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

That purple bucket looks more like an off-brand than a T or A - any chance a larger pic is available?

Steve

 

What Tim said; also this only applies to closed cab trucks, RPU are totally differant.

 

Blownfuel, Joe painted the Dodge Bucket, purple to match the "Pironello & Bowman" modified roadster
that is pictured along with the extra body to make it a comp coupe. This took place after it was red and featured in the movie.

Mick

 

What Mick said...
http://www.tbucketplans.com/joe-pirronello-and-the-lively-set-dodge-t-bucket

 

Heck, my mistake on the A truck cab and thanks Chip for the photo of the T truck cab as I can see the difference now. I personally don't understand the terminology of calling pickups as trucks having spend a few years driving proper trucks for a living ( Big Rigs ) and I prefer using roadster pickups or plain pickup for the closed cab style of pickup. After sitting here with you guys I have even stopped referring to my T as a Bucket preferring T Roadster so, see Gary has influenced me a heck of a lot. I beleieve it is an American thing calling your Utes, pickups , trucks and us down here in NZ tend to use the Aussie term Ute ( Utility ) .

 

Hey Whip,

Don't ask me....I spent a year driving around Newport News, Va with plates (that said Texas Truck right on them) on a Corvette. Never got stopped, and only noticed the mistake when I went to put the next years sticker on it. STILL don't know how neither the Newport News police (whom I never had a problem with), base police (who were kind of @ssholes), Norfolk police (it went either way with those guys), or the Virginia Beach police (Total ****s, at least to military guys), never caught it. At least I wasn't the only one who apparently didn't know the difference!



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Got it! Funny enough, I had a T coupe with no doors for YEARS, but it magically disappeared after I joined the Navy. Last time I knew, it was out at my aunt and uncle's house, but I mentioned it a while back and she had no clue what I was talking about.

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Sorry, just that one picture that I stumbled across in an online search.

 

Got this one from them today, Gary. Looks a lot like my car....



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Now that is funny, yeah, I'm guilty of spending more time polishing my T so that it looked it's best for a Sunday run then tiding up around the house and section.

 

The term " pick up" or "pickup" is a shortened version of the term "pick up truck". Calling it a truck would just be shortening the term in another way.

 

I actually did have a set of slicks almost that big on it once. Wow I was young there. Early '90s. I drove it around the block once. It bounced so badly I almost lost control.

 

Gary, it is a good thing that you got wiser as you got older

 

I'm older, does that also mean I'm wiser ??
My wife would say I'm a wise guy, I guess that just confirms it

 

Sorry Larry, getting wiser doesn't automatically happen when you get older. I think you are doing alright though. My wife would say the same about me, too, I'm afraid.

 

Funny thing is according to people around me only one part of my body is smart....and I seem to sit on it

 

I learned that lesson in my late teens/ early 20's, but in a slightly different way. One of the older guys I hung out with, had (I've been digging everywhere for pics of it, and haven't been able to find one to lost here) the oldest known T bucket in San Antonio. He built it in either '64 or '65. I haven't seen it since the mid 80's, but I always remember it never changing, as he thought it was perfect just the way it was! Anyway, it had pie crust slicks on the back (in fact, he swore it had never had any other rear tires on it), and one weekend we all went to the New Braunfel's rod run. It up and rained on us that afternoon, and we were in a large gr*** park. It was a real hard, quick summer rain storm, so we waited it out under a covered picnic table, then decided to head home. The T wouldn't move a foot under it's own power, it just spun those damn slicks as soon as you hit the gas. I helped him push it out (about a 1/8 mile to the pavement, and by the time we got it out of there, we were both soaked and covered in gr*** and a little mud as well! Man, we were a mess! I was too dirty to get in my own car ('37 Chevy Sedan with a light silvery blue velour interior. Damn, I should have never sold that car!), so be gave me a ride home, and another buddy followed us home in my car!

