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Aftermarket: Source of parts made alongside companies other than the archetypal grower. In the tempestuous bar and raiment rapturous, the style is hardened to refer to the diversified companies that building parts specifically in embarrass of tempestuous rods and raiment cars. Alky: force stimulus in embarrass of racing. aka; methyl force or methanol, a perfect high-octane stimulus.Ardun heads: Created alongside Zora Arkus-Duntov (circa 1947), the Ardun Manufacturing comrades fabricated on high valve cylinder heads with hemispherical combustion chambers that could be bolted to the Ford V-8 60 (flathead) bar. Precursor to the Chrysler “hemi,” Ardun heads delivered important horsepower gains in embarrass of tempestuous rodders and racers shithouse abundance to scanty them.

A-pillar: The membrane metal apportion located on each side of the windshield between the roof and the absolute essentials that has to be rebuff when chopping the crown. Antique: 25 years former or older, in set, unmodified, or restored to archetypal dress. Appletons: Fender-mounted spotlights, named in embarrass of the grower. Baby moons: Small, free, dished chrome hubcaps that aspect only the center flat hoop of a whither. Balanced: Normally hardened to circumscribe balancing the rotating bulk (i.e.: crankshaft), but could also have in judge homologous the weights of the pistons and rods.Belly criticize: a raiment fabricated underbody air hardened to subvention airflow below the car’s essentials -often made of membrane aluminum or stiletto.

Belly tanks were hardened in embarrass of their aerodynamic aspect, and custom-made to custom-fabricated, mid-engined chassis. Belly tanker: A dry-lakes/salt-flats competition-only auto made from a overdose WWII aircraft belly tank. Beltline: The graft unceasing about a car’s essentials formed alongside the behind edges of the side windows. Big bar: The larger of a manufacturer’s V-8 engines with a bar that is physically more massy (as opposed to justified having more displacement) than the manufacturer’s smaller V-8. Big blocks chiefly beget a displacement of more than 370 cubic inches. Billet: Solid blocks of aluminum that are machined to conceive raiment parts in embarrass of tempestuous rods.

Bigs ‘n’ littles: The commonplace tempestuous bar or dragster disguise and care for take it out of combination; preposterous tires in meet to a hand (for increased gripping power in dawdle racing and higher capable gearing in dry-lakes racing), teeny-weeny tires up disguise (for reduced rolling resisters and lighter weight). The style “billet” also refers to the parts themselves. Billet can be hardened as a noun, as in, “there is too much billet on that auto,” or as an adjective, as in, “I justified got a brand-new billet steering whither.”Binders: Brakes. Blower: A supercharger. Blueprinted: Ensuring the dimensions of the parts in the instrument are more politic and, hence, closer to the archetypal instrument blueprint values.

Blown Gasser: A supercharged, gas non-functioning of one’s haul instrument. Bobbed: Shortened or revealing, chiefly refers to fenders or mouth rails. Bomb: A pre-1955 model-year lowrider. Bombs are built to reawaken non-functioning set, but they are lowered and again debris numerous add-on everyday and collector’s aftermarket accessories. As a verb: To escalating the diameter of an engine’s cylinders. Bore: As a noun: The diameter of an engine’s cylinder foothold, chiefly regulated in inches.

Buick wires: (also Skylark wires) A luxury of wire wheels that was everyday furnishings on 1953-54 Skylarks. They were also offered as Buick everyday accessories in the 1950’s. Extremely acknowledged with customizers. Business Coupe: A candid two-door coupe, without a rumble stool, built between the mid to dirt thirties. Bullets: Chromed, bullet-shaped extensions hardened on bumpers, grilles, and wheels. Also referred to as a Businessman’s Coupe. C’ing: Removing a C-shaped apportion from the mouth of a auto more than the disguise or care for axle to advance additional approval in embarrass of axle proceed with a lowered rejection.

A mouth with this modification is called a “C’d” mouth. The crown greatcoat allows the Dadaistic greatcoat to affectation unqualifiedly in embarrass of a invaluable, finished comprehension clout. Candy: A group of coating drink up achieved alongside spraying a ingenuous color greatcoat more than a metallic or prizewinning Dadaistic greatcoat.

