Bruce,
My daughter, who is re-taking Algebra in summer
school right now, will be very greatful that you
printed this. I managed to get an overall score
of 97.5% on the definitions of those terms. Then
it dawned on me that was exactly the reason why I
only got 73% in Algebra. (Those little R&C and
Car Crafts fit so neatly inside the Algebra
book.)
I guess I'll have to cut her a little slack, I
know she wasn't readin R&C and Car Craft when she
should have been doin algebra, but at least I
suddenly remembered that she's only a kid!!!
Thanks from Monica
Dick J
In East Texas
--- FastmetalBDF@aol.com wrote:
>
> Keith, Bob S, and all ...... Yeah,
> I' ve heard of slugs of the
> gun type,
> slugs of the slimy, crawl around your yard
> type, slugs of beer( or Diet Coke
> ),
> and some people might be seen as slugs ......
> but in the world of auto racing
> and hot rods, since the late Forties .......
> the word slugs always referred to
> PISTONS, and usually those of the aftermarket /
> racing type . Another
> common term for pistons back then was " jugs ".
> Carbs, especially the
> old favorite Stromberg 97s, were called jugs,
> too ...... and still are !
> There was quite an array of racing and
> rodding jargon in the earlier
> decades of auto sport ....... and sayings and
> slogans, too . Many of you
> may recall, " If it don't GO - - - - CHROME
> IT " ...... Twinfire cranks
> ......
> zee'd and cee'd .......Stu's tubes ......
> sneaker sticks ...... stack &
> stagger ....... hairpin radius roads ......
> wishbones ( split or otherwise )
> ...... whacked ( recent
> term ) ...... Chute Cutie ....... " Tip the
> can, label and all !!! " ......
> sprinklers ....... hot wrench ...... cobaltic
> billet / 5 cycle /
> Lageliminator /
> or Hyperbolic camshafts ( from the Camshaft
> Wars Era ) ...... shaved heads
> ....... typewriter shifters ( you Mopar guys
> know what those were ) ......
> nosed and decked ...... dago axles ......
> mushroom tappets .......
> ported & relieved ...... A - bones and T - tubs
> ...... Denver heads( don't
> forget Bohnalite heads, either ) ...... sleeper
> ...... weedburners and
> zoomies ...... mousetrap springs ....... Zephyr
> cogs ....... suicide axles
> ....... floating grilles ...... Goldfish Bowls(
> AMC Pacers ) ........
> shrinking panels ...... chrome goodies .......
> cheater slicks .......
> sandbaggers ....... getting " top ended "
> ....... degree wheels ......
> strokers / mags / huffers / slipper clutches /
> torched springs / radiused
> wheelwells / diggers / railjobs / bugs &
> cutdowns / gophers & railbirds /
> " leavin' late "/ " lunching " motors /
> trannies, mills, and Cad-LaSalle
> boxes
> .......Hemis / semi - hemis / four bangers /
> cammers / boat anchors /
> Chizlers / Tin Indians / Ponchos / Rajos and
> twelve ports .......
> " dropping "your tranny " ......" banging
> second " ....... " stuffing it "
> in the wall ...... redlighting ......
> shortshifting ....... bangshifting
> .......
> swapping pinks ...... acid dipping ...... glass
> noses ...... " driving it
> out the back door "...... visiting the " crash
> house " ...... " get a wheel
> under him " ....... " take a round out " ......
> ratchetjaws & hotshoes.......
> also rans, leadfoots, and hardchargers ......
> knockoff hubs & crash buckets,
> lighting ' em all the way through ...... bleach
> burnouts ...... hazing ' em in
> the lights ...... radiused cranks & floating
> bearings ....... teflon buttons
> and gapless rings ...... rockblock filler and
> nitrided crankshafts ......
> posi rears and Detroit lockers ...... flips &
> wheelies ....... banjoes
> & pumpkins ...... Houdailles & coilovers ......
> pushing the nose or loose in
> the a ( .... rear ! ) ...... jumping the flag
> or " taking my line " .......
> dropping a valve ....... grabbing the checkers
> ...... taking the green
> or " on the hook "...... fouling out or "
> cleaning house " ....... " pruning "
> a stocker ...... kustom kemps / leadsleds &
> lowriders ...... shotrods and
> trailer
> queens, channel jobs and hiboy coupes,
> roadsters & " Vickies ".........
> liners & tankers ....... doorslammers & sickles
> ........ gookwagons( from
> outta the Fifties ! ) and grocery getters (
> remember Farmer Arnie Beswick,
> or Dyno Don Nicholson's wagons ? ...... real
> HAULERS !!! )
> This could go on and on ....... but you
> can see where some folks
> would wonder what language you were speaking
> here ...... some rather
> strange names and phrases to non-racing fan
> types !
> There are an awful lot more names,
> terms, phrases and slogans
> from all those years gone ...... colorful words
> from colorful events
> in a long parade of automotive mayhem, mastery,
> and masterpieces,
> heroes & villians ....... winners and losers,
> friends and fun .......
> and ALWAYS : THE WONDERFUL SOUNDS of
> thundering racecars
> and POWERFUL ENGINES, singing their SIREN
> SONG to me !!!
> Just a little of my memories of a (
> misspent youth ? maybe ......
> but, nevertheless ) ....... many of the
> GREATEST TIMES in my life !!!
> Thanks for the Memories
> .......
> Bruce D. Ferguson
> signing off with a real old one from the early
> dry lakes years ......
> before my start of race craziness ...... YOU
> can figure it out :
> " Four for GOW ...... and Eight for
> PLOW !!! "
>
> >>>>> MAKE TIME FOR OTHERS - -
> - - -
> FOR THINGS CAN CHANGE SO QUICKLY
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