Your neighbor finally test drove his project car he's been working on - but Murphy's Law HITS HARD, and chaos... looks like no brakes, and stuck throttle

https://www.instagram.com/p/DQNLwgbkl01/

Gene Chan's '23 T roadster, sprayed candy purple by Larry Watson

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10226372284473716&set=gm.26240072652302773&idorvanity=989014911168562

the Woodlites sure give it a 60s funky look!

 

with the bent over cab, the gold and pink color palate, and the dune buggy nose, the builder NAILED the "groovy" early 60s look of goofy car show only cars like the Roth ones 

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=423419666700371&set=a.203057598736580

a T Bucket obsession facebook page is loaded with cool hot rods

https://www.facebook.com/modeltobsession

eye catching T bucket

found while out walking the neighborhood

I think this was a 535

I found this Pinzgauer, only about a block away from where I found this Unimog about 14 years ago, and thought it was the same vehicle, thank you all for the correction https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2007/05/blog-post_23.html

Norm and the Lightning Bug at the races

 

In 1952 Norm bought a fenderless 1931 Ford Model A V-8 roadster for $100. 

The A body was swapped for the front half of a 1922 Ford Model T touring with a shortened Model A pickup bed. 

20 some inches were removed of the rear framerails, starting six inches forward of the cross member.

 Up front, Norm installed a Ross steering box from a milk truck. A Bell three-spoke steering wheel was then installed nearly in a vertical position. Once completed, it steered backwards.

Valley Custom Shop fixed the steering and made a special raked-back and shortened windshield, and made the car a black paint job for Norm's bucket 

Valley Custom Shop did also give the car a black paint job before Norm had Tony Nancy stitch a red rolled and pleated interior

https://kustomrama.com/wiki/Norm_Grabowski%27s_1922_Ford

Bob Hope and Jack Benny in a T Bucket... for the Beach Boys spot as guests on the Jack Benny show (Thanks Mr Paul! )

https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/vintage-shots-from-days-gone-by-part-2.1154030/page-967#post-13897641

skip the first 2 minutes to get to the point whet the T Bucket rolls into the scene after the Beach Boys sing California Girls for the zillionth time with less energy than a butterfly sneeze, as they lip synched to a slow recording of the song

the episode is described and analyzed at https://moviemagg.blogspot.com/2008/12/jach-benny-hour-tv-1965.html as also having Walt Disney and Elke Summer

I wonder what the story was with the T Bucket?

the 1st and 2nd t buckets ever made heading to the starting line

https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=1007279679808715&set=gm.509930770282754

Raquel, in San Diego, 1969

https://www.facebook.com/anibal134/posts/10219606497613217

the original T Bucket... at a high school car show in the 50s

http://www.gt350lady.com/High_School_Car_Shows.html

8 glass packs, 8 cut outs, 8 carbs, and 8 cylinders... man that is a LOT of cool

https://www.facebook.com/groups/stiffspeed/permalink/2078714332275172/

I tell you, Stiffspeed posts some really amazing stuff

this is the prime example, exhibit A, of why non car people ought to be supervised at worst, or even better, not allowed to work on car websites

When looking through some websites "Top 10 greatest ever hot rods" that "changed history by being the fastest, best-looking and most influential" I find the above.

What brain dead moron with no clue of hot rods, history, "best looking" or influential went out and found the complete opposite of everything that the article he wrote, was about?

This is such a contrary example, that I'd say it's the epitome of being the farthest from best looking,  influential, changed history, and greatest ever.

The dumb ass that chose this image is the most deserving of a forehead slap of any human I've heard of in years.

Maybe you don't know why... maybe you're not familiar with the above, and can't understand where I'm coming from, why I'm all bent out of shape about this...

Why, this car? It is one that hasn't been seen in decades, looks terrible, can be proven to have never influenced anyone or any thing. That's why.

How do I know? Simple, the inventor of the t-bucket, Norm Grabowski, started with a simple little T bucket, and that was used in Hollywood, and influenced the world of hot rodding, and kicked off the fad of building T Buckets... and show cars. Goofy looking odd vehicles that only went from show to show, and were made only to win trophys.

That was both the creation, and demise of that original T Bucket, that first of the fad ts that influenced so many hot rods to get built, so many hot rodders to go wrench, and race, changing hot rod history on the track, the auditorium shows, and local cruises around America. It was the greatest ever T bucket, and in an epic irony of a universal nature, it succumbed to it's own fame, when it was later bought by some weirdo, and made into what you see above. And what you see above was late in the show circuit game, looked terrible, mothballed quickly, and disappeared from public awareness, not being seen by anyone, nor even being known to anyone, while it spent the next 40 some years in hiding, only to resurface when the collector died last year.

So, when the above image was used, instead of the ACTUAL influencer, the seminal history making t bucket, I just lost it. I want to tell the jackass that chose this image to quit his job. 

1965 show rod Model T has been in storage around 40 years, and now is looking for a new home

Magnesium rims, Cragar super charger on a 327, M22

I hope someone buys this and gets a real photographer to take some good photos of it

https://bangshift.com/bangshift1320/bangshift1320-online-find/barn-find-this-1965-built-t-bucket-is-a-bad-ass-and-i-dont-like-t-buckets-even-a-little/
https://losangeles.craigslist.org/sgv/cto/d/pomona-1965-built-showrod-fabt-bucket/6803849812.html

looks to me like they nailed it... and the M&H on the slicks is a cool touch too

 

https://justahillbillyfromouterspace.tumblr.com/post/176713623639/if-the-name-clifford-hoad-sounds-familiar

cool Coca Cola truck in the background behind Norm's T Bucket

https://www.facebook.com/groups/stiffspeed/permalink/1469552923191319/

The Kookie T, the first T bucket as I understand it, Norm's 1st and the original, is finally on the loose. The guy who'd kept it in storage for decades has died. (thanks Ron!)

the last time anyone had seen it was looking this way, painted by Watson and made to look goofy for the 70s custom car show ridiculousness.

http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2009/11/replica-of-norms-kookie-t-i-doubt.html

There you have it, this will be coming to an auction, and it's going to be the last chance to buy a legend. Well, until it gets flipped for profit annually for the next decade. But, the 1st person to buy it gets the first Norm carved shifter skull, and the last to be out there for purchase. I seriously doubt these come up for sale even once a decade

https://www.customcarchronicle.com/cc-builders/jim-skonzakes-customizer/jim-street-collection-uncovered/#comments

John Bonham, and anyone under the age of 25 is wondering who that was

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10208689084975816&set=gm.1125895557557059&type=3&permPage=1

Norm's Kookie T in 1956

https://www.facebook.com/hotrods1948/

getting hassled by the fuzz... the good old days

Found on https://www.facebook.com/groups/stiffspeed/