Basicly, you really don't " Restore " a T bucket, most you see are fiberglass reproductions and built from all new or, newer than a '23 Model T at least. www.Tbuckets.com and look at there kits. You can find original T buckets that were hotrods in the '50's and 60's but, it's hard to find them, also, most were hack jobs but, if you found 1, you could restore it.