After the week I’ve had, which has involved all the joys of a spider bite without all of the cool crap that Peter Parker got, a three-day festival of diesel that may or may not have a huge impact on my health, stray kittens, days of bed rest, psychotic nurses and shots…well, let’s just say that I’m more than ready to stir the pot. And by “stir the pot” I mean to say that I want to use an industrial-strength blender for this one. See, we all have our favorites and non-favorites list of vehicles, and today, it’s about our do-not-want list. For every car ever made there are fans and there are haters. So, while I may like the Dodge Rampage we have up today, I promise there will be several people wondering just what kinds of drugs I got shot up with. Fair enough, but there are those who know where to find the ultimate example that just might be cool enough to make us reconsider.
Lohnes dislikes any four-seater Thunderbird and DeLoreans. I can’t stomach Ford Granadas and any ’88-up GM truck that has been the victim of the “sport truck” trend. Chad’s eye starts to twitch whenever he sees a Ford T-bucket done up in the oh-so-classy 1970s style. We are all hard-pressed to change our minds, so if you think you have an example of what we hate that we should love, post it. Seriously…if Lohnes could walk away from the greatness that is this beak-nosed Thunderbird, something is seriously wrong here.
Photo: James Rouillard via The Brougham Society
The lead photo is of my car? Wait a minute…
We figured at this point you HAVE to hate that thing.
Dave, if you do really hate the Monte, I buy it! Cheap of course.
I’m with Chad on the T-bucket thing. I’ve tried really hard to like them, but for whatever reason I just can’t. They’re like the Nickelback of Hot Rods, insanely popular yet everyone hates them…
Same here. And that may be the best analogy I have ever heard.
[ FULL DISCLOSER / WARNING … the below does contain a fair amount of sarcasm and satire … but like all good sarcasm and satire … there’s an element of truth in it all as well ]
T- buckets ???
Well I think y’all are a bunch of underaged uninformed rubes … so take that ! Jeeze ! What part of T-Buckets are a major aspect of the Hot Rod hobby do you not get ? What part of the T-Buckets influence on everything from 32’s to some of the oddball hot rods [ Franklin’s etc ] do you not comprehend ? What part of no T-Buckets … well .. NO Hot Rod hobby at all do you not understand ? What part of no T-Buckets … no Altered’s has slipped your mind ?
Sure the mid to late 70’s brought about a fair amount of wretched Cartoon like excess . But had a look at the stuff from the 50’s 60’s ? Y’all gonna tell me you Don’t like seeing a well done clean T-Bucket with a monster freaking supercharged Hemi stuffed into its snout ? Y’all somehow missed out on all the AA/FA etc ? ( Wild Willie Borsch comes to mind )
Damn … clueless and uninformed youth trying to pass judgment on that [ and those ] which created the very hobby they CLAIM .. to love .
Hmmmn .. y’all sure you’re not just a bunch of Metro Retro Suburban Urban wanna be Hipsters pretending to be hot rodders ? [ hipsters btw are the new Yuppie ]
Phew …. now that thats over .
DeLorean’s ? The ONLY good DeLorean’s are the ones that were never built and the ones that made it to the crusher .. period !
Yes, there are some cool T-buckets but unfortunately the name has been largely tied to the Fad T, so when I hear T-bucket that’s what I think.
They’re the hot rod for people who don’t hot rod. I’ve got a customer that had someone build him one.
That last sentence should sum it up
For being so clear on the types of vehicles the BS Staff all hate, I have to respect the fact that you all at least try to appreciate them form time-to-time. Blanket hating any car and intolerantly spewing invectives is the only thing in cars that really bothers me.
As far as Bangshift’s Most Hated, I do remember a DeLorean with a LS swap on here a couple of years back that Brain admitted some appreciation for.
All DeLorean’s are bad . Even the ones who’s owners have spent tens of thousands of dollars in a vain attempt to either sort out or modify . The only good thing about DeLorean’s being the GG design .. the rest is utter garbage
I’m no fan of them in any way, they’re all face and no trousers, but one is documented to have piqued Brian Lohnes’ interest due to the decent horsepower motor swapped in. The ultimate turd polish if ever there was one, but still the one exception to the rule.
