Vehicle Terminology "Slang"

[Kern Dog]

I HATE:
Dizzy
Dippy
Carby
Chally
Satty
I LOVE:
Runs like a RAPED Ape
That car scrams.

 

[chargervert]

3/4 and full race cam

A 3/4 cam fits perfectly into a V6 engine! A full race cam would have no lobes at all,a full race,like a bearing race is perfectly round! I was talking to a guy at a show one time and he turned his head to me,and said.....That's what dey did back den!

 

[Budnicks]

Then a minute later S.T.O.P means Stupid Trooper On Patrol!

State Tax On Pussy

 

[chargervert]

Spin tires on pavement! I used to call my friends Dart GTS Derelict All Rusted Throughout and the GTS stood for Going To Stall! Lol He said that the GTS stood for Gratuitous Tire Smoke! When my uncle saw my first 70 Charger R/T, he said where's the A,I said what A ,he said the one that goes between the R and the T! Lol I Back in the day,I used to call my 70 GTX,the Mustang GT Xterminator!

 

[Budnicks]

Badassery (to describe a cool car)

MoPar (all of Chrysler Corp. org. was just parts division)
Blue Oval (Ford)
Bowtie (Chevy usually blue)
Red Bowtie (for a time it meant performance in Chevy)
Widetrack, Tin Indian, Pancho (Pontiac)
Grampa's cars (Buicks mostly GS's)
Oldmobuble (usually a cool 442)

laying a patch (short burnout)
getting sideways
leaving you signature
brodies (doughnuts)
barking gears
chirping gears

Valve floated
grind me a pound too (missed shift)

Track trollop
track groupies (sort of the same)
the strip
the bleach-box
the stripe
running it out the back door (track talk)

shooting ducks (misfire)

the cruise
do the loop or circuit
out to show (sort of out on Mainstreet USA fri, sat, sun night)
trolling for trash (girl hunting or guys when you're a woman)

trailer queen
Watchers
all show & no go
no go showboat
all the chrome won't get you home
lots of blower & no boost
Posers (all sort of derogatory show car slang)

dual 4's
Hi-Rise
dual plane
single plane
tunnel-ram
cross-ram
injected
3 deuces
tri-power
6bbl/six pack

Gasser (something jacked way up)

bucket tee bucket tee bucket tee (to describe a cam lope)

some are really regional,
we had stupid saying within certain groups too
some are obvious, some aren't supposed to be too

 

[Basket case]

Pop-up Pistons
Bumpstick
Girlymatic
Rat Motor
Mouse Motor
Deuce and a Quarter
Pie Crust Slicks
Dizzy
Rockford

aside from James Garner, I;ve never heard Rockford.care to elaborate Ray?

 

[Budnicks]

aside from James Garner, I;ve never heard Rockford.care to elaborate Ray?

haul *** backwards crank the wheel
& flip it around car faces forwards, drive out of it

like Jim 'Rockford' (James Garner) did on his show

 

[chargervert]

The now famous Rockford J turn!

 

[ACME A12]

Yep, they nailed it.

 

[Duckmanreno]

"Babbit beater"= any engine with poured bearings.

"Doin' 70 in a VW"= one in the front seat, 69 in the back seat.

Babbit beater. My dad Used that term when I was a kid meaning Chevy.

Swizzle stick. Any stick shift

Bondo buggy.

 

[Dave6T4]

Gas, Tires, Oil for GTO
Oldsmobile Gutless
Ford Poontang. (Falcon Deluxe)
Plymouth Baccaruda

 

[eldubb440]

"jacked up"

"straight pipes"

 

[Kern Dog]

Four on the floor? How about three at the knee ?
Add another one that I HATE:
NOSS.
Nobody with any sense calls Nitrous Oxide by that stupid term. I blame the idiot writers for the Fast and Furious movies for that one.

 

[eldubb440]

"balanced and blueprinted"

"it's got a cam in it"

 

[eldubb440]

dude in high school had a 6 cyl camaro with the jacked up, big tire look........ he liked doing donuts on wet pavement..... he always said, "It's bad in the rain"!

 

[3sloppydogs]

Speedshifting

 

[DeltaV]

I've heard "got his foot In the carburetor" over the years.

Must have a hole in the firewall.

 

[DeltaV]

Plymouth RUSTER

Ford Moosestang (this might be a more recent term)

4 banger

Oil burner

Curb feelers

___________
Ruster, not Duster

 

[chargervert]

There's some real muscle here tonight, that Plymouth has a Hemi with a Torqueflight!

 

[Kern Dog]

Two Lane Blacktop!