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I don't know how much wiser I've become since then I'm thinking Pie Crust slicks. I even have some nice wide rims set aside. Although I think they would look kool as **** I doubt I will do it. My roadster like Blownfuel's friend's bucket is finished.

 

So approximately what year /s did the widened rear wheels appear on the back of Rods guys ? I have 15x10" rims on mine and happy with that as any wider would throw the era into the 70's which isn't what I want. I know that the early rods used different rims and offsets to give a car that big and little look using tyres also to help get that look. I remember here in NZ we would split the wheels apart and either add some width to accomplish a wide wheel and we had a couple of guys in Wellington who started their own Speed Equipment manufacturing business, Berry/Chung Equip. in the 60's that made their own wheels .

 

True, Gary, but I've always cosidered wheels and tires to be accesories (although expensive ones!). You can change them at a moments notice and totally change the look of the car, but go right back if you don't like them. I have three sets of front wheels (the Weld's, a pair of Hallcraft wires, and a pair of 5" wide Cragar 5 spokes), and three sets of rear wheels (once again the Weld's, a pair of 12" wide slots w/ Mickey Thompson N50-15's, and a pair of 16x11 Magnesium Halibrand Sprints w/ pie crust slicks (their really for the dragster, but I always wanted ETIII's for the back of it, so they could end up on a T one of these days!)

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When I get my RPU on the road, I have 2 sets of "shoes" for it.
I have the wheel vintiques smoothies with 41 caps and trim rings, I also have a set of American Racing Salt Flats with grey centers and spinners for them. Like the steel smoothies they are 15x5 and 15x8.
Not sure what tires to run on the salt flats.

So, just like a woman changes shoes, I can change wheels

 

So, just like a woman changes shoes, I can change wheels

OK Larry, I won't make any comments about that line, I promise.

 

Blownfuel...What is your friends name from San Antonio who owns the Bucket? You have to have read about my favourite Bucket, built in San Antonio and featured in the December 64 Hot Rod?Right? Couldn`t possibly be the same guy, could it? Bud Shannon?........

Nah....That would be too much....I`d have to get Chip to make me one of his Really large G and T`S......not to mention Gary`s favourite bottle of Vino......Tooo muchh...

 

Mark, I have an early set of B/C wheels and I think it was only the centres they made and you just bolted them into a donor outer. I met Graham Berry last Sunday, he looking well and still building race cars. JW

 

I'll drink to that. In fact I'm drinking to that. Wouldn't that be kool.

 

I have only seen Grahamme at the Hot Rod Blowout the year I think he presented a scale model of a historic NZ Rod which I know I should remember who's but can't, hell. it is Mum with dementia isn't it ? He is a very clever guy with everything he builds whether a model or the real thing. Was it Vandal he build ( model ) to present to John Reid ? Sorry Jeremy, you would think I have been drinking but I have only had water today.

 

Yep… you are right. Vandal and Black Sabbath. I did a search on google and found it...




Here is the link to the NZ hot rod magazine forum page…

http://www.nz-hotrod.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?4964-Vandal-at-Hot-Rod-Blow-Out

Really talented.

Glen.

 

Cool models, the real car is now in Palmerston North with Terry Caske and back to how John Reid first built it.
Mark !!!........have a drink man JW

 

I had to go check, because I always knew him as Buddy Necker, but nope, not the same guy. Now here's where the plot REALLY thickens, Buddy Necker and Bud Shannon were in the same car club (Gear Grinders of San Antonio). I don't remember who Bud Shannon was off the top of my head, but he's listed as a former member who attended the 60th anniversary of the club. Got a picture of him? Now I'm wondering if it's the same car? I was young, so my memory of the story behind the car (as in who built it) isn't real clear. Buddy's still around the club, has a '31 Studebaker Limo. What color was Bud's car? Buddy's was metallic blue. Now I gotta figure out if I have that issue of Hot Rod......and if so, is it here or in Texas?

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