Hot Rod terms that are no longer in common usage

I'll kick it off.

Mill ................Back in the 50s and 60s, everyone used this word for engine, but not these days.

Anyone remember when spinning your tires was called "Scratchin' out?"

 

ported and relieved, unless your a Hamber.

 

Dagoed... frenched... tuck n rolled... blueprinted...

 

3/4 race cam.

 

Hopped up!!

Ohh and that's one fine automobile you've got there young chap...

 

I must have missed something... I still say tuck and rolled... and Mill. I also got a funny look over the weekend when I used the phrase Dago'd. I'm not trying to be "down with the lingo". These are terms I use on a regular basis... maybe I'm becoming passe'! LOL

 

fish tailed, brody

 

On the flip side, I never heard a distributer called a "dizzy," until I had been in hotrodding for over 45 years.

 

You mean a Bump stick?

I once asked an old guy why it was called a 3/4 race cam... and added.. "is it because it can't finish the whole race????"

 

Gow job

 

Schlock Rod

 

nosed and decked...

 

heads are decked

 

It comes from the Queens English I believe or it may be an Aussie term. But I'm thinking English because I never herd the term until after the Ol' man went to work for Rolls Royce in the '70s. But I could be wrong.

How about Cuttin' a Broady or Cuttin a Cat's Ass.

Smooth in the place of Cool, maybe that was only N Cal. Meats referring to tires, maybe that was only N.W.

 

Peel-out,shagging-ass ,drive it like you stole it.

 

I got a R&C magazine from 1958 that has a whole index of hot rod terms and stuff.

I'll dig out later tonight.

 

Bent eight

Full House

 

We used to have these discussions about if there was a such a thing as a half race cam. But that was probably because I had a foster brother that was quite a bit older than I that was one of the Lost Generation sometimes he may have been having too much fun before he started discussions with me.

Oh how about hogged out in place of bored out.

 

tromped down on it

 

There's a couple of terms that I haven't heard in a long time but for the most part I still use most of 'em. I guess I'm just old.

 

In 1958, My Folks were in Australia, They interviewed my Mom, and asked her about her Teenaged son at home in California. She said he's probably got his head under the hood of his car. That came out in the paper as " under The Bonnet".

 

it was 3/4 race or Full Race, or mild.

 

I've heard of most of these and I'm only 29, but from the midwest.

The thing I notice is the lingo change in regions acroos the states not the change in the generation.

I use these on a weekly basis:
Rooster tail (mostly from dirt/muid driving), Big toe, Let 'er eat, Yah Mule!

Jeff

 

My parents both called all my hot rods, "strip downs."

 

Show Job instead of custom.

 

Gook Wagon.

 

"cool short" , i.e. great looking car. "flippers" or "spinners" (hubcaps). "She's a real goer", could apply to a fast car or fast girl. "necker knob" or "brody knob". "go juice" or "push water" (gasoline). "gutless wonder", a not-so-fast car.

 

"turtle hull". I still use it.

 

Dig out, scratch out, bald a tire, laid rubber, all terms I grew up with. How about "souped up"? and turtle deck.

 

Stove bolt, Columbia butt. Potts