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How to tell if its a real street car !

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I always see all these different reasons people say as to why their car should be considered a street car like run on pump gas and not overheat and so on as you all know. But I found the 2 real ways to tell if its a real street car.

The number 1 way is the car has to have wiper blades and a radio antenna on it !

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And Number 2 is the car has to start with the stock type ignition switch ! So my 63 passes as a real street car ! LoL ! Ron

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Sorry Ron, can't agree.

While a daily, my mustang only had the wipers on it if it was snowing or sleeting. Preferred the look w/o them.

Antennas look horrible and distract me. I even took it off my 2010 tacoma cuz I hated seeing the thing flop around. Besides, my Plymouth is a radio delete car.

I adhere to the idle in traffic in 100 deg weather w/ pump gas. If you can't get gas at any random station, it's a special-needs baby, and therefore not a 'street car'.

E85 isn't pump gas either.

Also think a db requirement of some sort, but I know that's awfully subjective...and turbo cars have an advantage.... If the driver isn't suffering from any temp hearing loss after a 30 min drive, maybe?
 
Sorry Ron, can't agree.

While a daily, my mustang only had the wipers on it if it was snowing or sleeting. Preferred the look w/o them.



Antennas look horrible and distract me. I even took it off my 2010 tacoma cuz I hated seeing the thing flop around. Besides, my Plymouth is a radio delete car.

OK ya got me on the radio delete since ya could buy a car like that but if you have a radio and the factory antenna it does make it look more like a street car.


I adhere to the idle in traffic in 100 deg weather w/ pump gas. If you can't get gas at any random station, it's a special-needs baby, and therefore not a 'street car'.
Not quite sure what your saying hear but I myself run on 92 pump. I dont and never have used E85 as I dont even know where to get it in my area but I built mine to run on pump so I could pull into any station anywhere and get gas.




E85 isn't pump gas either. I agree.

Also think a db requirement of some sort, but I know that's awfully subjective...and turbo cars have an advantage.... If the driver isn't suffering from any temp hearing loss after a 30 min drive, maybe?

A db requirement ?? You mean for noise ? Maybe explain different as not sure just what your saying.

You do know I am basically joking but its always fun to come up with different idea's to call a car a street car since so many have different idea's to classify a street car. I have a saying as to what I call a street car as many of the so called street cars I see are what I call "race cars with tags". LoL !

I figured I would see what reactions I get from this view of a street car with the antenna for the radio and the ignintion switch and not toggle switches. Course I should have stated you have to have an antenna if you have a radio and you have to be able to hear the radio over the exh ?? Maybe thats what you mean on the db ?

And please by all means anyone add what they like. Ron
 
Being able to drive on the street....legally, not just because you have plates on it, would have to pass state patrol inspections here in Ohio, they do random inspections on passenger vehicles all the time, setting up a make shift inspection station pulling cars over verifying documents and looking the car overall. Most "racecars" would fail for one reason or another, tire size, fender clearance, db, various other miniscule BS the troopers like to knitpick
 
Mine is a real street car But i have no wipers, heater, back seat mine is a street car but i am lighting mine up .... :)
 

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I don't care if it burns hydrazine and you have to use an air starter hooked to the blower drive. If you drive it to work every day, it's a street car. :)
 
I'll play devils advocate, food for thought...

If it has tags & is registered & street drive, then it's a street car....

By some peoples thinking the cars that run in Drag Week,
aren't real street cars ??, seems that they are too me,
they drove all over the place, crossed state lines even, some 1500+ miles on the highways,
some don't have a radio or heaters, carpeting or even windshield wipers etc.,
some of the contestants even towed a trailer, with spare parts & then they run at the track...
I call them "street cars", maybe racecars/pro-mods with plates, but they are registered & they are being street driven...

Different strokes for different folks, fit into a specific nomenclature really,
one guys/gals car is what they think/want, not necessarily what someone else "labels them as"...

I use to drive my "Race-cars" on the street allot, the ones that had registration & plates/tags, "a race-car with plates"
many people would say those aren't street cars, or they have a cage, or they have a bunch of fiberglass parts,
or they don't have a radio, they don't have wipers or they have a hood scoop, they have racing harnesses, even they have N20 or a Blower & mech. FI, all the race-car criteria etc.
or those aren't "street tires" {looking at my slicks or "DOT" Drag radials}...

I'd always respond,
"it's registered, it's insured & it's being driven on the street" &/or those are "my street tires"...
I know it's semantics, but why pigeon hole somebody, or classify somebody, by what they have or don't have on their car....
It may not be a "daily driver" for commuting, or like used for grocery shopping, picking up the kids at school regularly {now that's a street car}
or cruising in bumper to bumper traffic,
but that doesn't make them considered "not a REAL street car"...

Does it ??

I've seen many people call some cars "trailer queens", because they don't drive them long distances,
the owners don't want to wear them out, or put excessive miles on them, for an extended period of time etc.,
what ever reasoning they have for not street driving or highway driving regularly, or why they don't drive them like a "Daily Driver" {IMHFO a completely different category, no matter the age or style}...
But they have all the necessary criteria for a "real street car", but that rarely hit the street too, does that make them show-only-cars/trailer queens & "not REAL street cars" ??...

If it's street driven it's a street car IMHFO :headbang:
 
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Larry Larson's Nova. Not a street car, no matter what magazines say.

If it needs a trailer full of parts or a chase vehicle...regardless of having 'plates', it ain't a REAL 'street car'. Just me.
 
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Larry Larson's Nova. Not a street car, no matter what magazines say.

