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The model year is rarely given in full,[5] except when it might be confused, so a 1934 model is a '34, while a 2005 might be an '05 or not.
A '32 is usually a Deuce and most often a roadster, unless coupé is specified, and almost always a Ford.
A 3- or 5-window is usually a Ford, unless specified.
A flatty is a flathead V8[6] (always Ford, unless specified); a late (or late model) flatty is probably a Merc.
A hemi ("hem ee") is always a 426, unless displacement (331, 354, or 392) is specified;[7] a 426 is a hemi, unless Wedge is specified.
A 392 is an early hemi.
A 331 or 354 is known to be an (early) hemi, but rarely referred to as such
Units are routinely dropped, unless they are unclear, so a 426 cubic inch (in³) engine is simply referred to as a 426, a 5 liter engine is a 5.0 ("five point oh"), and a 600 cubic feet per minute (cfm) carburetor is a 600. Engine displacement can be described in cubic inches or liters (for example, a 5.7 liter engine is also known as a 350 {"three fifty"}); this frequently depends on which units the user is most comfortable or familiar with.
Some other common terms:
3/4-race — high-performance flatty cam, suitable for street and strip use
3 deuces — arrangement of three 2-barrel (twin-choke) carburetors; distinct from Six Pak and Pontiac and Olds[8] Tri-Power[9] (also 3x2 arrangements)
3-window — 2-door coupé; so named for one door window on each side plus the rear window[10]
5-window — 2-door coupé; so named for one door window and one quarter window on each side plus the rear window[11]
97s — “ninety-sevens,” a reference to the model number of Stromberg carburetors[12]
A-bone — Model A coupé[13]
Alky — alcohol (methanol) racing fuel
Anglebox - British Hot rod slang for a 1959-68 Ford Anglia 105-123E
Awful Awful (mainly North American) — AA/FA ("double A" Fuel Altered) drag racer
Blower — mechanically-driven supercharger; excludes turbochargers. Commonly a Roots.
Blown —
An engine equipped with a supercharger (a "blown hemi"); rarely used in reference to turbocharged engines
A vehicle equipped with a supercharged engine (a "blown higboy")
A wrecked engine or transmission
Blue oval — Ford product (for the Ford badge)
Bondo — brand name for a body filler putty, often used as a generic term for any such product
Bored — increasing the diameter of the cylinders in order to increase engine displacement
Bottle — nitrous
Bowtie — Chevrolet product (for the badge)[14]
Bugcatcher (or bugcatcher intake) — large scoop intake protruding through hood opening, or on cars with no hood.
Bumpstick — camshaft (for the lobes)
Cam — camshaft
Cammer — most commonly, the SOHC (single overhead camshaft) version of the 427 Ford V8.[15]
sometimes, the Ford Racing Power Parts 5 liter.[16]
rarely, any engine with overhead camshaft(s).
Cherry — like new[17]
C.I.D. (sometimes Cubic Inches or Inches) — cubic inches displacement
Crank — crankshaft
Cubes — CID
Cubic inches — CID
Deuce —
'32 Ford Model B (most often a roadster);[18] now commonly on A frame rails[19]
Chevy II Nova[20]
Dual quads — two four-barrel carburetors
Dragster —
broadly, any vehicle modified or purpose-built for use on strips.
specifically, specialized racers (early or recent types, in gas, alky, or fuel varieties)
Elephant — Chrysler hemi[21]
Fat-fender — 1934-48 (U.S.) car[22]
Flatty — flathead engine[23] (usually refers to a Ford; when specified, the Mercury-built model)
3/8s by 3/8s — lengthening the stroke and increasing the cylinder bore 3/8 inch. A term only applied to flattys.
Frenched — headlight slightly sunken into fender[24] or to install as such ("she frenched the taillights")
Fuel —
most commonly, nitro (or a mixture of nitro and alky); also, the top drag racing class
broadly, gasoline (petrol)
Full-race — high-performance flatty cams, suitable only for strip use
Gasser — car used in gasoline-only drag racing classes in the 1960s (as opposed to alcohol or nitromethane fuels), where the front end of the car is raised along with the motor. Characterized by a body that sits well above the front wheels. Distinct from hiboy.
