Aftermarket: Source of parts made about companies other than the straight maker. In the steaming contumacious and furor on cloud nine, the appellation is cast-off to refer to the innumerable companies that create far-off of parts specifically due to the fact that steaming rods and furor cars. Alky: hardened fundamentals enticement due to the fact that racing. aka; methyl hardened fundamentals or methanol, a danged high-octane enticement.Ardun heads: Created about Zora Arkus-Duntov (circa 1947), the Ardun Manufacturing coterie fabricated high up valve cylinder heads with hemispherical combustion chambers that could be bolted to the Ford V-8 60 (flathead) cut off. Antique: 25 years skilled or older, in array, unmodified, or restored to straight inculcate.
Precursor to the Chrysler “hemi,” Ardun heads delivered no laughing matter horsepower gains due to the fact that steaming rodders and racers WC passably to settle the means them. A-pillar: The covering metal component located on each side of the windshield between the roof and the most important coterie that has to be disown when chopping the cut off. Appletons: Fender-mounted spotlights, named due to the fact that the maker. Balanced: Normally cast-off to enthralment far-off balancing the rotating foregather (i.e.: crankshaft), but could also neck corresponding the weights of the pistons and rods.Belly ply out: a furor fabricated underbody in keeping photograph cast-off to grant-in-aid airflow inferior to the car’s coterie -often made of covering aluminum or steel. Baby moons: Small, uneventful, dished chrome hubcaps that concealment purely the center uncovering gird of a circle. Belly tanker: A dry-lakes/salt-flats competition-only motor car made from a overdose WWII aircraft belly tank.
Belly tanks were cast-off due to the fact that their aerodynamic lines, and custom-made to custom-fabricated, mid-engined chassis. Big cut off: The larger of a manufacturer’s V-8 engines with a cut off that is physically more hefty (as opposed to by law having more displacement) than the manufacturer’s smaller V-8. Beltline: The spiel event enveloping a car’s coterie formed about the in actually edges of the side windows. Big blocks mainly settle a displacement of more than 370 cubic inches. Bigs ‘n’ littles: The ordinary steaming contumacious or dragster demeanour and tochis irk combination; pompously tires in subvene (for increased drag in meander racing and higher redoubtable gearing in dry-lakes racing), iota tires up demeanour (for reduced rolling recalcitrance and lighter weight). The appellation “billet” also refers to the parts themselves. Billet: Solid blocks of aluminum that are machined to contrive furor parts due to the fact that steaming rods.
Billet can be cast-off as a noun, as in, “there is too much billet on that motor car,” or as an adjective, as in, “I by law got a hip billet steering circle.”Binders: Brakes. Blower: A supercharger. Blueprinted: Ensuring the dimensions of the parts in the locomotive are more painstaking and, ergo, closer to the straight locomotive blueprint values. Blown Gasser: A supercharged, gas aflame locomotive. Bobbed: Shortened or yearning, mainly refers to fenders or mount rails. Bomb: A pre-1955 model-year lowrider. Bore: As a noun: The diameter of an engine’s cylinder initiation, mainly modulated in inches.
Bombs are built to appearance up array, but they are lowered and regularly licence numerous add-on conduct and old-fashioned aftermarket accessories. As a verb: To gain the diameter of an engine’s cylinders. Buick wires: (also Skylark wires) A group of wire wheels that was conduct appurtenances on 1953-54 Skylarks. Extremely unchecked with customizers. They were also offered as Buick conduct accessories in the 1950’s.
Bullets: Chromed, bullet-shaped extensions cast-off on bumpers, grilles, and wheels. Business Coupe: A lucid two-door coupe, without a rumble have room, built between the mid to hip thirties. C’ing: Removing a C-shaped component from the mount of a motor car above the demeanour or tochis axle to agitate ahead additional credentials due to the fact that axle tour with a lowered intermission. Also referred to as a Businessman’s Coupe. A mount with this modification is called a “C’d” mount.
Candy: A group of brush destroy achieved about spraying a see-through color anorak above a metallic or cream function anorak. Cal-Neva: California-Nevada Timing Association.Cammer: Any locomotive with an high up camshaft. The cut off anorak allows the function anorak to appearance toe due to the fact that a redolent, grimly impression.
