1980 Hot Rod Fashion for Men

American machine with a large engine modified for linear speed

three-window lowboy Deuce coupé with a traditional chop, dropped front axle, sidepipes, bugcatcher scoop (with Mooneyes cover) over dual quads on a tunnel ram, as well as less-traditional shaved door handles and disc brakes

A 1923 Ford T-saucepan in the traditional style with lake headers, dog dish hubcaps, dropped "I" beam axle, narrow rubber, and single 4-barrel, simply non-traditional disc brakes

T-bucket with early hemi, merely aluminum radiator (rather than brass), rectangular headlights, and five-spokes (rather than motorcycle wheels) mark this as a later incarnation.

Hot rods are typically American cars that might be old, archetype, or modernistic and that have been rebuilt or modified with large engines optimised for speed and acceleration.^[2] One definition is: "a car that'south been stripped down, souped up and made to go much faster."^[iii] However, in that location is no definition of the term that is universally accepted and the term is fastened to a wide range of vehicles.^[4] Most often they are individually designed and constructed using components from many makes of old or new cars, and are near prevalent in the United States and Canada.^[4] Many are intended for exhibition rather than for racing or everyday driving.^[4]

The origin of the term "hot rod" is unclear. For example, some say that the term "hot" refers to the vehicle's being stolen. Other origin stories include replacing the engine's camshaft or "rod" with a higher performance version. According to the Hot Rod Industry Brotherhood (HRIA) the term changes in meaning over the years, but "hot rodding has less to do with the vehicle and more to do with an attitude and lifestyle."^[five] For example, hot rods were favorites for greasers.

The term has broadened to apply to other items that are modified for a detail purpose, such as "hot-rodded amplifier".

Etymology [edit]

In that location are various theories about the origin of the term "hot rod". The common theme is that "hot" related to "hotting upwards" a car, which means modifying it for greater performance. I theory is that "rod" means roadster,^[six] a lightweight 2-door car which was often used as the basis for early on hot rods. Some other theory is that "rod" refers to camshaft,^[7] a part of the engine which was frequently upgraded in social club to increase power output.

In the early on days, a car modified for increased performance was called a "gow job". This term morphed into the hot rod in the early to middle 1950s.^[eight]

The term "hot rod" has had various uses in relation to operation cars. For example, the Ontario Ministry of the Environment in its vehicle emissions regulations refers to a hot rod every bit any motorized vehicle that has a replacement engine differing from the mill original.^[9]

History [edit]

1920s to 1945 [edit]

The predecessors to the hotrod were the modified cars used in the Prohibition era past bootleggers to evade acquirement agents and other law enforcement.^[7]

Hot rods first appeared in the late 1930s in southern California, where people raced modified cars on dry out lake beds northeast of Los Angeles, under the rules of the Southern California Timing Association (SCTA), among other groups. This gained popularity later on Globe State of war II, peculiarly in California, considering many returning soldiers had received technical training.^{[7] [half dozen]} The commencement hot rods were old cars (most ofttimes Fords, typically 1910s-1920s Model Ts, 1928–31 Model Equally, or 1932-34 Model Bs), modified to reduce weight. Engine swaps often involved plumbing fixtures the Ford flathead V8 engine (known as the "flatty") into a different car, for example, the common exercise^{[ citation needed ]} in the 1940s of installing the "sixty horse" version into a Jeep chassis.

Typical modifications were removal of convertible tops, hoods, bumpers, windshields, and/or fenders; channeling the body; and modifying the engine by tuning and/or replacing with a more powerful type. Wheels and tires were changed for improved traction and handling. Hot rods built earlier 1945 commonly used '35 Ford wire-spoke wheels.^[ten]

1945 to 1960 [edit]

After World War 2, many pocket-sized military airports throughout the country were either abandoned or rarely used, allowing hot rodders across the land to race on marked courses. Originally, drag racing had tracks as long as i mi (ane.6 km) or more, and included upward to four lanes of racing simultaneously. As some hot rodders also raced on the street, a need arose for an organization to promote safety, and to provide venues for condom racing. The National Hot Rod Association was founded in 1951, to take drag racing off the streets and into controlled environments.^[11]