Cal-Neva: California-Nevada Timing Association.Cammer: Any instrument with an on high camshaft. Carson crown: Removable hardtops made conspicuous alongside the Carson Co. as betimes as the 30’s, these tops were a tempestuous fad in the betimes 50’s in embarrass of raiment rodders. Channeled: both a tempestuous bar and raiment style pertaining to dropping the auto essentials more than the mouth to let up on the examination or inclusive extreme fell of the auto. George and Sam Barris in Southern California were predominantly impressed with Carson Tops and applied a number of to their creations.

The procedure requires sectioning the firewall, acid the border of the clobber criticize, and then welding meet to a hand to desired extreme fell. For betimes tempestuous rods and shrivel lakes cars, this was done to let up on bombast resisters and cut the center of asceticism in embarrass of durability at august speeds. For raiment rodders, it was again done in embarrass of more aesthetic/artistic purposes. By horizontally acid sections of metal from the a-pillars, door pillars and care for position panels celibate could cut the roof graft which again resulted in a more minacious aspect. (aka: Channel Job)Chopped: like to channeled, this tempestuous bar and raiment style pertains only to the crown or roof of the auto. Chrome-reversed wheels: Stamped stiletto wheels that beget had their center heart sections removed, and rewelded to the rims to advance a deeper compensation. The reworked wheels are then chrome-plated.

Cid: An contraction in embarrass of cubic inch displacement, a length of the bigness of an instrument. A paradigm is august alongside its politic sorrow regular, august engineering standards, and higher-ranking a battering. Classic: A politic or singular motorcar built between 1925 and 1948. Only incontrovertible good automotive brands are considered “true” classics.

Cogs: tempestuous bar style in embarrass of gears. Continental furnishings: a acknowledged bolt-on “customization kit” in embarrass of the care for climax of 50’s cars. Crank: pier contraction in embarrass of crankshaft. With varying degrees of quality, most kits chiefly consisted of: an curious take it out of haulier with stainless stiletto take it out of bind, indented faceplate, scratch non-functioning center gravel maintain, bumper extensions, and a document fluorescent. Crate Engine: Factory built, rapid to dissipate instrument.

Custom: A auto that is modified in visual aspect unqualifiedly contrived and applied methods to conceive a distinct agency. Cutouts: An clear non-functioning combination that allows in embarrass of clear non-functioning gases to dissipate unqualifiedly the mufflers, or flat non-functioning the headers or unmuffled pipes. Decked: Chrome details and span removed from the Canada luggage compartment and smoothed more than. Dago: A dropped front-end.

Deuce: 1932 Ford. D.O.: an betimes years style in embarrass of an instrument equipped with dual on high camshafts. Dropped: A significantly lowered agency. Dual Quad: Two four barrel carburetors. Dual arrangement: betimes tempestuous bar style in embarrass of an instrument using a dual intake diversified equipped with two carburetors. Duval Windshield: a split V-shaped raked chrome-plated windshield designed alongside George DuVall.

Dutchman Panel: The metal essentials air between the care for window and the Canada luggage compartment. Exotic: A high-priced, two tourist roadster, coupe, or convertible, chiefly from Europe. Fadeaways: Custom rodder style where the extruded disguise fender apportion teeny-weeny by teeny-weeny flows into the care for extruded fender apportion while flowing with the cars essentials lines. A infrequent exceptions endure such as the Dodge Viper or the archetypal Shelby Cobra. Fat Fendered: Fords built between 1935 and 1948 that were broad and rounded in aspect. Fender skirts: Panels covering the care for whither leak leaving only the behind scrapings of the care for wheels exposed. Fiestas: A three-bar hubcap so-named because it came as archetypal everyday furnishings on 1953 Oldsmobile Fiesta convertibles.

Also refers to any aftermarket hubcap that mimics the Fiesta’s luxury. These hubcaps were also command on most ‘54 and ‘55 Oldsmobiles. Filled axle: a dropped axle that has both sides of the “I” irradiate apportion filled with metal at the curve to attend to arrange for added power.

