Seeking owner/builder of '90s era orange T-bucket sbf, webers.

I have been curious about this car since I found the first photo a few years back, now two more were posted today. Looking for info or more photos of this car. Chip mentioned off-board that he thought it was from the Detroit area, and was originally built in the mid-sixties? Anyone know more about this car? Is the owner on the HAMB? This is one TASTY period T-Bucket!

 

No help here.....heard the story on it, but have since forgot it. Freak'n love this car though so BTTT mofos!!

 

It looks a lot like another car Chip and I both hold in high regard, the SBC powered Chuck Penry car from the mid-sixties. I'd especially like to know the wheelbase, I'm guessing around 94"-96", shorter than most of the well-known cars like Ivo's, DeBenitictus, ect. Sure looks right, doesnt it?

 

Now thats a BAD little bucket!
Really like the rear wheel/tire combo and those long arms for the rearend!

 

Gonna give this a bump, see if anything further comes up.

 

That is badass.

 

Damn that is a beauty.

 

http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=774235&highlight=sunday+models

In this thread is that car mentioned, the says its his friends. Might follow up with him.

 

^^yes, that was where I snagged the second and third photo. I was figuring he might have found his way over here. I may have a lead on the owner anyway, I got another pm indicating that he is a HAMBer. Have to follow that up tomorrow. Thanks for all the input guys.
Man, I LOVE a good sixties style T-bucket.

 

Nice car, cant go wrong with webers and torq thrusts. Plan on using both those on my 32 build.

 

It was in a magazine about 5 years ago. Street Rodder I think, but not sure. Great car.

 

I think there was like a 5 minute period between Kookie style T's and brass laden Fad T's....This orange job is one of 'em!

 

As fat as " T's " go it's Perfect ...esp Ford powered

 

Yes, and Hot Rod 64-68 had lots of 'em, then poof they seemed to disappear. (at least from the magazines)

 

its my favorite T-bucket era, and there were a bunch of pretty high profile cars built. The blue pontiac powered job that was in the famous R&C feature with the Walker & Geary Bantam, the Penry car, the Knutson car I started another thread on, Rickles injected nail-head job, Dick Thompsons with the rochester injected Pontiac, there were a lot of real nice ones. I have a slowly growing pile of parts, corvair steering box, the 289 out of my falcon, a bunch of SBF parts left over from my youth, a smooth back 9", some SW green stripes, ect, but a mid sixties t-bucket is like 4th or 5th in line on my list of projects, so my daughter will probably just end up selling that pile at my estate auction. But I can still daydream about it.

 

If I remember right, the guy that owns it now is the son of the original builder, his Dad sold it, and the son tracked it down years later, and bought it back. The son restored it back to the way his father built it. One of my favorite "T's"

 

it is a beautiful car ---it has the "look"---post more pics when you find them

 

Is this the Penry car? I love this era/style because they scream 'I'm tough, jump in and drive fast', and not collapse when you zip around corners or hit a bump.

 

Now that's bad ass. I like either bucket.

 

Yessir! Good one, isnt it? I kinda figure whoever built the orange one probably took a look at the Penry car at some point. WB is pretty close, bed length looks the same, very similar looking 4-bar, ect.

 

It's owned by a guy named Wayne Feister. He worked a DST and it was his Dad's car. From what I heard it sits in his family room. He also owns the bitching F100 you see in the pics.

 

I work with the owner Dwayne Fietzer. and will try and give some info to those interested.I'll post some more pics later when I can,but here's a link from when street rodder did a nice feature on the car.There's a good bit of info in the article. And I asked him about it being the Chuck Penry car.No it is not.

Myron_

http://www.streetrodderweb.com/features/0704sr_dwayne_fietzers_60s_era_kellison/

 

There was a red one in a color feature in HRM from the same period that is just as awesome.

 

I knew it wasn't ACTUALLY Penrys car, I was noting the similarity. For instance, per the Street Rodder article, the wheelbase is identical to Penrys, at 93". The bed length looks to be the same, the 4-bar is very similar, and the stance is quite close too.

 

I agree with Jeem 100%, thats just what a good looking bucket should look like.

 

I have the Hot Rod that has the red one Tman is refering to, I was actually looking for it the other night, but havent found it yet.

 

Some old pics of the car courtesy of the owner,I scanned up for you guy's.
More to come....
Myron_

 

i love a good car story---and that is a very good one

 

Thanks Clearspot, very cool. Figured the car had a tranverse leaf out back.

 

No info on that one, but know where there is one VERY similar to it, built in the 70s, for sale in nebraska