Features traditional t bucket

Thank you sir for posting those! I was about to scan and post the whole series a couple of years ago when an agent for the author contacted me and asked me not to. Out of respect for the author I never have. Shame not to though, as that series is where I learned so much of what I know today.

 

I hate to hear that about Ray not wanting the article scanned and shared. I thought as old as the article was it would be ok and I scanned the whole series and emailed it to a lot of the members on the T-bucket forum site 4 or 5 years ago. If I had known he had requested it not be done, I would not have done it. It is a shame though because it is a very informative series. Live and learn I guess.

 

I need to copy it and print it out and read them. My old laptop wont let me open it.

 

tbucketplans.com were selling the Sizemore articles earlier this year. I just checked and they're no longer available.

 

Here's Larry Ryan's Bucket. Larry was a Kansas City teenager when he finished it in early 1961 (with the help of George Barnes). This shot was from the Rod & Custom coverage that followed shortly after Ray Farhner's May 1961 Kansas City show, where the feature's photos were taken. The car is on a stage and the rocks were a painted backdrop.

It's always been one of my favorites since I first saw it there. There had only been a handful of buckets built at that time and Larry's was different than all of them. It's as much influenced by Roth's Outlaw as it is from other previous buckets, namely the windshield, it's short wheelbase, no bed and the pipes. Rather than end the pipes on the sides like Ed did, Larry continued the back and low, ending just under the rear end, six horizontal flared scavengers. He even searched until he found tires where the whitewall size matched front to rear, no easy task back then.
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I really like the looks of that one. I really love short buckets, is that one 96" long?

Also what are the headlights?

 

I'd guess more like 85"- 90" max. I have a body in the back yard that I though might have been this car at one point until some one posted pictures of this car still complete currently. Mine was built very much the same judging by the tire marks on the body.

 

This is part II from the series in the mag that I sent you earlier this year. This would have been December '64, and yes, you do need to read this!

I don't think it was as much Ray as it was an agent FOR Ray. He mentioned the T-Bucket.com guys having permission from Ray to do a reprint of the articles. I'll have to dig back through my P.M.s and see who it was. As far as I'm concerned, that series of articles is the very best series EVER written as far as putting a complete and workable car together. It also teaches you lots about early Ford stuff as far as suspension and driveline too.

HHHHMMMMNNNN, wonder why? I'll look back at who sent me the message and see if the book idea has been scrapped at this point. If it has, I'll sit and do some serious scanning and do the entire article. I just don't want to step on Ray's toes in any way shape or form.

 

Maybe they offered them without his permission. I know someone who bought the download.

 

yeah I have it here with all my other research and reading it all as I get to it. So much info and so little time. Is it bad I'm starting to lean to a 27 Tall T?

 

Using the mid 60's as a target for the traditional "T" , the last time I ran thru my old issues of Car Craft and Rod & Custom they both had T-bucket projects but one used Corvair coils for suspension and other articles showed how to set up 1/4 eliptic springs, this seems to be the era that builders started thinking outside the box and alternative engineering and engines started showing up.

 

Here's one I'm building at the moment. 9" Ford, 350 Olds with a TH400 - '63 Buick Wildcat brakes up front. 106" wheelbase.

 

.Is this also the Ryan car with a different engine? , maybe your body? ,

 

this is cool! would love to see this in my garage!

 

Here is my T. It is sbf powered so technically not 50's but as close as I like to get. Total Performance body/chassis. SBF, TH350, Coker BFG silverstone (??) bias ply tires.

 

How'd you fit a 350TH on a SBF?

 

Very nice looking Bucket!

 

Wasn't his one a New England car on an "A" frame? ,

 

Yup! Lynn Steele I believe is the owner's name.

 

Is this the same car? This was for sale on the HAMB a year or so ago...looks very similar.

 

It looks like it could be. I know Lynn sold off lots of his stuff in 2007 after having owned most of it since the mid to late fifties. His purple channeled '32 roadster was one of the 75 most significant deuces at the 2007 GNRS, and that is where the sale of it was announced. He is/was from the East coast, (Mass, if memory serves) but spent a few years of the early sixties in the L.A. area where the album cover was filmed. I also believe he was an L.A. Roadster's member in that era, and continued as an associate member after that.

 

Can I ask about putting a T Bucket on a Model A frame? Like what are the advantage?

I'm not sure if I have seen pic or if I have I might not notice it because my eyes are not trained to notice it yet.

Also going to ask one more question. I'm looking at a 27 Tall T what are the difference in the frames?

 

Yes the white T bucket is/was Fred Steele's out of Mass.

 

No,it's not.

 

Not the Ryan car, not the body for both?

 

FRED Steele! Thank you, I'm bad with names...

 

Here is a T bucket from a car show about 1967.

 

Whatever it's neat as hell!

 

I know it's a 26/27 but couldn't this still be considered a traditional T bucket? ,

 

Hell yes in my book and a very nice example too....