If it needs a trailer full of parts or a chase vehicle...regardless of having 'plates', it ain't a REAL 'street car'. Just me.

Apparently, you don't know Larry. He doesn't tow a trailer and he doesn't have a chase vehicle. Larry drives this car from Kansas City to Topeka to race it at NHRA divisional and national events (I personally watched Bob Frey's jaw drop when Larry entered the car - then pink with blower - in Super Street and rip off a 10.910 @ 185 mph) and then drives it home again.... all the while, the Alpine is playing.

Seriously, of all the cars I saw in the unlimited class in 2011, Larry's stood out as being a real-deal street car. Larry has owned this thing since he was just out of high school and it has ALWAYS been a street car. He packs a very simple tool box, one (yes ONE) spare tire, folded neatly within itself behind the passenger seat, a handful of sprags for the Lenco and a few spark plugs and such for the 5-day torture tour known as Drag Week. Larry "gets it" when it comes to what a street car really is. He has often voiced his opinion of fiberglas and carbon fiber "recreations" that are essentially pro mod cars allowed into Drag Week, but he has stayed the course with his STEEL Nova. He drives it hard on and off the track. Hate on it all you want, but until you see this thing up close and personal (or better yet, have Larry take you for a ride) don't bag on it. This is a real street car.
 
Seriously, of all the cars I saw in the unlimited class in 2011, Larry's stood out as being a real-deal street car. Larry has owned this thing since he was just out of high school and it has ALWAYS been a street car. He packs a very simple tool box, one (yes ONE) spare tire, folded neatly within itself behind the passenger seat, a handful of sprags for the Lenco and a few spark plugs and such for the 5-day torture tour known as Drag Week.

My comments were actually two independent, but I can understand how you thought I was commenting directly about Larry's car. Drag Week guys are supported to some extent, btw.

Larry "gets it" when it comes to what a street car really is. He has often voiced his opinion of fiberglas and carbon fiber "recreations" that are essentially pro mod cars allowed into Drag Week, but he has stayed the course with his STEEL Nova. Hate on it all you want, but until you see this thing up close and personal (or better yet, have Larry take you for a ride) don't bag on it. This is a real street car.

No hate for the carbon floor/firewall, tube chassis 'steel' nova, it does (did) its job wonderfully...just saying it's not a true street car by my definition. I sure as hell wouldn't want to be in it w/ no support out in the middle of the desert.
 
I'll play devils advocate, food for thought...

If it has tags & is registered & street drive, then it's a street car....

By some peoples thinking the cars that run in Drag Week,
aren't real street cars ??, seems that they are too me,
they drove all over the place, crossed state lines even, some 1500+ miles on the highways,
some don't have a radio or heaters, carpeting or even windshield wipers etc.,
some of the contestants even towed a trailer, with spare parts & then they run at the track...
I call them "street cars", maybe racecars/pro-mods with plates, but they are registered & they are being street driven...

Different strokes for different folks, fit into a specific nomenclature really,
one guys/gals car is what they think/want, not necessarily what someone else "labels them as"...

I use to drive my "Race-cars" on the street allot, the ones that had registration & plates/tags, "a race-car with plates"
many people would say those aren't street cars, or they have a cage, or they have a bunch of fiberglass parts,
or they don't have a radio, they don't have wipers or they have a hood scoop, they have racing harnesses, even they have N20 or a Blower & mech. FI, all the race-car criteria etc.
or those aren't "street tires" {looking at my slicks or "DOT" Drag radials}...

I'd always respond,
"it's registered, it's insured & it's being driven on the street" &/or those are "my street tires"...
I know it's semantics, but why pigeon hole somebody, or classify somebody, by what they have or don't have on their car....
It may not be a "daily driver" for commuting, or like used for grocery shopping, picking up the kids at school regularly {now that's a street car}
or cruising in bumper to bumper traffic,
but that doesn't make them considered "not a REAL street car"...

Does it ??

I've seen many people call some cars "trailer queens", because they don't drive them long distances,
the owners don't want to wear them out, or put excessive miles on them, for an extended period of time etc.,
what ever reasoning they have for not street driving or highway driving regularly, or why they don't drive them like a "Daily Driver" {IMHFO a completely different category, no matter the age or style}...
But they have all the necessary criteria for a "real street car", but that rarely hit the street too, does that make them show-only-cars/trailer queens & "not REAL street cars" ??...

If it's street driven it's a street car IMHFO :headbang:

The last line says it all!
 
I always see all these different reasons people say as to why their car should be considered a street car like run on pump gas and not overheat and so on as you all know. But I found the 2 real ways to tell if its a real street car.

The number 1 way is the car has to have wiper blades and a radio antenna on it !



- - - Updated - - -

And Number 2 is the car has to start with the stock type ignition switch ! So my 63 passes as a real street car ! LoL ! Ron


Hell, my work car doesn't start on a stock type ignition (push button start), so I guess my '95 Eagle Vision isn't a street car.......

IMO - street car =
1.) has functioning headlight/tail lights
2.) doesn't require a lot of extensive planning to cover the fuel (can get at any random station, case of octane booster/lead additive in the trunk to add on fillups counts in my book)
3.) doesn't overheat while doing normal driving
 
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IMO - street car =
1.) has functioning headlight/tail lights
2.) doesn't require a lot of extensive planning to cover the fuel (can get at any random station, case of octane booster/lead additive in the trunk to add on fillups counts in my book)
3.) doesn't overheat while doing normal driving
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Ummm, My Kubota is covered there but, no windshield wiper blades or radio that i have thought about putting on the orange beast! I guess it looses lol... But that dern things moves pretty quick with the petal to the metal! :)
 
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