The FREE T Bucket plans
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| − | Step One: Get catalogs from the Boys in the Business: Spirit Motors (Mountain Home AR), Speedway Motors (Lincoln, NE), Total Performance (Wallingford CT) and many others. | + | "Step One: Get catalogs from the Boys in the Business: Spirit Motors (Mountain Home AR), Speedway Motors (Lincoln, NE), Total Performance (Wallingford CT) and many others. |
Step Two: Read the monthly rodding magazines that feature Ts, many more are doing that these days 'cause it is the Ts turn again. | Step Two: Read the monthly rodding magazines that feature Ts, many more are doing that these days 'cause it is the Ts turn again. | ||
Step Three: Go to local car shows and bum some rides from the T Bucket owners who are there. Most will be happy to give to a ride that will not leave you a jabbering ninny shaking on the pavement when you return. Others will scare the bejesus out of you and that will be the end of this project. The heaviest of these little cars weighs in at about 2200 pounds or so so, most are under 2000, some as light as 15-1600. Damn near ANY engine, 4,6,or 8 will make happy speed in that light a platform. | Step Three: Go to local car shows and bum some rides from the T Bucket owners who are there. Most will be happy to give to a ride that will not leave you a jabbering ninny shaking on the pavement when you return. Others will scare the bejesus out of you and that will be the end of this project. The heaviest of these little cars weighs in at about 2200 pounds or so so, most are under 2000, some as light as 15-1600. Damn near ANY engine, 4,6,or 8 will make happy speed in that light a platform. | ||
Step Four: If you have no building skills, take a welding class at the local community college for starters. You'll have tools and equipment to buy and rent as needed. You'll also need space, and more space, and more space. Although many nice cars are built under carports or in one car garages, it is nice to have a fairly empty 2 car one. You figure out how to tell Mama she'll have to park the Escalade in the drive for about 2 years!! | Step Four: If you have no building skills, take a welding class at the local community college for starters. You'll have tools and equipment to buy and rent as needed. You'll also need space, and more space, and more space. Although many nice cars are built under carports or in one car garages, it is nice to have a fairly empty 2 car one. You figure out how to tell Mama she'll have to park the Escalade in the drive for about 2 years!! | ||
| − | Step Five: Now that you have some basic knowledge under your belt, decide what style T you want to build......"classic" 23-25 or 26-27 roadster pickup, 23-25 or 26-27 track car with hood, nose and turtle deck, 23-25 or 26-27 "lakester" bucket with exposed fuel tank on naked framerails in the back, and there are others. | + | Step Five: Now that you have some basic knowledge under your belt, decide what style T you want to build......"classic" 23-25 or 26-27 roadster pickup, 23-25 or 26-27 track car with hood, nose and turtle deck, 23-25 or 26-27 "lakester" bucket with exposed fuel tank on naked framerails in the back, and there are others." Excerpts from soon-to-be-released bucket book by Pasadenahotrod. |
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