Gennie — genuine[25]
Goat — GTO (not the Ferrari)
Hair dryer — turbocharger (for the shape of the casing)
Hairpins — radius rods[26]
Hopped up — stock engine modified to increase performance
Huffer — supercharger,[27]
Inches — CID
Indian (also "Tin Indian") — Pontiac (for the grille badge)
Jimmy (or Jimmy Six) — GMC straight 6
Any GMC product, such as a compressor used on 2-stroke diesels used as a supercharger.
Lakes pipes — exhaust pipes running beneath the rocker panels, after use by lakes racers
Lunched — wrecked; caused to be wrecked ("lunched" the transmission)
Mag —
magnesium wheel, or steel or aluminum copy resembling one such
magneto
Merc — Mercury
Mill - any internal combustion engine
Moons (or Moon discs; incorrectly, moon discs) — plain flat chrome or aluminum disc hubcaps, originally adopted by land speed racers. Smaller examples are "baby moons". Named for Dean Moon.
Mouse — small-block Chevy[28]
Mountain motor — large-displacement engine. Named for their size, and for being constructed in the mountains of Tennessee and North Carolina.[29] In organized automotive competition, the term commonly references a V8 engine displacing more than 500 cubic inches; informally, a V8 engine displacing more than 560 cubic inches
Nail - any car used as a daily driver[citation needed]
Nailhead — Buick V8, so named because the relatively small diameter valves
Nitro — Nitromethane, used as a fuel additive in some drag cars
Nitrous — nitrous oxide
NOS — Nitrous Oxide System (a.k.a. laughing gas, liquid supercharger, N2O, nitrous, "the bottle"): apparatus for introducing nitrous oxide into the air intake of an engine prior to the fuel entering the cylinder.
Pop — a mixture of nitro & alky. Also British shorthand for a sit-up and beg[clarification needed] Ford Popular.[citation needed]
Plod - British hot rod slang for body filler. Also slang for the traffic police (after PC Plod in Enid Blyton's Noddy Series).
Pro Street — street legal car resembling a Pro Stock car. Some are very thinly disguised racers.
QJ — Quadrajet (Rochester 4-barrel carburetor)[30]
Q-jet — Quadrajet[31]
Rail (or rail job) — dragster with exposed front frame. Usually refers to early short-wheelbase cars, and not usually to Altereds.
In drag racing, also refers to the guardrail
Rat — Chevy big block engine[32]
Rockcrusher — Muncie M22 4-speed transmission[33] so called because of the audible differences in operation between the model M-22 and its lower strength but quieter cousin, the M-21[citation needed]
Rocket — Oldsmobile, in particular their early V8s
Rolled pan - Contured sheet of metal that covers the space where the bumper used to be
SB — small-block (Chevy)
Shoebox — '49-'54 Ford (for the slab-sided appearance)
Souped (souped up) — hopped up, performance improved (more common in '40s and '50s)
Steelies — stock steel rims[34]
Stovebolt — Chevy straight 6[35]
Street legal — dual-purpose car, capable of performing routine duties as well as weekend racing. Some cars described as such, such as Pro Street cars, are very thinly disguised racers.
Street-strip — dual-purpose car, capable of performing routine duties as well as weekend racing. Some cars described as such have very marginal off-track utility.
Strip —
drag strip.
More broadly, cars or parts used or intended for racing only. Thus "street-strip" is a dual-purpose car.
Stroked — increased stroke, to increase displacement; usually by adding a longer-stroke crankshaft
Suicided — changed from front- to rear-hinged ("suicide door") type
Tin Indian — Pontiac (for the grille badge)
Toploader — Ford 4-speed manual transmission[36] so named because access to the transmission internal was made via an access panel located on the top of the transmission housing [37]
Track T — Model T roadster built in the style of a dirt track race car[38]
Tunneled — deeply sunken into fender[39]
Wombat — A nickname for the General Motors W series engine 348-409 cubic inch, manufactured circa 1958-1964 [40]
Wrinkle walls — drag racing slicks[41]
Zoomie pipes (or zoomies) — short exhaust pipes with no mufflers, used for racing, or just for show (not street legal)[42]
The model year is rarely given in full,[5] except when it might be confused, so a 1934 model is a '34, while a 2005 might be an '05 or not.
