T-buckets in Sweden
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Ever since the first T-buckets showed up in the U.S. by pioneers like Norm Grabowski and Tommy Ivo there were naturally a growing interest from the young people in Sweden reading the imported magazines like Hot Rod Magazine, Rod & Custom, Hop Up etc.
As a great teaser, the Swedish magazine Teknikens Värld showed in 1959 a full page of Ed Roth's wild "Outlaw".
The rather simple cars with the small open body from the Ford T-family (1908-1927) and a chromed engine was as much Hot Rod as it could be!
Yet affordable for most youngsters to build.
We know that one of the first to obey the new trend was Bo "Gamen" Sandberg and the people around him south of Stockholm.
At that time, the fibre glass production of car bodies was not fully developed in Sweden, so the guys had to find bucket-like bodies from the
1920's at the junk-yards around. It was not so easy as these cars was really seen as junk without value and demolished or in very bad shape.
Palle Eriksson
Maybe the first to finish his Hot Rod in this style was Palle Eriksson.
Instead of Ford T he used body parts from a Chevrolet 1931 sedan combined with a rear end from Chevrolet 1924.
He used a frame from Ford 1938 and Chrysler Hemi engine. The result was a stunning bucket show car that also ran good on the streets!
Palle Eriksson's 1924 Chevrolet
Bo "Gamen" Sandberg
At the same time, creative Bo "Gamen" Sandberg, of course got inspired to build a 'T' himself.
He also used steel body parts but from a 1919 Ford and a 1927 Ford model with the rear trunk lid.
It was channelled over a 1932 Ford frame and painted beautiful in burgundy candy over silver metalflake with white pinstriping.
The engine was from an Oldsmobile -58.
Everything possible was chromed and the car took many awards at shows in Sweden and in England.
As Bo was of the opinion that every creation should have a name, the car was named "Purple Passion".
These cars were of course noticed in many papers and magazines and inspired many.
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