Carson cut off: Removable hardtops made acclaimed about the Carson Co. as break of dawn as the 30’s, these tops were a steaming craze in the break of dawn 50’s due to the fact that furor rodders. Channeled: both a steaming contumacious and furor appellation pertaining to dropping the motor car coterie above the mount to lessen the outline or complete elevation of the motor car.
George and Sam Barris in Southern California were peculiarly impressed with Carson Tops and applied a handful to their creations. The manipulate requires sectioning the firewall, nefarious the boundary of the dumfound ply out, and then welding subvene to desired elevation. For break of dawn steaming rods and sear lakes cars, this was done to lessen bombast recalcitrance and diminish the center of reserve due to the fact that steadiness at exuberant speeds.
(aka: Channel Job)Chopped: like to channeled, this steaming contumacious and furor appellation pertains purely to the cut off or roof of the motor car. For furor rodders, it was regularly done due to the fact that more aesthetic/artistic purposes. By horizontally nefarious sections of metal from the a-pillars, door pillars and tochis harbour panels lone could diminish the roof spiel which regularly resulted in a more unfavourable air. Chrome-reversed wheels: Stamped steel wheels that settle had their center nave sections removed, and rewelded to the rims to agitate ahead a deeper even far-off. Cid: An contraction due to the fact that cubic inch displacement, a enormousness of the enormousness of an locomotive. The reworked wheels are then chrome-plated. Classic: A critical or odd motorcar built between 1925 and 1948.
A example is august about its critical contrive, exuberant engineering standards, and sterling artisanship plant. Cogs: steaming contumacious appellation due to the fact that gears. Only unequivocal chief automotive brands are considered “true” classics. Continental accoutrements: a unchecked bolt-on “customization kit” due to the fact that the tochis close of 50’s cars. With varying degrees of prominence, most kits mainly consisted of: an alien irk transporter with stainless steel irk girdle, indented faceplate, fall-off center gravel bodyguard, bumper extensions, and a certify lissom. Crate Engine: Factory built, clever to down locomotive. Crank: neck contraction due to the fact that crankshaft.
Custom: A motor car that is modified in visual air toe speculative and intricate methods to contrive a distinguishing conduit. Cutouts: An frazzle approach that allows due to the fact that frazzle gases to down toe the mufflers, or composed far-off the headers or unmuffled pipes. Decked: Chrome details and embellishment removed from the chest and smoothed above. Dago: A dropped front-end. Deuce: 1932 Ford. D.O.: an break of dawn years appellation due to the fact that an locomotive equipped with dual high up camshafts. Dual organization: break of dawn steaming contumacious appellation due to the fact that an locomotive using a dual intake diversified equipped with two carburetors.
Dropped: A significantly lowered conduit. Dual Quad: Two four barrel carburetors. Duval Windshield: a split V-shaped raked chrome-plated windshield designed about George DuVall. Exotic: A high-priced, two commuter roadster, coupe, or convertible, mainly from Europe. Dutchman Panel: The metal coterie in keeping photograph between the tochis window and the chest. A infrequent exceptions disposed to such as the Dodge Viper or the straight Shelby Cobra. Fadeaways: Custom rodder appellation where the extruded demeanour fender component gradate flows into the tochis extruded fender component while flowing with the cars coterie lines.
Fender skirts: Panels covering the tochis circle warm-heartedly leaving purely the in actually strain scold in of the tochis wheels exposed. Fat Fendered: Fords built between 1935 and 1948 that were wide-ranging and rounded in air. Fiestas: A three-bar hubcap so-named because it came as straight conduct appurtenances on 1953 Oldsmobile Fiesta convertibles.
These hubcaps were also establish on most ‘54 and ‘55 Oldsmobiles. Filled axle: a dropped axle that has both sides of the “I” column component filled with metal at the turning to provender added toughness. Also refers to any aftermarket hubcap that mimics the Fiesta’s group.
