Projects The bucket of ugly! A de-uglifying thread...

I humbly bow down to your awesome craziness!!!

 

Does this work better? I'm SOOOO confused, I can see it just fine.

 

any advice on "traditional" snow tires?

I have much envy for your weather. Wish I could use mine as a daily.

Can't wait to see the orange, but I almost don't want to see it that close to being "done", considering how entertaining this has been thus far.

 

For my clarification only, it seems most agree the T bucket is a "Fad T" STYLE, right? Seems lots of unnecessary trinkets and decorations to be outlandish define the style. Yet Rebel's car is done with tasteful restraint.

Rebel, all three of those cars look like T buckets to me. I guess I'll just shut up. I don't think this helped me at all.

My '27 T Roadster build: http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t= 734383

 

George, Just so everyone knows that car is a mix of a 26-27 T cowl mated to a 23-25 bucket. Bob

 

And, it appears to be on a Deuce frame, unless I'm going blind. T buckets are NEVER on Deuce frames.

 

So i usually go for the easy comment, but this time i will concentrate on the car. When I was a kid i saw Andy's T a number of times, it was really a cool looking car, and it spawned a whole fleet of T's running around Norcal. His cars had a great style. thanks for posting
chuck

 

As far as weather it is a balmy 60 and Sunny in San Diego

 

NICE! It sure as hell isn't "balmy" here!!! I sleep with the window open (at this time of year, that means alone in the spare room), this morning, when I went to shut it, it was frozen in the track!

 

I'll take a good look at the photos, I thought it was '33/'34, I never noticed a reveal.

 

The Penry car has trinkets?? Where?

 

The article says '31 Model A. Looking closely at the photos in the mag, its been modified a lot, and very cleanly done. The entire side of the frame where the '32 steering box mounts is kicked out about 2" over an area about a foot long, and neatly tapered in at the ends.

 

Aha, so that's what tricked my tired old eyes into seeing the reveal. In any case, agreed, great car, but not a T bucket.

 

And I agree with Chip, you sir, are ******* bonkers!

 

Yes, I can see that. I have the unfair advantage of having the magazine in front of me, so the pics I see are clearer.

 

How about the Bob Johnson/Ed Roth "Tweedy Pie", some people might call it a "T" bucket.

 

You guys are arguing about personal taste and regional definitions. I just got back from the tire store and some young whipper snapper wanted to buy my '79 Cutlass beater for $3K. I've got things to think about and need some T Bucket building to restore my sanity!

 

I always thought that car was the definitive bob-tail T, but there I go with my out-dated sixties terminology again...

 

It would be interesting to know who coined the phrase "T Bucket" and what car he was talking about.

To me it is the Grabowski T (either incarnation) and any that followed and copied it with a '15 to '25 T body or copy of with a V8 engine and short P.U. bed. But that is just what comes to my mind when I hear T Bucket.

If anybody can come up with the first use of the phrase "T Bucket" it would be interesting. I'll search through some of my old magazines.

Gary

 

Okay, I went back and now I'M stepping in this crap. Rebel, as much as I still love reading Gray's stuff, I think he got it wrong. UNLESS, you break it down and see the "like-bodied' as meaning the only thing the cars shared was a '23 body. None are modifieds. Yours, Norms and Ivo's are all T Buckets. That's what my friends and I would call them. The one Falcon posted is a T Bucket too. It just depends on what you grew up around and read. '15 to '25 body, especially with a bed, is a T Bucket.

 

You know Fred I think now he was just taking writers license and trying to make it interesting.

And I think all three cars have pre '23 bodies. Although Ivo calls his '25.

 

Very likely. As much as I hate the labels, sometimes we need them to carry on a conversation. But I have to admit, while I just like hearing my car called a hot rod, the few times a non-car person has called it a T Bucket or a Roadster, made me smile.

 

yea, you dont wanna come in here, it aint pretty...

 

Yes thank you sir for that, but I think it's more a bucket than a tub. See how she's got her legs sticking out? She wouldn't have to if it were a tub ,also i had a VERY CLOSE LOOK and I think I see a handle like for a .... Bucket. Can't quite tell the year but I'd guess its a pre 23 model.


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Ok, bear with me here while I post some pics of old folks desotos... Keep in mind, Fuzzys comments were pertaining to the NW only, so I have stuck to NW cars here.
Portland Or. 1958

This one speaks for itself, all the pertinant data is right there on the photo...

Portland Or. 1958

Vancouver, BC 1955

Vancouver Wa. 1960

Des Moines Wa.1959

Bremerton Wa. 1959

Seattle Wa. 1957

Portland, Or. 1957

Portland Or. 1957

Vancouver, BC 1961, this ones a little newer than the others, but I included it on sheer bitchin-ness. Its dk mett. green in color, what a knockout.

Vancouver BC 1955

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As you can see, NO-ONE would EVER have put full wheelcovers on a hot rod in the NW! They woulda been laughed off the street!!
One thing Fuzzy said that I do agree with, stock hubcaps and trim rings were a regional NW thing in the late fifties...
Tacoma Wa. 1958, man, this thing is nice, 283 with 3 dueces, b&w T&R.

Portland, Or. 1959 this thing is kinda quirky for 1959 with the blackwalls and trailer fenders, I have always really liked it. maybe kinda different because according to the article, it was built by a circle-track racer...

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Wow FJ. I never saw any of those cars. They must be from your area. Good on you.

 

kids these days... Thats a wash tub sonny, my mom and your grandma (maybe great grandma??) used 'em when they did the laundry... But they usually didn't sit in 'em with their tittys out while dad took their picture...

 

from about '55 to '60, full wheelcovers were bad AND nationwide...

 

Thanks for the Sunday afternoon laugh Mr Falcongeorge, now back to the photos of awesome cars.

 

Did Louvers do anything today?