Projects Traditional style T bucket? Or RPU?

When we built my Studebaker RPU I originally wanted that lakes roadster look with just the tank in back, but it just didn’t look right. Sherman Parker added a beautiful pickup box and I added the Studebaker script.


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Really love T buckets, my dads was the first proper hot rod that I was allowed to drive.
We started a project for me but gave up on it when I came across my 54 chev. After looking at all these pictures, I think it might be time to pull it out of storage and continue on with it.

 

Nothing like a cool bucket.

 

My old modified.

 

A full length bed is tits. Everyone builds one with a shortened bed. When I was a kid in the later '60s I actually used to see the older guys with their older rods with full length beds quite a bit.

 

This is my 17 T turtle deck, 270 Hemi, 4spd

 

might be one or two on here.......

https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/roadster-pickup-picture-thread.320146/

 

Or here...
https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/the-bucket-of-ugly-a-de-uglifying-thread.824491/

 

Spirit has a 36" bed. Put frame halfway up and use a Mustang tank as the floor.

 

I am surprise that you don't see any "track style" nose's on the vehicles shown so far. I am saving up parts to build on but it is sometime after the house has been completed.

 

One thing about T-Buckets I don't like is the gas tank and battery in the same area. Maybe it is just me, but I like to see the battery under the seat (if possible) and the gas tank out back.

 

I love T buckets. I think we all have our own ideas of what looks right but if your a hot rod guy its hard to deny the appeal of these cars. Big engine, little car.

 

Hard to see with all the background clutter
but there is a car coming together here