A '32 is usually a Deuce and most often a roadster, unless coupé is specified, and almost always a Ford.
A 3- or 5-window is usually a Ford, unless specified.
A flatty is a flathead V8[6] (always Ford, unless specified); a late (or late model) flatty is probably a Merc.
A hemi ("hem ee") is always a 426, unless displacement (331, 354, or 392) is specified;[7] a 426 is a hemi, unless Wedge is specified.
A 392 is an early hemi.
A 331 or 354 is known to be an (early) hemi, but rarely referred to as such
Units are routinely dropped, unless they are unclear, so a 426 cubic inch (in³) engine is simply referred to as a 426, a 5 liter engine is a 5.0 ("five point oh"), and a 600 cubic feet per minute (cfm) carburetor is a 600. Engine displacement can be described in cubic inches or liters (for example, a 5.7 liter engine is also known as a 350 {"three fifty"}); this frequently depends on which units the user is most comfortable or familiar with.
Some other common terms:
3/4-race — high-performance flatty cam, suitable for street and strip use
3 deuces — arrangement of three 2-barrel (twin-choke) carburetors; distinct from Six Pak and Pontiac and Olds[8] Tri-Power[9] (also 3x2 arrangements)
3-window — 2-door coupé; so named for one door window on each side plus the rear window[10]
5-window — 2-door coupé; so named for one door window and one quarter window on each side plus the rear window[11]
97s — “ninety-sevens,” a reference to the model number of Stromberg carburetors[12]
A-bone — Model A coupé[13]
Alky — alcohol (methanol) racing fuel
Anglebox - British Hot rod slang for a 1959-68 Ford Anglia 105-123E
Awful Awful (mainly North American) — AA/FA ("double A" Fuel Altered) drag racer
Blower — mechanically-driven supercharger; excludes turbochargers. Commonly a Roots.
Blown —
An engine equipped with a supercharger (a "blown hemi"); rarely used in reference to turbocharged engines
A vehicle equipped with a supercharged engine (a "blown higboy")
A wrecked engine or transmission
Blue oval — Ford product (for the Ford badge)
Bondo — brand name for a body filler putty, often used as a generic term for any such product
Bored — increasing the diameter of the cylinders in order to increase engine displacement
Bottle — nitrous
Bowtie — Chevrolet product (for the badge)[14]
Bugcatcher (or bugcatcher intake) — large scoop intake protruding through hood opening, or on cars with no hood.
Bumpstick — camshaft (for the lobes)
Cam — camshaft
Cammer — most commonly, the SOHC (single overhead camshaft) version of the 427 Ford V8.[15]
sometimes, the Ford Racing Power Parts 5 liter.[16]
rarely, any engine with overhead camshaft(s).
Cherry — like new[17]
C.I.D. (sometimes Cubic Inches or Inches) — cubic inches displacement
Crank — crankshaft
Cubes — CID
Cubic inches — CID
Deuce —
'32 Ford Model B (most often a roadster);[18] now commonly on A frame rails[19]
Chevy II Nova[20]
Dual quads — two four-barrel carburetors
Dragster —
broadly, any vehicle modified or purpose-built for use on strips.
specifically, specialized racers (early or recent types, in gas, alky, or fuel varieties)
Elephant — Chrysler hemi[21]
Fat-fender — 1934-48 (U.S.) car[22]
Flatty — flathead engine[23] (usually refers to a Ford; when specified, the Mercury-built model)
3/8s by 3/8s — lengthening the stroke and increasing the cylinder bore 3/8 inch. A term only applied to flattys.
Frenched — headlight slightly sunken into fender[24] or to install as such ("she frenched the taillights")
Fuel —
most commonly, nitro (or a mixture of nitro and alky); also, the top drag racing class
broadly, gasoline (petrol)
Full-race — high-performance flatty cams, suitable only for strip use
Gasser — car used in gasoline-only drag racing classes in the 1960s (as opposed to alcohol or nitromethane fuels), where the front end of the car is raised along with the motor. Characterized by a body that sits well above the front wheels. Distinct from hiboy.
