Hooked on T-Bucket Hot Rods

Episode 17 -- Jim Unruh's "Blue Car" Neotraditional T-Bucket

The 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 buil

Episode 16 - Rolla Hessel's "Bud T" and the NTBA

A unique Budweiser beer-themed T-Bucket and all about the National T-Bucket Alliance.

Episode 15 - Dennis Broeske's "Nastee" 1927 T Coupe

The 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

Episode 14 – David Gadberry's Low-Bucket

How 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 h

Episode 13 - Piero De Luca's "Tweedy Pie" Clone

The 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

Tim Taylor's 300K Miles T-Bucket

Tim 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

Built 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 tu

2019 T-Bucket Nationals Report

T-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-Bu

Bob Collins and the Fred Steele Ventures in Space T-Bucket

In 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 t

Chuck Penry's Stylish 1960s T-Bucket Hot Rod

In 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

Tom Booth's Fantastic "Torsion T" T-Bucket

Tom 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

How 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

Don Garlits' 1927 T Roadster Paves Way for Dragster Success

"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 l

Danny Eichstedt "Leg Show" T-Bucket Hot Rod

Danny 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

Listen 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 fun

TV Tommy Ivo and his Legendary 1950's T-Bucket

Hear 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

Welcome 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