The Cool Language of Hot Rodding

* Bucket: Center, seating area of a roadster.

* Chaneling : Lowering a car’s body outside the chassis rails.

* Chopping : Lowering a car’s silhouette by removing a section of the roof.

* Deuce: A 1932 Ford roadster.

* Dropped: Lowered front end.

* Flathead: V-8 engine with flat heads on cylinder banks.

* Flamed: Painted flames rising from hood and fenders.

* Four-bangers: Four cylinder engines that preceded V-8s.

* Frenching: Concealing headlights.

* Gennie: An original, or genuine, car prior to modification.

* Highboy or hiboy: A rod without fenders.

* Hot rod: Any automobile that has been modified for better looks or performance.

* Jacked : Raised rear end.

* Lead sled: A pre-Bondo car where lead was used as body filler.

* Lowboy: A rod with fenders.

* Pinks or pink slips : Title to the car.

* Pipes: The exhaust.

* Rails: The chassis.

* Street machine: Modified vehicle built after 1949.

* Street rod: Any modified vehicle built prior to 1949.

* Twenty-one studder : An early V-8 engine with 21 head bolts on each cylinder bank.