Model T’s were hot-rodded and customised from the 1920s on. A genuine T-bucket has the two-seater body of a Model T roadster (with or without the turtle deck or small pickup box), and it was this “bucket”-shaped body shell that gave the cars their name. A Model T-style radiator is usually fitted. Windshields, when fitted, are vertical glass like the original Model T. The T bucket is an icon in the hot-rodding community as it was one of the earliest examples of the classic American hot rod which led on to the muscle car craze.