Hotrod?
 

I was watching TV the other night and I turned to some import car show. I thought that I would watch a minute or 2 and see what was going on with these cars. I was pretty sure that the guys on TV would be a lot cooler than the little peckers I've always met.

So they start talking about a hotrod civic.

It had some super-duper yakazushi kawa-bling-bling exhaust, a carbon fibre hood, a carbon fibre wing, after market rims and a bunch of fancy faggy pinstriping. WTF makes a car like THAT a hotrod????.

To me a hotrod is atleast a muscle car, if not older, has a bunch of speed goodies, bigger engine, performance exhaust, lumpy cam, big carb. This little rice burner had none of this (with possible exception of the exhaust).

WTF!?!? What do you think of when you think of a "hotrod"?

My definition of a hot rod has always been a 20's 30's or 40's car with a big engine, lots of custom work done, (shaving, sectioning etc) and a really nice paint job often flamed. I know the term is used rather loosely but thats always been my definition.

According to webster:

hot rod also hot-rod (htrd)
n. Slang
An automobile that has been rebuilt or modified to increase its speed and acceleration

According to me:
http://images.traderonline.com/EMedi...0235080203.jpg

Big motor, big cam, big gear, little car. If its a Deuce, even better.:D

Hotrod Civic is like Military Intelligence.

Two words that should never be together...

hot rods were built to spill, tear up the pavement, piss of the neighbors, get horrible gas milage.. an be loads of fun. original hot rods were factory colors, maybe some kustom pinstripping or flames or a black primer paint job. channeled bodies, frenched headlights, sectioned hoods..these are hot rod.

that import show is Hi- rev tunerz an its sposored by the douche bags at pep-boys, its 99.9 percent showcar related an 1% actual performance oriented(las night they put in an air kit):eek: :rolleyes:

You call that riceburner a Hot Rod?
 

This is the kind of thing that really pisses off muscle car people.

These little (mostly) foreign fart-cars are not only buzzing around America pretending to be fast via paint, plastic add-ons and stickers but they even adopt terms that should never be used for a ricemobile. 'Hot Rod' is a distinct American term used to describe the old 1930's and '40's cars street racers modified back in the post-war era (late 1940's to late 50's) and what the Big Three manufacturers eventually used as a template for the muscle cars of the 1960's. Light bodies, big engines and all the extras that make a car fast off the showroom floor.

The flathead-powered V-8 Fords that street racers coveted in the '50's were a prime example of this, with 'Offy' heads, '3/4 race' cams, duel exhausts and so on with a floor shift for the 3-speed transmission. Yeah, the Barris creations carried the look over the top but the basic 1955 Hot Rod was probably a 1932, '36, '40 or '49 Ford and it always had some kind of engine modification and often a much bigger engine, like an Olds 303 V-8.

Hot Rod, although a broad term that technically can include any car that is noticably modified, should not be applied to a Honda Civic with a bunch of junk on it, running 17-second quarters. They are stealing a great American car term and misusing it. That's wrong but a technical error that probably no one outside of muscle car fans will notice or care about; certainly not some kid with a gunked-up ricemobile and a fart pipe thinking he's 'kewl' as he whels mom's cast-off grocery-getter around town.

Yeah, yeah, they're are fast ricemobiles and they're are 7-second Mustangs too but the majority of the ricemobiles are fake and gaudy and have little relation to a real Hot Rod as most Americans understand the term.

http://www.raceworx.com/funnypics/vtecsucks.gif
If it has one of those its not a Freakin HOT ROD..
And welcome back Mr 5.0

Bradley

One night I saw that hi-rev tunerz and they were explaining what VTEC stands for. I don't even own a honda and I know what it stands for.
It's like telling us what EFI stands for:rolleyes: should be common knowledge for the little buggers but apparently it isn't

rice & hot rod's are, like hammer said, military intelligence, welcome back jim, we miss you. ;) :D :D :D :D :D