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Stan Kaminski’s crazy bucket has survived since the seventies...

- AL O'TOOLE

Some of our more senior readers might recall seeing this wild T bucket on the sold-out ASR #5 cover of April 1978, and inside, the four-page black and white feature. Back then “Insani-Tee” belonged to Stan and Rhonda Kaminski and the cover shot depicted the 1923 Ford turtle deck T Model bucket/roadster on display at the Victorian Hot Rod Show.

It wowed the crowds then with a Weiand tunnel ram equipped small block Ford engine topped with twin polished Velocity stack style air cleaners, a big white roof with buttoned white interior trim and chrome everywhere. After seeing it in the show, Larry pounced on the opportunity to photograph the car for the magazine and then after publication, Stan returned to the same show the following year with the T sporting a few improvements. This was apparently due to the car suffering substantial fire damage and being rebuilt.