Road Lexicon or is it a Dictionary?
Submitted by admin on January 22, 2008 – 5:18 pm3 Comments
While driving with some car buddies (The Crew, Ace and the Kid) we often get into conversations about idiotic drivers. Many odd terms come up. I’ll list them as I recall them. I’ll kick the list off -
- Creeping Charlie – A car weaving into your lane
- Weaving Willie – See Creeping Charlie
- One Eyed Jack – A car with one head light out
- Smokey Joe – A car or truck blowing white smoke
- Blind Betty – Old Folk (usually old lady) not looking while making a lane change
- Little Car People – Honda Civic (and related) cars tricked out with wings, spoilers, blue LED’s
- Land Yacht (Old) – Cadillac
- Land Yacht (New generation) – Me in my Excursion
- Stitching – The art of driving through traffic sideways without really moving forward
- Zippering – The art of correctly merging with traffic.
- Beard’o – Typical a Corvette driver, as they all have Beards.
- VeeDub – Any cars made by Porsche
- Italian Trash – Ferrari, Maserati, Fiat, Alfa Romero, but mostly Ferrari
- American Shit Box – Use your imagination here, start with many AMC Cars, Vega, Pinto, all cars from the 80′s.
Have some good ones, send them and I’ll add them to the growing list!
More for the list -
I almost forgot this one -
Biff Car – Any of the sorted Chrysler automobiles that Biff from ‘Back to the Future would drive’ You know, The Station Wagon with a Hemi, the other odd looking cars that are from a few years back. You might also find the ‘Bad Boy’ Sticker or a picture of Calvin Pissing on a Chevy Bow Tie, etc on the back. Also has a strong resemblance to the Bentley styling but I’m not sure who ripped off who.
I feel I must update the list with my new automobile efficiency terms -
EMPG – Effective Miles Per Gallon
AEMPG – Actual Effective Miles Per Gallon
IEMPG – Instantaneous Effective Miles Per Gallon
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