The Bill Rowland/Tom Ivo T was always my favorite T bucket. The Kookie car lost the right proportions in my view.
Not. entirely. clueless. I .grew. up. in. those. days. I. was. describing. my . neighbor .and. his. Fad.T bucket. ca. 1979-'80. also I have. a. steel '21. and. it. looks. more. like. anderson's. it. has. canadian .posts. which. lean. back.(stock) cut. down. for. only. the. lower. glass. - that being said I'd love to have his car today brass and all. Big block Chev, tunnel ram, dual quads, side pipes, met. blue, spokes and Cragars w huge M/Ts. Only things I'd change would be to reconfigure the seat (or have none), lose the upper windshield, rake the posts, and use the top as a boat cover. Don't get me wrong I love T's
I got the T bug along time ago. No other hotrod ever made me smile the way a T bucket does, so much fun to drive too. Ya got to love them!
Im usually into 1940s style cars but I love crazy 1960s t buckets and show T's and I don't care who's knows it. Just driving around with long hair gettin high with bra-less chicks. Tell me that's not rad. Just sayin......
That's what the '60s were Tities, hot rods and beer. In my old memory anyway. You know adam401 "Fuck me" I like a lot of those krazy T rods too.
Here we go again, Every time this topic is brought up stuff like the Uncertain T, That black C-Cabby thing. and this ridiculous not even a R-R thing in the post before this comes up. Not a one has Traditional T Bucket soul about it. Come on! May be in the UK. But not here!
Traditional, just not of the era that we normally accept on the H.A.M.B. If you have never spent time staring at a Dan Woods T-Bucket, (the C-Cab thingy) I suggest you do. The proportions were of their time, but the workmanship and the flat "cleverness" of his fab work was beyond awe inspiring.
I am just pointing out sure Steve's Uncertain T and the Stuff Dan Woods put out are cool. BUT they are not T buckets in the definition of this topic.
Some of my favorite T bucket related images. As a kid I'd watch 77 Sunset Strip just to see if Kookie and his T would show up. Not many hot rods in a weekly TV show back then. The first image is from the Peter Gunn TV show with Norm driving the bucket pretty hard... worth watching
Sorry Kid I was in a "Mood" of course you are right, those cars can't be lumped in with "street Ts". I do like them because of the quality of the work and probably because they are just in your face show cars and not overdone T hot rods pretending to be street rods.
The "Uncertain T" was a SHOW car only, for all practical purposes. Dan Woods T Buckets were "Fad Ts". Great craftsmanship and very innovative, considering what he was working with, but still T Buckets. IMO
Not actually a "BUCKET' my T was a hot rod in my home town in the 60s. I found it in a barn a few years ago.
You know showered I've never seen that knob on Ivo's roadster. He doesn't deny copping Norms roadster maybe he put on a crazy shift knob for a while. This is early build with the six carbs.
This has got to be the earliest set of hairpin radius rods the I've ever noticed on a street driven Gow Job. This car sure does resemble the Bob Estes T (albeit a lightened up) that Carole Lombard wanted to buy for Clark after Bob's Gow showed Clark the plow. IDK what year this was, but it sure does look to be early-mid 30's. It seems that there were quite a few of these rolling around the streets of L.A. belonging to the likes of guys such as Roy (Multy) Aldrich = Late Member of SCTA Tech Committee and later he and his wife handled the Hospitality.
I have to make a guilty admission I really used to like the '13 flat fenders fad T guys used especially with the little kickup at the back
Being old and started building my own rods in the 50s,its always interesting reading ideas an views from those working at trying to know what was. Very often by just thinking one or so photos is a time rep. I guess its how they get so set about any idea of some stuff that mostly was not that way. After building ,driving,and just helping out on so many rods over there years I have a base of what was really happening more then most. The small fronts n big rears tire thing,was not style,but how things worked. Small fronts were faster an EZer to control,the rears got bigger as the sizes became availible to get bit=we were getting more an more HP that needed tread on the road. T Buckets with "meats"*,yes same way,if you have under 1800lbs and over 300+ HP you just get as much bit as you can. Did meats became style to some,sure,but understanding we were on that path all along is needed for those that say some this stuff I read. Ramble over!Hope some one got something out of that. "meats *= biggist tire we could get at the time"
absolutely! the T bucket/rod is debatably the purist form of hot rodding. In a nutshell....the model T started it all. I remember vividly a ride in a stock T with no doors/fenders on a chilly evening. when I say stock I mean a car that was pulled out of a feild after sitting for 50-60 years. we got the thing up to 35-40 mph tops on old crackling wood spoked rims and old rubber so hard they didnt need air lol but the point is it was a thrill! now imagine 3,4,5-1100 HP strapped to a narrow short wheelbase, 1,000 pounds, with 100 year old suspension and steering technology! these guys had to mold a special area into their seats for their brass balls..... http://blog.hemmings.com/index.php/2011/07/25/boeing-powered-t-bucket-2/ ha ha ha rofl
I always liked T's...a lot of them anyway...but it was much more fun before everyone got so damned serious about them. Considering most are just a cheap 'glass bucket on a 2x3 ladder frame, I don't see how its a big deal if some people get them "wrong". Just scrap them and start over. Best learning you will ever get is learning from your mistakes.
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