T-Buckets of the 1960s

While admiring the Clayton’s Hot Rods Tipsy-T in the Suede Palace at the 2022 Grand National Roadster Show I got ...

In Episode 7 of our Hooked on T-Buckets Podcast we interviewed Tom Booth about his fabulous Torsion T. At the time of ...

Originally published May 31, 2015: T-Bucket headers are an important component that are easily taken for granted. They ...

“Yes, I copied the Kookie Kar and Ivo’s T,” said Gary DeFer when I met him at the 2017 T-Bucket ...

I’ve been fascinated by and a fan of Steve Scott‘s radical Uncertain T since I first saw it on the cover of ...

I was hugely influenced by the Steve Scott Uncertain T when it exploded on the hot rod show car world back in 1965. So ...

I first published this story about the Alexander Brothers Ridler Award winning T-Bucket 44 years after it won that very ...

Beyond Norm Grabowski’s “Kookie Kar”, one of my other significant influences was a short wheelbase ...

It’s time to update my original two-part story done over ten years ago about Buzz Pitzen building “the ...

As noted in Part I, Buzz Pitzen’s T-Bucket was the world’s first using a fiberglass body. It paved the way ...

Martin Hollmann is without a doubt the most underrated T-bucket builder of the 50’s and 60’s. I first wrote ...

While checking out all the cool T-Buckets at the 2017 T-Bucket Nationals in Carson City, Nevada I did a double take when ...

You could say that the Norman Letendre traditional T-Bucket and the Bill Strickland T-Bucket roadster are birds of a ...

Up until 1962, pretty much every T-Bucket that had appeared in the Big 3 car magazines (Hot Rod, Rod & Custom, Car ...

In 1967, I was fascinated by the incredible detail of the Don Brusseau T-Bucket that appeared in two of the major ...

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 ...

Once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for the right person to become the owner of one of the most iconic T-Buckets ever built ...

At the age of 91, Gene Winfield has been the “Energizer Bunny” of customizers, traveling everywhere doing ...

This past weekend I was in SoCal and among other T-Bucket activities took in the 7th Annual Galpin Car Show, one of the ...

The Larry Ryan T-Bucket isn’t likely to be found in the annals of T-Bucket history. But for me it deserves a ...