Thread: Curious ... What's the Correct Spelling? Hiboy, Highboy, Hi-boy, etc...

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I might be inclined to agree about the '60's. I did a quick look through some Hop Up reprints I've got from '51-2 and saw no reference to the term hiboy (any spelling). They had an article about consolidated rules for 8 different timing associations from dry lakes racing and the only reference was "roadsters" then various classes based on w/fenders, w/o fenders, modified bodies. The word "channeled" showed up in a number of articles and in the race class descriptions.

Here's some scans from a drive test in May of '52 where they used what is a quintessential "hiboy", and never once used the term. Note that the author, well known hot rod historian that he was, wasn't too comfortable with the fenderless configuration.