Editing T-bucket (section)

==Replicas==
[[File:T-bucket.jpg|thumb|left|Convertible T-bucket in a hybrid style: traditional [[sidepipe]]s and dropped [[tube axle]], transverse front [[leaf spring]], and non-traditional front [[disc brake]]s and five-spokes.]]

Since the last Model Ts were built in 1927, most modern T-buckets use replica fiberglass bodies. By the 1950s, original steel Model T bodies that had not been completely worn out were becoming increasingly hard to find and in 1957 the first fiberglass T-Bucket body<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.tbucketplans.com/the-real-history-of-the-fiberglass-t-bucket-body/ |title= Fiberglass T Bucket Body: Real History of the Fiberglass T Bucket Body|website=www.tbucketplans.com |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110415013332/http://www.tbucketplans.com/the-real-history-of-the-fiberglass-t-bucket-body/ |archive-date=April 15, 2011}}</ref> (based on the 1923 version) was introduced by the short-lived Diablo Speed Shop in Northern California. Of the only two or three bodies built by Diablo, one was purchased by Southern California hot rod builder Buzz Pitzen and became the world's first fiberglass T-bucket.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.tbucketplans.com/the-worlds-first-fiberglass-t-bucket-hot-rod-buzz-pitzens-glass-image/ |title=The World's First Fiberglass T-Bucket Hot Rod: Buzz Pitzen's "Glass Image" |date=May 14, 2010 |website=www.tbucketplans.com |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110214151043/http://www.tbucketplans.com/the-worlds-first-fiberglass-t-bucket-hot-rod-buzz-pitzens-glass-image/ |archive-date=February 14, 2011}}</ref>