Features **Model T buckets/RPU's/Roadster/Tourings official photo thread**

I don't care for the '25 and earlier T's with fenders but a '26-7 looks cool with stock fenders. They look even cooler yet with '28-9 fenders. JMO

Ron

 

I'll have to find a picture of my cousin's 23 (I think) T-bucket. it's red with fenders. Sharp! He drives it to the rod run twice a year.

 

Would depend on the car, but I personally don't think that most of them would look right with fenders. But again that is just my opinion.

 

That's what's cool about this hobby: You can enjoy whatever version you like. I personally like full-fender '26-'27s like Austin's, but I also think that all T's look good fenderless. To each his own.

 

my 27 roadster under construction

 

Latest construction pic of my 26 RPU.

 

Here are some pictures from Hot Rod July '60 issue of a "T" I used to catch a glimpse of now and then driving by as a teen in the '50s while visiting cousins in San Lorenzo. The article said it was built by Don Brusseau in San Lorenzo Ca. I grew up in Oakland.

Okay a little geography lesson. Everybody knows where San Francisco Ca. is. Oakland in across the bay east of S.F. San Leandro is a bedroom community just south of Oakland and San Lorenzo is just south of that. There is no dividing line (other than signs) they just run together.

Anyway by the early '90s when I got my "T" on the street. I was living in San Leandro. I was taking it for a shakedown run when a rather small redheaded guy frantically flagged me down. He claimed to have owned the "Go T" at one time when he worked at Vic Hubbard Speed and Marine in Hayward sometime in the '60s. Okay Hayward is just south of San Lorenzo. I'm sure he wasn't the builder but I gave him a ride and we had a good talk.

I couldn't help noticing in the side view, doesn't it look a lot like Royalshifter's bucket. Wonder if there is any connection. Royal couldn't have picked a better "T" for inspiration.

If anybody has any knowledge of this rod, the builder or the redheaded stranger it would be fun to hear.

 

Don't know anything about the red head guy, but thanks for posting that article! I have that mag, but for some reason the first page of the article was torn out of my copy... Always loved that car - just from the side view!

 

Still looking for Don Brusseau and the redheaded stranger.

 

Just contacted a friend of Don Brusseau. He is still around and still owns his roadster.
I'll keep you posted.

 

okay...
that Brusseau T has me thinking...

i've seen footage of a guy climbing into Grabowski's T with the top on... with a door.
I've crawled into Royalshifters T with the top on... with a door.

do you have to be a gymnast to crawl into one of these things with the top on and no door?

 

WOW! i had that model as a kid, havent seen one in 45 years !

 

I would say yes. I don't know how you would get into one with a top without a door unless you were twelve years old.
When I have the top on mine I do open the door and bend over and walk
in. and Royal's lower than mine. Maybe he's double jointed.

That must be why they started putting those tall tops on fiberglass T's in the '60s

 

Yes you do. They're a bitch to get into and out of with a top. That's why i run mine without the top.

 

Has anyone used or seen the 27 Lakester bodies by Wintec Fabrications

http://shop.wintecfabrication.com/product.sc?productId=323&categoryId=6

I'm interested in feedback as I want something different to the usual 23T and with a bit more leg room.

 

This guy has the answer to the top with no doors question. Might be a little complex with the levers, gas shocks, latching cables, etc. but it sure does the job. Click here for more info and video.>

 

I'm a real advocate of k.i.s.s. especially on buckets. But that' just me.

 

I am in love with this thread

 

I am in love with your avatar. Saw it at the Grand Nationals. Didn't move for half an hour.

 

Here's a couple. Poached the old shot from....Hell, might have been from this thread.
And the new shot is Chris' from Beaverton, OR

 

This thread is great . Couple more. Mine and my favorite T ever.

 

I wish I was smart enought to post pictures, I did a copy of Norns T last year. Always wanted it so finally just built it. Was fun to drive, and everyone really liked it.The pics you have here are great, thanks for posting this. Cool

 

Nut, look on the main page of the HAMB, under the section labeled "Questions and Suggestions" there are instructions on how to post photos

 

Hey Gary - how about some more pics of your beautiful T, absolutely stunning!

 

Here ya' go...

 

Here's where mine has progressed to so far! Still early mock up mostly!

 

I love Ts.

 

A couple of pictures of the unfinished T

 

I am diggen the Chevy grill shell . Nice build