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new guy, just aquired this t-bucket from a friend that lost interest. the rear is weird looking to me.

Yes, definitely not the most elegant rear suspension. There are several ways to do that that doesn’t involve those ugly spring pockets. I would suggest converting it to coilovers and cutting all that stuff out. Also it has been bobbed a ton and may need to have a new rear frame extension.
 
Congrats, and welcome! Those rear suspension setups were common on some of the '60's T-buckets, but have been superseded by coilovers, like PHP says. Looks like you've got the basics for a good hotrod there, Ponyman. What are your plans for the powertrain?
 

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Congrats, and welcome! Those rear suspension setups were common on some of the '60's T-buckets, but have been superseded by coilovers, like PHP says. Looks like you've got the basics for a good hotrod there, Ponyman. What are your plans for the powertrain?
i have a 302 and a 351 ,it comes with a ford trans, just havemt checked yet to see which one it is. I'm brnging home tomorrow so i'll have a list of questions.
 
Yes, definitely not the most elegant rear suspension. There are several ways to do that that doesn’t involve those ugly spring pockets. I would suggest converting it to coilovers and cutting all that stuff out. Also it has been bobbed a ton and may need to have a new rear frame extension.
yeah didnt look right, the owner prior to my friend ran this thing at atco . looks scary to me lol
 
Congrats, and welcome! Those rear suspension setups were common on some of the '60's T-buckets, but have been superseded by coilovers, like PHP says. Looks like you've got the basics for a good hotrod there, Ponyman. What are your plans for the powertrain?
i like what you did , i have access to a welder and steel shop is not far from me, looks like a good winter project. Do you have any more pics of your setup
 
Do you have any more pics of your setup

That one in the picture is not mine. I put it there to show what the old coil spring setups looked like. Here's a couple of pics of my coil-over rear suspension . . .
 

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