Its taught me that Nor-Cal Nic and Germ are really rulers!!! Its also taught me not to let Hey its Nate out in the shop before his morning cigarette and coffee. Also that guys in kansas have more hobbies than just sheep!!! But mostly its taught me that integraty exsists in spades a****st the people that are truly HAMBERS
ive learned your only limitations are your imagination.things i never thought capable of doing before ,im actually doing ... i love this place... i ALSO learned(like many others here ) HOW to TYPE and get my POINT across,by using CAPS and .......'s making sure to EMPASIZE my words and take pleanty of .......pauses.....thanks... to GERM!?!? i really ENJOY typing like this when im DRUNK. thanks germ
I've learned that no matter how carefully concidered, rational, and fraught with Spock like logic, an opinion may be, someone will be 180 degress diametricly opposed to it. I've learned you can't chop a car too much or lower it enough. I think my next project will have windows ya can't slip a credit card thru and will drag the body in a 3 inch ditch carved in the street. Of course then some guy will build one that uses a 6 inch ditch.........................
One thing that strikes me: I began reading, studying, and hoarding rod magazines and anything I could find on early Fords about 1960 at age 12, when I first discovered this world. Later, I found ways to track the older stuff, and now I have a huge collection of rod magazinesfrom 1948 up til they all went to hell and books and Ford dealership stuff from 1928-48. Most of what I have gleaned from this lifetime obsession has been posted here on the HAMB by many different people who have lived it or found it in all sorts of ways, and much more tech and history has been posted here as well. HAMB really contains all of hotrod history and all the tech that matters, and generally writes it and illustrates it better than Petersen ever could! All we need is more archiving of goodies; then HAMB will be the only necessary publication.
I can't say there's any one big "theme" that I have learned, but just a bunch of little stuff. How to adjust my Holley, ideas on exhaust routing, where to get good deals on parts or tools, etc. Also, I have met a lot of really cool people since I have been here. Many of them I have put real faces to, and many I just know "online". I just hope I have helped some people with what little knowledge/experience I do have. No doubt I have been helped quite a bit!
Reading the HAMB beats the hell out of watching that damned snow comming down outside the window. Tech and help are the best parts I think. I remember how hard it was to find somebody who still remembered how to put Buick brakes on Ford spindles a few years ago. Or how to mate engine A to ****** B. A question on here now and BOOM, instant help. The other amazing thing is the help people get when broken down on the road. After that, this place is a history museum, comedy club, art gallery, and some of the best bench racing anywhere. You can learn something and be entertained at the same time. Hell, I've learned alot from members like Mr. Bones and the lizard... I even know what an OrcaBetty is!
I've learned the word "***CLOWN". I've also learned: That you can't run a tube axle with hairpins. How to ***emble a dropped axle. How to grind whitewalls. How to put the Fairlane together. How to.....ah hell, you get my drift. I've learned a lot in 2 years. Maybe the next 2 years I can teach a few things to some people. VT.
[ QUOTE ] Most importantly: There IS a whole bunch of "COOL" people with a SUPER VAST wealth of knowledge and experience that like the same cool stuff I do. THANK YOU ALL!!!!!!!! overspray [/ QUOTE ] I think that sums it up. I talk to my dad at least every other night. I tell him stuff I learn and see here: he always says you got that off that message board?? - HELL YEAH! I keep telling him he needs to pay for high speed internet. I still have to book-mark this to his favorites so he can find it again. What is most amazing to me is that people are always willing to share their information and knowledge. A lot of people make their living doing this stuff. The fact that they will share that info is outstanding. I think I hang out with the wrong people locally. They think stuff is a big freakin' secret. Thanks to everyone here!! It is the best place in the world to talk cars!
I just can't believe the way someone can ask a question and almost instantly get a dozen answers, and offers of help and guidence! I have pretty much kept on the sidelines and absorbed as much information as I can, and the amount of knowledge on here is unreal. Thanks to all for this forum. I only hope I can contribute in some way.-MIKE
I already knew alot of ****, but the H.A.M.B. teaches you stuff you dont hear about in the books or magazines, like lastminute parking lot fixes, or cheap backyard tech.
