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Grabowski's hugely influential T-bucket hot rod, which became known as the Kookie Kar, was used in the television show 77 Sunset Strip. The car was owned and driven in the show by the character Kookie, who was played by Edd Byrnes .
Apr 4, 2018 · The car that Jim Street showed for a few years and then hid away for decades seemed to have dual everything, including dual lives as a show car that toured the country and, prior to that, as the so-called Kookie T, the car that made Norm Grabowski famous and that kickstarted the T-bucket movement.
- Daniel Strohl
Mar 13, 2020 · Grabowski is often credited with giving the rodding scene and the T-bucket audience a swift "kick in the pants" around 1952. His unique build style brought forth the "Kookie T," which is a...
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Jul 10, 2020 · Grabowski dubbed this configuration of his T-bucket the “Lightning Bug,” and it appeared on the cover of Hot Rod magazine in October 1955. More importantly, some movie types had spotted the car at Valley Custom and rented it for “Mr. Kagle and the Babysitter,” an episode of The Ford Television Theatre.
- Gary Medley
Oct 12, 2012 · Norm Grabowski, the man who literally invented the T-Bucket with his famous “Kookie Kar” has passed away. Grabowski’s creation launched hundreds of thousands of copies and even entire cottage industries over the years which is certainly not what the talented craftsman and hot rodder had in mind when he built the car in the early 1950s.
May 24, 2009 · Tommyy Ivo (top) and Norm Grabowski in his famous Kookie Kar square-off at the National Hot Rod Associations drag racing meet held at the old Santa Ana Drag Strip. The T-Bucket Hot Rod craze started back in the 1950s, and is still alive and screamin’ today.
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Apr 15, 2020 · Yet the accompanying 1922 Ford T-bucket found itself in the spotlight when it "starred" along with Byrnes (who, beginning with the second episode, played Gerald Lloyd "Kookie" Kookson III) on the...
