Hot Rod terms that are no longer in common usage

binders=brakes

 

foot to the boards - throttle pedal ALL the way down.

flat sticks - full speed, referring to the tacho needle and speedo needle.

my and my friends often refer to extremely low cars as being "cropped on their ass".

my workmate stan and his friends call 2 barrel carbs "dwayne dibbley's" (anyone who has seen red dwarf may understand this) "OH NO! Not dwayne dibbley!!"

 

Smoke'm dude.
Dingo berrie balls.
Hell can't remember now. But as a gear jammer this is happening in the trucking world to. Lots of lingo.gets lost. 10-4. Nobody even know how to talk on a CB anymore.

 

I've been called a dago all my life... I don't let that shit bother me...

 

Rotating your tires in such a fashion as to leave a rubberish residue upon the pavement. Had a judge tell me that a long time ago.

 

I never heard "Gow job" until I found the HAMB and I'm old.........What is it?

 

Can't find them grind them.

 

refers to a fast car in the 40's i think

 

Sounds like a nasty sex act if ya ask me..

 

Who cares? Hot rod. Call it what it is. Hot rod.

 

My dad an ole hot rodder calls a hot cam a candle stick

 

My grandpa called the gas pedal "The foot feed"

 

you wanna run it ? that is how we asked if you wanted to race...East coast style

 

Shit I'm 32 and I have heard and still use 90% of theese terms

 

Bitchin?

or is that too new?

No, i didnt look to see if it was posted before..it just poped into my head when i saw the thread

 

Humm Jalopy?

 

Sanitary = clean.

 

As a Kraut who is also part dumb Polack, I would hope any greasy Dagos involved in hot rodding would know that a Dago axle is so named because one of the originators of the dropped axle was in San Diego. Dago being slang for the city. Sticks and stones man

 

Shot rod for a rough, poorly tuned, or shoddily built car. Heard this all the time when I was a kid. Most r*t rods wouldnt even rate "shot rod"

 

Suicide knob, "if it won't go, chrome it".

 

Skid Lid: see "brain bucket"

Handshaker: manual shift transmission

 

Shaker

 

Anybody ever use the word "Kemp" till KKOA came along? I did'nt think so.

 

Twisting kitties= doing doughnuts in the srteet

 

Words that aren't in common usage any more? Pulling up to the pumps and saying, "Give me two bucks worth".

 

dukes were three packs for a buck, oil2 cans for a dollar, pos-i-traction, purple hornies, ground pounder, fiberglass forest

 

Stovebolt = Chevy 6 cylinder engine

Jockey Box = glove box

Fisher Windows = vent windows

Torched = early car magazine writers loved this word ... nothing related to body modifications was ever cut or welded, it was "torched" and body men were "torch artists", "torch men", etc.

 

Bitchin' ain't new, I added it to my vocabulary in the early 60s and never stopped using it. I guess because of the bitch part its always maintained a decent level of shock value when used in public... That's fuckin' bitchin' works even better.

"doin' a burnout" "pullin' second-gear scratch" "bark second" "whomped on it"

 

Boiling the hydes. I use a lot of these everyday. And the ones I don't, I am writing them down and memorizing them, so I can!

 

Tuck and rolled still alive in Oklahoma.