O.K. Wasn't this poll intended to see how many people drive their HOTROD's? Well a 1950 something full fendered car or truck is not a HOTROD! It's easy to drive a chevy nomad, or a big buick or somthing simular in the poaring rain when it's only 54 derees out side. But we where talking HOTROD's here, and those cars aren't hotrods! Most cars that would be considered hotrods are pre 1948 or so and don't have fenders and a lot of them ain't got a roof either, hence the term roadster! Hey and if you got a model A with fenders and windows all the way arround it ain't a real hotrod, not that there's any thing wrong with that, but a hotrod just ain't got no stinkin' fenders! All that said, I realy would like to know how many people drive their HOTROD's every day rain or shine? Just in case some body wants to know, I drive a 1929 Ford model A roadster pickup, no fenders, no roof and no I usually don't drive it in the rain or if it's below 50 degrees, other than that I drive it just about every day and just about every where.
***le of the poll says ROD then ya change it to roadster... Make up your ****in' mind! I drive my '40 GMC if I drive a motor vehicle anywhere at all. Otherwise I ride a bicycle... I guess that's a roadster!!! Poll don't cover what ***le says so **** it, I ain't voting on it!
Well sorry boys I consider a ROD anything thats pre-64. And to be HOT well I guess i forgot to read my "Car terms from Cali" book. I simply refer to old iron in general. I've seen some pretty HOT rods with full fenders, and I've seen some without. As for the roadster comment, I was only refering to driving a roadster everyday for that poll option. Some people are that hard. Some dont have a roadster to do that in. Some just dont like roadsters. Ahh hell you get the point. Some people dont need to be so damn serious on [terming] "HOT RODS". And yeah I take my cars pretty serious, just look at my garages, shop, living room, office, bathroom, etc. But it doesnt mean a get all **** hurt when someone forgets to call my 52 a HOT ROD cause its got fenders. Its ok dont worry. I guess to be a HOT ROD you probably gotta be from cali too, huh? Cause out in Utah we dont know how its done? Sorry for the confusion there boys. Should I throw some K's in there somewhere too? Maybe Kustoms? Maybe Kulture? Maybe Krappy Fenders? Maybe Kalidescope? I bet you guys cl***ify rat rods in a different category too huh?
Actually I know some guys in Saltlakecity that build some awsome rods, they just don't call every car built pre '64 a rod. Seriously how can you call a 1963 Buick 4 door Estate Wagon a rod? But hey if it's pre '64 it must be, right?
Ok I see where your coming from with your statement, but how can you not call a chopped, shaved, full fendered, 36 ford coupe a rod? Or how bout a fully fendered 29 A roadster? Still not a rod?
I guess Johnny thinks we all need 6-inch cuffs on our jeans to be real hot rodders, after all that is what they did "back in the day". I understand his question, but I think many of the old cars people listed and drive everyday are still meeting the intent of what the poll was about. Anyone driving an older car (let's for sake of arguement call it 64 and earlier) as a serious daily is all right in my opinion. It does take effort to drive an older car daily. If you can drive a roadster everyday, you can officially call yourself more ******** than me, I'm just a ***** driving a car with a roof and even has a working heater! Wait until next summer and i might even put A/C in it, then I can buy a gold chain and throw my lawn chairs in the back, since by then I can't be ******** rodder.
You don't even know me, so how can you go and make ***umptions as to what I wear or what my personal preferences are? I don't go ***uming that you wear spandex pants either. I was simply making a point that the question in the poll was how many people drive their rods on a daily basis, and that alot of people that responded saying that they drove their cars daily where not doing so in rods, but in later model cars. It just seems to me that every body who has an older car calls it a rod, especially if it's painted flatblack. But not every car that is pre '64 is a rod, in fact most cars you see today that where built between 1945 and 1964 are not rods and the owners don't claim that they own a rod !
im building my 56pu as a daily (in the summer months)... my daily now has 264000 miles on it. so i need something to keep the miles low on the ole' chivy...
Taking the Poncho off the road this winter for a freshen up, so the Pink truck will be used every day, I will have to dig out one of my old dresses
John Force refers to his funny car as a hot rod. Guess he's an ignorant dumb *** who doesn't know anything.