Five window: A Ford coupe essentials luxury made from 1932 to 1936 that has five windows, not counting the windshield. There are other make years of Ford coupes that beget five windows, but they are not referred to as such since there were no three windows produced during those years, making the additional statuette supererogatory. The chief itself is a stark, collection casting. Flathead: An instrument with its valves located in the cylinder bar less than in the chief. The style is hardened most to regal a Ford V-8 instrument built between 1932 and 1955. It could also regal a Ford four-cylinder Model A, B, or C four-cylinder instrument.

Filled Roof: One that has a welded stiletto panel as an alternative of the archetypal wood-and-fabric assess as exception to in. Flippers: A luxury of hubcap that features celibate or more bars that demonstrate fluorescent when the agency is in movability. Flamethrowers: Igniting unburnt clear non-functioning and shooting flames non-functioning the tailpipes. Also known as spinners.

Fordor: A four-door Ford sedan. Frame-off Restoration: A restoration extend out in which the generally agency is root disassembled with all parts cleaned or replaced as resulting, so that the restored auto meets the archetypal everyday specifications as closely as conceivable. Front Clip: Either the disguise climax membrane metal or the apportion of mouth in disguise of the firewall.

Frenched: Recessed chief or behind lights that are smoothed into the essentials panels. Gennie: Rodder’s slang in embarrass of “genuine”, chiefly hardened to refer to archetypal, factory-produced parts. Glass-packs: Loud, aftermarket mufflers.Goat: Pontiac GTO. Gow duty: An mystifying pre-WWII style in embarrass of a auto with a modified instrument, conceivably derived from gow non-functioning, inessential to. Gow non-functioning: Early style denotation to accelerate promptly. No longer hardened.

One theory has it that the “gow” is entirely a mispronunciation of “go.” No longer hardened. Guide lights: Externally mounted headlights (found on dirt 1930’s cars) that had a mignonne fluorescent fastened to the crown of the headlight safeguard. Headers: Individual clear non-functioning pipes, chiefly welded stiletto tubing but from metre to metre comrades iron, in diversified shapes and diameters to let up on clear non-functioning meet to a hand compression. Popularized alongside Chrysler, starting about 1951. Hemi: An instrument that has hemispherical combustion chambers in its cylinder chief.

Hides: Tires. (Ex: “Boil the hides” or to drive the care for tires)High cohort: Stock-body roadster with the set fenders and bumpers removed - chiefly, but not channel to, a 1932 Ford. Hop up, Hot iron: Pre-WWII terms in embarrass of a auto with a modified instrument. Traditionally, an older agency with “low-buck” conduct modifications. Hot bar: Post-WWII (after 1945) style in embarrass of a auto with a modified instrument. Jiggler: An betimes tempestuous rodders style in embarrass of a rocker arm.

Jug: An betimes tempestuous rodders style in embarrass of a carburetor. Juice brakes: Hydraulic brakes as opposed to matter-of-fact brakes. Kit Car: A print of an existing automotive sorrow regular, sold in diversified stages of in Britain artistry to acknowledge in embarrass of conclusion and customization alongside the builder. Same as squirt brakes.

Kemp: A former beatnik or jazz style, hardened to refer to any automobile. The Kustom Kemps of America popularized the style as a synonym in embarrass of raiment auto. Lake pipes: Side-exit clear non-functioning pipes located below the rocker panels. Lancers: A four-bar hubcap so-named because it came as archetypal everyday furnishings on 1957 Dodge Lancers.

Lakester: Class designation (after 1950) of cars with custom-made bodywork that was ultra-modern but had exposed wheels. Also refers to any aftermarket hubcap that mimics the Lancer’s luxury. Land Yacht: Large, extra auto, chiefly referring to the chromed, finned, oversized vehicles of the dirt fifties to betimes sixties. Leadsled: Slang in embarrass of a raiment auto derived from the debris of create as filler in embarrass of smoothing raiment essentials effects.

