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1923 Ford T-Bucket

Engine

                        Make:  Chevy
                        Displacement:  327
                        Induction: Edelbrock
                        Valve Covers:  Polished Aluminum Corvette
                        Exhaust: Chrome Headers
                        Custom Aluminum Dress Up:  Designed/Manufactured:                                                 Loren Reed

Transmission

                        Make:      TH350
                        Shifter:  B & M

Interior

                        Dashboard:  Red Oak - Hand Polished
                        Floor:  Red Oak
                        Material: Black Vinyl


Body/Chassis

                        Brakes:  Rear-Drum, Front-Disc
                        Master Cylinder: CNC
                        Rims:  CenterLine - Warrior
                        Tires: Mickey Thompson:  Front 15 x 5, Rear 15 x 14
                        Body Style: 1923 Ford Model T  (Fiberglass)
                        Bed: 1927 Ford (Steel)
                        Paint:  Orange/Silver
                        Painter's: Jim Reed and Brian Elliott
                        Air Brushed Flames:  Aaron Price


This 23 T-Bucket was originally built by Bill Terrell of Martinsville Indiana in the early 1960's. It placed 1st at the 1966 Indianapolis Motorama Car Show and placed 2nd behind Tommy Ivo in Louisville Kentucky (Paint vs Chrome)!  After several different owners over the years and numerous modifications, I purchased what was left of the old T in 1991. (All that remained was the body, frame, and engine block)  Over the past 10 years I have completely rebuilt the original T to the condition it is currently in.  Although basically rebuilding from ground up, the frame and body remains as it did in the 60's with the original paint on the bucket body to maintain some of it's history.

I recently met Bill Terrell at a car show and received from him the "Original Trophy" from the Indianapolis Motorama - as he put it - "It belongs with the Hot Rod"!!!  He also had 2 photo's from the 60's which I had restored and display  with the T-Bucket!!!

This Hot Rod is a great piece of history and is a part of our family which I consider PRICELESS!


I would like to dedicate my Hot Rod to my friend Gary Hacker.  In the early 70's Gary built a T-Bucket which was nicknamed "The Green Hornet".  I can still remember the first time I saw that T-Bucket...  from that day on, I was hooked on hot rods and vowed to build a bucket of my own.  Gary was tragically killed a short time later in a car accident.