Art & Inspiration have you tried to spread the gospel according to the HAMB?

Have you tried to spread the worrd about the HAMB? When I'm talking to car guys I usually mention the HAMB because I think it represents what is happening now in the car-guy/hot-rodder world. To my surprise most folks never heard of the HAMB. Am I alone?
-Alan-

 

a lot of people are still catchin up on the computer thing. a lot of car guys are to busy playing with cars to play with computers. and still more people just dont get the trad hot rod thing. i do to much cyber rodding. hehe.

 

I tell alot of people about the HAMB. and I tell them don't use the "r" word here or some of you guy will through a fit.

 

I've found a lot of people are lurkers here.
(for the most part myself included)

 

no I tell lots of people but few ever join as most around here are not builders but muscle car flippers and owners.

 

did you ever have a band that you really like, then everyone started listening to them and it kinda ****ed cause they really didn't get it...

 

I had on a HAMB shirt at a cruise and was asked many times what is HAMB?

 

yeah but when i mention the HAMB , they look different!

they look scared!!

 

I told them when asked what HAMB was, well I tell them it's where a man can go and be made fun of , told hes a dumb ***, and they laugh at your car. The look on their face...they say " why" , I say " it's fun".

 

Most folks I tell about it just kinda give me the deer in the headlights look. The wife doesn't understand why I don't like the billet and bling ****.

 

So what is this HAMB thing you mention ?

 

I'm pretty selective, there are already too damned many high zoot guys on here for my taste.

I directed a young fella here the other day who was looking for an early '60s Belaire, don't know if he made the trip.

 

yes!

 

Try being 17 and telling people at car shows about the HAMB. I've never heard that many weird responses or seen that many dumb looks in my life, too bad I can't charge for dumb looks.

 

I harp and yammer about this **** so much some folks avoid me cause I'm like an Evangelist I just can't help myself....

 

if i meet someone who i believe would appreciate and respect what the hamb is all about, i try to...

 

BINGO! Been doing this for many years now.

 

I agree this is the best automotive web site due to the vast bank of information and a collective spirit for tradtional cars but not every one gets it, hard to belive, but true. The infidels are the chainers, the billet crowd etc., but they are not our enemy my brothers, no, they are lost in the desert wandering as some of us here once were, so cast not judgement, but set an example of the brotherhood we know and cherish. When confronted by the evil doers who practice sorcery of billet gods, just remember the HAMB chant, " chrome, ome..........whitewalls, ...alls........."

 

It's push/pull thing. I'd prefer people who 'get it,' not just everyone who thinks they're a hot rodder, so I'm selective.

 

yep..to those who might understand, those that i know or feel wont get it , i dont bother wasting their time or ours for that matter...if you know what i mean

 

YOU WIN THE BEST RESPONSE AWARD! AND YEA i AM GOING TO STEAL MOST IT AND FOLD IT INTO MY SPIEL......sorry for yelling (damn cap lock)

 

I do...but my OC just won't let me stop..I do need help...I know it....

 

I was at the Monster Mopar event and was wearing my black Hamb shirt. I was amazed at all the people that greeted me by Fellow Hamber.

I tell all the old car guys, especially if they have a lot of billet.

 

used too, but like some other "gospel" it seem to fall on deaf ears.

If I meet someone who is into old cars and "traditional" built hot rods I'll mention it to them, but I think there are enough people on here already who "don't get it" and try to make this forum what they feel it should be to about, to just tell everyone about the HAMB.

 

there are a lot of young guys interested in rods!!!! and think old skool is the right thing to do!! but most arn't sure if a cheezy directional wheel is old,(old to them!!) or not. so i like to help where i can, with out pis'n them off...I introduce them to the HAMB. then they help me with this #?/*^#!!! computer!!!

 

Hell, you can't even preach the HAMB gospel here on the HAMB without being called a restorer or starting a food fight about how hot rodding is all about change.

But yes if I meet someone that gets it, I can talk their ears off and listen and learn as well. I'm not a preacher. I'm not trying to change the world...I'm only doing what I enjoy.

 

The talent, the ideas, the arguments, the disagreements, the imagination, keeping the tradition alive - it's all here and hell yes I tell anyone who talks about old cars to me about the HAMB!

 

I'm pretty selective, there are already too damned many high zoot guys on here for my taste.

If I don't even know what this means - does that mean I'm one of them? HIgh, maybe. Zoot....dunno.

 

I always knew that billet, bling and street rods were Just Wrong, but I didn't know why until I discovered the HAMB. Hallelujia, I've been saved!

I'm still a sinner since I prefer european cars, but the expertise on the HAMB always amazes me, and I can't get enough.

 

Where else can you go to ask stupid questions about old cars? Ahhh, nowhere but here and thats fine by me.