Rods started having valve covers shortly after the Olds Rocket and Chrysler Hemi started hitting junkyards, for close to sixty years there's been OHV engines of all kinds in rods. Such a small percentage of rods across the board run Flat Heads, never heard that saying.
Ok not car related, back when I was riding street bikes a dude I knew who rode dirt bikes told me: You get hurt in the dirt but you loose meat in the street!!
Way back when on Front Street,,the racers had cars on trailers ,,if you wanted to race "Buck a Gear" Buck being $100 Thats an old surfer and motorcycle saying
'There are street rods and there are hot rods. Street rods have a Chevy up front and a can of wax in the back. Hot rods have a flathead up front and tools in the back.' Offenhauser
"Don't worry, you can always cut it a bit longer." From a second cousin of mine, after removing a nut or something from a hot engine: "Shit, that nut is HEAVY!!" "Heavy?" "Just you try picking it up!"
Something someguy said about 30 years ago when he was thrashing the go pedal on his '67 GTO.. " Hang on Newt! We're headed for the rhubarb!" Apparently steering and pushing the gas pedal amounted to multi-tasking..
"Speed costs you money, how fast do ya wanna go?" The ol' man didn't coin the phrase but I heard it a lot in the shop. Then one night when he was locked in the shop for a striping Ken Howard he lettered it on the Ol' Man's work bench. There is actually quit a story that goes with that but fodder for another post. My absolute favorite these days is, "There are probably 1,000 other cars within' a mile of here. If you don't like mine go look at one of those!!!" Sonny Rogers Edit dammnit: Hey this post if huge, have I already posted these?
As seen painted on the trunk of a drag car at Piedmont Dragway...AMF and we ain't talking about no bowling ball!
The one I used as a sig line for a while. Way back when, about half a dozen of us got together to do a little racing out in the county. We stood around ans bs'd for a little while and then a buddy that was a "little off center" looked around and said............ "Anybody gonna race? We didn't come here to play checkers!" Larry T
Women- "Naw, she ain't that ugly... She's just got a little too much patina for my taste." "Blow it, lower it, and gitcher-self a garden hose to run from the fuel tank to the motor." "In ten years, your Honda will be recylcled into staples and silicone boobs for saggy soccer moms. Mine's been cool since before your grandma learned how to kiss pink parts in a rumble seat."
Can't believe the saying from "Hot Rod" has not been posted! The part where Bryan Edison and the chick are sitting in the Willys. "Build it with 2 four barrels and if that breaks, put a blower on it. If that breaks, inject it. Build it till it's an automatic." Something like that anyway.
My favorite bumper sticker. Only ever saw it on one car. This car may not be the Mayflower but your daughter came across in it!
Ed Roth was a High School friend of my Mom's family, was over all of the time. Back in the day, one of their favorite things to say to some rodder who thought their car was too cool. "Hey, Anybody hurt in that wreck"?! Sure to wipe the smile right off their face! Ha Another one Ed told my Mother, when asked why his car was so low in the back. "The trunks full of lead." Ha, she believed him! Hahaha! Dan Stevens dba, Steelsmith
my favorite car one "nice trailer......PUSSY !" non car one " silly faggot ...... dicks are for chicks"
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