Here are a few from The Complete Book of Stock Bodied Drag Racing" I have in my library:

Dial-a-winner = The Mopar bushbutton trans
Typewriter = A Mopar pushbutton operated trans
Bent stovebolt = Chevy V-8
Banzai= An all-out run
Blinkey= The timing light at the finish line
Brain bucket = helmet
Buttons = Chrysler Corp. stock cars with a bushbutton operated trans
Carolina Stocker, Southern Stocker = A stock car running with illegal engine size or equipment
Cut a fat one = To run at top speed

Flexi -flyer = A long wheelbase dragster with built in flexibility which helps keep the wheels on strip
Flyboy = A weekend only drag racer
Gourd guard = A helmet
Seagull = Someone who complains constantly


Ragnar in Iceland


That book was published in 1970. What were you doing then?