Hot Rod terms that are no longer in common usage

How 'bout, "Get a Wheel" ?, For "scratchin' Out" ?
There's actually a road, in Western Va., named "Scratch Gravel Rd." Really!

Bump Stick
Putter' to tha WOOD
Sucked tha' Headlites outta that one! (drags)
If it won't RUN?, Chrome IT!
What kinda' MILL?, you runnin'...
Looks like he ran that one THUR the ADVANCE STORE!
I no'ed you really like your car man!, you BUILT A FENCE 'round IT!
(referring to Wrap-A-Round Bumper Guards.)
"Sleeper".......Plain Jane Ride, That would out-run the word of GOD!

Nuff Said, Been There......Done That!, Got STP Tee
Shirt to Prove it!
Smokey Too

 

I think Gow is a Latin term for acceleration.
Second gear scrach.
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How about " In the weeds " for cars that were low .

 

DAGO was orignally used by Navy Radio men to shorten on air time when pulling into the harbor. Later the flyers used it. With the large amount of military using this term. It just stuck after that.. This did not bother the Itilan mil as they knew the contex............................... Brake pedal is chicken stick. Truck clutch.. with them you had a very large left leg............Truck Mufflers. these came on 6 cyl chevorlet dump trucks and had a large outlet. They were stock and Legal and had a nice sound........................Burnt out glass packs. some times speeded up by putting 1/2 qt auto trans fluid to speed up detoration. very loud some times refered to as Cop callers................................... A studebaker called a stipidbakers................ Cut Down.. a car with most of the sheet metal removed. some times called a rail because you only had the frame rails.. Trip Boy.. a driver of a auto that carried un taxed moonshine. Train Racing.. this is where you race a train across the rr track intersection................... Watching Submarine Races with a girl.. Rerefined oil. this is used oil that was cleaned up a small ammount and sold in cut rate filling stations. Dope a name for rear end fluid or 90 weight oil........ 50 cents wouth of gas........ White Gas used in early lawn mowers. flipping the shackels.. this was done mostly on fords.. it raised the rear bumper about 5 inches...all fords were called Henrey's.. Boy that was fun I have said most of these things in decades.. Bobby..

 

" Hammered " is something I haven't heard for a while , for a car that's chopped .

 

twilight zone.... 200mph pass

 

let me smoke one of your fags, while I tell you about it.Try saying that now see what happens... anyway...

Because back in the day there were only a few different Cam grinds the 3/4 bumpsticks are for 3/4 mile oval track mills at least thats what an old timer told this old timer 40+ years ago. Guys used these Cams in there flat motors. Quite a few of those guys were called rum runners. They were also punched and shaved.

 

Onion skins for wore out

 

QUICK! GRAB THE JOHNSON ROD!!...what my pop called the e-brake
shackle racers = gassers

 

That was good.

 

Balonies-(tires)

 

Mine did too. He also called hot rods "hoopy's".
V/8

 

A four door was grandma's car, raked, moons, huffer, put your foot in it, egg him on, wanna drag?, all show no go, stocker (engine not built), slick (as in nice), slippery (as in fast), turd (as in slow), that's quite a machine!

 

"Bleach Burnouts" haven't seen one of those in years. We used to refer to a manual trans as a "Bolt Action" and I still do.

 

Yep every car I ever built, My ol'man called a "Hoopty"... pissed me off as a kid, blown 55 truck, outlaw 356 to name a few... I laugh now

 

Don't remember in seven pages seeing to "choose" some one off.....challenge to a race ...... especially if the had a "boss" car

 

Put that thang down in Grandma and dig out!!

 

"lets go from a roll"
I shackeled my car. (lower it)
Dropped the clutch
cut a light
Lite em up
smoke em
grabbed a gear
twice pipes

 

One term I wish would die, "Chebbie". Damnit people, it's Chevy!

 

Meats n' mags, with a rubber rake

 

Stump-puller (big fkng tork)

 

Grocery getter ( daily driver)

Slugs (pistons)

Feet or shoes (tires)

Chrome don't get you home.

Keep the shiny side up & the rubber side down.

Double hump heads ( I guess they are still desirable, but with World, Brodix, etc. I guess there are alternative.)

Not sure if it qualifies, but every one who had a 350 with a 4 bolt main swore it came out of a corvette

 

"Takin it from together",dissasembly,"road grips" ,snow tires dont know if they still make them." cubby hole",glovebox,"turtle hole" trunk " Bat rey" battery "T oty" jap crap " free zone" freon "dogs" ww wiper fliuid squirters "Antimated ironpile" my 34 5 window given by local "Jonny Law' "Wyatt Earp" chicken shit cop,the one that named my 34.

 

American cars were generally 'Yank tanks'- 'garish', 'gaudy', . 'Two Bob lairs' did 'squealies'.
Headers??.. 'Extractors' please. And down under, a glasspack was always a 'Hot Dog'.
My first conscious hot-rod terms were of my own invention. My very first hot rod term, apart from blurting engine sounds, was 'wheels- in' (reversed wheels);
"Wow..look; wheels-in"!

 

Rat Rod...

and Resto Rod.

Sam

 

all out

 

Damn this post is going good.. How about slant pan hydro, a aoutmatic transmission by GM that had a fluid pan that was angeled.. it was the one for performance. , Cherp the tires or geting second gear rubber.. or maybe squell the tires. oil additives named Bardall and wynns friction proofing. another called Vigorlube. necker knob a swivel/ wheel like device on the stearing wheel. many times had a nude girl in the center. Mud flaps and curb feelers. locking gas cap and dual radio antenias,,Opera seats, Busisness coupe..

 

hat= winsheild visor
motion lotion= oil
tiller= steering wheel
the squeeze= nitrous
tv dinner= a bought, not built car
rowing gears= shifting

 

aerials for antenna

 

The guy I bought my full race flathead that was built in 1949...Gave me the specs on it.....He was an old racer and was 82 years old this is the lingo he used
The flywheel was "chopped"
The block was bored,
ported and relieved.
The crank was stroked.
3/4 isky
I have also heard old timers when referring to an old engines use the term "3 ducks" and "Full house" also "Hot heep"