Hot Rods Automotive terms that don’t make sense....

The bottom picture shows cup plugs, at least in our Engineering vernacular.

The top picture shows Welch plugs.

Both are used as core plugs on castings, or to plug machined holes.

 

" It's a "charp chort".
At least since 1971, according to Cheech and Chong.
I'm sure that was right from well established in San Diego youth scene.

The Beach Boys were singing about "Two cool shorts" by 1963.

 

You have that wrong, Mike. Both "blimey" and "bonnet" come directly from British English. We just use them here in Australia because we didn't feel the need to fiddle with things unnecessarily. Maybe you should do a little more research on things.......

“We choose our next world through what we learn in this one. Learn nothing, and the next world is the same as this one, all the same limitations and lead weights to overcome.”

 

I can put up with "carby" if the speaker buys a carburetor kit or a carburettor kit or even a carby kit

Jon

 

How about “fuel make’n happener”?

 

Sway bar

 

Silly boy, that's "anti-roll bar"!

 

I had an aunt in a wheel chair who would roll up to the bar. So was she an "auntie roll bar?

 

Hey @2OLD2FAST , thanks for the PM.
No need to go all 'stealth' with this. I'm sure that is not what the PM function is for, so I will address it here.

You wrote:
"Speaking about choosing your next world is awfully presumptive ,don't you think? Maybe just overly optimistic !?"

I interpret the meaning of the quote to be encompassing of the human race as a whole, not based on each one of us as individuals. It makes more sense if you can think of it in that perspective.

You seem to think that the quote is from me. Not so.
I'm sure @ekimneirbo (and others) will recognise it.... It is a good read.
(Well, I hope Mike recognises it, considering his avatar.)

Ready, set, Google.......

 

thats what you do when you have a few to many, cant speak in complete sentences and sway at the bar

 

Whishwaybar? When you've had a few and are looking for more.

 

My Hi School music teacher taught me that Syncopation is the opposite of staggering between bars.

 

“Puddle jumper”- small single engine aircraft seats 4, ake: bug smasher,
like a 20k ft step ladder

 

Thanks for the pic Johnny. Dean Martin and Foster Brooks two of my heroes, Dean and good looking women (and booze), Foster and booze can you think of a better combination

 

I’m just a country boy and I hate to assume but I’ll give it a try. Your saying a bunch of wealthy people destroyed their engines by not keeping the proper amount or neglecting the antifreeze in their engines because they thought they had “freeze plugs”. That’s like saying after a wreck that I didn’t replace my worn out tires because I had a good spare. Maybe, I didn’t fix the fuel leak because I carry a fire extinguisher. The freeze plug idea didn’t cause the damage. They just had more money than brains.
My point is…..we all know what everyone is talking about, whatever term they use. If you think these rants will change the world then your going to be disappointed. If anything some people are going to be shamed into avoiding certain terms but just as many are going to start using them just to piss off the righteous ones.
Damn! I just realized I posted a reverse rant and my prospects are not looking any better. Very entertaining but it’s making me dizzy.

 

Yes those words came from British English, as did much of the English spoken in America. They were both derived from the British.................but we didn't retain the Cockney accent and those words whichare prevalent in Australia (I been watching Street Outlaws vs the World) and we don't use the terms mentioned above normally. Dizzy for distributor seems to be a word that has crept in here of late. I" think " I heard it on Street Outlaws/Australia. I sure don't remember ever hearing anyone use it over here until it popped up recently.....so the question quite simply is .......Do Australians commonly refer to a "distributor" as a "dizzy", Yes or No ?

If the answer was "Yes", then I guess the quote above means when the "new world" of Australia began with the British convicts starting a new society, they retained more of the old world than we Americans did when Chris Columbus and some others began a new world .

Jonathan also said:" I do not exist to impress the world. I exist to live my life in a way that will make me happy."

So don't get your "cobblers awls" in an uproar......just pointing out that I think you guys were the ones that used the term "dizzy", not our old rodders of yore.........

For those unfamiliar with Jonathan Livingston Seagull, it was the story of a gull who wanted to fly faster than any gull had ever flown before and was rebuked by the elders in his flock for not following the normal accepted path. For those who have never seen some of the beautiful cinematography here is a sample.

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I’d have to agree.
Kinda like the Marie Antoinette <sp> I recall from years back
“Why are the peasants unhappy “?
“They are starving, they have no food”

“Well. let them eat cake”.

 

I recall the slang term "dizzy" being used here in Southern Ontario in the early 60s by many of my peers. I think it became more prevalent as time went on in print and even more so with the internet. I bet a few examples in old publications could be found.

 

Zed for Z also, still don't know why!

 

The first time I heard the word "dizzy" used in place of distributor, was on an e-mail list for Galaxie enthusiasts. I thought he was just being lazy and didn't want to spell the whole word. That was maybe 20 years ago, I didn't much like the term (then or now) but I know what it means and it really doesn't hurt the flow of the conversation.

 

*ahem* I think you mean it's making you "distributor."

 

Yeah, we don't say Zed here in the deep south of Canada. Folks of my generation in this area were effectively Americanized. We had 4 TV stations. 3 from Detroit (which is north of us) and one from Canada. Guess what was watched most. I have noticed a difference in recent decades since they started passing Canadian content laws. In my case half of my family is American and half Canadian so a lot of good humored jabs are traded on speech and customs differences during our get togethers. They still want to know why I wear "MR BRIEF" underwear. LOL

 

I gotta put this up (from another older thread). Read the whole thing. It seems to fit right here......

Yes, "dizzy" is used in Australia, but definitely not by the majority. It's just a slang novelty (annoying to me too).

 

i can put up with carby and dizzy but i draw the line at calling a radiator a rad

 

Budget36, I enjoy your posts but you lost me on that quote comparison.
It could be due to being heavily medicated from some on going back pain though. Cheers

 

“Doghouse” for old Chevys means the sheet metal box that the grill, headlights, hoods, and fenders bolts too. This is the doghouse for my 37.



Pictures from last spring, when I was installing the new grill and surrounding stainless trim pieces.

 

Okay, so a previous post mentioned well to do people relying on core plugs. Kind of (in my mind) more money than sense.
Yes my mind works a bit odd at times, but was referring to “more money than sense”.

 

The lexicon is deteriorating in our country. Dizzy and Carby are Obvi (obvious) but everyday speech is becoming nearly unrecognizable. I do the NYT crossword on Friday and Saturday and they are using words like Adorbs (for adorable), Tote adorbs (totally adorable) Deets (for details), and others and it drives me Cray Cray! Maybe, as adults we can resist the temptation to butcher the hot rod lexicon and call a carburetor a carburetor. You talk however you like, but I will say distributer, unless I am referring to the pusher man. Sounds Perf right?

 

Jonathan Livingston seagull AKA 70's freshman dorm room Boones farm drivel ! Compare " man" of 2000 BC to today & note how similar we are !