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

I did both, clicked the link, didn't work then typed it in. Didn't work either way. Strange. This was on pc, didn't try it on the phone. Maybe it's a Canadian interweb routing thing! LOL

 

I just tried it again...no problem...

http://henrygregorfelsen.com

It does give me an exclamation in the address as it is not an https site so less protection to to site owner and us I suppose...but again seems good from this side of the fence...

 

@rob-redm this misunderstood term reminds me of this fella in a CC my way...he always says nice StreetRod when he's referring to the Ole Hotrod and I suspect he was from the Felson era...I was always cringing a little inside when he said that...

I was thinking to myself Larry your A Sedan is a Streetrod, mines a early sixties inspired Hotrod...




We live within a very diverse group who have done many different walks in time...and my offerings for definitions are gleaned from the more seasoned as I was 3 in 63...

This was one of those definitions...
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@Stogy , I'm sure what Felsen had referred as "street rod " was something totally different back then, compared to how it used these days with a modern "street rods".. so I wouldn't say misunderstood really.. But like the****le says a "lesson learned".. I thought the term came around in the 70's..

 

Tb33's coupe too...I like the*****ogy of Hotrods being more Strip and Dry Lake based and Street Rods being More Street than Strip but still quite capable of doing just that...the earlier Hotrods were more purpose built and the Streetrods were made more and more Showworthy as time went on*...and look at us now...well just another watered down opinion...I'm pretty happy he called it a Streetrod and not a rat...

*This is in no way saying there weren't showworthy Drag Hotrods either...there were...

 

Sorry, I haven't read the whole thread. So this may have already been discussed. I did read all the Felsen books in grade school. I think Felsen like a lot of the Hot Rodders in the 50's didn't care for the term Hot Rod, as much as Street Rod. I joined a Street Rod club in the 70's. The older guys said people wouldn't welcome the term Hot Rod club. At the time, I called my coupe a Hot Rod. Also back then a Hot Rod was usually a coupe or roadster. Everything else was a street rod. { just my 2 cents } Also it was just a time, of when, and where I came from. When they started building restro rods, Billet rods, and using pastel, and tweed interiors in the 80's and 90's that's the term street rod that we think of now. Ron...

 

Hot Rods used to have a bad reputation, hoodlums and such. One reason people called their cars "street rods" was to avoid the negative connotation of "hot rod."
It was the period of the 70s-90s that Street Rods became what we typically don't appreciate on the HAMB, from tweed to billet to "dry brush strokes."
I for one am thankful for the HAMB's focus on hot rods and customs built in the style of 1965 and older.

 

It was the period of the 70s-90s that Street Rods became what we typically don't appreciate on the HAMB, from tweed to billet to "dry brush strokes."

EXACTLY !