Need some advice on t bucket interior

Anyone have pics of their T bucket interior With wood reinforcement?

 

Check this site out:
http://www.tbucketeers.com/index

 

Just a bucket, no T.
First pic some loose ends reinforced to provide stability, the rear piece was narrowed and cowl pie-cut so body would follow original A frame, no overhang. Note the temp. tie piece across the bottom where the original wood was cut with the body, top wood came off and just shortened it and put it back on.
2 pic. is what I started with, short and had to add to the bottom to bring the sides higher
3 pic is finished p*** side, the ribs disappear because the floor is raised for the tank on that side, ribs go down to the floor and screwed from the bottom.
4 pic is the almost finished driver side with touring door latch & hinges. See reinforcing rib that will be under the front of the seat
5 daughter making a top template for steel to reinforce the corner
6 corners in & ready for foam. When we got the fabric found out foam is expensive, so she stripped and split some big couch cushions
7 cushions glued in place and ready to be trimmed
8 Upper p*** side piece, put studs in to tie the side tight to the cowl just 'cause I could
You can steam and bend pieces and wait for the controlled warp to dry but I have woods and a sawmill so I have lots of bigger dry super hard timber around here. So for the curved pieces and was faster to use heavier wood and whittle it with a chainsaw and grinder to the shape I needed. Construction glue and coated deck screws makes it like steel.

 

Total Performance has good illustrations of their wood kit in their catalog; probably on their site as well.

 

My Touring has a wooden framework for each of the seats. They slip into place and are screwed down into mounts on the top of the ch***is.

 

Now that is the first time I've seen that done that way, plym49!

 

I can't take credit for it. The car was built around 1949 in Fresno. I believe that the interior dates from the early 60s, also in Fresno.

Interestingly, behind all that wood in the rear seat is a custom upright gas tank. You lose leg room but it does solve the problem of where to put the tank in a Touring.

 

A couple pics from Chester's eBook, showing how to use inexpensive 2x4's to stiffen the shell so you can actually sit on the back of the body.