The Classic Hot Rod - Ford T Bucket Roadster
Origins
The T-Bucket roadster got its name because the original car was an actual Ford Model T. That's right, these wonderful hotrods date back to the early 1920's when Henry Ford mass produced his famous affordable, everyman's auto that you could get in any color you wanted as long as you wanted black.Inevitably, when man is in control of a machine, the competition started. One guy passes the other so he thinks he has to make his machine faster so off it goes. The mechanics of the day, around oh, about the 1930's or so started tinkering with their cars to make them faster. They started experimenting with ways to get more power out of the engine but one of the easiest ways to make a car faster was to strip unneeded parts off the cars to make them lighter. A lighter car will accelerate faster with the same engine horsepower so they would shed bumpers, fenders, running boards, hoods, etc. to form a stripped down, bare bones car that somewhere along the way got dubbed the "hotrod". Nobody knows exactly how the name originated but it has stuck all through the years.
T bucket roadster books
The First Hotrods
The early hotrods were nothing more than these stripped down cars and there wasn't a whole lot of attention paid to looks as there is today. There is a group of rodders today that hold true to the old style hotrods and sometimes go to great lengths to build a car that is period perfect to what would have been built back then. They are sometimes known as "ratrods" because they aren't painted and polished and some people think they look junky or "ratty", but they are actually a much more true representation of that period in hotrod history so they have become very popular.
Rat T with flaming headers
Today's T Bucket Hotrod
Probably the most common model is the 1923 T so a lot of the modern T-bucket roadsters of today are based on this model. Getting an actual Model T today is next to impossible and if you do find one, you'd better have very deep pockets because it will cost you a ton of money.Fear not though, if you want to build one of these sweet machines, there are a number of places where you can get kits and all the parts you will need to create the hotrod of your dreams. Here's a site where you can actually pick the parts you want and build it online complete with prices, Total Performance, Inc. There are lots of suppliers out there but this one is fun to play with.
Hot Rods and Parts For Sale
Be sure and check out ebay if you're looking for hot rods for sale. You can find t buckets, hot rods, street rods or just about any type of hot car you want.
Fetching new data from eBay now... please stand byNice T with 2 engines
Classic Hot Rod Poster
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T Buckert video
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- Millertime Millertime Nov 4, 2009 @ 5:29 pm | in reply to Stazjia
- Thank you very much. Hopefully someday I can post the pictures of the one I build on here.
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- Stazjia Stazjia Nov 4, 2009 @ 7:34 am
- I love the pictures you've used on this fascinating lens, particularly those of the old hotrods. Blessed by an Angel.
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- cypruscar cypruscar Oct 22, 2009 @ 7:57 am
- Another great lens
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- AbbasAbedi AbbasAbedi Jun 9, 2009 @ 6:46 am
- Fascinating lens. 5*
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- d-artist d-artist Apr 24, 2009 @ 7:37 pm
- very cool lens! ...5* I love T bucket Hot Rods, years ago we had an opportunity to buy one, we decided against it, one of my regrets..
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