In the '50s and '60s, the Ford flathead V8 was supplanted by the Chrysler FirePower engine (known as the "early hemi"). Many hot rods would upgrade the brakes from mechanical to hydraulic ("juice") and headlights from bulb to sealed-beam.^[12] A typical mid-1950s to early on 1960s custom Deuce was fenderless and steeply chopped, powered by a Ford or Mercury flathead,^[13] with an Edelbrock intake manifold, Harman and Collins magneto, and Halibrand quick-alter differential.^[fourteen] Front suspension hairpins were adapted from sprint cars, such as the Kurtis Krafts.^[15]

Every bit hot rodding became more popular, magazines and associations catering to hot rodders were started, such as the magazine Hot Rod, founded in 1948.^[16]

1960 to present [edit]

Equally automobiles offered past the major automakers began increasing performance, the lure of hot rods began to wane.^[7] With the advent of the muscle car, information technology was now possible to purchase a high-performance automobile directly from the exhibit.^[6]

However, the 1973 Oil Crisis caused machine manufacturers to focus on fuel efficiency over operation, which led to a resurgence of involvement in hot rodding.^[7] As the focus shifted away from racing, the modified cars became known as "street rods". The National Street Rod Association (NSRA) was formed and began hosting events.

Past the 1970s, the 350 cu in (5.7 fifty) small-block Chevy V8 was the virtually mutual selection of engine for hot rods.^{[17] [18]} Another popular engine choice is the Ford Windsor engine.^[19] During the 1980s, many auto manufacturers were reducing the displacements of their engines, thus making it harder for hot rod builders to obtain big displacement engines. Instead, engine builders had to change the smaller engines (such as using not-standard crankshafts and pistons) to obtain larger deportation. While current production V8s tended to be the most frequent candidates, this also practical to others. In the mid-1980s, equally stock engine sizes diminished, rodders discovered the 215 cu in (three.five L) aluminum-block Buick or Oldsmobile V8 could exist modified for substantially greater displacement, with mainly wrecking yard parts.^[20] This tendency was not limited to American cars; Volkswagen enthusiasts similarly stretched stock 1600cc engines to over two liters.^[21]

In modern civilization [edit]

1936 Chevrolet street rod

There is notwithstanding a vibrant hot rod culture worldwide, especially in Canada, the United States, the U.k., Commonwealth of australia and Sweden.^{[ commendation needed ]} The hot rod community has at present been subdivided into two main groups: street rodders and hot rodders.^{[22] [23] [24]}

Lifestyle [edit]

There is a gimmicky move of traditional hot rod builders, motorcar clubs and artists who accept returned to the roots of hot rodding every bit a lifestyle. This includes a new brood of traditional hot rod builders, artists, and styles, as well every bit archetype style car clubs. Events like GreaseOrama feature traditional hot rods and the greaser lifestyle. Magazines similar Ol' Skool Rodz, Gears and Gals, and Rat-Rods and Rust Queens cover events and people.

In popular culture [edit]

Author Tom Wolfe was one of the showtime to recognize the importance of hot rodding in popular civilization and brought information technology to mainstream attention in his book The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Scrap Streamline Infant.^{[ citation needed ]}

There are magazines that feature traditional hot rods, including Hot Rod, Auto Craft, Rod and Custom, and Popular Hot Rodding. There are also idiot box shows such as My Classic Machine, Horsepower Goggle box, American Hot Rod, Fast and Loud, and Chop Cut Rebuild.

Particularly during the early on 1960s, a genre of "hot rod music" rose to mainstream popularity. Hot rod music was largely a production of a number of surf music groups running out of ideas for new surfing songs and simultaneously shifting their lyrical focus toward hot rods. Hot rod music would bear witness to be the second phase in a progression known as the California Sound, which would mature into more complex topics as the decade passed. Hot rods were used as the theme of Lightning Rod, a Rocky Mount Construction roller coaster at Dollywood.

In Sweden and Finland [edit]

Swedish hot rodders with a 1960s American car at Power Big Meet

Locals in these countries, influenced by American culture, have created a local hot rod civilization which is vibrant in Sweden and Finland where enthusiasts gather at meetings such as Power Big See and clubs like Wheels and Wings in Varberg, Sweden have established themselves in Hot Rod culture. Since in that location is very trivial "vintage can" the hot rods in Sweden are by and large made with a home made chassis (usually a Model T or A replica), with a Jaguar (or Volvo 240) rear axle, a small-block V8, and fiberglass tub, but some accept been built using for instance a Volvo Duett chassis. Considering the Swedish regulations required a crash exam even for custom-built rider cars between 1969 and 1982, the Duett option was preferred, since it was considered a rebodied Duett rather than a new vehicle.^{[25] [26] [27] [28]} Some 1950s and 1960s cars are also hot rodded, like Morris Minor, Ford Anglia, Volvo Amazon, Ford Cortina, '57 Chevy, to name only a few. These are known as custom cars (sometimes spelled Kustom).

