Hooked on T-Bucket Hot Rods
17 episodes - English - Latest episode: almost 2 years ago - ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsT-Bucket hot rods, their history, the people who built and are building them, tips and tricks on their construction and the fun of owning, driving and being a member of the active, growing and global T-Bucket hot rod community. Featuring interviews with T-Bucket pioneers, movers and shakers.
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Episodes
Episode 17 -- Jim Unruh's "Blue Car" Neotraditional T-Bucket
August 29, 2022 21:33 - 31 minutes - 25.4 MBThe components, the stance, the look: Jim Unruh's T-Bucket looks like a true 1960s hot rod, but construction only started in 1997. Learn all about it and how you can build a cool looking one, too!
Episode 16 - Rolla Hessel's "Bud T" and the NTBA
June 19, 2021 19:09 - 21 minutes - 17.4 MBA unique Budweiser beer-themed T-Bucket and all about the National T-Bucket Alliance.
Episode 15 - Dennis Broeske's "Nastee" 1927 T Coupe
July 19, 2020 20:50 - 1 hour - 48.5 MBThe unique polished stainless steel details on Dennis Broeske's chopped T coupe make it stand out as one of the best ever built. With its beautiful Buick nailhead engine with his own fabricated stainless 6-deuce intake manifold to its aluminum "upholstery" it's truly a one-of-a-kind T hot rod.
Episode 14 – David Gadberry’s Low-Bucket
July 14, 2020 14:51 - 23 minutes - 19.2 MBHow teenage David Gadberry, while working at Tom Medlock's Specialty Cars in Artesia, California, starts a long range plan to build a distinctively traditional T-Bucket hot rod on a budget and becomes one of the only low-buck, primered hot rods ever featured in Hot Rod magazine.
Episode 13 - Piero De Luca's "Tweedy Pie" Clone
July 11, 2020 18:36 - 49 minutes - 39.6 MBThe hot rod archeology of the 1950s T-Bucket, originally built by Bob Johnston, that went on to sell over 11 model car kits after "Big Daddy" Ed Roth popularized it. "Mad Fabricators Society" creator, Piero De Luca, undertakes the creation of his own Tweedy Pie T-Bucket tribute.
Tim Taylor's 300K Miles T-Bucket
July 11, 2019 17:49 - 35 minutes - 49.4 MBTim Taylor's "rolling experiment" T-Bucket has served him well for decades, especially when Tim became a founding member of the now National T-Bucket Alliance (NTBA).
Ed Iskenderian's Legendary T Roadster
July 10, 2019 19:28 - 59 minutes - 82.6 MBBuilt in the 1940s and still with him, Ed Iskenderian's T roadster is one of the most famous hot rods ever built. Featured on the cover of Hot Rod Magazine in 1948 and turning 120 mph at El Mirage it also had custom features not found on any other T.
2019 T-Bucket Nationals Report
June 18, 2019 14:52 - 6 minutes - 9.36 MBT-Buckets galore from 15 states participated in the National T-Bucket Alliance's 19th T-Bucket Nationals. Listen and watch to get the dates and location for the 2020 T-Bucket Nationals.
Bob Collins and the Fred Steele Ventures in Space T-Bucket
June 14, 2019 16:59 - 39 minutes - 32.1 MBIn 1960 Fred Steele built what would become the most iconic T-Bucket hot rods when it appeared on the cover of The Ventures Lost in Space guitar tunes album. It remains today as original as the day it was completed and will shortly be for sale.
Chuck Penry's Stylish 1960s T-Bucket Hot Rod
June 11, 2019 19:19 - 21 minutes - 29.9 MBIn the early 1960s Chuck Penry built a T-Bucket that not only was featured in Car Craft magazine, but also the ads of three of the most influential T-Bucket roadster body and kit producers of the day. It became the "dream" T-Bucket of thousands.
Tom Booth's Fantastic "Torsion T" T-Bucket
May 13, 2019 22:27 - 26 minutes - 37.3 MBTom Booth's goal was a fenderless-legal T-Bucket back in the 1960s. He accomplished it and in incredible style.
Kerry Smith's Potvin Supercharged T-Bucket
May 10, 2019 22:24 - 38 minutes - 53.7 MBHow one T-Bucket builder combined some of the rarest traditional hot rod components with the latest technology to build a unique T-Bucket that's been racking up thousands of miles on the road for over two decades.
Don Garlits' 1927 T Roadster Paves Way for Dragster Success
May 07, 2019 03:21 - 20 minutes - 29.1 MB"Big Daddy" Don Garlits dragster success began with a 1927 T-Bucket roadster on a Model T frame with a Ford flathead engine. It accomplished Don's goal of defeating the local "King" but Don saw even bigger successful challenges when he removed the body and sat behind the rear axle.
Danny Eichstedt "Leg Show" T-Bucket Hot Rod
May 06, 2019 03:22 - 45 minutes - 63.2 MBDanny Eichstedt's severely sectioned 1915 T-Bucket roadster with Jim Babb brass in abundance blew minds when it hit the hot rod scene in 1970.
Episode 3 - Doug Siemen's Hand-Built Steel Traditional T-Bucket
April 27, 2019 20:25 - 14 minutes - 20.5 MBListen to Iowa hot rodder, Doug Siemen, tell about how he came to build a very traditional looking 1923 T-Bucket roadster that will be given away in a raffle to raise funds to help families of children with heart defects.
TV Tommy Ivo and his Legendary 1950's T-Bucket
April 22, 2019 16:25 - 27 minutes - 38.1 MBHear Tommy Ivo tell about acting on his Norm Grabowski T-Bucket to build his own with a strong emphasis on performance at the drag strip as well as good looks.
Introduction to Hooked on T-Bucket Hot Rods Podcast
April 04, 2019 16:43 - 8 minutes - 7.28 MBWelcome to the exciting world of T-Bucket hot rods. This introduction includes a brief T-Bucket history and a peak at some of the many interviews to come and what we will cover. Also, why a Podcast and why you'll want to be sure to subscribe so you don't miss an episode.