LOL that one was so far over my head that I didn't even bother ducking. I think that one is pure Ozark. They have lots of expressions that have to do with animals and their perspective bungholes. Shifting without the clutch uses the same principle as double clutching, you are matching engine and transmission speed. When I was working for the paving company me and the teamster were bob tailing out into the desert to repair and haul a trailer back to the shop. He decided he wanted a nap and I managed to scrape the gears 3 times in a row, he finally said, "next year you're putting rubber gears in this old rig then anyone can drive it."
If it's just general language mangling that we're complaining about, the addition of "pre" to everything these days is just fucking stupid. "Pre-planning". Is there any other kind? Same with "Pre-screened" "Pre-registration" and "Pre-order." Wankers.
I recall talk about "blowing the carbon out", meaning on a car that got driven in stop & go traffic alot, you needed to take it out on the open highway and get the speed up, that supposedly cleaned out the combustion chambers and spark plugs so it would run better in town. I do recall an article in Hot Rod mag once that talked about running a light drip of water into the carburetor with the engine at an idle, to steam clean the combustion chambers.
I really dislike the use of "Sick" and "Rad" ~ fortunately all my friends are old fucks and don't use them. Not sure what it is but I HATE those terms And while I'm on this soap box - please don't use Carby, Dizzy, or Cali around me either ~ it just makes me Grumpy
Most guys I talk to around here have no clue what a locker is... To them Posi = 2 black stripes Limited Slip = peglegger
Nope that one's me, well except lately I have also been sneezy. Actually there is a place called Cali, but I don't remember where. I do know that it is not between Monterrey and Tijuana. I have been known to type Calif., hell they don't even understand that one in the post office anymore.
I used to have some I'd throw around in my shop, just to sound 'cool', and 'in charge'... Immediately succeeding a major repair, where there was just the job of installing the oil pan, or the heads and intake manifold, I'd instruct someone qualified to: "Sew it up"... Previous to engine installation, "We'll 'shove it' before we quit tonight..." Then, after cranking up oil pressure, ignition timing was pre-set, carb(s) filled with fuel, I'd say, "Light it." Hastily 'engaging' the clutch was 'Poppin' the sticker'. Brakes were the 'grabbers'. Gas pedal was the 'long skinny one', (last one courtesy of Karl Kohler, HRM) 'Sick' described an engine that was out of tune, or a chronic 'smoker'. To use 'sick' or 'dope' for something that is 'the shit' puzzles me.
Not that us old fucks didn't have our own little ditties but that whole "slammed" and "lay'n frame" deal eludes me. Life seems a bunch easier when not trying to be "hip".
Here's one most of us old guy's know. "laying it on the wood", also known as "to the floor board". Maybe later on known as "pedal to the metal".
We used Slammed for many years for a lowered car - but "Layin Frame" not only sounds like you're droppin a deuce, but the concept is stupid too. And then there is "Body Drop" - which I get, and I know it came from the opposite of a Body Lift which became popular in the off road crowd, and honestly it makes sense, but in the Hot Rod world it's been "Channeling" forever, so it shall be.
One of Chips (need louvers) old posts. I remember one time in my first year of high school ('79 or so), writing an essay where I used the word bitchin'... And got marked down for it because according to the teacher there was "NO SUCH WORD!!!" The next day I brought in what was probably the current issue of Hot Rod with a story that Gray had wrote that used the word "bitchin' ". The teacher rolled her eyes as I approached the desk carrying the magazine, (I was waaaayyyy down the list of her favorite students) and I asked her to kindly define NO SUCH WORD... Then I put the magazine on the desk with the passage highlighted. She read that sentence then proceded to read more of the article getting madder and madder, finally she basically threw it back at me and said "HE CAN'T DO THAT, THAT'S NOT ENGLISH, THAT'S GIBERISH!!!" She never did define THERE IS NO SUCH WORD though... I remained a favorite student for several more months. RIP Gray
Everything that was hip once will be hip again. I got a local friend that was building show winning cars in the early '60s that says you can be cool twice in your life if you just hold still. Once when it was cool the first time and twice when it comes around for the second time. Here is one from when I was a kid, hammered. In NorCal (I don't know about anywhere else) if one was hammered it meant that it was chopped, usually pretty radically chopped. Here is one that I am not sure if it is new millennium or not but I had to open a thread to find out what it meant. The title said, "hard Chopped" I thought that it meant difficult, like chopping a '40 Ford.
Just to keep this auto related, who knows what the Brits meen when they say: I'm taking my "Pop" and go get "pissed". I'm sure Don knows.
Elephant bells shouldn't come back either. I had a pair once, I didn't have any money and someone gave them to me. Got 'em caught in my primary chain and smacked my foot into the ground 3 times before I got my motor killed. Paul's wife took all two pairs of my blue jeans and pegged them for me after that.
Around here they call that blowing the cobs out of one. If you don't lug one around it isn't a real problem. But we like them to sound lopey in town so we have a tendency to lug them around. Water works, it soften the carbon. I have an old friend from Arkansas that uses rice (not cooked), he sets a fast idle and then throws a hand full of rice down the throat of the carburetor. I personally prefer to just go out and exceed the speed limit.
I'm pretty sure a Pop is a later model Anglia. If a guy wanted to build a gas class car and he found an early '50's Popular it would be cooler to say he found an Anglia. They look pretty much, if not exactly, the same.
You are basically correct. The Anglia that we all know and love, model E494A came out late 48 and was built through 1953. Ford's replacement was the boxy and ugly 100E that came out in late '53. Ford underestimated the love for the E494A, Nicknamed the Sit Up & Beg in England, so they decided to bring it back as the Popular, nicknamed Pop, and built them until 1959. It was the popularity that decided the name and to continue making them. It was the least expensive car in England (and probably the US) at the time - about $500. My B/G Blair's car was an Anglia, my 54 Stocker is a Pop (although it wears Anglia badges). Side note, a stock Anglia like my blue one will do 0-50 in 38.3 seconds! 0-60 depends on the road LOL
Here's some oldies that just won't die...... So you have your head under the hood and you tell your buddy to "crank it over". That comes from the very early days of vehicles when they had no starter and actually had a hand crank. Head lamps became head lights..... Wheels became rims (minus the rubber)..... but "wheels" and "lamps" are still giving "rims"and "lights" heavy competition. Moving forward in time..... wheel stand became wheelie, as in "Pop a wheelie"...... and that phrase has taken on a new life with the motorcycle crowd and looks like it will be around for a while, too.
Hi Beaner.Ya know why they quit using CALIF. for the abbreviation for California?Because it was thought to mean"Come And Live In Florida". Good luck.Have fun.Be safe. Leo
Funny... Always wondered about that myself..The announcer at NE Dragway used to talk about Monzers, Vaygers and Nohvers
Just going to post that. Detroit Locker ? Tru Trac? Knowledge of?...very doubtful. Positraction, Safe T Track, Trac-Lok..anything with clutches, usually called positraction to street burners..Limited slip? Same thing.They just don't know it.
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