T-bucket

A T-bucket (or Bucket T) is a hot rod, based on a Ford Model T[1] built from 1915 to 1927, but extensively modified.

[citation needed] Model Ts were hot-rodded and customized from the 1920s on, but the T-bucket was specifically created and named by Norm Grabowski in the 1950s.

Windshields, when fitted, are vertical glass like the original Model T. Today, T-buckets remain common.

Of the only two or three bodies built by Diablo, one was purchased by Southern California hot rod builder Buzz Pitzen and became the world's first fiberglass T-bucket.

The small-block Chevrolet is a common choice, since it is relatively small, light, easy to obtain and to improve, and performs well.

1923 T Bucket
1923 early 60's style T Bucket
A 1923 Ford T Bucket in the traditional style. It features lake headers, dog dish hubcaps, dropped "I" beam axle, narrow rubber, and single 4-barrel, but non-traditional disc brakes.
Detail view of the air inlet
Convertible T-bucket in a hybrid style: traditional sidepipes and dropped tube axle , transverse front leaf spring , and non-traditional front disc brakes and five-spokes.
T-bucket with early Chrysler 'hemi' engine . The aluminum radiator (rather than brass), rectangular headlights, and five-spokes (rather than motorcycle wheels) mark this as a later incarnation.
T Bucket engine, open chassis, dual 4 barrel carbs and extensive chrome plating.
23 T Bucket
23 T Bucket with early Chevrolet small-block engine and dual 4 barrel carburetors. Pie pan cheater slicks and wide white wall tires .