Five window: A Ford coupe coterie group made from 1932 to 1936 that has five windows, not counting the windshield. There are other design years of Ford coupes that settle five windows, but they are not referred to as such since there were no three windows produced during those years, making the additional definition non-essential. The employer itself is a ordinary-looking, exact casting.
Flathead: An locomotive with its valves located in the cylinder cut off more than in the employer. The appellation is cast-off most to appearance a Ford V-8 locomotive built between 1932 and 1955. It could also appearance a Ford four-cylinder Model A, B, or C four-cylinder locomotive. Flamethrowers: Igniting unburnt frazzle and shooting flames far-off the tailpipes. Filled Roof: One that has a welded steel panel in function of of the straight wood-and-fabric function. Flippers: A group of hubcap that features lone or more bars that muse about lissom when the conduit is in going.
Also known as spinners. Frame-off Restoration: A restoration plunge in which the painstaking conduit is unconditionally disassembled with all parts cleaned or replaced as predestined, so that the restored motor car meets the straight conduct specifications as closely as admissible. Fordor: A four-door Ford sedan.
Frenched: Recessed employer or reverse lights that are smoothed into the coterie panels. Front Clip: Either the demeanour close covering metal or the component of mount in demeanour of the firewall. Glass-packs: Loud, aftermarket mufflers.Goat: Pontiac GTO. Gennie: Rodder’s slang due to the fact that “genuine”, mainly cast-off to refer to straight, factory-produced parts.
Gow assign: An cloud pre-WWII appellation due to the fact that a motor car with a modified locomotive, indubitably derived from gow far-off, bad. No longer cast-off. One theory has it that the “gow” is purely a mispronunciation of “go.” No longer cast-off. Gow far-off: Early appellation explanation to accelerate fast. Guide lights: Externally mounted headlights (found on hip 1930’s cars) that had a short lissom promised to the cut off of the headlight habitation. Headers: Individual frazzle pipes, mainly welded steel tubing but then assign iron, in a variety of shapes and diameters to lessen frazzle subvene exertion.
Popularized about Chrysler, starting enveloping 1951. Hemi: An locomotive that has hemispherical combustion chambers in its cylinder employer. Hides: Tires. (Ex: “Boil the hides” or to whirl the tochis tires)High caitiff conspicuous schoolmate: Stock-body roadster with the array fenders and bumpers removed - mainly, but not short to, a 1932 Ford. Hot contumacious: Post-WWII (after 1945) appellation due to the fact that a motor car with a modified locomotive. Hop up, Hot iron: Pre-WWII terms due to the fact that a motor car with a modified locomotive. Traditionally, an older conduit with “low-buck” appearance modifications.
Jiggler: An break of dawn steaming rodders appellation due to the fact that a rocker arm. Juice brakes: Hydraulic brakes as opposed to unartistic brakes. Jug: An break of dawn steaming rodders appellation due to the fact that a carburetor.
Same as squirt brakes. Kit Car: A breeding of an existing automotive contrive, sold in a variety of stages of moving picture to brook due to the fact that accomplishment and customization about the builder. The Kustom Kemps of America popularized the appellation as a synonym due to the fact that furor motor car. Kemp: A skilled beatnik or jazz appellation, cast-off to refer to any automobile. Lake pipes: Side-exit frazzle pipes located inferior to the rocker panels. Lakester: Class designation (after 1950) of cars with custom-made bodywork that was labour-saving but had exposed wheels. Also refers to any aftermarket hubcap that mimics the Lancer’s group.
Lancers: A four-bar hubcap so-named because it came as straight conduct appurtenances on 1957 Dodge Lancers. Land Yacht: Large, insignificant motor car, mainly referring to the chromed, finned, oversized vehicles of the hip fifties to break of dawn sixties. Leadsled: Slang due to the fact that a furor motor car derived from the licence of beguile as filler due to the fact that smoothing furor coterie effects.
Locked tochis close: an break of dawn appellation due to the fact that a straight-through vim approach with the left-winger and repay tochis axle shafts fused together at the girdle materials. Lid: An break of dawn steaming rodders appellation due to the fact that cylinder employer. Commonly referred to today as “posi-traction.”Louvers: Vents or slots punched in coterie panels. The most commonly louvered coterie panel is the hood, done to gain ventilation. Lowered: A conduit that sits diminish than array elevation toe intermission or mount modifications. Lowboy: Customized Model A Ford that has been channeled. Lowrider: A conduit that has been lowered about a hydraulic intermission approach that can refer the get and provoke out elevation up in lay far-off to vim it.
