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[edit] Pro Touring
I have searched Wiki for pro touring and have found nothing. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.184.211.68 (talk) 15:24, 21 December 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Street Rod
As I recall, street rod had nothing to do with whether or not hot rodding may have been used derogatorily. The only times I remember the term used derogatorily was to describe people who drove recklessly, not to the automobile. In any case, street rod was used to describe hot rods that were driven on the street as opposed to hot rods that were trailered to drag races or custom car shows. -12.74.168.201 17:50, 29 Jan 2005 (UTC)
- That certainly sounds like the current use of the term "street rod" to me. It is a hot rod that is still street legal. I suppose some trailer queens could still be street rods though. They can be driven on the street, but just aren't.
[edit] Origin of hot rods
In the Swedish Wikipedia it says the hot rod idea started in USA due to homecoming soldiers stationed in the UK where they had seen small, british sports cars like MG and Morgan and used that as an inspiration. // Liftarn
[edit] 3D pictures
Good god! Can we stop submitting these awful cereal-box-3d images? Not is it incredibly unlikely that anybody has red/cyan glasses hanging around and discounting the fact that they offer very little in the way of 3d simulation, they're awful for those of us not blessed with red/blue vision. --^pirate 15:24, 27 March 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Today's Hot Rod builders
Since someone is deleting Hot Rod builders and leaving Jesse James in as a Hot Rod builder I would like to see who is progressing the Hot Rod scene today. I know of only a few true shops that build hot rods.
Hot Rod Surf, Boyd Cuttingham, So-cal Speed Shop and Tiny's Chop shop
Each of these shop have a completly different style of hot rods.
[edit] Real Hot Rods
What happened to the addition of hot rod surf? it was up yesterday and now gone? Real hot rods are all steel, loud, fast, and actually driving around town like all the rods from hot rod surf here in san diego! Stuffy people have always been scared of real hot rods! (Jmcrownpoint 19:20, 17 August 2006 (UTC)
- Hot Rod Surf may be an excellent hot rod custom shop, but the paragraph was little more than advertising by Hot Rod Surf itself for its product line and services. This is forbidden under wikipedia NPOV policy. If a section on current shops is included, then a neutral mention of Hot Rod Surf among it's competitors would not be amiss.
- Actually, significant shops could very well deserve their own articles. coddington for sure, everybody else on an individual basis. Gzuckier 14:29, 23 August 2006 (UTC)
Cleaned up the section and re-added the link to hotrodsurf under the PT cruser link of external websites. Would be good to see more links and more positive additions.
[edit] Are you kidding?
This is the most lame definition of hot rods I have ever seen. I agree with the guy above. If you guys want to add info to a real site go to Automowiki.com. It won't tell you what a hot rod is, it will show you how to build one yourself. Dont camp out on pages, it makes people not want to add stuff to the articles.
[edit] Today
I propose to delete from the description of Boyd Coddington the sentence "One of his cars appeared in the music video of Gimme All Your Lovin’ by the rock band ZZ Top." The car which appeared in the video in question was a 1933 Ford Coupe, which was built by Don Thelan, rather than Boyd Coddington. The references below refer to this fact, and identify the location of Don Thelan's enterprise as Buffalo Motor Cars of Paramount, California, USA.
http://www.topgear.com/content/features/stories/2005/12/stories/10/1.html (Article in UK auto magazine Top Gear); http://auto.howstuffworks.com/zz-top-eliminator-hot-rod.htm (Entry on Howstuffworks website). --DReddington (talk) 23:38, 10 January 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Restructured
I haven't made a start on the content, but it's all a bit woolly with a few repetitions and contradictions, the first of which I have weeded out. Keep the good stuff coming, let's get some more pictures up and see if we can make this page come a bit more aliveGraumicchie (talk) 19:20, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
