Hot Rods Had a good laugh! ( a lesson learned!)

So I was looking at the cars for sale.. and was reading the text in this person's add.. Had to stop
and laugh .. "High caliber restoration of a 50’s style street rod ".. Just thought it was funny...

 

The street rods of the 50's were much more advanced than the street rods of the 40's

 

ha ! what's a street rod ?

 

Now you done it Rob, that add will get a thousand hits just from the guys who went an looked for it for the laugh.
That usually tells me that the car is for sale by a flipper or a dealer who doesn't know all that much about real hot rods or the difference between a hot rod and a street rod.

 

everyone needs a good laugh. your welcome...

 

OK, what is your idea of the difference ? I need a good laugh .

 

No kidding Andy!!! There's some sensitive little bitches around here!!

 

Henry Gregor Felson wrote a book in 1953 with a definition of the term right on the cover.

It's a "stripped-down souped-up bomb on wheels"

 

This changes everything around here....

 

Oh Oh, looks like the debate over traditional is about to begin.....again. Got my feet up and watching....

 

I read that book when I was in 7th or 8th grade!
It’s about a high school kid that builds a 39 Ford Coupe show car. All the teen drama included.

 

If there is a book from the same era called 'Rat Rod', then I fear the earth may be about to spin off it's axis...

brace yerself for the reckoning!

 

Is the main character’s name Ricky? Would the car in the book be a 39 or 40 Ford? Did an older fella by the name of Merle help him fix it up?


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What color was the car? What did he do with the trim??

 

Whew! I am glad that you didn't say, "There's some sensitive big bitches around here". Because that would have offended me!

 

Never seen rebar on the side of the road

 

I recall a book I read like that when I was a teen. I think the main character's name was Ricky Madison.

 

I thought I still had that book. lol

 

Trollst, I leave my hip boots by the lap top these days. Never can tell.....

 

"Restored" '33 stovebolt...
So a restored street rod is mild custom hot rod done in a 1953 style...

 

With yet another corvette engine.

 

words in different times had different meaning's, carry on and have a gay ole time

 

Henry Gregor Felsen, the author that got me through the 7th grade reading course.

 

now that is just to kool Mark ! @Moriarity

 

Someplace I have a photo of an indoor car show in 1958. it had overhead signs designating the class of cars in specific areas of the show, in the for ground there were "Street Rods" in the back ground you could see "Customs" in one area and "Hot Rods" in another area. looking at the photo I am not sure what separated a street rod from a hot rod but there was obviously some distinction.

We often use Street Rod as a derogatory term but it is a term the predates what we don't consider to be our kind of car by decades.