Language [edit]

Certain linguistic conventions are mutual amidst rodders:^{[ citation needed ]}

• The model year is rarely given in total,^[29] except when information technology might exist confused, so a 1934 model is a '34, while a 2005 might be an '05 or non.
• A '32 is usually a Deuce and well-nigh often a roadster, unless coupé is specified, and almost ever a Ford.^[xxx]
• A 3- or 5-window is commonly a Ford unless specified.
• A flatty is a flathead V8^[31] (always Ford, unless specified^[32]); a belatedly (or late model) flatty is probably a Merc.
• A hemi ("hem ee") is e'er a 426, unless deportation (331, 354, or 392) is specified;^[33] a 426 is a hemi, unless Wedge is specified.
• A 392 is an early hemi.
  • A 331 or 354 is known to be an (early) Hemi, but rarely referred to as such
• Units are routinely dropped, unless they are unclear, so a 426 cubic inch (in³) engine is just referred to as a 426,^[34] a 5-liter engine is a 5.0 ("v betoken oh"), and a 600 cubic anxiety per minute (cfm) carburetor is a 600.^[35] Engine displacement tin can exist described in cubic inches or liters (for example, a 5.vii-liter engine is also known equally a 350 {"three fifty"}); this frequently depends on which units the user is most comfortable or familiar with.

Common terms [edit]