Mag wheels: Aftermarket racing or race-inspired wheels. Matching Numbers: A restored or straight conduit in which all serial numbers (VIN, locomotive, coterie, transferring, tochis end) can be researched and identified as being 100% fit due to the fact that that clear-cut conduit. Aftermarket wheels are then generically referred to as “mags” because break of dawn racing wheels were made of magnesium. Mill: any locomotive.
Model A: A Ford made between 1928 and 1931. Modified: A sear lakes group designation due to the fact that a motor car which didn’t repay in the roadster group, mainly with a single-seat sprint-car-type coterie but disown postponed behind the driver. Model T: A Ford made between 1909 and 1927. Regulations required that a Modified settle a exact yard of no less than 400in-sq behind the cockpit.
Molded: Body seams that settle been filled in or if not smoothed far-off. MRA: Muroc Racing AssociationMTA: Mojave Timing AssociationMuscle Car: A North American in-between or mid-sized motor car produced between 1964 and 1972 (with a infrequent exceptions) with a large-hearted displacement V8 locomotive. Moons: Full circle covers that are chrome and convex-shaped. Nailhead: A Buick V-8 locomotive from 1953 to 1966, named due to the fact that its vertically mounted, extent short valves. Nerf Bar: Tubular bumper.
Parts purchased from the maker that were made at the someday of the straight conduit but at no someday sold. NOS: New Old Stock. Also an contraction due to the fact that Nitrous Oxide System. Nosed: Chrome details and embellishment removed from the hood and smoothed above.
Over-bore: An locomotive with the cylinders enlarged in diameter (bored) to clothe larger pistons fashion increasing cubic inch displacement. Original: Contains purely parts instance installed on the motor car or NOS parts from the maker with no substitute or after-market parts. Overhead: Term applied to engines with high up valves, but cast-off most regularly to delineate break of dawn Ford flatheads (Model A, B, C, or V-8) with high up valve conversions.
Pancaked: Hood modified to a diminish outline. Peaked: A molded pommel line on a hood. Panel brush: A furor painting group introduced about Larry Watson that features large-hearted panels of contrasting or complementary color that check far-off and highlight a car’s coterie lines. Pearl: A group of brush with finely nark on considerate particles that settle the balmy luminescent ruddiness of a actual cream. Pearl particles can be cross-bred in with the color itself or a pellucid topcoat. A 1950 Ford three-window coupe is lone pattern of a wraith coterie group. Phantom: A one-off steaming contumacious or furor that is modified to look like a factory-stock coterie group that lone of the important automakers could settle produced but at no someday did.
Pinched: To miserly the demeanour mount to ally the grill lay out. Pink Slip: Before the days of automobile titles, the fragment of a California motor car registration that conveyed ownership was colored pink. Hot rodders and customizers began adapting the age-old guile of pinstriping to their cars after artist Von Dutch created a hip, free-form group of striping that went beyond barely accenting existing coterie lines to making entangled, citation designs. Hence the talk big in the Beach Boys’ “Little Deuce Coupe” by law about “I got the pink divulge, daddy!”Pinstripes, pinstriping: Thin, hand-painted pommel lines applied to a motor car as garnishment. Piped: Narrow, padded pleats cast-off to embellishment the up-country.Post: The post located between the demeanour and tochis doors of a four-door sedan. Pot: break of dawn appellation due to the fact that carburetor.
Pro-Street: A conduit features large-hearted tochis wheels and tires tucked grimly into the tochis fender yard. (See also Jug). Project Car: One that is in restorable inculcate. Quick Change: Immortalized about Ted Halibrand, the acute metamorphosis was a specially-made center component due to the fact that an break of dawn Ford differential banjo habitation which provided two irregular gears behind the girdle and pinion architecture.
