Hot Rods How about some love for the T-Bucket?

Sweet!

 

Not with the Holden station wagon on the road in the background and the trailer being towed by a 63/64 Valiant.

 

That makes it 2-0 for Down Under!

 

And those are natural !

 

What I find fascinating about it is the parallel leaf springs in the rear. Don't see that much in buckets, if at all.

 

Built for drag racing, so a fairly common choice. Also, packaging. Most Ts have a frame kickup and very short over hang in the rear. This has a major difference on this. The front spring mount looks like it's roughly at the front planetary of the trans!
Just did a search for drag T buckets and didn't see another with this. Good catch!

 

My '26 Coupe lined up with another Hamber at an early Hamb Drags.

 

A buddy's uncle built this 50 years ago. Just got it back on the road a few months back. 327 Powerglide.

 

Model A not T. JW

 

Geez....what was I thinking? Overcome with Hot-Rod-Itis I guess. Carry on and ignore the dummy....

 

Again, a favorite of mine.

 

She may not have made it to Waco, but she did get the "Bust" part right.

 

Yeah, I love the wheels on it.....

 

Using my handy dandy inflation calculator, the current price would be $24,013 at a cumulative rate of inflation of 944%. I don't think that's out of line.

 

rudy heredia's t.

 

What's out of line is accepting 944% inflation as reality !!!

 

All as a result of going off the gold standard in 1971. Just saying...

 

I'm going through old threads and found this.
member @DaPeach hasn't been logged on since 2021, but had a nice lil T.
Hope she's okay.
https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/media/albums/t-bucket.40967/