1. Zoomies
   Bullets
2. Moons
   Baloneys

Zoomies are side-mounted headers that point upwards. Headers are generally easy to install on any car and help improve the overall performance by allowing exhaust to escape more easily and, in the case of zoomies, they just look cool.

1. Glasspacks
   Hot licks
2. Mags
   Lake pipes

Mags is a slang term for alloy wheels because the specific alloy from which many wheels are made often contain magnesium. Magnesium wheels are lighter and just look better than pure steel wheels.

1. A-bomb
   Anglebox
2. Crate
   Mouse

Ford built the Model A from 1927 to 1931. An A-Bomb is therefore a Model A that has been blown up with some modifications. If it hasn't been modified, you can call it an A-bone instead of an A-bomb.

1. Replicar
   Rat rod
2. Deuce
   Baby moon

A baby moon hubcap is a small, chrome cap that only covers the center as opposed to the entire inside of the wheel. If you had a full chrome hubcap, it would be called a moon or a full moon.

1. Merc
   Goat
2. Puke can
   Blue oval

The proper name for something like this is a catch can or an overflow tank, but we're talking slang here, and that means we're talking about a puke can. If the radiator gets too hot and overflows, it pukes up excess liquid, and this can is there to catch it

1. Alky
   Awful awful
2. Rake
   Slushbox

Alky is the quick and easy way to describe any alcohol-based fuel, such as methanol or methyl alcohol, that can run a car. It's also a term that can describe a car that runs on that kind of fuel.

1. Sleeper
   Steelies
2. Baloneys
   Teardrops

There are a lot of fun ways to use the term baloneys when describing the tires on a hot rod. You can say someone is really drying the baloneys when they're going fast, or that you plan to roast the baloneys, if you're planning to win a race.

1. Big n' little
   Hot licks
2. Bugcatchers
   Cams

A classic car like a hot rod needs a classic paint job, and a popular motif for many hot rods involved custom flames painted on the hood or sides of a car. Those flames are called hot licks for obvious reasons.

1. Chopped
   Slammed
2. Crunked
   Dunked

A car is chopped when you chop the top down by cutting the pillars and shaving the windows. The roof is lowered to give the car a flatter and smaller appearance. It can make it a bit more difficult to drive a car if the chopping is dramatic.

1. Roughie
   Woody
2. Lowrider
   Trailer queen

A lowrider has been lowered on a hydraulic system so that the body of the car can be raised and lowered. Often when a lowrider is lowered all the way down, it can't be driven, so it needs to rise up again to get moving.

1. Banger
   Ringer
2. Header
   Ticker

A four-cylinder engine is a four banger, just as an eight-cylinder engine is an eight banger. The piston bangs in the cylinder when the engine is working, and the fuel-air mix ignites, hence the name.

1. Beacher
   Crank
2. Mill
   Stinger

Internal combustion engine is a bit of a mouthful, but a slang term that means the same thing is mill. It doesn't refer to any specific kind of engine, like a V8 or a straight six. It's just any engine that can make a car run.

1. Able
   Regged
2. Pro street
   Flat rate

Pro street cars are street legal cars that have been modified to resemble pro stock cars. The rear wheels are large but also tucked in so they look slightly recessed from the frame of the car.

1. Bullets
   Nerf bar
2. Puke can
   Mother-in-law seat

The mother-in-law seat, or rumble seat, wasn't inside the car. It was mounted on the exterior and could fold into the back of some models. It looked a lot like a sofa mounted on the rear of the car.

1. Nos
   Quidditch
2. Sugar
   Spice

Nos is such a common abbreviation for a nitrous oxide system, there's even a popular brand of energy drinks that uses the same name. Nitrous oxide splits into nitrogen and oxygen at high temperatures, so when you burn it in an engine, it adds oxygen and boosts combustion, making the car go faster.

1. Burped
   Lunched
2. Scored
   Roped

When a car has been lunched, it has been destroyed or wrecked. It's also a surfing term that means essentially the same thing. If you wiped out on a surfboard, you got lunched.

1. Louvre
   Drain
2. Hoover
   Bugcatcher

Cars like the Plymouth Road Runner and the Ferrari Testarossa have prominent hood scoops or bugcatchers which, when functional, allow air to flow over a large engine to help cool it. A lot of scoops are just for show, however, and serve no real purpose.

1. Blue Oval
   Bow tie
2. Merc
   Biter

Chevy cars are sometimes called bow ties because of the Chevy logo. No one knows exactly what the Chevy logo is supposed to be as there are three popular stories. One says the co-founder saw the symbol in French wallpaper. His daughter says he just doodled it on a napkin, and his wife says he once saw it in a newspaper.

