When was the Jalopy Journal and HAMB formed or started? It is pretty impressive to see so much older stuff in todays world. I remember it like it was yesterday my first trip to the drag strip (Westhampton on LI) I was picked up at Speed Garage at 7AM after going to 6AM mass and waited for my friend to pick me up. He had a 62 Chevy Impala SS 409/425 HP, 4speed. The car was brand new. Driving down Sunrise highway he would get on it and go through the gears. Get to the track, take off hubcaps, take out spare and open up the dumper pipes (exhaust cut outs),put on the Atlas Bucron tires.Time trials, race, maybe win maybe lose. Put every thing back the way it was and drive home. I had the biggest shit eating grin on my face all the time in those days. Pat (now 61 yrs old)
The amazing parts to the story are: 1) You remember this, I can't remember anything from back then...no I didn't use drugs, maybe I should have. 2) The 409 stayed together to give you a ride home Steve (now 59.5 years of age) or as I've seen here 1/2 way to 120 years old, oh that doesn't work unless you are 30 or 40.
I heard a rumor that right during the tail end of WWII there was a bunch of gearheads working on the Manhattan Project that had developed a network for computers to "talk" to each other and store the information in a easily retainable format. Ryan stumbled onto that network doing his research for his masters at OU.
Archive.org has it back to 1998 as a webpage if you want to take a look. There were some other things going on back then, email list before the messageboard. It was fun times. But not for the thin skinned.
The HAMB was a defunct and forgotten secret weapons reaseach lab from the Korean War era. It was a "barn (read bunker) find" by Ryan. It is a system that transmits subliminal messages to men, and some women, worldwide to come to this site, relinquish all automotive related experiences and knowledge to the hive mind. So unless you were wearing your aluminum foil helmet, you were drawn in like the rest of us. Now where did I put my hat?
62 409s were 409 409, 425 horse was the 63 option. Mine and several friends 62s were all 409 HP. 380 HP for the 1st available 409 in late 61, very few built. Al May in Juction City OR was able to get one, won the Winternationals with it.
In the late 1800's a group of rebellious youths were ostracized for putting big and littles on their parent's wagons. Modified harnesses allowed for the use of more horses, sometimes to the extent that the driver had trouble controlling his carriage. Law enforcement frowned on such shenanigans, so the youth were forced to hide their subcultural leanings whilst maintaining an appearance of propriety for the establishment... I'm sorry, what was the question again?
When the boss was just a young wipper snapper and I was still middle aged. Between the time that Trad Rodding and Trad Rodding was main stream. Note: Trad Rodding wasn't Trad Rodding the first time, and actually it wasn't really main stream either.
I'd heard that it started in the early prewar era, when the HAMB's power was first unleashed by Hitler's Arkaology Korps experimenting with supernatural biblical artifacts.
Kind of ironic that something so traditional requires the internet to exist (thanks Al Gore). In reality, to be traditional, we should send telegraph or morse code to each other? Regardless, thanks Ryan for having the insight and knowledge to make this happen. Stu
I wonder if Ryan knows there's someone who has been on here longer than he has. And he was only 4 years old when he joined.
Thank you oh wise ones! This is a wonderful place to spend some lost time between jobs in the land of taxes. My, the things I have learned over these graced pages and may they never stop passing the truth and knowledge of the cars we love.
That's ironic, I was using a 15/16 tightening the idler pulley on the digger blower drive last night. This means something!!!
I think the H.A.M.B. evolved....you know...like evolution! I bought a '30 Model A coupe from an ape many moons ago!!
Hum,,,If my memory serves me correctly my days spent in Seminary School studying Theology Ham was the son of Noah,,,so in that case Ham,over time the name morphed into HAMB and that proves it's been around for a long,,,long time. That's my story and I'm stickin' to it! HRP
Were they into traditional chariots (skinny wheels with lots of horsepower - and those bad spinner hubcaps) back then or did that come later? Lee
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