Chort

[FElony]

See, I have this '64 Monty....

Must be a Monte Python video. Monte Carlo's first appeared in '70.
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I expected a better comment. Something wrong? There's a blue pill for that, you know.

However, a chort story. When I was 18 my only car was a Mustang with a high-revving 302/289 and a stick. Around the block on the corner was a gentleman, retired with gray hair. He had purchased a brand-new '70 Monte Carlo new a few years prior. SS454, Marina Blue with black vinyl top, black interior, Rally wheels. Surely a beautiful ride. So he's watering his lawn one day and I pull over to yakk about cars, and I try talk him into a race. He laughs and says something like, "Boy, I've seen you tear up and down this street dozens of times, and there ain't no way I"m messing with that."

Too bad. But he did start his car up, since I had never heard it. Nice rumble. Very classy car. I wouldn't mind having one when I get old. Ah damn, too late...

[57 lima bean]

               Sadly,that rake looks like chit.

[cammerfe]

Ok, not really related but I have wondered a bout this over the years, wondering if anyone can add some info..

Probably 1980, Car Craft Nationals in Indianapolis.

There was a group (club maybe?) of very nice cars, a couple panel vans and one van had the name "Raped Ape" on the side.  An yone know anything about that?

On a silly note, there was this blown red corvette with a mile high chrome engine, thing chirped some big tires hard every time the idle rolled up and around while moving along at say 2 miles an hour, as a kid, was pretty cool.

The 'Raped Ape' label likely came from the phrase, common at one time, at least in the mid-west, "It runs like a raped ape". Probably became popular because of the alliteration. I'd suppose he was attempting to brag.

KS

[cammerfe]

"Chort"?  Seriously?  LOL!!!  I know, I know, the devil made you do it.

Wasssah, gringo? Yes, "chort" is they way the Chicanos pronounce "short", which is an old-school word for lowrider. I guess the whities here who didn't know that must be rayciss. I know AOC would agree, 'cuz she's never wrong. 

 "Two cool shorts sitting side-by-side..." The Beach Boys

KS

[Dan859]

"Chort"?  Seriously?  LOL!!!  I know, I know, the devil made you do it.

Wasssah, gringo? Yes, "chort" is they way the Chicanos pronounce "short", which is an old-school word for lowrider. I guess the whities here who didn't know that must be rayciss. I know AOC would agree, 'cuz she's never wrong. 

 "Two cool shorts sitting side-by-side..." The Beach Boys

Thanks!  I've been listening to that song since it came out, and never knew what they meant by "shorts".  FElony, when you started the thread, I thought you were going to be making another Russian comment thread.  "Chort" in Russian literally means the devil, but it's usually used as a curse word.  So, when I first saw it, that's why I said the devil made you do it.

[cammerfe]

I believe, at the time of the BB song, that 'short' was a more general term for the sort of modified car, whether a rod or a custom, that a kid might drive. Considering the way slang changes in meaning in various parts of the country, I'd readily believe that Chicago has (had) it's own variation, as Felony has alluded to.

How many of you know that, in the Metro Detroit area, at least, it was the custom to use 'hot' where it's now, and has been for many years, all over the country, the universally used 'cool'. Cool, around here, was a response to hot meaning 'even more so'. "It's so hot it's cool." That would have been in the early-mid 50s around here.

KS

[FElony]

"Chort"?  Seriously?  LOL!!!  I know, I know, the devil made you do it.

Wasssah, gringo? Yes, "chort" is they way the Chicanos pronounce "short", which is an old-school word for lowrider. I guess the whities here who didn't know that must be rayciss. I know AOC would agree, 'cuz she's never wrong. 

 "Two cool shorts sitting side-by-side..." The Beach Boys

KS

There it is. However, the cars in the song were not lowriders. So, I imagine "short" started out meaning hot rod or something prior to the custom car use. Good reference.

Edit: I replied to this before I read your next post.

[FElony]

"Chort"?  Seriously?  LOL!!!  I know, I know, the devil made you do it.

Wasssah, gringo? Yes, "chort" is they way the Chicanos pronounce "short", which is an old-school word for lowrider. I guess the whities here who didn't know that must be rayciss. I know AOC would agree, 'cuz she's never wrong. 

 "Two cool shorts sitting side-by-side..." The Beach Boys

Thanks!  I've been listening to that song since it came out, and never knew what they meant by "shorts".  FElony, when you started the thread, I thought you were going to be making another Russian comment thread.  "Chort" in Russian literally means the devil, but it's usually used as a curse word.  So, when I first saw it, that's why I said the devil made you do it.

Ah so. An opportunity missed by me. I'm an abject failure.