1. Lake pipes
   Beacher
2. Woody
   Slammer

Woodies were made of wood, just like the name says. Not entirely, of course, but wood was long used to supplement a car's frame back in the day, and woodies had panels in natural woodgrain on the side of the car.

1. Mountain motor
   Buster
2. Rider
   Sleeper

A sleeper is a bit of automotive trickery. This happens when someone goes out of their way to soup up a car that was never meant to be a performance car, like installing a high-powered motor in a Ford Tempo or a Gremlin.

1. Rooked
   Slammed
2. Opaled
   Crested

A slammed car is lowered to a sometimes preposterous degree. Some slammed cars will have wheels at an angle to make it look legitimately like the car was crushed and the axles buckled. A slammed car cannot get any lower and still be functional.

1. Holly hock
   Glasspack
2. Nerf bar
   Ridgie

Nerf bars run the length of a car between the front and rear wheels and protrude a few inches from the frame. They're used to buffer a car if another car gets too close during a race and prevent body damage as well as the tires from getting tangled.

1. Goat
   Skirt
2. Leadsled
   Brindle

A leadsled was typically made from a car in the late '40s or early '50s. It was lowered on the frame to make it a lowrider, and then the body was reshaped and welded with lead to cover up the damage to the bodywork in the reshaping, hence the name.

1. Laughing gas
   Duster
2. Fog
   Canny

Laughing gas is one of many nicknames for a nitrous system, not just inside cars but pretty much anywhere. Nitrous is used as a sedative at the dentist, and it gets its name because exposure to it can make you feel a bit silly.

1. Caddy
   Beach wagon
2. Fade away
   Jimmy

A beach wagon was a variant of a station wagon which, as the name implies, was meant for driving to the beach. They were heavily marketed in the New England area as leisure vehicles for day trips to the beach.

1. Lake pipes
   Bullets
2. Gennie
   Gasser

Lakes pipes run under the rocker panels and can travel down nearly the full length of the body of a car before angling off to vent exhaust out of the side of the car. They have less back pressure than normal exhaust and offer a slight performance boost as a result.

1. Rickets
   Bundles
2. Glasspacks
   Arches

Glasspacks are a kind of muffler that has a center tube through which exhaust passes and a larger tube around it packed with fiberglass. Ironically, they are not particularly good at muffling noise at all.

1. Lowboys
   Hairpins
2. Big n' littles
   Mags

Some drag racers and hot rods can be tweaked so that the rear tires are extremely large to provide traction while the front tires are incredibly small so they reduce resistance when the car is in motion. It also just looks dramatic.

1. Stoat
   Float
2. Boat
   Goat

Today "goat" might stand for "greatest of all time." Back in the day, it was a nickname for the Pontiac GTO because, like a goat, the GTO could eat anything. And pronouncing GTO isn't easy, but saying goat is.

1. Skins
   Bullets
2. Flamethrowers
   Screamers

Flamethrowers are tailpipes that live up to their name by shooting fire out of the back of your car. Anything that controls the flow of exhaust, like a catalytic converter, will prevent them from working. But if you have a manual choke, you can get them to work by igniting the fumes as they leave the car.

1. Bullets
   Hairpins
2. Digits
   Nuggets

Dagmars, or bullets, are chrome cones on the bumpers of some cars produced in the '50s. The use of the term bullets to describe them is self-explanatory. The word "Dagmar" was a reference to a certain actress popular in the era. The relation to her is a bit unseemly.

1. Jets
   Backpacks
2. Wings
   Fender skirts

Fender skirts are not often seen in modern cars but were very popular in older models favored by hot rod enthusiasts. They partially obscure the rear tires of a car, making them look a bit like a half-closed eye.

1. Cricket
   Ridge
2. Deuce
   Holder

The hot rodding variant of a 1932 Ford coupe is called a Deuce in honor of the "2" in "32." The specific model year of that car was a favorite for hot rodders because it was cheap and available with a powerful V8 engine.

1. Fade aways
   Trundles
2. Base lines
   Wickets

Fade away fenders were popular for custom cars, especially in the 1940s. The design saw them slope back down away from the wheel and into the car, making them look — as the name suggests — as though they are fading into the body of the car.

1. Spotter
   Blotter
2. Rigger
   Digger

You can't drag race without a dragster, and you can't spend your entire life calling it a dragster. Digger is another popular term for dragsters that has been around for years. If you want to know why, join the club! The origin seems to be lost to history.