Just a few T-Buckets built using our plans
TBucketPlans.com started out as a one-page website back in 2009 offering the digital version of Chester Greenhalgh’s much-in-demand, yet ...
First Rail Dragster: “The Bug”, Dick
Bet you didn’t know that the first rail dragster was actually a stripped down Model T roadster. While Big Daddy Don Garlits’ first ...
The Gadberry “Low Bucket”
This is a major update of my original post about David Gadberry’s “Low Bucket” T-Bucket from 2010. You’ll find oodles more ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Halloween Hot Rod, The Bumpkin Pumpkin T-Bucket,
If you've always wanted to be the star of the Halloween Parade, scare small children, incite chasing dogs and draw gape-mouthed stares at every car ...
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 ...
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
Ed Iskenderian's T roadster is one of the most famous hot rods ever built. Featured on the cover of Hot Rod Magazine in 1948 and turning 120 mph at El ...