At 12:41 PM -0500 1/17/99, Ernest(Chip) Brown wrote:
>First of all, its "deuce", as in "two". A deuce coupe is a two door thirties
I always thought "deuce" refered to the two in 32. Any 32 ford is called a
deuce.
>Ford coupe. "Nerf" refers to "nerf bars" A nerf bar is a nicely made curved
>piece of chromed steel tubing, closed at both ends, welded to a bracket
>and used
>as a minimalist bumper for a customized car. Lakes pipes were called cut
>outs in
>the East. Same thing. Bypass the muffler, make big noise. Chip Brown
>
>F Kuzyk wrote:
>
>> Shades of the song "Little Duce Coupe". I know what Lake pipes are, but
>> what's a "nerf"? Hablos Anglais, Fred!
>> Catching up on my mail after a week in Havana. Incidently, one can meet a
>> Morganeer just about anywhere. Spied a man with a Morgan T shirt, as we were
>> catching our ride to the Havana airport. I believe he said his name was
>> Gaston & that his Mog is on blocks in North Dakota! Said he would get back
>> to it sometime, but he's travelling a great deal these days. I hope he won't
>> have to dig it out of many feet of snow, as we in the Great Lakes/North East
>> must! We'll have to go to Tibet next, so that we can run into members of the
>> "Himalayan Morgan Club"!
>>
>> My stable mates are more mundane than most mentioned. A '69 Mustang ragtop
>> with a mildly hopped up 302 "mill", & an '85 SVO Mustang, with a tired
>> turbo'd, inter-cooled, injected "4-banger".
>> Well, back to shovelling. Don't think I'll drive the Mog this January....
>>
>> Fred Kuzyk
>> MSCCC Webmaster
>> Visit the Morgan Sports Car Club of Canada Web site at:
>> http://members.xoom.com/msccc/
>>
>> For info on cigars, local cigar clubs & events, etc; visit my other web site
>> Holy Smokes
>> http://members.xoom.com/holysmokes/
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: FPS3@aol.com <FPS3@aol.com>
>> To: morgans@Autox.Team.Net <morgans@Autox.Team.Net>
>> Date: Friday, January 08, 1999 3:24 PM
>> Subject: Britspeak & american slang
>>
>> >Fred Kuzyk's note about the word "doghouse" made me remember some old high-
>> >school slang. In high school (50's) I was a sports car nut but had to
>> settle
>> >for hot rods. We lived in our cars, cruising every night for hours. As
>> most
>> >teenagers do, we developed our own slang. (makes brit-speak sound like
>> >english...)
>> > I remember one darktime at the drag-and-eat. The hopping one had just
>> taken
>> >our prescription when this cat tools in in a 'chopped, channeled and Z'd
>> >'32 Henry-built three-window. We slid over to lay the near eye on his cool
>> >duce.
>> > It really was a cool sheen, nothing critshy about it. It even had
>> nerfs
>> >and lakes.
>> > In the doghouse was a '48 flathead with three 97's, chrome sewers
>> and a
>> >long jump. Inside,the mill, he had a long toss, big buckets, custom bump-
>> >stick, over twisted twisted ones and big manhole covers It had even been
>> been
>> >massaged by the blind lady and had a prexy train grunch box. We had to
>> boff
>> >though because we wanted to cruise the Pole. As we split the joint, he
>> peeled
>> >out beside us, grabbed a patch in every gear and soon all we could see was
>> his
>> >scarlets. It was a super trick double throw-down experience.
>> >
>> >fred sisson
>> >
Dave and Linda Freeman <http://www.ipa.net/~dlfreeman>
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