Driving tales: why are they hanging a bucket on the car behind

On the road, you can periodically notice cars with very unusual accessories. One of them is a souvenir bucket swaying under the rear bumper. It may seem that this is the original idea of ​​a specific motorist, but no - there are quite a few such people. We suggest that you understand the origins of the tradition and find out if the small bucket on the machine behind has a practical purpose.

Where do the buckets hang on the car

Small buckets on cars are mounted at the rear, and there are several options for location. The easiest way is to place a souvenir on a tow hook (towbar). Usually it is not secured in any special way and simply put on a hook. For reliability, you can fix an unusual accessory with electrical tape or hang it with a pipe mount, tightening bolts around the tow bar. In general, you can place the bucket anywhere under the rear bumper, finding a suitable hole. On one side of the bucket, you just need to get the handle, pass it through the hole and fasten it again - so the talisman will not go anywhere.

The bucket on the towbar can be fixed using the pipe mount

Versions about the need for a bucket in the back of the car

On modern cars, a small bucket at the back is an exclusively tradition that does not have a functional need. But here the sources of such an action of drivers are determined by practical value - there are several versions where this fashion came from:

• In Soviet-era trucks, ordinary water was used in the engine cooling system, which boiled and periodically ended due to evaporation. In the summer, the problem acquired special seriousness - the car could get up at any time. For this reason, drivers often clung to the back of the bucket - with its help it was possible to draw water in the nearest body of water or in a street column and correct the situation. The location of such a tank outside allowed not to occupy excess space in the cabin.
• The second version is historical. According to her, the tradition dates back to ancient times, when people moved on carriages and carts. In horse-drawn vehicles there was always a bucket of tar for the lubrication of a wooden wheel.
  

  Before the invention of bearings in carts, buckets with tar were driven to lubricate the mechanism

• The latest version echoes the first, but the bucket was not used for cooling, but, on the contrary, for heating. Truckers occasionally had situations in the winter when the diesel fuel froze. The easiest way to fix this is to make a fire under the machine, and to make it more convenient was in a metal bucket.
  

  In winter, the bucket can be used as a campfire

All versions have the right to life and to some extent even complement each other. The bucket behind the car has become so familiar to people that today many motorists cling it to their vehicles, but not in full size, in a souvenir format.In addition, many believe that following such a tradition is lucky on the road, so today the bucket is a fun talisman.

A bucket on a passenger car is an unusual talisman, which, according to motorists, brings good luck. But the origins of such a tradition have practical meaning - the buckets were carried with them on carts when it was necessary to lubricate wooden wheels, and in Soviet times as a water tank.