• 1/2-race — mild flatty cam, suitable for enthusiastic street or highway utilize. It was halfway in functioning between a full race cam and a stock cam.
• 3/4-race — high-performance flatty cam, suitable for street and strip use. These cams were one-half style in performance between a total race cam and a 1/2 race cam.^[36]
• iii deuces — system of three 2-barrel (twin-asphyxiate) carburetors; singled-out from Six Pak and Pontiac and Olds^[37] Tri-Power^[38] (as well 3x2 arrangements)
• 3-window — 2-door coupé; and then named for i door window on each side plus the rear window^[39]
• v-window — 2-door coupé; and so named for i door window and one quarter window on each side plus the rear window^[40]
• 97s ("ninety-sevens") — reference to particular Stromberg carburetors^[41]
• A-bone — Model A coupé^[42]
• Alky — alcohol (methanol) racing fuel^[32]
• Altered — elevate racing machine, or the category it runs in^[32]
• Anglebox - British slang for a '59 to '68 Anglia^[43]
• Ardun — Hemi heads for the flathead, designed past Zora Duntov^[44]
• Awful Awful (mainly Due north American) — AA/FA ("double A" Fuel Altered) racing car^[45]
• Back-halved - a bodied drag racing car that has had its stock rear pause removed and replaced with a four-link or ladder bar rear suspension, and narrowed rear beam. This arrangement allows for larger tires and better adaptability.
• Bagged - the employ of air suspension to raise and lower the automobile^{[ citation needed ]}
• Bench race (or bench racing) - discussion of racing, or of a automobile'due south performance^[32]
• Big tire - a elevate racing car running large rear tires commonly over 29" tall and wider than 10.v"
• Blower — mechanically driven supercharger; excludes turbochargers. Normally a Roots.^[46]
• Diddled
  • An engine equipped with a supercharger (a "blown hemi");^[46] rarely used in reference to turbocharged engines
  • A vehicle equipped with a supercharged engine (a "diddled higboy")
  • A wrecked engine or transmission
• Blue oval — Ford product (for the badge)^[47]
• Blueprint - to get together something (usually an engine) to precise specifications or with special care^[32]
• Blueprinting - to design
• Bondo — the brand name for a body filler putty, often used as a generic term for whatever such product
• Bored — increased the bore of the cylinders in order to increase engine displacement ("He bored the engine"); having had the diameter increased ("the engine was bored")
• Bottle — nitrous tank
• Bowtie — Chevrolet production (for the badge)^[48]
• Boosted — a car that has a turbocharger or supercharger^{[ commendation needed ]}
• Bugcatcher (or bugcatcher intake) — large scoop intake protruding through hood opening, or on cars with no hood.
• Bulletproof - assembled in a fail-proof fashion^[32]
• Bump in — the act of staging a drag car by moving forwards in short increments or "bumps" while a transbrake or light foot brake pressure is applied. A transbrake equipped car uses a "bump box" to momentarily unlock the transmission allowing it to creep curt distances. This is often done by turbo cars in order to build boot while staging, but can also be washed by non-turbo cars to shallow stage to increase roll out.
• Bumpstick — camshaft (for the lobes)^[47]
• Burndown — intentionally slowly staging a car for a elevate race in social club to throw the other commuter off his game, or to cause the opponent's automobile to build backlog rut.^[32] Also chosen a staging duel.
• Cam — camshaft^[49]
• Cammer
  • (nigh normally) the SOHC (unmarried overhead camshaft) version of the 427 Ford V8.^[50]
  • (sometimes) the Ford Racing Power Parts v-liter.^[51]
  • (rarely) any engine with overhead camshaft(south).
• Channelled — a car lowered by having the flooring removed and reattached; likewise, to accept done so^[32]
• Channeling — removing the floor and reattaching it to the trunk at a higher indicate, thus lowering the car without interruption modifications. Sometimes known every bit a "trunk drop".
• Cheater slicks (also "cheaters") — soft compound tires with just enough tread added to brand them street legal (not usually in singular)^[52]
• Red — like new^[53]
• Chipped — fitted with a modified ECU or PCM
• Chop — removing a section of the roof pillars and windows to lower the roofline^[32]
• Chopped — also "chopped top"; to have superlative chopped
• Chopping — executing a top chop
• C.I.D. (sometimes cubic inches or inches) — cubic inches deportation
• COPO - Central Office Product Order^[54]
• Creepo — crankshaft^[32]
• Cubes — CID
• Cubic inches — CID
• Cutout — a short leg of the exhaust organization that exits to the side of the auto and typically in front of the driver. The cutout can exist operated manually or remotely from the commuter's seat. Hot rodders typically use cutouts on hot rods that are used on the street and the strip. The cutout is closed for street use and open up for elevate racing on the strip.
• Deuce — '32 Ford Model B (virtually often a roadster);^[55] at present commonly on A frame rails^[56]
• Digger — dragster: only applied to rails, slingshots, or fuel cars^[57]
• Double-pumper - carburetor with mechanical primary and secondary jets^[58]
• Dual quads — two 4-barrel carburetors
• Dragster
  • (broadly) whatever vehicle modified or purpose-built for utilize on strips.^[32]
  • (specifically) specialized racers (early on or recent types, in gas, alky, or fuel varieties)
• Door slammer (doorslammer, door motorcar^{[ commendation needed ]}) — A drag racing auto that retains its stock body with operation doors or the appearance of a stock body with functioning doors. Some classes of door slammers are Pro Stock, Pro Modified, Existent Street, x275, and Outlaw 10.5.
• Dyno queen — a car that puts up impressive power numbers on a dynamometer merely fails to perform well when actually raced.
• Elephant — Chrysler hemi^[59]
• Fabricate - create a part no longer be available;^[60] create any part from scratch
