shot rods

This is too funny!!! I was at the Car show in Cincy this weekend and swear to God.... There was a guy standing inside his display with his 100k trailor queen talking to another gentleman about the black shirt gangsters hangin out looking at the POS "SHOT RODS" downstairs!!!!! Now I wish I would've stuck around for the definition!!! DAMN!!

 

Sure they are.....Kripfink....Ratfink....whats the difference

 

I had a 51 Plymouth back in 59..4 door, beater for sure..pulled up at an intersection once and an old man asked, "what u burnin' sonny?, wood"...went on to put a 331 hemi in the thing but no matter what we did, Dad always called it my Shot Rod.

Mark

 

Rat rodders are slowly taking over this site one bad chop and channel at a time.

 

Ratrods are shit rods.Im talking about some of the unsafest cars built ,Without floors and the mentality The more boogered the weld That's cool .I can respect cars in black primer but Im not talking about them ,I have seen some one off cars with a lot of ingenuity .What alot of younger guys don't get Is .It took too many years to get respect owning or driving a streetrod. and now that we have it .One ratrod will take it away.

 

Nice qoute!

 

http://www.jalopyjournal.com/?p=6955

Fast forward to 6:50 in the movie.

 

I remember something like that, in the 70s or early 80s.

 

I remember my dad and his friends referring to "shot rods" back in the late 50's. It usually referred to so poor sap in pos that thought it was a hot rod.

 

That's the battery out of an early 50's straight eight Buick.

I think I first saw a reference to "shot rod" or some other less than positive term referring to a rough coupe being pushed into the lot of one of the Early Speed Shops in So Cal while a bunch of guys with some really nice rods looked on. That was in one of those little .75 specials that used to show up at the news stands in the late 50's early 60's.

 

I read the definition somewhere a really long time ago (maybe 45 or so years), but as Mazooma1 said, I don't recall it being in use as a standard hot rodder term ever, in my experience.

 

How about shot peened rods, to reduce stress fractures in high performance applications.

 

anyone notice the cop is putting a sticker or sign with traffic violator on it . so funny.

 

I remember seeing the term "shot rods" to describe an engine build in the early '80s but I was just getting into cars so I didn't know what it meant.
But now we've got the internet...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shot_peening

 

http://www.jalopyjournal.com/?p=5988

 

ooohh

 

Styleline you are a BAD HAMBer, bringing up two old rotten threads...

 

Guys please trust me when I say "shot rod" is not exactly a modern term. It may have only grown popular or trendy in recent years but my dad (born in 1929 hot rodding in the late forties on) used it often to describe a piece of crap car that the owner thought he or the car was really hot stuff. Sometimes he said, "No I stand corrected, he's not driving a shot rod, he's driving a shit rod". Often in traffic some punk driving like crazy in some pile of shit would anger my dad and he'd yell, "slow down shot rod"! Sometimes it seemed to apply to the driver that was apparently a piece of shit too.

 

A lot people are confused about the difference between traditional and period correct! The act of Hotrodding anything would be traditional.

hot rod

noun


Definition of HOT ROD

: an automobile rebuilt or modified for high speed and fast acceleration



tra·di·tion·al

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adjective 1. of or pertaining to tradition.

2. handed down by tradition.

3. in accordance with tradition.

4. of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the older styles of jazz, especially New Orleans style, Chicago style, Kansas City style, and Dixieland. Compare mainstream ( def. 4 )

tra·di·tion

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noun 1. the handing down of statements, beliefs, legends, customs, information, etc., from generation to generation, especially by word of mouth or by practice: a story that has come down to us by popular tradition.

2. something that is handed down: the traditions of the Eskimos.

3. a long-established or inherited way of thinking or acting: The rebellious students wanted to break with tradition.

4. a continuing pattern of culture beliefs or practices.

5. a customary or characteristic method or manner: The winner took a victory lap in the usual track tradition.

 

Seen the term in an old magazine article. Don'r remember the mag, think it was popular mechanics or something, but it was from 1947, or 1948.

 

Very well said jerryj, Hot rodding has never died but has taken many different directions over the years. To modify something for better looks or performance is capturing the essence or spirit and to build something to fit within what was trendy in hot rodding or customs for a specific era is being period correct but to me traditional is keeping true to somethings origin, it is just passed on and changes little.

Sadly look at Christmas as a tradition. It is little like it was when most of us 30 somethings and older were kids. You have to be PC and it is mostly a commercial affair. Very little of it is traditional anymore. To do it like it was many years ago would be a traditional Christmas but to celebrate it now it's just Christmas or X-mas or happy holidays.

The same applies here I think. We have hotrods but they are so far removed they are hardly traditional. They just capture a little of the spirit by performance or visual enhancements. Thank goodness they didn't have Autozone in the 50's. There would have been no imagination or awesome builds and I doubt I would like the hobby as well as I do now. Today its more like look at my stick on Buick style portals and my Chrome balls hanging from the rear. My flamed skull and barbed wire license frame is neat eh? Sheesh!

The early cars or the ones appearing at the birth started this wonderful tradition so I suppose to build a pre war or early post war car is slated traditional because it takes us to the root of it all.