This is like crack for hot rodders. I have been on here so much the past 48 hours, I walk away and cant wait to come back. I've been following the stuff happening out in A.S.S. with Tucks pics and story line, and Evel's vids. makes me want to go to Austin to see what Im missing. Thanks guys for consuming me mind and kick starting me to get my projects done.
I agree with both posts. Im typing in the dark While my family is sleeping. This place is better than watching Tv. or sleeping.
dieselc. I couldn't agree more with you. Every single recess time and lunch time at school, like now, i'm on here. Any chance I get to jump on a computer I'm on here. It's more addictive than ***...... Sometimes I think to myself, "I gotta find a cure". But a smack myself on the head and say, "cure", yeah right. 'Once on the H.A.M.B, never off the H.A.M.B. I've done a few long stints on the H.A.M.B. HC.
No telling how much more I could get done at work if it weren't for this site. But hey, I think I'm learning more.
i like the HAMB coz its like evesdropping at a car show. You can walk around and look at different cars...hear a little on how they were built and got there...you can talk a little tech....sometimes theres some o/t stuff....music...... if my computer made giant corn dogs i wouldnt have to go to a show again.
This website is why I wont allow my self to get internet at the shop.. i wont get anything done... i get up in the morning check my email before i head to the shop, oh ill just look something up then i check the current posts and my subscriptions before i know it i killed an hour and a half, then again when i come home around noon to eat, then for about 2 hours before i go to bed, just trolling and going through old posts and builds and if i have a new project in mind or a new customer car comes in I have even more to search and troll do you have any idea how much time i have spent going through sedan and econoline posts in the last week!
I'm set up about 20 feet from the garage and I"m never in there. It takes me days of research to plot out what I'm going to do with any particular thing and I go another route before I lift a tool or part....What time is it? I don't need help. I can go to bed whenever I want but I don't want to...
its a sickness that i dont want to be cured of! as far as addictions go, theres a lot worse things out there.
The HAMB is the only way I feel to connected to the rodding community, the area I live in has precious few real rodders.
I did a search for "addicted to hamb" (because I am) and I chose this one. This site is what the internet is all about. It brings people of similar interests together. I know it certainly converted me from a street rodder/hot rodder into a hot rodder period. I now love the old stuff even more than I used to before and find myself strangely allergic to most new stuff. I'm also influenced by what this site stands for and am glad for it and the higher standards it has instilled in me. I especially am enjoying the renewed sense of doing as much myself as possible (I'm an ex-welder/boilermaker - I should be able to do a lot of stuff on my car!) as I truly believe now that building or working on your own unique car is a totally cool buzz. Driving is cool, driving something cool that you built is the coolest. Thanks Jalopy Journal and H.A.M.B.
I couldn't put it any better! Perfectly said. Thank you Ryan and team! Your faithful user and follower, HeyyCharger.
It don't get any better than this! Information highway and along the road you meet some of the best people. There is a certain trust that I feel from fellow Hambers, we share some of the same thoughts and cars. The cl***ified section is a dynamic arena for your parts and contacts. Thanks to everyone involved. Addictive? Yes, but the disease is manifested in your garage, the Hamb is the medicine that fuels it. If you get rid of the cars then depression sets in and you have to get medicine for that so just balance out some build time and Hamb Jive time and it will be Ok. Check with the wife occasionally, they are usually the first to realize you are addicted! My wife wants to know why I am always getting boxes in the mail? . Since she is a letter carrier I tell her it is paying her salary.
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