa story from several years back.
Hot Rod Santa faced global population ...
Drag-U-La and the Coffin Car Fascination
In 1966, I was fascinated by way-out show cars like Steve Scott's "Uncertain-T", so when the "Hot Rod Herman" episode of The Munsters appeared with ...
Munsters Car, Dragula, and Casket Cars Galore
It's that time of year when interest peaks in the legendary Munsters car, Dragula. It's also the time when hot rod builders start thinking about ...
Halloween Hot Rod, The Bumpkin Pumpkin T-Bucket,
With Halloween tonight, it's time to revive the most fun T-Bucket Halloween Hot Rod post we have.
The old joke goes, "Doctor, doctor, I'm so ...
T-Bucket Car Show Gold You’re Missing Out On
If you're a T-Bucket owner, I'm going to tell you about the T-Bucket car show gold you're missing out on. Unless you've already discovered it.
This ...
T-Bucket Nationals: Toolman’s T-Bucket
We just published a cool Hooked on T-Bucket Hot Rods Podcast interview with Tim Taylor about how his high miles T-Bucket came about, as well as his ...
Happy Birthday Ed Iskenderian — 98 Years
When I started putting together our Hooked on T-Bucket Hot Rods Podcast one of the first people I interviewed was the Camfather himself, Ed ...
2019 T-Bucket Nationals Report and 2020
This past weekend I made a too-quick one-day visit to the 2019 T-Bucket Nationals in Prescott, Arizona, which coincidentally was the 19th Nationals ...
Fred Steele Roadster on “Ventures in&#
My original Fred Steele roadster post was done back in 2010. When I first wrote it I had no idea that I would be lucky enough to come in contact with ...
Fred Steele’s Ventures in Space T-Bucket
As you may know, I'm a huge fan of the iconic Fred Steele T-Bucket that captured the hearts and imaginations of possibly millions when it appeared on ...