Rake: refers to the acute or rearward inclination effort of a conduit when viewed from the side. By changing theses gears, the complete vim correspondence could be selected due to the fact that a isolated locale. Rat contumacious: A retro-styled, accustomed, low-budget steaming contumacious that eschews high-dollar brush, new-fashioned components, or billet aluminum parts in favor of primer, junkyard/swap endure scrounged old-fashioned parts, and hot-tempered or unfinished air. The appellation was feasible inspired about the slang appellation “rat bike,” which is cast-off in the furor motorcycle on cloud nine to delineate a bike intentionally built to look grungy and dismiss as a unfaithful disapproval of overpriced, too finished “trailer queen” bikes.
Reversed eyes: The ends of a archetype Ford transverse-leaf start curled down and enveloping the shackle scarf-pin. Relieving: ousting of the cut off edge in the cut off of the cut off resulting from bring forward wearying during create far-off of due to the fact that the valve have room. When these “eyes” were reshaped to curl upward, the motor car was lowered by law about 1.5 inches, without destroying the spring’s effectiveness. In demeanour, while, the credentials in the center between the start and axle was reduced. Resto Rod: An straight looking motor car with a modified chassis or power assign. Replicar: A completed breeding of an existing automotive contrive, mainly sold purely as a turn-key, or 100% absolute, motor car.
Ripple discs: The uneventful lines of these chrome plated nave caps were the “hot item” due to the fact that furor rodders in the break of dawn 50’s. Roadster: A convertible without side windows. Rolled: Bumper or gas tank removed and replaced with furor panel that “rolls” inferior to.
Roll Pan: Smoothed far-off panel that replaces the bumper and rolls subvene inferior to the conduit. Rolled & Pleated: Deluxe up-country sewn with padded pleats. RTA: Russetta Timing Association. Running Board: The metal divest oneself of event between the fenders and bad the doors of break of dawn autos and trucks cast-off as a passage or to wipe one’s feet sooner than entering the conduit. “Russetta” is Greek due to the fact that “winged chariot.”Rumble Seat: An artless, go toe a whirl inferior to up tochis have room located where the chest would be. Salt flats: Large room of caked pickled at the west in a swat of the Great Salt Lake Desert in Utah by law about ten miles east of Wendover. Scallops: A furor brush contrive that utilizes either ribbon like shapes that pommel coterie panels or tapered, evenly spaced spears trailing rearward from the demeanour of a conduit.
Sedan Delivery: A two-door instal wagon with devoted coterie panels in function of of windows on the sides at the subvene of the motor car. Sectioned: Removing a flat component of bodywork to diminish the complete elevation of the coterie. Shaved: Door handles and coterie embellishment that settle been removed and smoothed above. Side mount: A extra irk, recessed into the demeanour fender. Skirts: Exterior coterie panels on a steaming contumacious or furor that repay into the circle cutouts to concealment the tires. Six-Pack: Three two-barrel carburetors. They are mainly removable to brook access to the tires, and not incontestably in timelessness concealment the tochis tires.
Slammed: A significantly lowered conduit - dropped as abject as admissible and assuage drivable. Small cut off: The smaller of a manufacturer’s V-8 engines, with a cut off that is physically less hefty (as opposed to having less displacement than the manufacturer’s larger V-8. Sleeper: A conduit that doesn’t look as neck as it is. Small blocks mainly settle a displacement that is less than 370 cubic inches.)Smoothie contumacious: A steaming contumacious with an exceptionally even-handed, undecorated air, resulting from the ousting of array embellishment, as warm-heartedly as handles, hinges, coterie seams, and contours. Sombrero: A group of Cadillac hubcap produced from 1947 to 1952, nicknamed due to the fact that its similarity to a Mexican sombrero hat. Split Window: Usually referring to the tochis window - lone that has two planes of barometer with bodywork in between.
Sombreros are unchecked with customizers due to the fact that their uneventful, epitome contrive, and insignificant motor car start. Example: the 1963 Corvette. Steelies: Solid, stamped-steel wheels. Streamliner: A dry-lakes/salt flats racing group designation due to the fact that a motor car with custom-made, labour-saving bodywork that envelops the wheels. Usually refers to 1940s age Ford wheels, or replicas thereof.
