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

dad bought that kit for me as a little kid. unfortunately i was probably too young and messed it up. if they didn't cost an arm and a leg i'd buy another.

 

You may be able to locate a kit that has possibilities on eBay or FB Marketplace.

 

Try to see if there are toy shows in your area. I haven’t bought a kit at a store or hobby shop in many, many years. Toy show vendors will have new kits at a discount, and older issues, and even old built-ups or abandoned projects.

 

prices i've seen for this kit before has been well into the hundreds of bucks. i'd rather spend that kind of money on my real t project.

 

I built one as a early teenager and my wife was cleaning out some closets and found it stored in the original box. It needs some love and I plan to give it to my 35 year old son to bring it back to life. He has talked about building some models.

As I recall the trickiest part of building the "Big T" was ***embling the steering box without gluing the moving parts together. Getting the steering to turn the wheels with the steering wheel was a challenge but I did get it done. Kinda fragile though as I recall.

Just curious...what's a "Big T" kit worth these days. No....I'm not going to "sell" it to my son, I'm just happy he wants it.

Lynn

 

Unbuilt with nice original box, 3-6 hundred. Partially built with nice box1-3 hundred....

 

The Lindberg 1/8 scale T should be less expensive and more readily available.

 

I seem to remember building a T bucket model back in the 70s called "the rodfather", anyone else?

 

I have an NOS Lindberg "T" in the box. They were nice, just not as nice as the Monogram ones. They are a good base if you are into cutting one up and modifying it. I also have a couple of the 32 Roadsters. I was real big into building models for a lot of years, but haven't touched one for 25 years. I still have all my built and unbuilt models. No they are not for sale. Wait for the estate sale. I do plan on building again, but we will see.

 

Ever stop and wonder what it would cost to chrome a rear end housing today?

 

@primed34 Warning, chrome ahead!
https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/new-caretaker-for-the-candy-and-chrome-40-coupe.1344165/
The under the lift pics start on page 3

This link drops you on page 42. If you didn't get enough, look at the rest of it.
https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum...ld-chrome-coupe.1284710/page-41#post-15766245

 

eye watering for sure! heck, i asked a local place how much to remove chrome from a pair of head light buckets and i nearly fainted.

 

first link, that's a beautiful coupe!
second link... oh man that's unbelievable!

 

Interesting car. It looks like 33-34 frame rails (or reshaped ‘32), matching radii on the header pipes with oval collectors. Unusual headlight mounts. Thinking outside the box, of course in ‘62 the “box” wasn’t firmed up yet. Not crazy about the pinstriping and panel design though.

 

found these 1/8th scale Big Ts, a Big Deuce and a rail job pretty much like this at an estate sale a few years ago.
'put them in a bag and haven't looked at them since.
like someone said already I'd just as soon play with the full sized T

 

oh man i think i drooled a little bit.

 

Big T looks cool in the blue color.

 

I really like the yellow Show.Go.Roadster

 

Then p*** them off to someone that would enjoy them.