First of all, its "deuce", as in "two". A deuce coupe is a two door thirties
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/
>
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> 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
> >
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