1923 Ford T-Bucket Is Fresh on the Market and Quirky as They Get 20 Jan 2021, 10:55 UTC ·
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Generally defined as a hot rod build based on a Model T, a T-bucket is a sort of machine you either love or hate. It would seem generally people hate them, and there is only a limited number of garages still making them since just a small bunch of people are willing to pay for one.
Small as it is, this industry is around, and it churns out T-buckets even today, 113 years after the first Model T rolled off Ford’s assembly lines. And the one you’re looking at is the last to join the pack of such machines available for purchase.
1923 Ford T-Bucket Is a Cheap, Barely-Used Texas Build 19 Jan 2021, 10:06 UTC ·
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Soon after the Ford Model T hit the market in 1908 as the world’s first mass-produced automobile for the masses, people found they could reshape the car in pretty much any way they wanted. They thus played an important role in giving birth to the custom industry as we know it today. 9 photos
Model Ts started being tampered with from around 1915, but it wasn’t until 1950 that certain kinds of modifications made to the Blue Oval machine got a semi-official name. A hot rod builder by the name Norman Grabowski is largely credited to giving birth to the Model T-based machines we now know as T-buckets.
1912 Ford Model T Wild Thing Is a Nose Art T-Bucket 6 Jan 2021, 9:24 UTC ·
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The American custom car market is filled with garage-engineered wonders, but few of them come close to what T-buckets stand for. These incredible hot rods, brought into the public eye by Norman Grabowski in the years following the Second World War, play in a league of their own, being stunning machines and hard-to-digest builds at the same time. 14 photos
T-buckets are not for everyone, of course, but those who are into them might appreciate the one here, a 460ci-powered contraption with exposed engine, exposed wheels, and enough nose art to make it stand out even more.