Hot Rods How about some love for the T-Bucket?

Maybe it looks different from another angle, but it looks like the radius rod and drag link relationship is spot on to minimize bump steer. Nice, looks like a fun little T.

Lynn

 

May I have more please?

Yes son, you may!

 

I found that picture on one of the Internet sites. If I find any more pictures of it I will post them here. That is a great looking t isn't it.

 

Not a t but it's a bucket.

 

ha! i just caught this on youtube and was gonna share it here. the car is outta sight.

 

Here is one of it going in circles.

 

Anybody know what this body is?

 

Look at the roll bar! Hope he was nimble and quick at ducking...

 

Looks more like it was suppose to be the seat back not a roll bar.

 

#6. Other than the roll bar that looks like a real serious race car for back about 1950. IE; Right side steer. No fancy nose or hood. Flexable exhaust tubing. Ignition. Two engine breathers. Dropped floor. Maybe aluminum rails popular in the N E. Nice hairpins. Either an open tube rear end or floating axles. Even a race $ tire on the L F. Does anyone recognize the driver?

 

I think it's a Plymouth or Dodge.

 

I used a 27 R P U body for the foot room. I even widened the body 2" at the bottom for the 3 pedal foot room. I built an aluminum 23 turtle deck. Rear frame kick ups to fit tight to the body. 2 x 3 x.120 rails.

 

First year for Plymouth was 1928. So that would be a Dodge.

 

Don Kugler Bay Area

 

Another possibility would be Overland. The bodies were identical to early Dodge, other than the door tops, & maybe the top edge of the back of the body which was (exposed)wood(higher class?). Almost all the parts will interchange, except *maybe* the w/s frames, as the posts were abit wider apart.
Marcus...

 

@40ragtopdown & @nrgwizard,
My own guesses were Dodge and/or Willis. But I'm no expert, just happened to look at those two makes when searching for a body for my track roadster.

 

^^^^Is that just a bad camera or parking angle? It looks like the car is broken in two places.

Lynn

 

the bed doesn't seem lined up vertically with the body.

 

That's not a rollbar , its the back of the folding chair he's sitting on !

Eliminate bumpsteer ......nope !

 

You mean horizontal ?

 

oops. yeah.
geography was never my strong suit.

 

if chopping cars doesn't pan out there's always a career on the bongos.

 

Gears;
You weren't wrong w/your guesses. IIRC, Willys was Willys-Overland at the beginning.
Offhand, I don't remember who supplied the bodies, but I think it was an outside supplier, who in those days usually handled design, stamping, wooding & assembly + delivery. A lot of early bodies for small-concerns, were purchased this way, & therefore very similar, if not exact. Grill shell, maybe hood tops, & small details would differentiate. Not exactly boutique stuff.
Marcus...

 

I hadn't considered that concept. Saves space going to the rod run. Brings a chair without having to pack it...