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  Showdown Drags - 2009
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Mike Smith's T

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It's a T Roadster, not a T-bucket. T-buckets are those stretched out, steam roller-tired, monkey-on-a-football cars. In the early days a T was a T and a roadster was a roadster. Second, it's a hot rod. It has three pedals, a blower, and it recently limped home with a broken ladder bar after a serious thrashing. It gets beat like a rental car. Third, this was Mike Smith's first car, and he still has it. Those three reasons are why this car is a ruler and has tire-smokingly etched itself into Nor-Cal's hot rod folklore.

Read the rest of this article in ISSUE 33: Sacramento Kustom's '54