Gear Head Slang: List Your Favorites

[TallPaul]

I'll start with these two gems:

SLUSHBOX for automatic transmission

ONE LEGGER for an open differential (non posi-traction rear end)

 

[Johnny]

ONE LUNGER.

 

[XS650]

BILLET for any highly machined piece of metal, whether its made from bar stock, plate or sometimes a machined casting or forging.

 

[mpvue]

POSI (esp when the one saying it cannot explain it)
SLAMMED
RAT ROD
MOTOR (when we all know he is talking about the 'engine')

 

[Solo2driver]

BLOWN....bad (destroyed) or good(forced induction)?

 

[MarginCalled]

Bonnet, boot, car park, petrol head, bugger, roo, and any other word that comes out of an Aussie's mouth. Pure hilarity. I don't know how they can talk to each other without breaking up into laughter!

 

[addyguy]

Referring to any car engine as a 'banger' - a 4-banger, 6-banger...etc...

Agree with what MarginCalled said above!

 

[oilyriser]

Grenade your engine.

 

[tom slick]

slip-n-slide powerglide

thumper

oversquare or undersquare

three deuces

lead sled

blew up (as in I ran her to hard and she blew up)

grinding the gears

rowing through the gears

 

[XS650]

Dynaslush for Dynaflow

Flushamatic or Slushamatic for Fordamatic.

Stovebolt for old Chevy sixs

Tranny (has another meaning now

)

 

[alreadygone]

???UUUh, guys, aint all this stuff in Websters dictionary?

Bob

 

[RTexasF]

Three on the tree. Wonder how many here have a clue what that is....or was?

 

[TallPaul]

Almost forgot (and I had a couple of these back in the 70s):

Find-em-and-grind-em, three on the tree.

 

[TooManyWheels]

Chunk/pumpkin - (removable RWD rear end center section)

Dump the clutch - sometimes literally

Blew their doors off - outperformed

Deuce Coupe - (32 Ford. My wife heard the song and wondered why they were singing about a Little Blue Scoop)

Roundy-Round - (oval race track)

Loose and Tight - over and understeer, at least on a roundy round track.

Push - What the front end does when you are tight on a roundy round track

 

[Gary Allan]

I'm there on the "billet" thing. Not necessarily a favorite per se~ but more noticing it used to(o much) mean "goody" "here's a billet replica ashtray to set off your project jeeest right" on HorsePower or Power Trucks ..or whatever feature length commercial I was watching at the time.

I'd say that I missed out on a few of the descriptive terms after the 70's

"The hot setup" was replace with "The hot lick" about the time I step out for a "dark ages" time in my life. Now I surely missed a few between then and "that's sick". I imagine awesome was used in there somewhere.

 

[TooManyWheels]

Originally Posted By: RTexasF
Three on the tree. Wonder how many here have a clue what that is....or was?


It was in proximity to the necker knob

...and the fuzzy dice.

 

[OVERKILL]

-Dizzy (distributor)
-Peg-Legged rear end (open diff)
-Skins (tires)
-Dubs (stupidly large wheels)
-Autotragic (automatic)
-Pull the trigger (drop the clutch)
-Drop the hammer (floor it)
-Wind it up (rev the engine up)
-Leaning tower of power (slant-six)
-Rat (built big block)
-Mouse (built small block)
-Hog (motorcycle)
-Deuce (two barrel carb)
-Three quarter race cam (and the ignorance behind the usage of this type of term is hilarious)
-Stroked n' poked (stroked and bored)

 

[TooManyWheels]

Originally Posted By: OVERK1LL

-Three quarter race cam (and the ignorance behind the usage of this type of term is hilarious)


And of course "full race"

Then there are the 50s-60s custom terms - dropped, chopped, channeled, Z'd, frenched, shaved, etc.

Digger - old term for dragster

Slicks - everybody knows, right?

 

[Pablo]

Crotch rocket

 

[TooManyWheels]

Original - overused term for describing ragged-out/rusted-out musclecars and restorables.