Yeah but I think anything with 6000 horse can call itself whatever the hell it wants. Sure beats the hell out of other cars. He's got more horse in one cylinder than most of us have at all! And no I dont really think its a HOT ROD.
Man some of you guys remind me a lot of todays Harley riders, they are so desperate to have a chopper that they are willing to call their 2003 Electraglide Ultra Cl***ic, with a stereo, a set of saddlebags, a topcase, heated handgripps, crashbars and aircushion seats a chopper just because they put some ape hangers on it, or the latest fad is that every body who has a Fatboy or a Heritage Softail calls it a Bobber! How sad it is indeed! But as I always say, if I have to explain, then you wouldn't understand anyway! Ever wonder why the Hotrod Revolution show we had was limited to pre 1948 cars? There where a lot of later model cars there, but they had to park in the parkinglot out side and it wasn't because they wasn't good enough (some of those cars where awsome) or that there wasn't enough room in the show for them, but simply because they are not rods. But if it makes you feel better go ahead and call your resto Nomad a hotrod, it looks like most folks wouldn't know the difference any way.
I guess HOT ROD mag has had it wrong all these years..... All those cars they have had in their rag ain't hot Rods. Hmmmm interesting. Back to the pole, drive mine (I thought was a hot Rod 54 Chevy) everyday.
Johnny I just said i see where your coming from, why in turn do you get your ******* in a bunch and starting whining again. I really do see what your saying and everyone thinks everything is a hot rod. i am not arguing with what your saying. I simply say that there are some cars out there that desrve to be called hot rods. And those cars also have fenders. Yeah alot of people over-use the term HOT ROD I dont believe this was one of those times. Maybe I'm wrong in saying that. But I figured most of the guys on here are good people that love rods. they breathe cars just as much as YOU, they are in it for love. Not the naming of cars. But yes i do agree the term HOT ROD is thrown around a little TOO much. And not everything that is called a HOT ROD by anyone, IS a HOT ROD. Hell I think the idea of a pre 48 show is pretty damn rad! I like it. But I also dont think that just cause its got fenders you gotta call it something other than a HOT ROD. But I also believe that its a dumb subject to flip out over.
HOT ROD magazine, come on, please! They just wrote an article on putting a V-8 in a Pontiac Solstice and they refer to it as hotrodding in a traditional way, you can't be serious! My goodness, in the same article they make reference to the V-8 powered Datsun Z, are we calling that a rod also, just because the HOT ROD magazine does! Please don't tell me that my neighbors Subaru WRX is a ROD also just because he put a tuned chip in it and bolted on a louder exhaust. What's next, calling a PT Cruiser a tricked out lowrider because somebody put white walls on it?
I drive the Pusher everyday, it is my only transportation. Granted it ain't a roadster but its drafty and the heater don't work worth a flip.
Actually, yes. If we want to talk tradition ( not traditional) A hot rod was and is a car souped up, or modified, in some way to increase performance. So in the spirit of our fore-fathers who was hopping up, or Hot Rodding what they had or liked (mostly older cause they were cheap). Then yes dropping that V-8 in a solstice is a time honored tradition of a crazy rodder that got a idea to take what the factory offered and make it faster, (notice I didn't say better, somtimes ideas don't always pan out). I know I won't change your mind here Johnny, and there are names that bother me too. Like calling a Shoebox a Ford, when if you look back and talk to the old cats out there, they call a shoebox what it really is,,, a chevy. =) But! by the majority out there a 48 and older is actually a Street Rod!
Well put. Here is a little known tid bit about Vic Edelbrocks roadster: The original Edelbrock roadster parked in front of Edelbrock's first building in North Hollywood, California. One of the most remarkable things about Vic Sr.'s race car was that it was also his everyday transportation. Monday through Friday he'd drive it to work... weekends the fenders came off and it was on the "flats" breaking records. Vic Sr. and crew continued testing after the war. Complete with the new Edelbrock heads and manifolds, this roadster flew across the dry-lake beds at around 130 miles per hour. Thats HISTORY. Hot Rod history to be precise! So during the week this must not have been a HOT ROD huh? Even though he is one of the founding fathers of TRUE hot rodding, and had one bad *** car. It must have been just another car cause them damn fenders!
