(QUOTE)Its not a "street rod"... Its a 50's custom.

I think hotrod57 means to say "street rod" where he is saying "hot rod". The NSRA is the National STREET ROD Association. By their own definition a street rod is a pre-49 modified vehicle. It says nothing about "hot rod".(quote)



I also had a set of terms that had been defined for decades. As I have talked to younger guys on the net, I find that those terms are no longer "chiseled in stone".

They were things like:
Hot Rod = prewar (WW2), ...and street rod ...and muscle car ...and custom ...and others.

Today things are changing. Fiberglass bodies are now frowned on by many, though, as a 40+ year bodywork guy, I prefer them (on very practical grounds). Putting a Chevy engine in a non-Chevy is frowned on,though it was the first choice for thousands of builders for many decades (and for good reasons). We never had primer as a first choice for paint, but now young builders think we all did. We were thrilled to go to better tires, get rid of those shakey wire wheels, put a nice interior in the car, would rather stay home than put an inline engine in a hot rod, and a few dozen other changes in the hobby, but now I am finding that things are being redefined, and they don't care if us veterans approve or not.

My only response to this is, I just want people to continue to enjoy modifying cars their own way, like we did.

Besides that, I am learning that NOTHING... EVER... stays the same!