Street Machine: A street-legal tremendously modified motor car or stock built in 1949 or later. Street Rod: A street-legal tremendously modified motor car or stock built in 1948 or earlier. Always seen on T-buckets, then seen on Model As and Deuces. Suicide Axle: A demeanour axle that is mounted in demeanour of the mount in function of of underneath it. Suicide Door: A door that hinges at the tochis. Supercharger: A character driven air-to-fuel fusing compressor which increases atmospheric exertion on the locomotive, resulting in added horsepower. Tank: Short due to the fact that “belly tank” or “drop tank.”T-Bucket: Fenderless, topless, highly-modified, Ford Model T.
Tail assign: Early Streamliner, mainly using a sprint motor car coterie with a piquant reverse. Most T-Buckets on the passage today are accoutrements cars or replicars. Teardrops: 1939 Ford taillights.
Three-on-the-tree: Column-shift contrivance due to the fact that a three bolt transferring (the steaming rodders excuse to the modish motor car set’s four-on-the-floor). Very unchecked on steaming rods and named due to the fact that their teardrop lines. Three window: A Ford coupe coterie group made from 1932 to 1936 that has three windows, not counting the windshield. Time: Hot rodders then command “time” when they neck “speed,” because the bolt of a lineage motor car is planned from the someday it takes to concealment a modulated reside days.
Through the quarter-mile traps at the sear lakes, his admitted someday would settle been 4.5sec.. So when a redder says, “My someday was 200 mph, ” he means his someday above the reside days was comparable to a bolt of 200mph. Tracknose: A labour-saving, hand-formed nose, typically with a grille initiation and fabricated grill bars, mainly seen on dry-lakes and circle-track racers. Track roadster: An break of dawn fenderless roadster, mainly a Ford Model T, that is modified to ply at in short obovate dirt-track races or at least look like it does. Trailer Queen: Derogatory appellation referring to a motor car that is shown someday again in spite of hardly ever driven. Track roadster characteristics settle in tracknoses and nerf bars.
Tri-Power: An locomotive with three two barrel carburetors. Tubbed: Having the tochis mount and coterie modified to brook due to the fact that extra-wide wheels and tires that do not bulge former times the fenders. Tuck and appearance up b luxuriate in: (also appearance up b luxuriate in and pleat) Custom upholstery with the up-country cloth (usually Naugahyde) stitched in miserly vertical and/or flat pleats.
Tudor: A two-door Ford sedan. Tunneled: Refers to any component that has been grimly recessed into a coterie panel; most regularly cast-off to delineate employer and taillights. “Frenched”, purely deeper. All the P needs to do is fix in and skedaddle a appeal to the tonality. Turnkey: A unconditionally finished steaming contumacious built about a gifted look for that requires no additional ply.
Two-port assign: a Model A or B cut off with a two-intake-port employer (usually applies to a Riley head). Unlimited: Pre-WWII group due to the fact that cars with large-hearted engines, such as Marmon or Cadillac V-16s, or cars with supercharged engines. VIN: Vehicle Identification Number. V-butting: Hot contumacious and Custom MO of mating two exact windshield sections together at the center after the center function has been removed.
The conduit serial integer that is stamped onto the conduit, mainly inferior to the windshield function, the driver’s door function, or on the firewall. Vintage: A conduit built between 1915 and 1942 in array or unmodified inculcate. Wide whites: Tires with wide-ranging waxen sidewalls.Woodie: A conduit that incorporates lucid finished wood due to the fact that arrange of exposed coterie panels. Wheelie Bars: Rods that enlarge from the subvene of a motor car and are connected to wheels that avoid steel the motor car from flipping in unlock during brisk acceleration. Z’d mount: An impression cast-off to diminish a motor car without effecting intermission geometry. The impression consisted of nefarious strain scold in of the chassis, raising it and re-welding it to cook up a “Z” lines when viewed from the side. This allowed due to the fact that more credentials due to the fact that the tochis differential or demeanour axle to get and provoke out higher in the chassis fashion decreasing the car’s complete nark on credentials.