[Excaliber]

I concur the sports car has it's origin deep in Europe, two seater, small, performance oriented. "Classic" sports cars are EASY to identify, Austin Healey, MG, Triumph. It does get a little more complicated when you start getting into V8 or even V12 territory. The Vette is NOT a sports car in the "classic" sense, and yet the Cobra is? YES! The Cobra with it's Euorpean roots demand it!

Of course "meanings" of words change as time moves forward and today it not uncommon for "people" to refer to Vettes as "sports cars" (the horror)! I'm a "classic" kind of guy myself.

The Hot Rod rooted in the USA? Yeah, by and large, but make no mistake those English and Aussie chaps had a trick or two up their sleeve in the same time frame!

Hmmmm,,,"Hot Rods" being 1949 and older is interesting, yeah,,,,,,I might go with that. "Lead Sleds" of the 50's were "customs". But were do we put "Old Yeller"?

Ernie