There is always an exception to the rule. I’ve seen some GM trucks down to earth that looked fun…but most of them were brightly-colored billet atrocities with ZR1 roll pans.
DeLoreans were what they were (built better than a Bricklin anyway). ’88-up lowered Chevy half-tons could pull a boat and drove better than any, say, Chrysler from the ’80s. You guys dislike some weird stuff…nothing to be done about that. I do hafta agree on the over-the-top ’70sT-buckets with the 10″ Tru-Spokes and brass carriage lights, etc, which just let to the billet over-reaction…I couldn’t come up w/ any version of that to change any minds including mine.
Ok, I’ll take a shot at this. If Lohnes dislikes any Thunderbird with four seats, how could this not be BangShift approved?
http://toohighpsi.com/SCTC/sctc.htm
its hard to hate everything.
I have not taken to a lot of machines via drivetrains and will not mention what they are..and even then, ambitious find a way to my liking with sarcasm and genius engineering on their own. I have more than a 50 yard leap between redlights and dunkin donuts near the parts store to talk about this horseshit…so by nature ya gotta be tough more than opinion.
Anyone who doesn’t drool over the Moonkist & Sunkist T-buckets are dead inside…..
https://www.google.com/search?q=SUNKIST+%26+MOONKIST+T-BUCKETS&biw=1223&bih=591&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=In5sVZ3PM8j7oQSF_4GQDw&ved=0CAcQ_AUoAg
Eh..T buckets could be cool….this one comes close. http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/attachments/bucket_0087-jpg.992617/
As a kid I would rummage through my dads stack of PHR mags from the 70\’s. I remember there being a tube framed t bucket with an Arden flathead with slicks all around that I thought was super badass. I\’m with Chad though, they usually look bulbous and uncomfortable like a half popped hemorrhoid, especially with those silly canvas roofs. Ugh
For post \’88 sport trucks, you talkin the GM fullsize or just any truck in that genre? I\’ve got two that kinda fit the bill:
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How can you not love the NASCAR aero T-birds? Elliot still holds the speed record at Daytona with one (granted that’s because of rule changes but still…) Good looking light fox body cars. I seem to recall a promotion where you could win a chance to drive one of the Coors cars but they had factory engines I think. Couldn’t find anything in a quick search but I’d love to see anything anyone knows about them….
And with BS love of Land Yachts esp Q ships- how about a tubbed 67 T bird w/ suicide doors 6 speed and a blown or turbocharged large by huge FE?
T Bucket = chick magnet…… enough said…
http://www.tonyrogers.com/humor/canada_snowmobile_hotrod.htm
Do you know what ‘T’ stands for in T-Bucket. It stands for TERROR.
If you’ve ever ridden in one down a freeway you know what I’m talking about.
You’d be crazy not to love the bullet nosed 63ish thunderbirds. My favorite is the Thunderdump:
http://www.loxlee-loves-engines.com/stop-thunderdump/
Wow, that thing is bitchin’. The Bullet Birds look great in NASCAR trim.
Also the only known side effect of attending Diesel events are days long “ragers.” Please see you doctor for an erection lasting more than 48 hours…:)
“I overdosed on Viagra. Hardest day of my life.”
go to the project cars section of this forum and look at the quad turbo454 T. if that doesn’t make you want one, nothing will.
I have been secretly wanting a t-bucket just to drive to work on a daily basis as a super light gas getter. and because I’ve never seen anyone drive one if there isn’t a car show.
t-birds…. I’ve got nothing. the back-to-the-future delorean is probably the only one i ever thought was that cool. probably because at that time i didn’t realize it would only go 88 MPH.
My buddy built a T in high school shop class. 355 Chevy with a cross ram and 4 speed. Car would pop wheelies at will did get lots of chicks……
1975 Tbird 460 V8 from the Factory. Awesome for Demo Derbies or dealing with a loud mouth in a doge Dakota at the bar. You drag his pathetic 5.2L v8 2wd around backwards a few times, he’ll find another town to drink in.