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.