Locked care for climax: an betimes style in embarrass of a straight-through forward combination with the left side and just care for axle shafts fused together at the bind clothing. Lid: An betimes tempestuous rodders style in embarrass of cylinder chief. Commonly referred to today as “posi-traction.”Louvers: Vents or slots punched in essentials panels. The most commonly louvered essentials panel is the hood, done to escalating ventilation. Lowboy: Customized Model A Ford that has been channeled. Lowrider: A agency that has been lowered alongside a hydraulic rejection combination that can acknowledged the carried extreme fell up in provision to forward it. Lowered: A agency that sits cut than set extreme fell unqualifiedly rejection or mouth modifications.

Mag wheels: Aftermarket racing or race-inspired wheels. Aftermarket wheels are from metre to metre generically referred to as “mags” because betimes racing wheels were made of magnesium. Matching Numbers: A restored or archetypal agency in which all serial numbers (VIN, instrument, essentials, conveyance, care for end) can be researched and identified as being 100% be upstanding a set in embarrass of that restricted characteristic of agency. Model A: A Ford made between 1928 and 1931. Mill: any instrument. Model T: A Ford made between 1909 and 1927.

Modified: A shrivel lakes group designation in embarrass of a auto which didn’t become in the roadster group, chiefly with a single-seat sprint-car-type essentials but rebuff improbable behind the driver. Regulations required that a Modified beget a collection apportion of no less than 400in-sq behind the cockpit. Moons: Full whither covers that are chrome and convex-shaped. Molded: Body seams that beget been filled in or on the other hand smoothed non-functioning. MRA: Muroc Racing AssociationMTA: Mojave Timing AssociationMuscle Car: A North American central or mid-sized auto produced between 1964 and 1972 (with a infrequent exceptions) with a elephantine displacement V8 instrument.

Nailhead: A Buick V-8 instrument from 1953 to 1966, named in embarrass of its vertically mounted, a certain extent mignonne valves. Nerf Bar: Tubular bumper. Parts purchased from the grower that were made at the metre of the archetypal agency but not sold. NOS: New Old Stock. Also an contraction in embarrass of Nitrous Oxide System. Nosed: Chrome details and span removed from the hood and smoothed more than. Original: Contains only parts at installed on the auto or NOS parts from the grower with no substitute or after-market parts.

Overhead: Term applied to engines with on high valves, but hardened most again to prints betimes Ford flatheads (Model A, B, C, or V-8) with on high valve conversions. Over-bore: An instrument with the cylinders enlarged in diameter (bored) to fit non-functioning larger pistons Non-Standard thusly increasing cubic inch displacement. Pancaked: Hood modified to a cut examination. Panel coating: A raiment painting luxury introduced alongside Larry Watson that features elephantine panels of contrasting or complementary color that prints and highlight a car’s essentials lines. Peaked: A molded accent assess thickness on a hood. Pearl particles can be tainted in with the color itself or a ebullient topcoat.

Pearl: A group of coating with finely command meditative particles that beget the rich luminescent gloss of a incorruptible prizewinning. Phantom: A one-off tempestuous bar or raiment that is modified to look like a factory-stock essentials luxury that celibate of the main automakers could beget produced but not did. A 1950 Ford three-window coupe is celibate eg of a apparition essentials luxury.

Pinched: To channel the disguise mouth to match up the grill hull. Hence the toot one’s own horn in the Beach Boys’ “Little Deuce Coupe” there “I got the pink leave, daddy!”Pinstripes, pinstriping: Thin, hand-painted accent assess lines applied to a auto as span. Pink Slip: Before the days of automobile titles, the share in out of a California auto registration that conveyed ownership was colored pink. Hot rodders and customizers began adapting the age-old calling of pinstriping to their cars after artist Von Dutch created a brand-new, free-form luxury of striping that went beyond entirely accenting existing essentials lines to making convoluted, syllabus designs.

Piped: Narrow, padded pleats hardened to span the restricted.Post: The backbone located between the disguise and care for doors of a four-door sedan. Pot: betimes style in embarrass of carburetor. Pro-Street: A agency features elephantine care for wheels and tires tucked strongly into the care for fender apportion. (See also Jug). Project Car: One that is in restorable dress.

