Biggest suprise of my life!

So I woke up Saturday morning knowing that a bunch of us BC HAMBers were going to be meeting at 3 for some burgers and the general hang out kind of thing. So its around 1:00 and I hear some bikes tearing down my street, I live beside a main street so I thought nothing of this. Then my family calls me out on the front deck and its some of the local HAMBers on my lawn. This is a total suprise and I figure they must have stopped by before the meet at 3 or something like that. So I go out to the garage open it up and what do I see??? About 20 smiling people holding parts and tools and a bunch of rods and customs are covering my alley!!! Then they all start comming into the garage. I still have no idea what is going on and then some one says to me "Were here to get your car running" I can hardly belive it!!! I have been dreaming of getting my car running for over a year and a half now and here are all my friends comming over to make that dream come true. It turns out that they have been planning this with my family for over a month and I had no idea what so ever!!! To say I was shocked, suprised and estatic are huge understatements! After 6 hours of hard work from everyone including the parts, time and labour all DONATED we were finally able to roll my car out into the sunlight for the very first time! Once again I want to thank everyone involved that were present and those that also had a helping hand in this and couldn't make it out, you guys are the best! I think my "family" suddenly grew with leaps and bounds on Saturday and you are all welcome back anytime, our door is always open. So thank you all for letting my dream come true of getting my car brought back to life and you can be sure I'll be out driving it everyday once I get a little more work on it done, because I think my breaks might be a little iffy, what do you guys think???

Once again if you did not get a "Auto Trivia" game please either let myself or Shiny "29EHV8" know so that we can give one to you because I have some spares here.




So here are some pictures I thought you all might like to see...

Here is only some of the cars that came




Seeing what we have to deal with...



Getting started....




Rebuilding the carb right on the spot!


Its alive!!!


Seeing sunlight for the first time...


A celebratory hug after it is all over...

 

Gotta love a good HAMB thrash - lucky bastard!

 

TITS....

That means "cool" here in the States....
That is what the HAMB is all aboot!

HC

 

Friggin' cool.
Really friggin' cool.

So, uhhh... Who in the Bay Area wants to get together for some burritos near my house?

 

I love readin' stuff like this. Cars and money come and go but friends are priceless. Kudos to everyone involved!

 

LDC, yer always the last to know. I heard about this 2 weeks ago. Nice work guys!!!!!!............OLDBEET

 

Amen!!! .....that good ol HAMB spirt is alive and kickin....nice work....big congrat's to all involved!!!

 

Thats a real heart warming story for a dreary Monday afternoon.

Congrats to all involved.

 

Love the shot of the guy standing IN the engine compartment. Do that with a modern car, I dare ya...

 

Now THAT's traditional Hot Rodding.

 

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Friggin' cool.
Really friggin' cool.

So, uhhh... Who in the Bay Area wants to get together for some burritos near my house?

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what needs to be done?

 

Way cool!!!!

Okay, my address is....

"Ain't HAMBers Neat?"!!!!

 

Standing in the engine compartment, that's why old cars are so great

 

Kool! After being in on a thrash, I gotta say it's the most fun you can have with your clothes on.

 

You guys ROCK!

It's friendships such as these that make the HAMB the great place that it is!

Keep us posted on progress now that the ol' girl is running...
Sam.

 

That's very, very cool... and a good start to a cool cruiser. Hope you don't mind that I took some liberties here.

 

Thanks 62 buford that is freaking awsome!!!! I was actually wanting to paint it green with a sliver flake roof but I think I may have to change my mind now since I like that so much!!!

 

Thanks - glad to help a little now and again.

 

Hey LDC...you are more than welcome man!That was quite the Mixture of Hellcats and Hamber's.A lot of the Hellcats met thru the Hamb!! So on that note,like i said on the other board....special thanx to Shiny and Cheaterslick for doin the organizing of everybody.
And guy's if you coulda seen the look on LDC's face when that bucket fired for the first time in ....about 8 years !!!!!! It was freekin grand!!

 

Thats so cool..good luck with the car.

 

That's me standing in the engine compartment.
I didn't realize my ass looked so fat in coveralls!
That car only has 58,000 miles on it. It clacked for a bit when we first fired it but after a few minutes she shut up and smoothed right out. It frickin runs great!
What a fun day from cruising there in the morning to cruising back that night.
You guy's should have heard Poncho's wagon in the Deas Island tunnel with straight pipes, my ears finally stopped bleeding this morning!

 

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I didn't realize my ass looked so fat in coveralls!


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LOL

 

that is so cool... good friends are hard to find.. you have lots of them, feel lucky............. If my friends did that I would have to sell the car to pay for the beer that would have gotten drank.. and that is just from FlamedAbone...

 

Hats off to a bunch of great friends. Much better reading than a rant!! After that you'd better get that thing registered and show up at the next "function".

 

LDC,it was such a good damn day!
Settin it up was a blast.I still can't believe we kept it from you for so long!
The beer wasn't all drank cuz I was drivin!
Rockett88,chit man I thought your butt looked great in the coveralls
Have your neighbors relaxed now that the hoodlums have left?They should have thanked me for repaving the street!LOL
Your parents and lil sis were great hosts.I got paid more in food and drinks for 5 hours work then some of my friends pay me to build their hot rods!
Hats off to all the Hellcats and HAMBers involved.......Shiny

 

CONGRATS bud! It warms my heart to hear stories like this. From one that has also been on the receiving end of a HAMB thrash, friends don't get any better then this!

Besides Rocket88 butt in the coveralls, who are the other fellows in the photos?

 

That is really really cool man. Im happy to see that. This place is great, isnt it?

I met a bunch of HAMBers yesterday at a swap meet and they are some of the nicest people i have ever had the pleasuer of meeting.

Nick

 

hey good call denise....we did a group shot before we ripped it up....wheres that pick LDC427????off hand i can kinda tell ya which hambers where there ..it was a mix of hamb dudes and hellcat message board guys so...hambers=
the rev,littleduececoupe427,poncho,29EHV8,surleyjeb,apachie58
threedueces56,lil jimmy,rocket88,badpat,schaefer,cheaterslick[in spirit],i think thats it for hambers

 

~sniffle~sniffle~

I think I'm gonna cry.....

That's cool... really cool.


JOE

 

I'll try to get them up, it turns out my sisters camera doesn't have the the chord to plug it into the computer so we will have to get one first. I think lowryder took a group shot also but I could be wrong.