Hot Rods How fast is your pre-49 Street Rod?

Everybody knows that all street rods ran in the 10s. At least, that what I hear from everyone I talk to. What does yours run?

 

My hot rod is so fast I pass Michael J Fox in his Delorean coming back from the future.
Nah,really it's just half-fast....I call my truck "Hollow Threat."

 

No STEET RODS on here.

 

you're on the wrong board buddy, but of course my Hot Rod is really f'in fast

 

Honestly officer, I don't know how fast it will go. I am a law abiding citizen.

 

What's the saying,
Your car must be fast, cuz you were haulin' ass when I passed you.

 

My Anglia is slow...It hasnt moved over 20 feet in 3 years...but it is garage kept...

Steve

 

Now thats funny. I have a 55 Chevy thats even slower than that, but I like to sit in it and make vroom vroom sounds.

 

I guess I really don't care how fast it is. It's just fun driving it every chance I get.

 

What's a Streetrod?

 

Faster than she stops!

 

the speed of light...ning bugs

 

OK,,so I'm a little new here,,
Let me get this straight,, it's OK to badmouth ratrods and streetrods here?

MAN I LOVE THIS PLACE!!!

 

good answer!!!

 

29 Model A::::::Like a bat out of hell!!!!

39 Ford truck:::::::::When i get there!!!

 

Yeah man, Welcome to paradise.

 

The short answer is nobodys car is as fast as they THINK it is...

My car, on the other hand is a fast sumbitch. I beat a guy who lost by a fender to a guy who had a 9 second race car. And that guy was even on his NOSS...so, basicly, my car must run at least a low nine.

-Abone.

 

It's real fast....gets up real early and goes straight to the fairgrounds and power parks and spits lawn chairs out the trunk....

 

Not fast enough... yet!!!

 

the next door neighbor asked me if it would even do the speed limit, I mean those are busy streets ya know

 

Cars not together but looking to run mid to high 11's

 

I though I was really tearing ass down the expressway one morning. I happened to have my GPS with me, turned it on and found out I was doing 75 mph. I think the sensation of speed with an open car, with open headers, just a few inches off the pavement is really disproportionate to how fast you're actually going.

 

...somewhere between 10.5 and 18.5..but Ive never actually raced it at a track, so that's just an estmation....

 

Faster than yours!

 

"How fast is your pre-49 Street Rod? "

I wouldn't know..... I have a Hot Rod

 

94 in a 65 speed zone, said the Indiana state tropper

 

Ssshhhh, you can't call your car a street rod anymore.

That's funny, I live in Pa and I know of quite a few cars running around here that fit right in on the HAMB, in fact some of their owners are members, and they're running STREET ROD plates. Does any state issue a hot rod plate? Seems these owners aren't so finicky about a word when it comes time to register it.

A street rod is what everyone used to call every street driven hopped up or altered car manufactured before 1949 that was built for THE STREET. That's why there is a National Street Rod Association, and why many states issue Street Rod plates. The term hot rod was generally used to describe old cars built for racing, hence the National Hot Rod association.
But things have changed, and all of a sudden street rod ain't cool anymore (and we all know how important it is to be cool) so us old farts must strive to keep up with the changes so as not to offend the delicate senses of the new guys who are trying to pretend they are old guys. It's all very confusing, kinda like all the silly games you played in high school, but with cars. I guess when it comes to being cool, some things never really change.
It just amazes me how quick SOME car guys are to turn on each other over the simplest little things. Divided we fall.

BUT ragsie, this is the HAMB, so call it a hot rod! (and if you really want to fit in, spell custom with a K)

 

You can say street rod but you can't say the R word.

My Merc runs pretty good I guess sept it's kind of street roddish.
Like a hot Mustang or Camaro. Handles suprisingly well.

 

If its a "hot/rat/resto/nostalgic/oldskool/new-stalgic" /ROD & it has plates & is driven on the street i guess" street rod" covers it all!!lol
JimV
PS I think there should be a "glossary of terms" for the HAMB!! A "what you can & can't say" section. That way when i mention a 1971 GTO rat rod with bondo/ac/ PS/Automatic/ with JC whitnet spinners?GPS a CB radio & Billet oldsmobile valve covers on a "traditonal chevy 350" i can discribe it correctly!!lol
OH yeah & one of those tachs with the orange lites

 

A Hot street rod custom with out so much rat in it.