Folks Of Interest Where are the Original first 500 HAMBers?

ok ok i cant figure this out either!! what number am I??? haha

 

9872

 

115 and still lurking..

 

That's my '63 Buick wagon that I traded to ... uh.... switchblade327?... a hamber in NC anyway, for a 31 4-dr slant window A, which is currently "resting" in the barn..

Brian

 

What number is "Feckles the Clown"?????

 

I B # 1082

If I had hands I would have had a higher number, it is hard to type with my jaw.

Bones

 

I remember this board would post things that would get the guys at the RRT all fired up and we'd drop in over there and stir things up... they were angry in those days. Now I bet most of them lurk here.

 

Here's a few shots from the turn of the century-era... some are HAMBer's cars from the early days, like Short Bus's hoopty or the Roach Rod before the nose..

Enjoy:







































and other than the PPE and the McCord Special... Gary's roadster is probably the first modern rat rod as far as radical styling went...



I have tons more photos..

 

Crap... here's a few more:





I liked everything about Shag's truck except riding in it... chopped and channeled pickup cab, you had to fold yourself up to get in.









Raddest. Car. Ever:





Limey hauler:



















This summed things up nicely:

 

I'm 246. I can't believe how long it's been.

Remember the "leftover special"?

 

couple more:















Dr. J's pickup:



















Winfield's coupe:



Mr. Shine's ride:

 

Last batch and I'm done...

Fred's bug:





Dan Collins:





Rogue's RPU:













and Squeak's Sedan:

 

I remember bobbleed and krupanut stirring up each other about "How high to cuff your pants" and "what kind of hair cream to use"!!!!!

There was some funny shit going on back then!

 

I noticed in that list that Zenor posted that a lot of them are either from the Wichita area or were at the Ft. Smith KKOA shows. Man those were fun!

 

Not all of them were angry but a select few got VERY angry. Gave the guy who was running it a reason to pull the plug. I liked the HAMB a lot more than the RRT right off but this was scary place. Like walking down some dark alley to check out the black 3 window lurking at the end of it. It was worth it!

 

Very true. I had lurked on the HAMB a couple of years before I joined and at the time thought the boys on the HAMB were all mean to each other and very scary. They made it perfectly clear they weren't happy about a streetrod girl buying project Big Olds.

 

I'm still here, I check in from time to time to see what's up in the world of traditional hot rods, then I slink back to my jet boat... I don't even know what number I am, but I've been here since about 97 or so.

Edit* I'm 402 on this version.

 

My God, Ya'll are old.

 

This place was worse than the Wild West back in the day...

 

whats up with Radshit... Have not noticed him around in a while

 

Ryan, you should add the last post date field and the post count to this and sort it by newest to latest... I bet there are some some lurkers in that list...

I lurked for a year before I signed up... my project was getting disc brakes and a tilt wheel and I thought I'd get run out first thing. #1133

 

I guess a HAMB # less than 818 would make you a "one percenter." 8 or less would make you a squared one percenter.

 

Funny thing this car is now a two door....

 

Check out this link:
http://web.archive.org/web/20000620135642/www.jalopyjournal.com/mainmenu.htm

And this mofo:

http://web.archive.org/web/20010807233458/schadenfreude.org/primer/

And this one:

http://web.archive.org/web/20011218003325/schadenfreude.org/schacgi/ads/classifieds.cgi

And this - linked from my site as the NEW hamb..
http://web.archive.org/web/20010802064845/www.jalopyjournal.com/cgi-bin/ubbcgi/Ultimate.cgi

 

Wow, I can't believe how many names I recognize in the Swap Meet ads on PRIMER.

 

Primer ruled...

I was bummed when that went away.

 

Crazy, Ryans Rivi. Moriarity with a drag boat. Saltflatmatt etc......

I miss Primer!

 

Hey Luke what kind of boat do you have? I am into '70's jet boats too I have a '76 sleek craft aristocrat sst tunnel hull w/ 455 olds & a berkley but changeing it to a 454 chev this winter and looking for a used droop snoot & place diverter

 

Nice pic of Brewsirs old Merc. Did he tell you Windfield built it? Now thats some old scool pot stiring! HAHA. I believe thats Billetproof 01 in the dirt in Livermore. Nice after party at SamIAm's house that year!

 

I seen his truck while I was in Albuquerque at a outing-thing for families right before I deployed. I stopped to talk to him, but they were moving shop and he was at the new location so I didnt get the chance to meet him. I PM'd and he answered so he is still somewhat active. Neat little truck. That was about a year ago.