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The American custom car market is filled with garage-engineered wonders, but few of them come close to what T-buckets stand for. These incredible hot rods, brought into the public eye by Norman Grabowski in the years following the Second World War, play in a league of their own, being stunning machines and hard-to-digest builds at the same time.
T-buckets are not for everyone, of course, but those who are into them might appreciate the one here, a 460ci-powered contraption with exposed engine, exposed wheels, and enough nose art to make it stand out even more.
Technically, the car is described as a 1912 Model T. Like all other builds of its kind, it comes with a big radiator up front, behind which, butt-naked, sits a 460-ci (7.5-liter) V8 made back in the 1970s, and now controlled by means of a 3-speed automatic transmission. We are not given the performance numbers for the powertrain in this application.
Behind the shiny, chromed engine, there’s an enclosed cab capable of seating two on a very low, black vinyl bench. The fat, removable steering wheel is the only thing sticking out of the front end of the cab because the dashboard is just that: a board made of wood and dotted on the right side by round gauges.
The T-bucket ends with a big black box at the rear, placed in between Rocket Racing wheels. The box has enough real estate to look boring if painted all black, so the garage behind this build went for what they call nose art. That's a sort of tribute to the drawings that become famous on the airplanes of the Second World War.
The Wild Thing T-bucket (we named it so because of what the nose art on the box says) is for sale, and it does not come cheap: $59,900 is what the sticker reads.
Technically, the car is described as a 1912 Model T. Like all other builds of its kind, it comes with a big radiator up front, behind which, butt-naked, sits a 460-ci (7.5-liter) V8 made back in the 1970s, and now controlled by means of a 3-speed automatic transmission. We are not given the performance numbers for the powertrain in this application.
Behind the shiny, chromed engine, there’s an enclosed cab capable of seating two on a very low, black vinyl bench. The fat, removable steering wheel is the only thing sticking out of the front end of the cab because the dashboard is just that: a board made of wood and dotted on the right side by round gauges.
The T-bucket ends with a big black box at the rear, placed in between Rocket Racing wheels. The box has enough real estate to look boring if painted all black, so the garage behind this build went for what they call nose art. That's a sort of tribute to the drawings that become famous on the airplanes of the Second World War.
The Wild Thing T-bucket (we named it so because of what the nose art on the box says) is for sale, and it does not come cheap: $59,900 is what the sticker reads.
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