Gennie — genuine[25]
Goat — GTO (not the Ferrari)
Hair dryer — turbocharger (for the shape of the casing)
Hairpins — radius rods[26]
Hopped up — stock engine modified to increase performance
Huffer — supercharger,[27]
Inches — CID
Indian (also "Tin Indian") — Pontiac (for the grille badge)
Jimmy (or Jimmy Six) — GMC straight 6
Any GMC product, such as a compressor used on 2-stroke diesels used as a supercharger.
Lakes pipes — exhaust pipes running beneath the rocker panels, after use by lakes racers
Lunched — wrecked; caused to be wrecked ("lunched" the transmission)
Mag —
magnesium wheel, or steel or aluminum copy resembling one such
magneto
Merc — Mercury
Mill - any internal combustion engine
Moons (or Moon discs; incorrectly, moon discs) — plain flat chrome or aluminum disc hubcaps, originally adopted by land speed racers. Smaller examples are "baby moons". Named for Dean Moon.
Mouse — small-block Chevy[28]
Mountain motor — large-displacement engine. Named for their size, and for being constructed in the mountains of Tennessee and North Carolina.[29] In organized automotive competition, the term commonly references a V8 engine displacing more than 500 cubic inches; informally, a V8 engine displacing more than 560 cubic inches
Nail - any car used as a daily driver[citation needed]
Nailhead — Buick V8, so named because the relatively small diameter valves
Nitro — Nitromethane, used as a fuel additive in some drag cars
Nitrous — nitrous oxide
NOS — Nitrous Oxide System (a.k.a. laughing gas, liquid supercharger, N2O, nitrous, "the bottle"): apparatus for introducing nitrous oxide into the air intake of an engine prior to the fuel entering the cylinder.
Pop — a mixture of nitro & alky. Also British shorthand for a sit-up and beg[clarification needed] Ford Popular.[citation needed]
Plod - British hot rod slang for body filler. Also slang for the traffic police (after PC Plod in Enid Blyton's Noddy Series).
Pro Street — street legal car resembling a Pro Stock car. Some are very thinly disguised racers.
QJ — Quadrajet (Rochester 4-barrel carburetor)[30]
Q-jet — Quadrajet[31]
Rail (or rail job) — dragster with exposed front frame. Usually refers to early short-wheelbase cars, and not usually to Altereds.
In drag racing, also refers to the guardrail
Rat — Chevy big block engine[32]
Rockcrusher — Muncie M22 4-speed transmission[33] so called because of the audible differences in operation between the model M-22 and its lower strength but quieter cousin, the M-21[citation needed]
Rocket — Oldsmobile, in particular their early V8s
Rolled pan - Contured sheet of metal that covers the space where the bumper used to be
SB — small-block (Chevy)
Shoebox — '49-'54 Ford (for the slab-sided appearance)
Souped (souped up) — hopped up, performance improved (more common in '40s and '50s)
Steelies — stock steel rims[34]
Stovebolt — Chevy straight 6[35]
Street legal — dual-purpose car, capable of performing routine duties as well as weekend racing. Some cars described as such, such as Pro Street cars, are very thinly disguised racers.
Street-strip — dual-purpose car, capable of performing routine duties as well as weekend racing. Some cars described as such have very marginal off-track utility.
Strip —
drag strip.
More broadly, cars or parts used or intended for racing only. Thus "street-strip" is a dual-purpose car.
Stroked — increased stroke, to increase displacement; usually by adding a longer-stroke crankshaft
Suicided — changed from front- to rear-hinged ("suicide door") type
Tin Indian — Pontiac (for the grille badge)
Toploader — Ford 4-speed manual transmission[36] so named because access to the transmission internal was made via an access panel located on the top of the transmission housing [37]
Track T — Model T roadster built in the style of a dirt track race car[38]
Tunneled — deeply sunken into fender[39]
Wombat — A nickname for the General Motors W series engine 348-409 cubic inch, manufactured circa 1958-1964 [40]
Wrinkle walls — drag racing slicks[41]
Zoomie pipes (or zoomies) — short exhaust pipes with no mufflers, used for racing, or just for show (not street legal)[42]
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