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

Autocross!!?? Yeah baby.

Lynn

 

somebody tell this guy coilovers aren't period-correct.

 

I would sum up the car by saying a lot of stuff is not correct, period; rather than being so kind and saying it's not period correct

Lynn

 

OH Yea, Bird Automotive AKA Bird Engineering. I remember first seeing the basic kit for sale even in J.C. Whitney. I wound up with a used non-built kit. Went through the junk yard behind the house, found a 1956 Olds rear end, 37 Ford front end assembly, 53 PU steering box, 56 Olds radiator and a kind of running ford y-block and fordomatic transmission. Total pile of junk and a blast to drive around. In those days you could get a special construction registration in Kalifornia. Not now.

https://www.tbucketplans.com/product/bird-t-bucket-plans/

 

Edd Byrnes, no fat tires.

We always ate at drive in burger joints and there was A&W. So we could eat off those metal trays that always fell off the glass or door frame. Cheese Burgers with extra grease wrapped in yellow tissue paper to designate a Cheese burger. Basket of greasy and salty fries. Onion rings that if you drop on the upholstery left grease rings. Chocolate Cherry Malt.

 

quit it... you're making me hungry!

 

^^^^^Well deserved trophy!

Lynn

 

I recognize the guy with the black T and trophy but can't remember his name. Anyone out there know ?

 

I’d like to know how it ran with the Hilborns. That’s not an easy setup to make street driveable and that’s way before Hilborn did EFI conversions. I see the mechanical pump down in front.
Overall, a great car….

 

Gary Rickels?

 

That is a strange picture. It looks really old but the car appears to be mocked up with C-clamps using a VW front end with rack and pinion steering, coilovers and Schoenfeld style headers. An interesting start.

 

John Bonham's T. HRP