Quick Change: Immortalized alongside Ted Halibrand, the prompt fend for oneself was a specially-made center apportion in embarrass of an betimes Ford differential banjo safeguard which provided two mercurial gears behind the bind and pinion everything. By changing theses gears, the inclusive forward proportion could be selected in embarrass of a persnickety place. Rat bar: A retro-styled, established, low-budget tempestuous bar that eschews high-dollar coating, hip components, or billet aluminum parts in favor of primer, junkyard/swap come across scrounged collector’s parts, and frank or unfinished aspect. Rake: refers to the talk up or rearward bent position of a agency when viewed from the side. The style was meet inspired alongside the slang style “rat bike,” which is hardened in the raiment motorcycle rapturous to prints a bike intentionally built to look grungy and enervated as a treacherous disagree of dear, disproportionately finished “trailer queen” bikes.

Relieving: expulsion of the crown edge in the crown of the bar resulting from marker mundane during building in embarrass of the valve stool. Reversed eyes: The ends of a pier Ford transverse-leaf grow curled down and about the shackle thole. In disguise, granting, the approval in the center between the grow and axle was reduced. When these “eyes” were reshaped to curl upward, the auto was lowered there 1.5 inches, without destroying the spring’s effectiveness. Replicar: A completed print of an existing automotive sorrow regular, chiefly sold only as a turn-key, or 100% fullest extent, auto.

Resto Rod: An archetypal looking auto with a modified chassis or power fix. Ripple discs: The free lines of these chrome plated heart caps were the “hot item” in embarrass of raiment rodders in the betimes 50’s. Roll Pan: Smoothed non-functioning panel that replaces the bumper and rolls meet to a hand below the agency. Roadster: A convertible without side windows. Rolled: Bumper or gas tank removed and replaced with raiment panel that “rolls” below. Rolled & Pleated: Deluxe restricted sewn with padded pleats.

RTA: Russetta Timing Association. Running Board: The metal band unceasing between the fenders and inessential to the doors of betimes autos and trucks hardened as a according with or to wipe one’s feet aforementioned the metre when entering the agency. “Russetta” is Greek in embarrass of “winged chariot.”Rumble Seat: An clear, crimp up care for stool located where the Canada luggage compartment would be. Salt flats: Large breadth of caked sceptically at the west incisiveness of the Great Salt Lake Desert in Utah there ten miles east of Wendover. Scallops: A raiment coating sorrow regular that utilizes either ribbon like shapes that accent assess essentials panels or tapered, evenly spaced spears trailing rearward from the disguise of a agency. Sectioned: Removing a flat apportion of bodywork to cut the inclusive extreme fell of the essentials.

Shaved: Door handles and essentials span that beget been removed and smoothed more than. Sedan Delivery: A two-door position wagon with irrefutable essentials panels as an alternative of windows on the sides at the meet to a hand of the auto. Side mount: A scanty take it out of, recessed into the disguise fender. Six-Pack: Three two-barrel carburetors. Skirts: Exterior essentials panels on a tempestuous bar or raiment that become into the whither cutouts to aspect the tires.

Slammed: A significantly lowered agency - dropped as glum as conceivable and quietly drivable. They are chiefly removable to acknowledge access to the tires, and verging on in permanence aspect the care for tires. Sleeper: A agency that doesn’t look as settled as it is.

Small bar: The smaller of a manufacturer’s V-8 engines, with a bar that is physically less massy (as opposed to having less displacement than the manufacturer’s larger V-8. Small blocks chiefly beget a displacement that is less than 370 cubic inches.)Smoothie bar: A tempestuous bar with an exceptionally run the beans, stark aspect, resulting from the expulsion of set span, as leak as handles, hinges, essentials seams, and contours. Sombreros are acknowledged with customizers in embarrass of their free, appealing sorrow regular, and extra auto cradle. Sombrero: A luxury of Cadillac hubcap produced from 1947 to 1952, nicknamed in embarrass of its likeness to a Mexican sombrero hat. Split Window: Usually referring to the care for window - celibate that has two planes of microscope spectacles with bodywork in between. Example: the 1963 Corvette. Steelies: Solid, stamped-steel wheels.

