T-Buckets of the 1950s

No, the photo below wasn’t taken in 1956, although with the Chevy Delray and the cool 1915 T roadster it sure...

Yesterday, the distinctly different proportions of the Von Esser Speed Shop “Von T” jumped out of my...

It was sad to read in yesterday’s LA Times that “John J. Geraghty, an automotive engineer who made his mark...

Note: To honor the memory of the late Ed Roth, I am reposting (with a new image gallery) this brief tribute from 2010...

We take the fiberglass T-Bucket body for granted. It seems like they've always been around, in abundance and...

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

Legendary hot rod and racing announcer Bob Beck has a regular feature on Speed Scene Live. It's called the Great...

This historic T-Bucket was originally sold by it's builder, Bob Johnston, to Ed "Big Daddy" Roth for $1150. By early...

With a $200k high bid not meeting reserve at the Mecum 2010 Monterey Auction, the legendary Tweedy Pie T-Bucket made...

By the 1970s Fad-T era, front wire wheels were the norm for T-Buckets. I've researched this subject over the years...

The Tweedy Pie T-Bucket was built in the 1950s by Bob Johnston, gained its own recognition as a magazine cover car and...

It starts with an institutional food service size mayonnaise jar. As you may have noticed in the Custom Associates ad in...

We know from The Real History of the Fiberglass T-Bucket Body that ‘glass Model T bodies were first introduced in...

Shortly after becoming aware of Norm’s Kookie Kar around 1959, I was also struck by another T-bucket that had the...

In the Spring of 1957, my 8 year old eyes were transfixed on a full page Life magazine photo of Southern California rod...