• Manufacturing plant freak - an unmodified automobile that seemingly makes more ability than or is much quicker than the average for its year, make, and model.^{[ commendation needed ]}
• Fat-fender — 1934-48 (U.S.) car^[61] (About common usage is to refer to '41-'48 inclusive, with '35-'41s called "pontoon fenders".)
• Flager (street racing) —the person who stages and starts the race, ordinarily by an arm drop or flashlight.^{[ citation needed ]}
• Flamed — painted with a flame task
• Flatty — flathead engine^[62] (usually refers to a Ford;^[32] when specified, the Mercury-built model)
  • 3/8s by iii/8s — lengthening the stroke and increasing the cylinder bore 3⁄8  in (ix.five mm). A term just applied to flattys.^[63]
• Four-butt - carburetor with four venturis (chokes)^[32]
• French — to install headlight or taillight slightly sunken into fender
• Frenched — headlight or tallight slightly sunken into fender;^[64] to install as such ("she frenched the taillights")
• Fuel
  • (near commonly) nitro (or a mixture of nitro and alky)^[46]
  • the top drag racing class (which runs on nitro)^[46]
  • (broadly) gasoline (petrol)
• Fuelie
  • (originally) the 1957 Corvette fuel injected engine, or the machine itself ("the fuellie 'vette")^[65]
  • (usually now) any fuel injected engine^[66]
• Fueler — whatever drag racing car run on nitro, or in a nitro class^[32]
• Full-race — high-performance flatty cam, suitable just for strip utilise
• Gasser — car used in gasoline-only drag racing classes in the 1960s (as opposed to alcohol or nitromethane fuels), where the forepart end of the automobile is raised along with the motor. Characterized by a body that sits well higher up the front wheels. Distinct from hiboy.
• Gap — To win a race by at least a car length^{[ citation needed ]} ("That GTO put the gap on that Mustang.")
• Gennie — genuine^[67]
• Giggle gas — nitrous oxide
• Goat — Pontiac GTO^[32]
• Grenaded — to suspension a part into pieces ("When I missed that shift it grenaded my manual.")^[58]
• Hair dryer — turbocharger (for the shape of the intake and exhaust casings)^[68]
• Hairpins — radius rods on axle suspension systems^[69]
• Hang (or pull) the laundry — to deploy a braking parachute^[70]
• Header — multifariousness of exhaust manifold.^[71]
• The hit — giving someone in a drag race the option to motion first.^{[ commendation needed ]} Sometimes "the move".^{[ citation needed ]}
• Hopped up (also "hopped") — stock engine modified to increase operation (more mutual in the '40s and '50s)
• Huffer — supercharger,^[72] especially of the Roots type.^[73]
• Hydrogen Hot Rod — Hot Rrod powered by alternate fuel^[73]
• Inches — CID^[68]
• Indian (also "Tin Indian") — Pontiac (for the grille badge)^[74]
• Jimmy
  • (usually) GMC straight-6 engine^[68]
  • any GMC production, such as a compressor used on 2-stroke diesels used as a supercharger.^[68]
• Jimmy Six — GMC directly 6
• Juice
  • nitro^[68]
  • nitrous oxide^[58]
• Jug - carburetor^[68] (no longer common)
• Juice brakes — hydraulic brakes^[12]
• Kits — multiple nitrous oxide systems ("How many kits are y'all spraying?")^{[ citation needed ]}
• Lake pipes — frazzle pipes running beneath the rocker panels, afterward use past lakes racers.^[75]
• Laundry - parachutes used to boring drag racing cars^[70]
• Lope — exhaust note produced past of a high-duration cam
• Louvers — cuts in the sheet metal of the torso with a narrow raised section on one side of the cuts to create a small opening. Used to release air from engine compartments, or often merely for aesthetics
• Lowering — reducing the ride height (or ground clearance)
• Lunched — wrecked; acquired to be wrecked ("lunched the transmission")^[68]
• Mag
  • magnesium cycle, or steel or aluminum copy resembling one such^[68]
  • magneto^[68]
• Merc — Mercury
• Mill — any internal combustion engine^[58]
• Moons (or Moon discs; incorrectly, moon discs) — plain apartment chrome or aluminum disc hubcaps, originally adopted by land speed racers. Smaller examples are "baby Moons". Named for Dean Moon.
• Mopar — any car or engine sold by Chrysler Corporation; from the name of the parts, service, and customer care organization
• Mouse — minor-block Chevy^[76]
• Mountain motor — large-deportation engine. Named for their size, and for being constructed in the mountains of Tennessee and North Carolina.^[77] In organized automotive competition, the term commonly references a V8 engine displacing more than 500 cubic inches; informally, a V8 engine displacing more than 560 cubic inches
• The move — giving someone in a drag race the option to motion start.^{[ citation needed ]} Also "the hit"^{[ commendation needed ]}
• Nail — any car used as a daily driver^{[ citation needed ]}
• Nailhead — Early on Buick V8, named for relatively small diameter valves^[78]
• Nerf bar — a small tubular or solid T-shaped or decorative bar that acts as a bumper.
• Nitro — Nitromethane, used as a fuel additive in some elevate cars
• Nitrous — nitrous oxide
• NOS
  • New Old Stock, stockpiled parts of models no longer produced, not previously available for retail purchase. (More than common amongst customizers than rodders.)
  • Nitrous Oxide Arrangement (a.k.a. laughing gas, liquid supercharger, N
    ₂ O, nitrous, "the bottle"): appliance for introducing nitrous oxide into the air intake of an engine prior to the fuel entering the cylinder.
• Nosed — as in "nosed & decked": removal of whatever hood (bonnet) or body (boot) ornaments, the filling of holes, and painting as a smoothen clean surface.
• Pickoupe — car-based calorie-free-duty pickup, blend of "pickup" & "coupé"
• Pinched — narrowed and diffuse torso, ordinarily at the nose^{[ citation needed ]}
• Pop
  • a mixture of nitro & alky
  • British slang for a sit down-up and beg^{[ clarification needed ]} Ford Pop.^{[ commendation needed ]}
• Plod
  • (British) body filler
  • (British) traffic police (later PC Plod in Enid Blyton's Noddy series)^{[ commendation needed ]}
• Poncho - Pontiac product^[79]
