Hot Rods How about some love for the T-Bucket?

that is a super cool little T roadster, the full hood really adds to the look. anyone know more about it? And yes, I realize there is a chick in the picture and dont need to hear a bunch of the usual dumb comments.

 

Andy Brizio's VolksRod for his wife, iirc. ACVW engine/trans. Tube frame. Featherweight car, = fun & quick. The "look" comes from a stock(ish) height w/s, short stock(ish) length hood, & a little bit longer than normal bed.
The VolksRod was popularized by Tom Medley of R&C, as one of R&C's magazine projects(his personal hotrod), did a long(ish) build/write-up on it. Kent Fuller's was probably the 1st one, also *very* nice, still gets used, last I heard. There were ~ 6 very well known captains-of-industry that ran these things. One of the big drawbacks back then, ~'67->late70's, was that the technology for the acvw to get big everyday power wasn't widely available, much less cheap. Better today, but I still wouldn't call it cheap or inexpensive. All relative, I suppose.
IIRC, Andy's wife & one daughter(sadly at the moment I can't remember their names) posed w/this car, along w/his other InstantT's regularly. Always in good taste. I never got to meet any of the 3, but was always told/heard they all were gracious.
One of the nicer proportioned VolksRods. BTW, the term volksrod as used today, has been co-opted to mean any hacked acvw, ;( .
One of my favorites.
Marcus...

 

I believe Andy’s wife is Sue, don’t know about the daughter.

 

than

thanks much for the info!

 

Terri Hollenbeck (spl) is the daughter @Born a HotRodGal of Andy I think

 

volksrod:

 

Love the color on those wheels....

 

Dragmaster also built a Volks T frame and kit. Speedy Bill bought the plans and some parts from either Fuller or Brazio think that those might be the next big thing. Didn’t happen! I had a one off body from Kellison that was a copy of a R&C rendering by Harry Bradley combining a Manx and ‘23 T roadster pickup. Power was a Bill Thomas Convair. A street legal wheelstander!

 

Yes, Dragmaster (Dode Martin) did offer VRod chassis kits &/or associated parts & a set of detailed/dimensioned plans. Toms' VRod design, chassis, n parts, was the Dragmaster proto-type. Often mentioned in the articles. Brizio used Dragmasters' frame, iirc. It was Kents' chassis jig & patterns that Speedway bought, which they tried to market as the V23. Epic fail(typical) on Speedway's part. On another forum, a member claimed to have acquired that tooling/jigs/patterns material from Speedway for little or nothing, but disappeared quickly after posting, & didn't make any new components up. Scam or not, idk. Over the years, there were a number of homebuilt VRods that got a small or partial feature in magazines.
Marcus...

 

There is someone in Tucson selling a standard body mold right now. There are also a couple bodies up at the same time in the same area. Don't know anything about them, but if someone wanted to get into it.
https://www.facebook.com/marketplac...h&referral_code=null&referral_story_type=post
https://www.facebook.com/marketplac...h&referral_code=null&referral_story_type=post
https://www.facebook.com/marketplac...h&referral_code=null&referral_story_type=post

 

"someone" appears to be Wild West Rods and Customs".

 

Yeah, I grabbed the picture and flipped it so that could be read.
I assume that they are the sellers on the first 2 ads, since the pics look like the same place.
I went to their website and it doesn't show bodies as a product, so didn't include it.
The third may not be them but I included it as another project from the area.
Having both bed and turtle deck, plus the door covered with a sheet of metal hints at the same mold, but the location looks different and the Cal Automotive reference is not in the other ads.

 

Nothing looks worse on a T Bucket than an out of proportion radiator shells, i see al lot of it in NZ. JW

 

here's a ? for you all. why don't people put doors in glass t bodies? when i built mine i was in my late 20's and 30's so i was limber enough to jump on the tire and get in. not so much now when i am in my mid 70's. maybe just a lack of knowledge or talent. we all know you can build them low enough to get a leg up and over to get in but some are not that low.