If we want to get technical and historical, what Terry said is the most accurate thing said so far about how a hot rod is defined. The National HOT ROD ***ociation was formed in 1951 by Wally Parks to provide a national sanctioning body for DRAG RACING. There was no cut off date for the year car raced. And it had to do with horsepower and ET and who got to the finish line first. The American HOT ROD ***ociation was founded in Kansas in 1956 and held nationwide drag racing events from 1956 through the end of 1984. The International HOT ROD ***ociation was founded in 1970 to stage drag racing events. So there's a strong 55 year history of the term HOT ROD being tied to horsepower and going fast in a straight line. And yeah, I know the term HOT ROD was around before the drag racing organizations (after all, HOT ROD magazine was founded in 1948), but the term HOT ROD referred to people who "souped up" or "hot rodded" their cars and then raced each other. The 1948 cut-off date was the invention of the NSRA in the early 70s (as the first Street Rod Nationals in Peoria, IL in 1970 had to have a cut-off date somewhere) as was the term "street rod" because of the negative connotations ***ociated with the term "hot rod." The NSRA became all about parking your ride and sitting in a lawn chair, so along came Meadors and the Good Guys Rod & Custom ***ociation and with it some good ol' vintage drag racing (hot rodding), something the NSRA would have never done. My Nomad has a warmed over 350, a M-21 Muncie and 3.70 gears, but I don't consider it a "hot rod." The ***le of the thread had to do with "dailies" and my Nomad is a daily driver. (It also has no heater, and is driven year 'round, but so what). But I also consider 90% of the pre-48 cars I see "street rods" and not "hot rods" because the truth is, they're not very hot, at least in the horsepower department. To get hung up on terminology, as if it's some great sin for one person to call a vehicle a hot rod when someone else argues that it isn't, is silly, in my opinion. I have a primer spotted 46 Ford pickup that looks like it came off a farm. Youngsters in their teens and early twenties come up to me and say, "Cool rat rod!" I don't get into an argument with them about the term they used; they used it innocently enough. I just ask 'em if they've ever been behind the wheel of a flathead-powered Ford. I figure it's better to let them experience what it's all about than lecture them about using the wrong term to describe something.
Here is my Hot Rod, which I drive every day I can, the only reasons I cannot some times is I have to pick up stuff in my truck. but I drive my coupe rain or shine, it has a hood on in the winter. and here is the truck I drive when not driving the hot rod, it is not a hot rod, just an old truck I guess sometimes I drive the wife's car just for the hell of it, by the way this is a hot rod too, as far as you guys arguing about the terms, I lean alot more towards hot rods being based on the original style cars from when the term originated. and hot rod magazine has been a joke since the days of california bug craze and mini trucks, they were in hot rod mag, does that make them hot rods? Not in my mind. however I think it is great that any of you guys are driving your old cars/trucks daily. I don't own anything newer than that 57 truck, and it can be alot of work to keep them all running, so good on you if you are doing it. and call it what ever you want, but once you go fenderless you won't go back hahahaha
really? are these the same harley riders you sell your "Accessories...for Harley Davidson" to? or is it the ones who put a roof over your head since they can't turn wrenches on their Electraglides and have to pay YOU instead? wow. no wonder you sound bitter: you have to work FOR the very type of people you seem to describe, loathe, and despise. (you might own the co. but w/out your customers...you dont own much). so anyway...drove my '58F100 everyday since feb '06 (ok...until about 2wks ago when i got another vehicle) 20K so far. ps. alot of guys come over from the tuner scene...which is cool as heck. but with at***udes like yours they'll never "see the light" so lighten up and let others decide how "core" you are instead having to tell us yourself.
My Model A in 1976 after getting home from the street rod nationals. My last summer as a teenager. I sold it in '79 to pay for my last semester of college.
As of right now 5.62% of the respondants are pussies who push their cars on and off trailers. Quit bickering, the gospel needs a spreadin'!!!
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