Thread: What is your definition of a Hot Rod?

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WOW!!!

Like everything else, the description of a Hot Rod has changed dramatically over the years.

Originally anything pre 48 eas a hot rod, after that you could call astreet machine, muscle car or whatever you wanted, BUT not a hot rod.

Over time the more accepted use of the term hot rod has become that "simplified" version, any car modified for more power and speed.

But, is that a new definition? Isn't that exactly what hot rods were originally?

Cars modified for more power and speed? Now a lot of hot rods are old cars with new engines and updated suspensions. Is that bad?? Of course not!!\\I consider my 76 Seville a hot rod, what the he--, its got 540 HP and 586 FtLbs and it accelerates "briskly".

To me (at 70 years of age) it represents a hot rod as much as any of your projects.

Everyone on this board has, or wants to have, a hot rod.

If we own a vehicle modified to suit are needs, that performs better than when it was new then damn it, it's a HOT ROD!

Whaddaya think?