Hot Rods Have you personally ever built a T-Bucket

just ribbing you slim

 

I've always wanted to build one, still do. I did build a track "T", the one in my avatar that I still have, going on 30 years with that car. When I was 16 my Dad redid one that a local guy had bought. He took it down to the bare frame. It was yellow, he painted it orange. Fun car that I got to drive. Part of the deal was I could drive it to Lodi CA. from San Lorenzo CA. where we lived, and back home from Lodi. We went to the Lodi Grape Festival rod run. Man what a blast. Had my girlfriend with me, my Mom and Dad in his 40 Chevy. I drove it around for another week before the owner got it back. Straight up and down steering, no front brakes, small block Chevy, powerglide. I should have saved my money right after that and built one.

 

I'm on my third T but never considered any of them buckets, one roadster pickup and two roadsters, not far off but not the same

 

I really want a T. Have for decades. I'm 6 foot tall, 190-ish pounds and I always think I won't comfortably fit in one.

Currently my fancy is a gow job style with a stock 100 hp Flathead backed with a T5.

 

It can be done! 6'4", 200#. This is an old picture, sitting ON the floor, I've since replaced the floor and have a couple 2X4s and a seat bottom. I sit about the same, knees are slightly above the body side, but it is workable. I've driven it for over an hour at a stretch. It's no long distance cruiser yet, but it's not trying to ride a 600CC sport bike either.

 

Yep. Built this one for under $3K. All leftover parts, swap meet stuff etc. Most fun per $ I have ever had. The wife even drove it to work for her car show one year.

 

Still have the scaled plan drawings from the 70's from California Custom Roadsters.

 

RPM makes what they call the Big Boy body, stretched and widened. I'm 6'3" at 280 and it has room for me. I know it's fiberglass, but it's something.

 

RPM? Is that Ron Pope? I know they have a big T body.

 

Yes it is. I have the body, haven't started doing anything with it yet. They have a stretched body and a stretched and widened body.

 

Often*,as I read through treads,it gets odd,were I can tell a few others post,with out reading whats already posted. =Repete or ask the same "Q",that had been given a good "A".*
Seems too? = Too rushed or maybe even lazy.
This could be me just getting too old.

 

Bound to happen when threads get long. Also things come into the conversation that change the direction of the topic a bit. Forums are conversations not straight Q & A's.

 

This one does it for me. When you can get that low in a T you put some thought into it.

 

Or your really vertically impaired ...

 

Built this one 64 years ago from the remnants of my Model A Pickup. 6-pot 97s, 39 trans., hole-sawed A rails, fiberglass body, 3 spray cans of paint, decal letters, headers by Scotty's Muffler, 180-degree scattershield that didn't hold the blown-up aluminum trans. adapter, $60 '38 Chevy 4-door push car and flat towwer, lots of fun, not a big winner although we set the gas roadster ET record at Fontana (we started about 60 feet back from the starting line and ran out of pressurized gas just before the finish line).

 

Cool Pic! That's me in my 22 t at El Mirage. 6'2" and 190# in that Pic around 2003