STEP UP!

[PotvinGuy]

The time has come. I find it very difficult to get into my doorless bucket. I need to add a step. Probably bolt it to frame. But of course I want it to look cool. Any ideas? Show me pics of what you've done.

 

[409T]

I'm working on a vacuum powered escalator.

 

[Spanky]

???

 

[PotvinGuy]

Spanky! Are you confused or just having a moment?

 

[LongJohn]

I have seen monster trucks with some kind of lift to assist entry. Would be tough to hide for e bucket. My door is the whole side opens. The door on a bucket is smaller than my butt!

 

[Spanky]

Spanky! Are you confused or just having a moment?

(LOL) I've been known to have 'moments' before. Like when I forgot to grease my wheel bearings before driving my bucket for the 1st time. Result: seized wheel bearing on the passenger side. However, I still don't know what a "vacuum powered escalator" would be on a T-bucket. Explain . . .

 

[409T]

(LOL) I've been known to have 'moments' before. Like when I forgot to grease my wheel bearings before driving my bucket for the 1st time. Result: seized wheel bearing on the passenger side. However, I still don't know what a "vacuum powered escalator" would be on a T-bucket. Explain . . .

Send me all your money, we can discuss the escalator along with the bridge I have for sale in New York.

 

[PotvinGuy]

Hey,409t, you sold that bridge to me! I should stop charging tolls,, right?

 

[Bill Pedersen]

This is not my car, but these are pictures of steps that I like and saved.

 

[409T]

Hey,409t, you sold that bridge to me! I should stop charging tolls,, right?

No, double the tolls and send half to me.

 

[fordsbyjay]

The short piece is 2x3x0.120". The other pieces are 1x3x0.120". It will hold anything you throw at it. Tested to 330+ lbs and 10 years of use.

 

[RodStRace]

I find a step a matter of taste. Some like them and think they are another neat detail, some prefer a clean, simple look.
While it is a simpler, easier modification than making your door functional, I would consider how much longer the step would add for your ability to enter/exit versus making the door open. A functional door is more time and effort, but would probably allow you to enjoy the car longer and increase value more.
As a measure of how much it would help, you could bring along a step stool or one of those dirt bike stands for the 6-8 inches of step to get in and out.


I've seen a number of buckets with the doors completely missing. I'm not a fan, but everyone has different ideas.
This one sure is different!

 

[RodStRace]

BTW, if the idea of cutting up your car and making your door functional is daunting, CCR's body is not horribly expensive. What about a swap?

81105 T-Bucket Body, Standard Style, Passenger Side Door, w/ 3" Channeled Floor

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[RodStRace]

Another with the doors (plus some) cut out.

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[Spanky]

Reminds me of the way you see kids in their jeeps with no doors. Isn't there a famous T-bucket called "leg show?"

 

[Martin72]

Leg Show - 1915 t-bucket show car.

 

[LongJohn]

There you go! My door will be a little longer but that’s my idea. When I had my dragster I had a fold up motorcycle foot peg sticking out of the side. No pix. Sorry.

 

[Gerry]

Ah.. Danny's T. Nothing beats it

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Original version that was the Cover pic.

 

[RodStRace]

Leg Show T-Bucket and Danny Eichstedt Blow Traditional Hot Rod Minds, Part 1

Hot rod builder/editor/author/archeologist Pat Ganahl called it the best rod magazine cover ever produced: the eye-grabbing January, 1971 Rod & Custom

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which has this under construction picture.


PART 2

Danny Eichstedt’s “Leg Show” T-Bucket, Part

Danny Eichstedt’s “Leg Show” T-Bucket, Part 2: and its 4000 Mile 1971 Street Rod Nationals Journey L...

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[JJK]

If it's going to float on a frame mounted outrigger, I like a minimal "footprint". This is 3.88 X 3.92. Speedway #91129504