Forgive me but I'm new here but...

What's a bulding?

 

Not even that long ago. But try to have some fun hazing an FNG like I got. Your post will get deleted unless your a member w/ a few hundred posts and a ***le. Ive been on here over a year and a half but I usually am to busy working on my car or bike to sit in front of my computer and talk about workin on my car or bike to post 600 times in 3 or 4 months. I thought it was cool to rip on the new guy and if they could take it then they would be embraced in the folds of the grease rags layin around the shop and learn something. But now we have to cater to the sensitive and the easily offended new breed of FNGs

 

Not sure who started calling Tri 5s shoeboxes, bust they need to stop.

 

GOOZGAZ = How a 5 year old says(in Spanglish) "Goospimmples" ... the kind you get when your ember***ed (moded) for someone ... not the kind you get when it's chill out.

Glad I could help.

 

It's kinda like how EVERY fishing show just happens to have the guy fishing for B***, although there are more types of fish than just b***.

There are lots of Shoeboxes, it just happens to be that 49-51's are the most common. I'm surprised that a guy who has been around here as long as you have doesn't know that by now.

 

You've gotta be ****ing kidding me??? Most of you guys don't even have a clue to what hazing used to be like back when this place still had that barn fresh smell.

 

So, does the term "stovebolt" apply to earlier Chevys? not tri-fives?

 

I was scared to even look at this board when you first got on. I read it all the time but figured since I didnt have anything to contribute Id save my own *** from getting it handed to me and waited. A Long Time.

 

i like cheese!

 

Stovebolt Six

 

Use the search option at the top of the page bud , everything is well do***ented here! swaZZie

 

you mean that little pile of bones in the corner....never mind that come on in

 

When I was growing up, I only got to hang around with the cool guys if I kept my mouth shut and got them the wrench they needed or the beer they needed more. That's where I learned alot about cars and alot more about life, may be responsible for my at***udes today. There were ratrods back then too, but we called them "Shot-rods" cause they were junk POS's and nearly every part on them was not just used, but "shot". Were we the only ones {I'm from a SSMMaaalllll town in NE Ohio} to use this term or was it commonly used all over? I seem to remember reading the term in one of the "pocketbooks" long after we had been using it. I still have a hard time calling someone's hot rod, no matter how shabby it is, a "rat rod". Is there anyone out here today still using the term shotrod {besides me , I mean}?
Just thought I'd throw that out while everyone was discussing "terms", see what everyone elses take is on the matter. Personally, if someone calls my rod a rat rod, I'm gonna chew some *** till they get tired of hearing it and leave. But you can bet they'll leave with more respect for hot rods than they got there with.

Jerry

 

shoe box = 50 Ford,
I was always of the opinion a 55 Chev was a 'fridge'(refrigerator). GM did make 'Fridgidares' back in the day.cause of the square shape, ....shoebox/fridge... same thing really!?

 

I believe "shoebox" actually applies to 1949-1954 Ford and Mercury cars.

 

And here I thought a shoebox was something new shoes came in.....

 

Born in 1944, was 5 years old when the '49 Ford came out and I'd say I wasn't 10 before I heard of the '49-'51 Fords refered to as "shoeboxes". The chevys up until '55 were always "stovebolts". I never heard of a Chevy refered to as a "shoebox" until I joined the HAMB. Personally, I think the term ****s.

Frank.

 

Jerry, that term was used in Iowa as well...altho we didn't have that many "shot-rods" around, cuz, for one, they weren't good for more than a few times cruising the "loop"...they simply wouldn't run longer than that...

Shoebox was a '49-51 FORD ONLY...in my time...of course, labels tend to get distorted over time...same as "hot rod" morphing into "street rod"...and then "hot rod" applying to ANY car that has a big motor and/or has been modified...

R-

 

no you would still be a fng { the Alliance Member's get discounts from Alliance Vendors. and for $50 bucks it is worth it .

 

The term "Stovebolt Six" applies to all Chevy inline 6 cyl. engines used between 1929 (when the Chevy 6 cyl. was introduced) thru the last 235" in 1962. "Stovebolt" refers to the the slot-headed screw that was used on the engine covers, insted of hex-head. The screw was also used on the old-fashioned wood stoves of that & earlier periods. The term was used derisively at first, but as the Chevy 6 cyl obtained it's rep as being a good, dependable eingine, it was used as a term of pride a**** owners.

 

my dad had many 55-57's when i was growing up and never once heard him call them shoeboxes,,we never called them tri-fives either


i think it was either SuperChevy mag or HotRod mag who started calling
tri-fives "shoeboxes" somewhere in the early/mid eighties,,.

thats when i remeber hearing that term used on tri fives,,
but then again,,these guys are the same ones who call chevy II's DEUCES,

 

this ranks right up there with calling muscle cars hotrods, mustangs and chevelles for example are not HOTRODS neither is a 55-57 chevy a "shoebox"

 

one of our customers at work was talking about his HOT ROD one day,,he kept saying "my Hot Rod this...and my hot rod that...."
and i was like what kinda hotrod do you have???,,turned out it was a V8 s10
....i have a cousin is is into those lawnmower pullers with 1100 motorcycle engines,,,he refers to it as his HOTROD

 

When I finally get my first one built, It'll cross over into many different catagories: Rat rod, billit, old school, POS, poor boy's rod, hot rod, street rod, T-bucket, rail job, gow job, front engine dragster, etc. It'll be a mix of whatever luck, funds and oportunities I am able to gather at the time.

But the moment someone calls it, "Rat rod", for instance, it will be credited with all that is right and wrong with that catagory in their mind. It will not fully deserve either. I'll just yawn and leave them to argue with their buddies while I go check out thier cars and steal some good ideas because I'm not imprisioned by some arbetrary catagory.

I think that rat rod, hot rod and street rod styles are all cool and overlap, to some extent. Especially to someone like my wife, daughters or coworkers who lump us all into the catagory of "old cars."

I like the term "shot rod."

 

Shoebox-49 -51 Ford,never heard anyone into old cars call a 55-57
Chevy one until the NEW guys at R@C started too.
Not a believer !

TwoChops

 

Someone better explain the "GMB" thing to him....

Flatman

 

As far as the hot rod and street rod categories go, I guess I better get into the new millenium. Back in the 80's I always understood hot rod to equal a high performance car, but built 1948 and earlier. Street rod was a pre 48 modified driver, but not "hopped up".

Guess I spend too much time in the shop and not enough time learning proper terms...

...then again, I think I'll just go back in the shop and say the hell with it!

 

Anyone who's ever gone to a drag strip since the 1980s,will hear 55-57 chevys & any other car,aerodynamic as a "shoebox",called that.Give the guy a break,people who don't ask questions,either never learn anything new or worse,think they" know it all!"Ever try talking to a teenager lately,you almost need a translator.Someone new to traditional rodding probably feels the same way,but if they're on here they must share an interest in old iron.WELCOME them,just don't tell them there is "no cure"for this affliction! P.S. I still have my 1rst year "stovebolt six".

 

You got enough info. Now get ****in lost and go learn sumpthin.




















oh yeah...welcome to the HAMB.

 

Just Because Someone Is A Fng On The Hamb Doesn't Mean They Are Fng's To The Lifestyle. Seems Like Some Hambers Otto Get Over Themselves!!