The HAMB above all other things (that everyone else has mentioned), has given me the inspiration to keep going, and to try things I never knew I knew how to do...
Soaking an old flat head in a tub of mol***es or coke to de-rust and free up stuck pistons! Wow, that is worth the price of admission for sure!
What have I learned you have to be polite and introduce yourself before speaking if you give more then you expect to receive you will received back more then you expect. you can have good friends without having every met the person in real life. overseas hotroders are more ******** then American hotrodders. (they have to be to build what they do) listening and learning can help in the building of a hotrod Build what you like, not what others think is cool. there will be atleast one person who likes what you built.
It's taught me that I don't know much. But this is the best place to ask and learn. I agree with Denise. I treat this place, not as a internet site, but as a place full of friends with TONS of awesome knowledge. My wife thought I was goofy at first when I started hanging here, but now understands. My buddies thought I was goofy always talking about the HAMB this, the HAMB that, but now always ask me what's going on, or can I find out a way to do something etc.. This place is the best. Thanks to everyone here.
I've learned that GUYS can be even BIGGER cry baby drama queens than girls. And that lots of people profess to hating VW's yet secretly love and currently own or have owned one or more.
I've learned that I didn't know nearly as much as I thought I knew. It has also taught me that I can still learn. After 30 years I find myself learning more, and faster than ever. I can never repay what I've gained here.
That there's a whole world full of people who dig early style customs and are willing to spend all their free time in the garage rolling around in grinder grit and bondo dust. It's also tought me to be more open to other people's point of view as it's often more accurate than my own.
That I can spend endless hours reading about and discussing subjects that are meaningless to the average person. That I can be easily lead by people that have nothing better to do than hang around a web site. That I can become addicted to about anything. And the worst thing about all this is that I love it and wouldn't have it any other way
Oh, I've learned alot of stuff, most importantly.... That there is NO problem that one can encounter while building a car that can't be solved just by asking the collective HAMB gurus...somebody will have the answers you seek if you have the balls to speak up. Oh yeah, and I also learned that if you come up with a really dumb idea, that HAMBers will rally together to help you turn it into reality...they won't LET you quit!
I've learned that this is not just a run of the mill forum. This place is a huge clubhouse that has no boundries full of members that are willing to help with knowledge,parts or direction to get us where we want to be at. I've learned that you can build the *****enest car from parts that nobody else would want with very little money and or shop space. I've learned alot and I expect to learn a whole lot more. Thanks everyone. later shawn
[ QUOTE ] It's also tought me to be more open to other people's point of view as it's often more accurate than my own. [/ QUOTE ] It changed the way I think about other folks rides...............to be more tolerant and open minded. I am a life time NSRA member........... I had magazine subscriptions to just about every rod book in the USA. I was a street rodder.........and built my cars that way. <font color="red"> I NOW have a appreciation for most all things old, a sort of reverence for the old days and old ways. My wife says I am stuck in 1957. </font> I blame/credit the HAMB for the change......... Thanks Ryan.........it took a young guy efforts to change a old guy ! ! .
It taught me how to be a man, baby. A man! Seriously, the HAMB has taught me about perserverence and tenacity. I used to look at projects and think "God, how will I ever do that." Now I look at em' and say "God, I'm gonna' rock out w/ my **** out. I'm gonna' tear into that piece of rusty monkey dung and learn as I go. If I break it, I'll fix it." Viva la HAMB!
[ QUOTE ] It has taught me to, shutup, listen ,share and Learn. Thanks HAMB...H [/ QUOTE ] couldn't have said it any better
[ QUOTE ] How little I actually know. [/ QUOTE ] Amen Brother.I THOUGHT I knew Quite a Bit Untill I came to the HAMB.But compared to the Knowledge I have seen on the HAMB.I dont know a QUARTER of what I thought knew!!
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