This discussion will go on "forever". It comes down to each person's frame of reference. While I agree mostly with Dave's comment, I'm not sure it's entirely snobbery (Lord knows I've railed against that enough around here)..................I would see that more as attitude rather than classifying. For some groups it's a matter of controling the size of the group/event, for others its being provincial and only wanting to be around what they like.

A lot of it has to do with when you grew up. I have to admit that sometimes my brain does a double blip when someone new comes on here and waxes poetic about his "old" hot rod.................a 1983 Chev PU, or even a '71 Lincoln. Not that these can't be a hot rod, it's just that it's hard to think of a car that I could have bought new, that I looked at on show room floors, as "old", a term which often goes with the concept of "hot rod". But then, I rattle myself and put it in perspective. To a guy in his mid 20's today, a car built ten years before he was born IS old! For the same reason I'm comfy with mid '30's stuff, his equivalent is '70's stuff. Of course, that didn't keep me from doing my slammed and semi-smoothed '72 Chev pickemup a few years back, and I DID buy one of those new.

The first time I heard Force call his car a hot rod I thought "Yeah, just as much a hot rod as it is a "Mustang"!!". But then, he does race under the banner of the National HOT ROD Association. So......

Now, for some of you folks reading this who still look like you need an ID to buy milk, project yourself 30 years into the future. You'll be boppin' on the internet, or maybe the berfelgen or whatever it is that'll have replaced the internet by then, and some youngin' will post a thread on his "old" pride and joy "hot rod"...................a 2005 Accord!! Bet for a moment your mind will scream, "THAT'S NOT RIGHT!!!!" hehehehe

Now, is this a hot rod??