Hot Rods Hot Rod translated please

Good afternoon gentlemen.
I am doing a surprise project for my father and am looking for the translation of "Hot Rod" into Hawaiian. Can anyone help? I tried translator and it is not going well. I have two pics of his old hot rod taken in the 40's. He always told me that the words painted on the hood side were "Hot Rod" in Hawaiian. I believe in the one of the close-up I see the word Wela (its cut off). In my translation searches Wela is hot. But the first word painted, it starts with the letter H but I cannot make out the rest.

Thanks,
Duane

 

There is a group of rodder's on the big island that does a cruise there every other year. Do a search for that here, and find the club's name. Then go from there. Gary

 

wela = hot
ka`a = car

ask here
http://www.paradisecruisers.com/SMF/

 

Since the Hawaiian language has only a total of thirteen letters, a large percentage of words actually have double, triple, or quadruple meanings. There won't be anything extremely definitive. Close, but no cigar ...

 

Yeah that's kinda what I figured.

Gary, I will do a search here for those guys, thanks!

Duane

 

Can't help on the translation, but I'll add that your dad's car is COOL in any language.

 

There won't be any words in that language for hot rod. The language and culture are based on island life.

There are two listed words for hot in Hawaiian Wela, hahana they probably differ depending on the use of the word as in weather or spicey for instance, I didn't research farther then the translation.

The word they use for car is Ka'a which is actually pigeon and not Hawaiian adapted from the English word car or the Bostonian word *cah. They have no word whatsoever for rod.

*I wanted to pahk my cah on the pahk.

 

Can't help you with the translation either but, one thing is for sure, your Dad was one cool cat with a neat as hell hot rod.

 

"Pidgin" Beaner ... not pigeon!

 

Thanks for the compliments everyone! I will pass them on to my dad. He's 79 and doesn't do the internet thing.

Duane

 

My Hawaiian buddy just told me they say Wela loka.
He's a native Hawaiian from Lawai

 

Call it what you like ,I call that car totally COOL! Dad must be quite the guy!

 

I always thought LEONG meant hot rod in Hawaiian.

 

That's about as close as you can get

 

Heh, heh, I get it. That's good! You gotta be really old school to get that one....

 

Dats wikked retaaded.

 

LEONG...

 

Pat Foster used to call Roland Leong "Hop Sing"
http://wediditforlove.com/Foster.html

 

Thanks Ed I always thought when I read it that way it was just a miss-print. Now if someone could actually explain to me the origin of the term so I could have some real grasp of what it actually means.

@Jim Bouchard and @gimpyshotrods I used to work with a guy from Baaaaston that had one of those gag plates on his car that said that.

 

Why do Bostonians take cabs?

Because they can't find their kakis