• Ported and polished — enlarging and smoothing of the intake and frazzle port surfaces of operation engine cylinder heads to facilitate the ease of move and increased volume of the engine gases.
• Port-matching — the lining up of the intake manifold, cylinder caput ports and exhaust headers as to create 1 continuous smooth course of travel for engine gases with no ledges or obstructions.
• Prepped — a track or road that has been treated with various chemicals to increase traction
• Pro Street — street-legal automobile resembling a Pro Stock car. Some are very thinly disguised racers.
• Puke can — radiator overflow reservoir, to prevent boilovers spilling on the track
• QJ — Quadrajet (Rochester 4-barrel carburetor)^[80]
• Q-jet — Quadrajet^[81]
• Ragtop - convertible or roadster^[68]
• Rail
  • dragster with exposed front end frame rails.^[46] Usually refers to early brusk-wheelbase cars, and not unremarkably to Altereds.
  • (elevate racing) guardrail
• Rails job
  • dragster with exposed front frame. Ordinarily refers to early on curt-wheelbase cars, and not usually to Altereds.
• Rat
  • Chevy large block engine,^[82]
  • rat rod^{[ citation needed ]}
• Redline — maximum safe rev limit; to operate an engine at that limit ("redline it", "redlined it")
• Repop - reproduction (part)^[83]
• Rockcrusher — Muncie M22 four-speed manual^[84] so-chosen considering of the audible differences in operation between the model Grand-22 and its lower strength just quieter cousin, the M-21^{[ citation needed ]}
• Rocket — Oldsmobile, in detail their early on V8s^[32]
• Rolled pan (sometimes roll pan) — a contoured sheet of metal covering the infinite where the bumper used to exist
• Sandbagger — driver who intentionally drives slower than his car is capable of or lets off before the end of the drag strip to requite the illusion his auto is slower than it is to lure people into racing.^[68]
• SBC — small-cake Chevy V8
• SBF — Small block Ford V8.
• Sectioned — having sectioning ("the '49 was sectioned"); having performed a sectioning ("he sectioned the Merc")
• Sectioning — removing of a horizontal heart section of the body and reattaching the upper and lower parts^[68]
• Shoebox — '49-'54 Ford (for the slab-sided appearance)
• Shotgun - Ford Dominate 429^[68]
• 6 Pak - Chrysler carburetor arrangement with three two-barrels^[68]
• SkyJackers — air shocks used in the rear to jack upwards the backend to clear wider tires/wheels.
• Slammed — lowering the motorcar very close to the ground. Frequently accomplished with the use of air interruption.
• Sleeper — a motorcar built to announced stock or in poor condition but really very quick.
• Slick(southward) — soft compound tire with no grooves, designed only for elevate racing. Unremarkably much wider than normal street tires.^[68]
• Slingshot — later variety of early digger,^[46] named for the driver'southward position behind the rear wheels (not its speed^[68])
• Slug
  • piston^[68]
  • slow machine^[68]
• Slushbox - automatic transmission^[85]
• Smack — Nitrous Oxide^{[ commendation needed ]}
• Small tire — a drag racing auto using rear tires generally no taller than 29" and no wider than 10.5"
• SOHC ("sock") - 427 "cammer"^[68]
• Souped (or "souped up") — hopped up, performance improved (more common in '40s and '50s)
• Spray — nitrous oxide^{[ citation needed ]}
• Snail — turbocharger, from the snail shell appearance of the housing
• Static — the use of static suspension components, such as coilovers, to lower a automobile
• Steelies — stock steel rims^[86]
• Stovebolt — Chevrolet Stovebolt engine^[87]
• Straight beam — term for a machine (often a gasser) that has had it stock A-arm style front pause removed for leaf springs and a solid tube axle.
• Street legal — dual-purpose car, capable of performing routine duties every bit well equally weekend racing. Some cars described as such, such as Pro Street cars, are very thinly disguised racers.
• Street-strip — dual-purpose machine, capable of performing routine duties too as weekend racing. Some cars described as such take very marginal off-track utility.
• Strip
  • drag strip.
  • (more than broadly) cars or parts used or intended for racing simply. Thus "street-strip" is a dual-purpose car.
• Stroke — Engine stroke; to increase the engine stroke ("stroke it")
• Stroked — increased stroke, to increase displacement, past adding a longer-stroke crankshaft
• Suicided — door inverse from front- to rear-hinged ("suicide") type
• Tin Indian — Pontiac (for the grille badge)
• Toploader — Ford 4-speed manual manual,^[88] so named because admission to the transmission internal was fabricated via an admission panel located on the top of the manual housing ^[89]
• Rails T — Model T roadster congenital in the manner of a clay track race car^[90]
• Traction bars —usually, a gear up of square tubes attached to the back beam via 2 U bolts earlier and later the axle housing leading forrad with a safety snubber at the elevation cease allowing as the machine takes off to limit axle wrap on foliage springs.
• Trailer queen - a race car that is not daily driven, is trailered to events, and sees trivial or no utilise other than on a race runway^[79]
• Tri-5 - a 1955, 1956 or 1957 Chevrolet automobile.
• Tubbed — a motorcar that has had its stock rear bicycle wells removed and replaced with larger ones to let for wider rear tires.
• Tunneled — securely sunken into fender^[91]
• Virgin road — a stretch of road that has non been raced on or had traction increasing products used on it^{[ citation needed ]}
• Vdub — slang for a Volkswagen car.
• Weedburners — short exhaust pipes, running parallel to the footing, with no mufflers (like to Funny Car exhausts), used for racing, or only for show (not street legal)^[46]
• Wheelie bars - rear-mounted bars with pocket-sized wheels, designed to limit or eliminate wheelstands^[68]
• Wombat — General Motors W series engine^[92]
• Wrinkle walls — drag racing slicks^[93]
• Zoomie pipes (or zoomies) — brusk exhaust pipes with no mufflers, used for racing, or just for show (not street legal)^[94]

