Hot Rods How fast is your pre-49 Street Rod?

12.70's. Pretty well documented, here, on the board.

What does yours run?

 

+1

And to those misinformed, there are quite a few street rods on here, open your eyes and you'll see em.

 

Street rods are slow and have air conditioning.

HOT RODS are fast, loud and bare boned.

 

I tell people it will go faster than I'll drive it

 

my car's not all built yet but the engine is. I hope to get it in the 13's... ~450 horsepower in a '41 Plymouth? Not the fastest around but hopefully it'll outrun the local kamikazes.

p.s. seesko, i love your avatar. I'm a WWII buff (especially when it comes to the planes.)

 

I think there's a lot of us on here. Hot rods and War Birds seem to go together.

 

my chrome IFS street rod rat rod hybrid runs in the 6s with the twin turbo LS1 and rusty bent straight pipes and white wall radials with street bike tires on the front.

 

My 29 AV8 is not very fast, but it's faster than a stock Model A Ford..I think..lol..

 

The speedo in the 41 doesn't work but on the way back from Billetproof the wife(who was following in the 4 runner) pulled up next to me at the rest stop and started yelling at me about getting a ticket for doing 90 in a 65 would get me in a world of shit.
Hell I didnt know she would go that fast.
Street rods, rat rods, Kustoms, customs, stockers....fuck the labels I just love cars!!!!

 

fast? ya i'm fast, faster than 10sec.!!! but is that 1/8 or the 1/4????

 

Now, what's the definition of sarcasm?


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My hot rod would go really really fast if it was dropped out of a bomber but the sudden stop would hurt! ---- The older we get the faster we went! --- LOL.

 

are you comparing it to my post 49 street rod?

 

And rat and rod should only be used in the same sentence when describing what kind of shit was in the floors of your car when you brought it home

 

My sedan is faster that the wife's flathead 8BA powered roadster, it runs about dead even with my son's stroked 350 shoebox. So...the whole thing means nothin'!

 

Glad you guy's know what I did not know ,but thaught I knew what I drove back in the 50's&60's. Would have been nice to be able to ask someone if they knew what I had.Than again If you where with us back than,you would not have known what you were driving would you have? 10's plus 4 or 6 or 8 ,depending what it was called back than.

 

All street rods are hot rods(so the old geezers that own them think?)
All hot rods are hot rods.You don't age when you have a hot rod!
Nomenclature!

I got a call from NASA the other day and got bitched out for my reentry...almost blew the doors off of the shuttle.They hate when I do that,but my kickdown was stuck in second gear and .....

 

I sure do agree with you on this one. Apparently, "political correctness" has infiltrated the HAMB.

 

can out run just about anything but a speeding ticket

or maybe more like, fast enough to get a ticket

 

I chose to remain silent but I have a fast Hot-Rod !! >>>>.

 

I dont think us old boys can keep up with the Karate Kid and American graffiti but hope the real 50's stay alive as we knew it. Im cool but I get these flashes now and than. Good post

 

Take a look at the max speed on my GPS - I took it out of the my Edit "Hot" rod.

That's a real picture btw.

 

My Morris does about 9 mph when the push cart pushes me down the embankment off the road to the lot........but it has no brakes so I don't dare take her any faster

 

Someone please help me on this one... all along I have been assuming that if you had a "rat rod" car, it was required to have at least 3 of the following:
1: 305 chevy from a 84 caprice classic (extra points for a stock HEI)
2: At least one beer can attached to the engine
3: A 10 bolt chevy rear axle with 3.07 open diff (extra points if it is a 7.5" ring gear)
4. Uses a 1980's license plate to cover a rust hole.
5. Unable to spin more than one tire (extra points if you have to step on the brakes)

And I also thought that a "street rod" just skips #2 & #4... so the only difference between a street rod & rat rod was a beer can and a rust hole.

Have I been wrong on this all along?

BTW. 11.05@125 for my rod that has a rat (and a huffer)

 

damn, I never got mine to go above 137

 

Only time I ever timed my old Coupe (the Green Grenade) it went 14.2 but I lifted at about 1000 feet due to the cold track. Not a real fast car, but it was fun.

BTW, if you don't know the difference between a Hotrod, ratrod and a Streetrod, you most likely have a ratrod or a Streetrod. Sorry, it's true.

They are not merely labels, and are not the same. You can THINK what ever you want to, but that does not change the facts.

 

No "official" times on the Plymouth, but - Just a bit quicker than the BMWs that every idiot around here seems to need to drive, and quite a bit faster than a the sherrifs cruiser that tried to chase me down I-8 a while back!

 

my desoto ran 14s with a super charger, and barely stopped at the end of the track haha it was pile...but a lot of fun.. It re-enforced my belief in making sure all your parts match when you build a motor.. slapping some dart iron eagles, and a baby weiland on some random 350 small block with keith black pistons and an unknown cam doesn't always work out to good

 

Do you really say weiland?

 

They are labels, but not the same. Now the question is who makes the rules about who gets to play on the H.A.M.B.? Do the Street Rodders have to leave so only the Hot Rod guys can post, or are we all going to try to get along?

How fast is my car? It depends on how hard I push on the pedal.