POST Your Definition of "Hot Rod" Pic

I bet that 500 years from now this picture of the Pete Henderson Roadster will be found under the definition of "Hot Rod" in Webster's Dictionary.

Post the pic that you think should be there!



Some of rodding's biggest names Don Blair, Vic Edelbrock, Manny Ayulo, Jack McGrath, Ralph Guldahl, Art Chrisman, and almost Tom McMullen have helped shape this roadster's past. But it's lasting identity as the Pete Henderson roadster was secured the moment a horse got involved.



PS This pic of the Roadster on Daytona Beach was taken after a concourse restoration was completed by the cars saviour and then owner Chuck Longley. This the cover of the 15th anniversary volume of the Rodder's Journal. This is a best-of-best volume filled with the editors' picks from the past 15 years--you gotta spend a few hours with this one!

Here's a picture of Chuck Longley with the car when it was shown at Pebble Beach in 2007

 

Hard to disagree with your statement. The car is a perfect representative of the early era. An old friend of mine sold the car to the Longley's and they recreated the Henderson version. Hope others post their choices.

 

This defines it for me ......

 

me too jack. beautiful 32 5w

 

Navarro.

 

if I were going to pick a car for the definitive HOT ROD it would have to be an "A V8" hiboy roadster. not any particular car... there is a bunch out there...

 

unbelievable car!

 

My god this car is unbelivable

 

No doubt that is the definition of a "Hot Rod" '32 5 window coupe , roadster a close second. Beautiful car and camera angle. Rob.

 

Being partial to '32 5w's I find it easy to agree with HOTRD32.

Frank

 

I'm in partial agreement. To me, the quintessential hot rod is a '28-'29 roadster on Deuce rails with a '48 Merc V8, '39 Ford trans, a '40 banjo, '40 brakes, and a Mor Drop axle.

-Dave

 

2nd that the Navarro roadster.

 

Heres my dads and this is and wil only be my definition of a hotrod ,When we wer kids he use to put us ,My sister and I in the back with a pillow for our buts and a rope was our seat belt ,I was under 6 at the time .It was cool ........

 

Guess I'll crush the bandwidth and say this is definately a nice car, HOWEVER, I think the representative should be a roadster. Like Isky's T.

 

Early fenderless highboy roadster. That's what the term "hot rod" originally referred to.

Take a look at the thread entitled, "1940's period-correct hot rods." Almost every car there is a definition of the term.

 

Roger that. The highboy roadster before a coupe. Top off cruzing on the boulevard on Friday night.


My opinion may be slanted toward a California Friday night though.

 

I have always thought that this was the car that changed it all.

 

that would make a cool poster for the garage!!

 

Definitely. Click...Save.

 

This is IT!

 

It did, or at least helped along with Mustangs, etc. It was the point in time when it changed from the only option for having a 'hot rod' was making one to just going down to the dealership and buying one. Not that that was necessarily a bad development as it wasn't, it was a great development, but that is what the first GTO's represent and what distinguishes a traditional hot rod from a muscle car, street rod, or modern hot rod if you want to call them that. Sort of before GTO (BGTO) and after GTO (AGTO). And I suspect, that and the Mustang is why 1964 is the hamb cut off year.

 

Navarro.

 

Many definitions, it really will be up to the people at Webster Dictionary, what fires their rockets.

 

this is what I think

 

That's a muscle car NOT a hot rod My 2 cents

 

Well its a hot rod,,in the fact of the question asked,,and also there are so many hot rods,,many would say 57 chevy,,but sorry the cookie cutter fords don't do anything for me,,They are like Camaros anymore

When I was growing up a old Goat was a hot rod,,for those older im sure it was something else

 

I borrowed this pic from another thread...hope nobody minds

 

About like this:



Hot rods have come before and since, and there are many variations I like just as well, but that's what's in my head when someone utters the term "hot rod" without elaboration.

-Dave

 

Another shot of the Henderson with Chuck Longly at Pebble Beach