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Hooked on T-Bucket Hot Rods

The Hooked on T-Bucket Hot Rods podcast is all about T-Buckets, their hot rod history, the people who built them in the past as well as those who are building and enjoying them today.

You’re going to learn the rich history of T-Buckets and you’ll discover tips and tricks on their construction as well as the fun of owning, driving and being a member of the active, growing and global T-Bucket hot rod community.

We do it with fascinating interviews of the movers, shakers and history makers in the T-Bucket world that will entertain, educate, encourage and inspire you as a T-Bucket owner, builder, buyer or just fan.

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

Aug 29, 2022

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 build a cool looking one, too!

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

Jun 19, 2021

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

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

Jul 19, 2020

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 with his own fabricated stainless 6-deuce intake manifold to its aluminum "upholstery" it's truly a one-of-a-kind T hot rod.

Episode 14 – David Gadberry’s Low-Bucket

Jul 14, 2020

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 hot rod on a budget and becomes one of the only low-buck, primered hot rods ever featured in Hot Rod magazine.

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

Jul 11, 2020

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 Fabricators Society" creator, Piero De Luca, undertakes the creation of his own Tweedy Pie T-Bucket tribute.