Hot Rod terms that are no longer in common usage

stand on it-give it gas
parkin'-when youre done racing and cruizin'

 

Dagmars

 

Groovy thread guys !

 

That thing will pull a sick whore off a piss pot.
That girl could suck the chrome off a trailer hitch.
Tilt steering for headroom.

 

How about "california rake"-goin' to the drags-an order of fries-ponchos(pontiac)- mopes(mopars) henrys hummers(fords)-Copper or fuzz for police, "race car in tow" in shoe polish on the back window. Some times you had to wonder who was classing the cars at the track(no rear view mirror- a/gas). Diggers, Gassers, Paradise road- be there or be square. Sunday..Sunday..Sunday. Just a few. Later, Matt.

 

"Four on the floor and Fifth under the seat"

 

Mopes made me remember "this baby will motate=get down the road in a hurry.

Hangin' it out there= drifting it around a corner.

Drifting a pre drifter term for sliding the ass end out in a corner and keeping the gas on.

Backin' it in -- a sprint car term from before sprint cars had brakes.

Hot shoeing -- nothing to do with cars a flat trackers term from before flat trackers term from before flat trackers had brakes.

Sprint cars and flatrackers without brakes those were good times let me tell ya.

 

Also used to mean doing U Turn "flip a Bitch and lets go back"

My dad loved those things

 

270 duration min. 270 = 3/4 of 360

 

I ask the "kids" at the strip if their car noses over before the finish line. Blank stare. Still a race term as "My car nosed over at a thousand feet til I swapped to 4.56's." I was at the grocery store in my 33 recently and an old dude said " Nice Jalopy", brought a tear to my eye! peace

 

Well damn I never would have thought of that. Of course it raises the question does a full race cam land in the 80% area???

The 3/4 @ .75% is logical.

 

Chrome center dome
Poked, stroked and reamed out with a rattail file
It's the cats pajamas man...

 

Gimme a dollar and we'll ride around all night.

 

slush box=automatic transmission

tranny=transmission

diff for differential or rearend

get up and go=accelerate quickly

crash box=non-syncro transmission

 

I must be old - How about "drip gas" - gas was $.15 / gallon and didn't have a quarter so we went to a real oil well and got some drip gas -very low octane but we could go.
Cherry Bombs - similar to a Smitty - we also had them in fireworks but smaller than a
M-80'
Yeah and now "I" am a chrome dome.
Dragging main
Back talking (exhaust) - got a few tickets for that
Stack em up - all we could get in the trunk for $.25 a person drive-in movie

 

stickies= slicks... (or cheaters)

 

Put it to the wood (floor it).

 

Carburetor.

Jacked up, with Air Shocks.

Balonies. Peel some Baloney. Smoke the balonies.

Sidepipes.

 

3 on the tree

4 on the floor

 

I got called a dumbass today for calling a connecting rod a con rod. So that might be on its way out.

 

I've always heard it used in context to refer to a hop up job. You sent your mill off to get a GO-job at the machine shop, or it could refer to a souped up motor itself.

You've got the period right (they were usually 50's cars), but the term a little off I think. Jitney was usually used to refer to a cab I believe. In fact I think that's what a google search for Jitney will get you.

 

Bullnosing

Portawalls

 

"That 57 Chevy is affordable"

its been 30 yrs since i heard affordable !

 

"Nice short"-nice ride
"Make that puppy jump"-Git on it
"Mat it.."-see above
"She'll still bark..."-burn rubber into 2nd gear
"Make her chirp!"-see above
"Weed burners"-straight pipes
"Poppin' a wheelie"-yep, front tires inna air
"Blew his doors off"-yep, no more doors
"Pulled a Bullit"-get air-all 4 wheels
"Nice meats"-new tires
"Bitchin' ride"-Guess it was a Cali thing...
"He bit it..." or "Bite the Big One"-To Crash, big time...

 

Throw out the laundry.

 

Missing a cylinder - Dead hole

 

calling a cam a bump stick

 

Nope, ya still got it!

But... I forgot one. The top had to be flaked...

 

Just read up on yur "Crass and Bernie" cartoons, they're full 0f 'em.

 

The bootleg U turn. Robert Mitchum showed us all how to do that in "Thunder Road". Our local drive-in (Siloam Springs, Ark) ran that movie on a weekend in August every year for many years.