T bucket style body any one built their own?

Hi, Interested in building a t bucket style rod ( something simple on a budget). Here is the problem, I love t buckets BUT I am a big guy ( round and tall) I was thinking seriously about building my own body to fit, MY body I'm shure someone here has built their own and I would love to see your pictures/any Ideas I can use. I have searched the t bucket sites, but most are using fiberglass stock bodys from what I can find. My Idea was to build a steel cowl and wooden rear portion of the body varnished finished, like a woody bucket style rod. Body being posibly framed out in small tube? I will be building my own chassis etc. Anyway, interested to see the responces I get .THANKS!

 

get a steel body and widen it.

 

send a PM to SleightsburghMC he has a neat 29 Model A with a wooden body powered by toyota you could get some ideas from his ride....

 

I thought about that, But I live in New England IE "TOP OF THE RUST BELT" Anything close to here is Really expensive and mostly rust any way.

 

here is a pic from his profile, pretty cool and could be built on a budget...

 

Pretty cool, thinking on the same line with a little different flavor

 

Look up pictures from last years GNRS, there was one there that was awesome.

 

Found it.

 

Kind of a hotrod take-off of Edsel Ford's Tudor Woodie Tub built sometime the late 30s.

 

Simplist thing to do is buy glass t decide where you want strech saw apart bolt back together with wood strips at size you want lay sheets of poly pro plastick where you need to bridge gaps screw in place and start laying glass.

 

There is a nice body expansion (length and width) well-illustrated article in the Tech section of the NTBA (National T-Bucket Association) website by a friend of mine from Louisiana.

 

Are you gonnna look out of proportion to the car when you're driving it, like cartooney sorta? I've seen it before, just something to consider.

 

Find a steel cowl, a set of doors, and then build the back of the body yourself. If you make it an rpu you could just do the back of the body squared off, any depth you want...I know I saw a vehicle like that in a magazine a couple of years ago, it looked pretty nice.

 

I did the exact same thing with a '34 Plymouth cowl and two doors. It's not finished yet. It was too low, the radiator would have been taller than the cowl, so I used the bed and chassis on the cab in the background of the photo; it was The Ugly Truck.



I will finish it someday, when a few other projects are done. I took qiute a few photos of building the body, and hanging the doors suicide-style, the way they would have been done on a '33-'34 roadster pickup, if Plymouth would have built such a thing(they didn't). Check out these threads:
http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=145423

http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=155872

 

Why not build an "A" bucket from an RPU?

Model A RPUs are roomier than the T's and if done right with careful attention to stance etc. it would be a good looker.

Brookville has a stretched RPU available.

 

how about building one of the '27 "track T" types. the tub is a little bigger

 

You can get longer and wider bodies like this from http://www.corbinrods.com/1923_t_bucket.html

 

I'm actually building a home built bucket right now. However, mine was originally built in the 50's/60's as a hot rod/drag car and I'm just redoing it to my liking. The car is not at my house, but I'll try and get some pics for you one day this week. If you have the skills and time, I think this would be a good project.

 

Build pictures would be great! RPU May be the way to go, I don't want to build a 23t exactally just used the term tbucket to get the general idea across I want to sit low and be able to streatch my legs out

 

I been thinkin about the same thing,I pulled a 30-31 doodle-bug out of the brairs other day,I got a half a frame,front axle,cowl,ect.thought about makeing the back of the frame out of tubing and body from wood.

 

My "A" is a lot like that. I started with a cowl, and followed that with some doors. Now it looks something like a T Bucket, without the turned up lip across the back of it. I streached mine out something like 12 or 14 inches behind the B pillar. Sorry I don't have any pictures of it. But you could do something like it using wood for the area behind the cowl.

 

26 model t cowl and c-cab rear quarters from Howells. Working door.

 

Sounds like you are planning a really fun build. I say do it. I am building a c cab T pick up roadster 1925 vintage, It seems to be a bit longer than a regular T. (just going by eye). Have fun G

 

Thanks Guys, How should I go about figuring out the length of the cab? should I figure out my seating first? I basically wanted to go with a bench that wraps around the back of the cab/body. I could work with a cowl out of something, but having a hard time finding anything here in Massachusetts.I have been searching internet/local places for a while and have not come up with anything close to me. (within a few hrs drive) I will also need some kind of numbers when it comes time to register it.

 

Ive got the same problem but with long legs - go look at my info and look at the photo album. Hand built body skelaton - metal ( conduit ) to be covered with hobby cloth - next is the fiberglass - Im a mopar guy so I scaled mine from a 25 - 26 dodge - made it 4 inches longer and 5 inches wider so I can set 3 across the frt seat- lengthened the frame 6 inches for a slant 6 and widened it 1 1/2 in for a Valiant radiator - built my own frame so I mad the mods as needed - Jaxx

 

Sweet project jaxx, Cant wait to see it covered in glass. Hope you post a build thread eventually

 

I started this a few years back and it has been on the back burner.started to skin it a few weeks back and agian it went on the back burner

http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=166447

 

I've been playing around with the same Idea for a while. Start with the cowl and build the rest of the body ala woody. Or an A sized roadster pick up. There was a guy here in Minnesota that build a Bucket T with scratch built pick up bed. I think his name was Loren Richards.
The Dan Fink roadster idea is a good one.

 

I have been reading H.A.M.B. for a long time and I am sorry this is my first post but Johnny1290 hit a nerve with "Are you gonnna look out of proportion to the car when you're driving it, like cartooney sorta? I've seen it before, just something to consider." My Pop has been dishing this *@!% out to me for wanting a "T". Build for you and if you look out of proportion, who cares; make it extra fast!
I have seen T bodies with extra room because some manufactures are thinking of us. A quick search for "extra room T bucket" found several. Also, if you plan to widen a fiberglass body, look to aviation materials. Pop just built some fiberglass pieces for his plane with slow setting material that needed very little sanding (WEST System) and comes with pump containers for mixing the exact amounts needed. Very slick!