Hot Rod terms that are no longer in common usage

fast flathead...

 

When was that ever used?

 

good point...

 

Cool Corvette.

 

My dad and I STILL shop there!!

 

We used to refer to Olsmobiles, Pontiacs, Buicks, Mercurys etc as "those lead sleds"

 

thank you...

 

I also never heard the term DIZZY for a distributor until I joined the HAMB. Before that it seemed to be used when discussing some blondes.
But this doesn't fit here because it is still used.

 

I could be wrong but I don't think that's what he was referring to.

 

duh !

 

In the mid 60's a GTO was a Goat.

A good race car driver was a shoe or a chauffeur.

"Backing it in" referred to a a driving style some dirt track racers used...
"Throwing it in" was about the same as backing it in...
"Pitching it in" was also the same.

When you passed someone easily in a race you "dusted" them.

Slush-o-matic, turbo-jerk were auto transmissions.

 

Don't know if this has been mentioned befor or if it is even a Hot Rod term or that it was just a nickname that my car earned but back in the day, I had bought a 69 428 Cobra Jet Mustang I picked up a set of dual quads off a 427 and installed it with a Crane Cam. I just could never get that engine to run right. No mater what I did it ran like a peice of $hit. At the local Jack-in-The-Box it just seemed like everyone wanted to race me. To be honest I got beat on a regular basis. Guys used to walk by me and I would here them say "That Cars a Toilet" I had a perfect record I NEVER WON A RACE but then again I never backed down from one either. One night I was up against a Vega I clearly had him by a fender when just befor the finish line when I lost control went over the embankment and went flying through the air , I crashed and rolled the car 3 times, the car was totaled. I ended up breaking my right arm and my left ankel. Till this day I still can't push in a clutch. Years later guys would walk by and point at me and I would here them say " Thats the guy who owned The Flying Toilet"

 

Story I was told is that the naval aviators used to refer to the city as "Dago" for short and it caught on with hot rodders amongst others.

 

One that comes to my mind is "gook wagon"---four antennas, racoon tails, etc.

 

How about a GAGGIN' ROD.

I have been told It was when guys would modify the choke on their 4 barrell so that they could launch the car using the front two barrells so they don't blow off the tires and once they were going they pulled the GAGGIN' ROD to open up and run on all 4 barrells.

Old school traction control

 

Single throat, six banger with a slip en slide (Chevy 1 barrel 6cyl automatic)

 

Hazing them in the lights.

 

I don't know if anyone mentioned these on pages 17 - 24... don't wanna get my ass chewed...

Dad used to say Ran like a scalded ass ape.

and if someone blew an engine they handgernaded it...

 

Trans-Dapt used a variation of it, I guess they still do.

 

skank tank

 

back when broderick crawford did it, it was called a hand-brake turn. now it's a rockford.

 

Do they still say "balanced and blueprinted"? Can't tell you how many times I've heard that, but never seen any blueprints!

 

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Believe it or not, the term 'going'
or 'running' "balls out" has nothing
at all to do with testicles and actually
dates from before the turn of the
last century. "Balls out" refers
to the position of the rotating balls
of the fly-ball governors used on
steam engines. When an engine
with a fly-ball governor is running,
centrifugal force pushes the rotating
steel or brass balls of the governor
further and further outward as the
speed increases. When the engine
reaches it's maximum governed
rpm, the balls are in their maximum
outward position and the engine is
said to be "running balls out". True
story.

Mart3406
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I havent heard anyone say "boss" in a long time
Ex: that car is boss.

Sent from my DROID device using the TJJ mobile app

 

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And beyond "Boss" even, back in
the day, a car that was really
exceptional - ie - somehow. even
better, faster, slicker or cooler than
the already superlative and over the
top 'boss" even, was "super boss"!!!
I recall too, for a while back in the
mid-and-late-'60's, the long-running
(and still operating now in 2013 as
"Toronto Motorsports Park") drag
strip at Cayuga Ontario was known
as the "Kohler 'Super Boss' Drag Strip"
Jeeze...I can still hear those god-awful
radio 'screamer ads' resonating in
my head from 40 or 45 odd years
ago.... "DRAAAG RAAACING...this
SUNDAAAY at Kohler SUUU-PEEER
BOSSSS!!!"

Mart3406
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I'm over 60 years old and was in my element during the 60's. My Dad always had "Hot" cars all with multiple carbs. I never thought anything about that as a young kid, I thought all cars had them.
He called them "Hopped up", "Jalopies", "Souped up". I let my mom drive my 1958 Impala with a 348 and 4 speed to her hairdresser one day.
It was lowered and all Turquoise with glass packs. after a few hours, I was outside, she came barreling around the corner and into the driveway smiling. She got out and I asled "did you have any problems"? She said no, but one of your shit-kid friends pulled up next to me at a stoplight, so when the light turned green, I "double kicked it" and left him in the dust.
I asked what a double kick was and she said she stabbed the clutch twice to get some scratch!
What a cool mom, huh?

 

Mashed the foot feet.

 

Yep, they still say it. And if your machinest has set all the clearances (best ones will write it down on a build sheet), it's blueprinted.

 

Hill Rod

 

How about the term "Double Rocker"
or "Double Rocker-shaft"engine to refer
to 'hemis"? In the early-1950's, before
the term "hemi" came into popular use,
(and long before Chrysler first started
using the term in their ads and literature
in 1964), the then still brand new,
early-Chrysler, Dodge and DeSoto 'hemis'
were most commonly referred to as
"Double Rocker" or "Double Rocker-shaft"
engines. When I was still an impressionable,
car-crazy young kid back in the mid-1960's,
(Fortunately, I'm still just as impressionable
and just as car crazy....I'm just older now)
we had an old, former 'hot-rodder neighbour
- (whom at the time, I thought was a real,
almost extreme, 'old-timer' because he was
"almost '60"!!) who used to still always
refer to any and all hemis, early or late,
as "Double Rocker motors". He also used
to talk about and show me pics of the
chopped-top '30 Model A coupe that he
and a buddy built, back in 1953 and '54
and how they got and put "a brand new,
zero-miles, 241 'Double Rocker' Dodge
V8" out of a new, but totalled and
written-off by the insurance company,
'top of the line; '53 Dodge Coronet
convertible that had fallen off the upper
level of a new-car auto transporter that
had crashed into and then got stuck
under a low bridge while on it's way
to a dealership! By the way, I just
did a quick Google search and not only
was 1953 the very first year for the Red
Ram hemi V8, but also, that Dodge only
built 4100 Coronet convertibles that year,
so circa early-1954, that must have been
one very cool Model A!

Mart3406
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