Hooked on T-Bucket Hot Rods

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Episode 17 -- Jim Unruh's "Blue Car" Neotraditional T-Bucket Aug 29, 2022

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The components, the stance, the look: Jim Unruh's T-Bucket looks like a true 1960s hot rod, but construction only started in 1997. Learn all about it and how you can build a cool looking one, too!

Episode 16 - Rolla Hessel's "Bud T" and the NTBA Jun 19, 2021

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A unique Budweiser beer-themed T-Bucket and all about the National T-Bucket Alliance.

Episode 15 - Dennis Broeske's "Nastee" 1927 T Coupe Jul 19, 2020

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The unique polished stainless steel details on Dennis Broeske's chopped T coupe make it stand out as one of the best ever built. With its beautiful Buick nailhead engine with his own fabricated stainless 6-deuce intake manifold to its aluminum "upholstery" it's truly a one-of-a-kind T hot rod.

Episode 14 – David Gadberry's Low-Bucket Jul 14, 2020

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How teenage David Gadberry, while working at Tom Medlock's Specialty Cars in Artesia, California, starts a long range plan to build a distinctively traditional T-Bucket hot rod on a budget and becomes one of the only low-buck, primered hot rods ever featured in Hot Rod magazine.

Episode 13 - Piero De Luca's "Tweedy Pie" Clone Jul 11, 2020

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The hot rod archeology of the 1950s T-Bucket, originally built by Bob Johnston, that went on to sell over 11 model car kits after "Big Daddy" Ed Roth popularized it. "Mad Fabricators Society" creator, Piero De Luca, undertakes the creation of his own Tweedy Pie T-Bucket tribute.

Tim Taylor's 300K Miles T-Bucket Jul 11, 2019

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Tim Taylor's "rolling experiment" T-Bucket has served him well for decades, especially when Tim became a founding member of the now National T-Bucket Alliance (NTBA).

Ed Iskenderian's Legendary T Roadster Jul 10, 2019

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Built in the 1940s and still with him, Ed Iskenderian's T roadster is one of the most famous hot rods ever built. Featured on the cover of Hot Rod Magazine in 1948 and turning 120 mph at El Mirage it also had custom features not found on any other T.

2019 T-Bucket Nationals Report Jun 18, 2019

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T-Buckets galore from 15 states participated in the National T-Bucket Alliance's 19th T-Bucket Nationals. Listen and watch to get the dates and location for the 2020 T-Bucket Nationals.

Bob Collins and the Fred Steele Ventures in Space T-Bucket Jun 14, 2019

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In 1960 Fred Steele built what would become the most iconic T-Bucket hot rods when it appeared on the cover of The Ventures Lost in Space guitar tunes album. It remains today as original as the day it was completed and will shortly be for sale.

Chuck Penry's Stylish 1960s T-Bucket Hot Rod Jun 11, 2019

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In the early 1960s Chuck Penry built a T-Bucket that not only was featured in Car Craft magazine, but also the ads of three of the most influential T-Bucket roadster body and kit producers of the day. It became the "dream" T-Bucket of thousands.

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