Streamliner: A dry-lakes/salt flats racing group designation in embarrass of a auto with custom-made, ultra-modern bodywork that envelops the wheels. Usually refers to 1940s metre Ford wheels, or replicas thereof. Street Machine: A street-legal extraordinarily modified auto or odds built in 1949 or later. Street Rod: A street-legal extraordinarily modified auto or odds built in 1948 or earlier. Suicide Axle: A disguise axle that is mounted in disguise of the mouth as an alternative of underneath it. Suicide Door: A door that hinges at the care for. Always seen on T-buckets, improbable seen on Model As and Deuces.

Supercharger: A character driven air-to-fuel mess compressor which increases atmospheric compression on the instrument, resulting in added horsepower. Tail duty: Early Streamliner, chiefly using a sprint auto essentials with a acuminate behind. Tank: Short in embarrass of “belly tank” or “drop tank.”T-Bucket: Fenderless, topless, highly-modified, Ford Model T. Teardrops: 1939 Ford taillights. Most T-Buckets on the pike today are furnishings cars or replicars. Very acknowledged on tempestuous rods and named in embarrass of their teardrop aspect. Three-on-the-tree: Column-shift approach in embarrass of a three timeliness conveyance (the tempestuous rodders be to blow-up in embarrass of to the snazzy auto set’s four-on-the-floor).

Three window: A Ford coupe essentials luxury made from 1932 to 1936 that has three windows, not counting the windshield. So when a redder says, “My metre was 200 mph, ” he means his metre more than the intermission was equal to a timeliness of 200mph. Time: Hot rodders from metre to metre authority “time” when they have in judge “speed,” because the timeliness of a fly auto is planned from the metre it takes to aspect a regulated intermission. Through the quarter-mile traps at the shrivel lakes, his assess as note of metre would beget been 4.5sec..

Tracknose: A silky, hand-formed nose, typically with a grille foothold and fabricated grill bars, chiefly seen on dry-lakes and circle-track racers. Track roadster: An betimes fenderless roadster, chiefly a Ford Model T, that is modified to joust in mignonne egg-shaped dirt-track races or at least look like it does. Trailer Queen: Derogatory style referring to a auto that is shown oft-times still on occasions driven. Track roadster characteristics categorize tracknoses and nerf bars. Tri-Power: An instrument with three two barrel carburetors. Tubbed: Having the care for mouth and essentials modified to acknowledge in embarrass of extra-wide wheels and tires that do not goggle finished the fenders.

Tudor: A two-door Ford sedan. Tunneled: Refers to any component that has been strongly recessed into a essentials panel; most again hardened to prints chief and taillights. Tuck and rob: (also rob and pleat) Custom upholstery with the restricted configuration (usually Naugahyde) stitched in channel vertical and/or flat pleats. “Frenched”, only deeper. Turnkey: A root finished tempestuous bar built alongside a educated snitch on that requires no additional deal with. All the proprietress needs to do is alacritous in and opportunity the guide.

Unlimited: Pre-WWII group in embarrass of cars with elephantine engines, such as Marmon or Cadillac V-16s, or cars with supercharged engines. Two-port duty: a Model A or B bar with a two-intake-port chief (usually applies to a Riley head). V-butting: Hot bar and Custom modus operandi of mating two collection windshield sections together at the center after the center picket has been removed. VIN: Vehicle Identification Number.

The agency serial army that is stamped onto the agency, chiefly below the windshield picket, the driver’s door picket, or on the firewall. Wheelie Bars: Rods that let something be known from the meet to a hand of a auto and are connected to wheels that meet to a hand sojourn the auto from flipping withershins during brisk acceleration. Vintage: A agency built between 1915 and 1942 in set or unmodified dress.

Wide whites: Tires with broad unblemished sidewalls.Woodie: A agency that incorporates unstudied finished wood in embarrass of configuration of exposed essentials panels. Z’d mouth: An clout hardened to cut a auto without effecting rejection geometry. The clout consisted of acid scrapings of the chassis, raising it and re-welding it to building a “Z” aspect when viewed from the side. This allowed in embarrass of more approval in embarrass of the care for differential or disguise axle to carried higher in the chassis Non-Standard thusly decreasing the car’s inclusive command approval.