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

i'm with ya on the exhaust and certainly a fan of the 'basic bucket' style. although i have a fondness for mismatched wheels generally speaking.

 

@Snicklefritz65 a couple of great examples of tonneau covers there.
I like the wind resistance mod from the guy at the drags! Open it up!

 

heh, my first thought with that windshield was the wild f1, touring cars, can-am, and top fuel spoilers.

but yeah that windshield is otherwise like pushing the side of a barn down the track.

 

that's cool.

 

Hey that's me over 60 years ago back when the bucket had a junkyard flathead and I had hair LOL
The flathead is long gone, so is the hair but I've still got the bucket.

 

piero's tweedy is coming along.

 

Thanks for sharing that. I completely understand that a final show push means no new video. I wish him the best in getting it done and glad to see it's together that far.

https://www.jalopyjournal.com/?p=47425

 

he's teased some clips on farcebook and it's looking good... but i'm selfish and really itching for a video.

 

That is how I built mine. I have 17,000 miles on it, and it drives great. I can run it at 75 MPH down the freeway, comfortably.

 

Piero is a great bloke. He did a video of my T-bucket for one of the Mad Fabricator videos when he was here in Australia on one of his visits. Will be great to see his Tweedy Pie. I got to check out and sit in his A coupe when we visited him in 2013.

 

Well, I guess we both have to show up in person!
I'm 6 hours away. If you can get this far, we can car pool!

 

@swifty which one?
First you ID yourself in that vintage shot, now you are in a MFS video too? We are rubbing elbows with greatness! I realize they aren't all on the channel, but is it in here?
https://www.youtube.com/c/MADFABRICATORSTV/videos

 

Yes Rod, Season 8 Episode 5. Piero was here in Australia for the Chopped Event at the Newstead Racecourse and Eddie Ford and I took him to visit some early Aussie hot rod survivors so he could shoot some video. There were 2 Episodes featuring Aussie stuff, numbers 5 and 6. I'll have to dig them out and revive the video machine and watch them again as I've forgotten whats on where.

 

Season 8 ep. 5,
no ep. 6 in there.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsCCTUh0PJ0

EDIT: Wrong, Here's ep. 6!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTDrD7Um9EU

Might be here. I'll have to watch!
Mad Fabricators Invades Australia 2 Kangaroo Boogaloo Episode 1
www.youtube.com/watch?v=exMIHk8XeVM
Ep. 2
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQMm4v-2ibg
Ep. 3
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dcp3ULUKEo8

 

wish i could get out to the wrong coast especially for something like this.

alas, the culture shock might be my undoing.

 

dunno where i snagged this from but it's a cool older image of piero's creation.

 

from the cinematic classic 'Village of the Giants'.

 

Early Kiwi T bucket from my home town in New Zealand,

 

now that is cool
any color pictures out there?

 

Paul, I Don't have a color shot of Johnny Day's T from SLC, but it was purple with white fogging.
One of Utah's best rods from the early sixties.

Mick

 

Leg burners!