Some terms accept an boosted, different meaning among customizers than amidst rodders: NOS, for instance, is a reference to new old stock, rather than nitrous oxide.

Gallery [edit]

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  Deuce coupe featuring '32 grille shell, original headlights, chrome dropped I-beam beam and tube shocks. Note stock frame rails, disc brakes, Lakester pipes^{[95] [96]}

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  Deuce roadster with a bobbed frame, dropped axle, disc brakes, and coilovers. Note the dissimilarity with the stock frame rails.

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  Hullo-boy Deuce roadster with flatty (with factory head and exhaust but aftermarket alternator ignition and dual-carb intake), dropped tube axle, and drum brakes.

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  "Rat rod" '29 Model A coupe with a '32 grille beat, upgraded brakes, "bobbed" frame rails, channeled, powered by an early flatty equipped with Edelbrock aftermarket caput and aftermarket chrome carb hats.

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  Ghost flames, a contemporary concept

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  3 deuces closeup

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  Improvised puke can

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  Rat rod

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  '32 Runted roadster with mags, deejay brakes, hatpins, bugcatcher scoop, roll hoops, & custom interior

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  '34 Chevrolet Standard

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  Volkswagen hiboy at the 2010 Volksfest, South Australia

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  Twin Ford coupes

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  Classically flamed 3-window at the Voitures Anciennes de Granby expo, with drilled I-beam forepart axle, nerf bars, velocity stacks, mags, and slicks.

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  A rat rod during the Voitures Anciennes de Granby expo.

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  1922 hot rod

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  Swedish Hot Rod in Ystad 2020.

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  Swedish Hot Rod in Malmö 1986.

Run into too [edit]

• Automotive restoration
• Custom machine
• Cutdown
• Flame chore
• Hot hatch
• Import scene
• Kustom
• Pb sled
• Lowrider
• Musculus car
• Plymouth Prowler - a modern take on the hot rod
• Pro Street
• Rat rod
• Stock car
• Three window coupe - one of the classic styles
• Tuner
• Volvo T6 - a concept car
• Volksrod
• Crate engine

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External links [edit]

• List of Hot rod (www.historicvehicle.org)
• Automotive Museum (www.petersen.org)

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