What's the difference between a Street Rod and a HotRod?

That's fucking hilarious!

 

Since when does hotrods have windows??? I thought goggles on your face and bugs in yer teeth were the norm for hotrods??? Personally, nothing sexier then a man with more bugs in his teeth then in his grille. When I was at Paso this year, I walked down Spring Street to take a gander at a hotrod sitting on a trailer (it wasn't finished yet).....some old man in a 70's ElCo pulls up and gets out with his camera. I'm thinkin yeah someone who can recognize the work that goes into engineering a traditional hotrod.........INSTEAD, he looks at me, looks at the car, turns back to me and says "I own a streetrod and I always have to take pictures of these things just to show my friends the JUNK kids are building nowadays". If looks could kill, he'd of been dead before the last word was out of his mouth.......I wasn't amused and he knew it. After trying to save face with a couple dumb jokes and getting nothing but a tight lipped look from me, he ran back to his ElCo and took off. Ahhhhhhhhhh it's not Streetrods I despise, it's the pricks that drive them!
xxx
Brandy

 

That's the best definition I have ever heard.... very good!


NAILHEAD

 

You need a trunk???

Dawg

 

Hey Brandy, the kid happens to be the old man's "PAST". Hopefully the old man won't be the kids "FUTURE"!

 

My momma told me..."son. if you can't beat 'em...be spectacular"..I aint gonna meet myself cumin down the road....take a look at ...www.msnusers.com/streetroadster bigticket

 

I found out my RPU is a hot rod a month or so ago.
It was my birthday party, a fun, drinkin kinda night, and as usual at some point we all gravitated out to the garage, and the rod was fired up.
probably stupid, but i offered a ride to everyone, up and down my gravel drive which is about 1/4 mile long, lined with eighty year old sugar gums.
my crazy sister jumped in the pickup bed...wine glass still in hand.
my brother jumped in next to me.
Its about 9 at night, bit of a moon out.my rod has only two wires,one into the coil, and one out.
so i get it round onto the driveway,and floor it.
this thing runs zoomies, and tall tires and a high diff,and weighs nothing...
It kinda makes lots of noise and seems to pick up speed exponentially,Like a slipping clutch kinda feel (its auto) but your rocketting along before you even have time to back off....suffice to say that sans windscreen its a pretty full on experience.
anyway back to why its a hot rod...
by the halfway point im thinkin about backing off...and i realise my brother is SCREAMING over the the din from the zoomies-
"BACK OFF MAN!IVE GOT CHILDREN!!!"
ha ha my car actually made him scared for the future of his kids...i reckon thats a fair definition of a hot rod.

 

That makes you Ambredexiouse (sp?) !!!! (You know..., one of them "switch handers"...!!! )

 

Good point ol man good point!

Lowsquire, install seat belts for the kiddys next time!

xxx
Brandy

 

who cares???


NOBODY.....

 

Boy, you folks are hung up on definititions.

If all you ever see is tail lights, getting smaller real fast, that's hot rod enough for me.

Labels are stupid. In my little car club, the guy with the most old style car, the black '46 Merc 4 door in the current Rod & Kulture mag, is the ONLY one who wears the dreaded gold chains. The guy with the most cash is the guy who does all his own work, including changing his own tires. Most of us Vipers have a background in racing, I think we know what a hot rod is, and what a street rod is. We don't discriminate. Words like Rat Rod and Goldchainer, old fart or junior flip, Custom or Kustom are just labels. Labels are stupid. I know this from experience.

cp

 

In the era that we are all trying to emulate (late 40's to early sixties) Hot Rod were lakes racers that were driven on the street, no sedans, no coupes(these were family cars), just roadsters(SCTA allowed only open cars, Rusetta alowed closed cars but they were not too common). Street rods were cars driven on the streets, by the mid 50's racing tech had grown so much that a street car could not be competetive, so basically all of our cars are street rods because I know none of you race your daily at a competetive level. Somwhere along the lines people decide that "street rod" meant billet A/C and gold chains.

But Honestly folks, at this is point its just a question of I say potat-o you say pa-ta-to, so lets give it a rest.

 

hot rods are the original paintings
street rods are the prints...

 

YAWN!!!


Frank

 

Ben: of all the clever quotes and shit above, you've probably just come the closest to the true meaning. Instilling fear is a good start.....make put that on my list of "parts required."


I figure that hot rods aren't a definition, they're a feeling.

 

A street rod has a gussied up crate motor.

A hot rod has a motor you built yourself.

 

OK, so what has a good runnin' wreckin' yard motor that you gussied up yourownself?? I've had a few that fit that discription. Never thought to label them before, but I'm thinkin' NOW.

John Force calls his funny car a hot rod, but I'd call it a race car.

Damn it. I've posted twice on this, and this is a doofus topic. I am ashamed. I'll stop now.

cp