pre '65 rule

I've noticed a lot of people joining and posting all kinds of cars & trucks that are not Hamb friendly.

I sent a guy a PM explaining the rule and he said there is no pre '65 rule.

I read the rules again and it's not there anymore,,what happened? HRP


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Thanks for adding rule #7 again Boss! HRP

 

It is also my perception that many new people come here just to try and sell their **** without looking at the rules.

 

I did a "sarcastic" post today saying from now on the engines in the vehicles must be older than 65,no more this and that....Didn't go over well and was instantly deleted....Bad humor on my part I suppose.
From my point of view,which may be wrong, the pre 1965 vehicle rule is enforced unevenly.I do know with the volume here's it's not possible to see everything. A new guy looks around and there's pages of threads about 70's mail trucks,older pu truck on a later 4x4 ch***is and so on.....So the newbie thinks " Hey,I can discuss my 71 Camaro ......

 

didnt it use to be 64

 

Yeah,but that changed several years ago,,at least there is a cap and when challenged when some numbskull post a photo of his mid 90's Toyota we can point to the rules and say "See, pre '65" ! HRP

 

it's 65 and older so where does that leave all the those 65 mustangs. it can still be confusing to a new guy. we just have to be vigilant and report all off-topic stuff. let's not let the hamb change on our watch.

 

Rule #8 should clear up any confusion. HRP

 

We should include the muscle cars in that...

 

How about a rule #10,,NO RAT RODS. HRP

 

I just read the new number 8 rule. I do not envy you moderators in the least. Someone is gonna say what about this old G***er bug? Or what about etc etc, people always trying to figure out a way to be right just to show the powers that be. =)

Keep up the good work, no way I could do what you guys do!

 

Thanks for all your hard work keeping this place so enjoyable (this can't be easy!). It 's such a great place to keep learning new ways to improve what I love doing.
Again thanks Ryan and crew
George

 

Thanks, man...



As for Algon's Bug and others like that, they were posted before we had the possibility to post them on the Dogfight Forum.

They were too cool to get rid of at the time, even if they were not exactly On Topic.

And now they are grandfathered in.

But, as confusing as it might be to Users who do not familiarize themselves with the Site,
The fact that these Threads exist on the HAMB has nothing to do with O/T stuff that gets Posted right now.

 

Wow. That rule keeps out one of the biggest threads on here. The Altered Wheelbase picture thread.


Meltdown Drags 2013 July 19-21

 

Apparently don't like English cars either.
http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=813995

 

I was enjoying this thread myself,,someone one probably reported it as a problem and a moderator deleted. HRP

 

Must have...

Too bad, I was enjoying it too. ( I know that car in the pic from one of the Staniforth books )

What made it Off Topic is the modern Japanese motorcycle engine.


Hopefully it will get reposted on the Dogfight Forum.


And this is why I see every additional rule that gets written down as a bit of a defeat.

We lose the flexibility to have cool stuff like that, because of the people that post stuff that is Off Topic and make additional rules necessary.

I see this as a win for them, not for us.

( us being the HAMBers that do not try to turn the HAMB into something it isn't...)

 

I thought it changed from 64 to 65 when Ryan bought the riv

 

You thought wrong.

That style Riviera has always been in.

 

As long as the model did not see any major changes then the vehicle could be over the age limit but still accepted right?

 

What flies and what doesn't has become defined by the Core HAMB Members, that post here.

And that's why its so difficult to write it down as a hard set of rules.

There are many exceptions to the rule, and as soon as you write it down, you'll lose some of that.


But at a certain point you have to...

 

But the post was rectified by the poster before it was locked. From there on forward it was just about the car, and there was nothing wrong with the car.

Cant you just unlock it?

 

No, but you could send a P/M to Ryan or Kevin politely requesting to give it another look, and see if it could be re-opened.

 

From what I remember (Ive barely been here over 2 years so I consider myself a newbie) when the rule was 64 and back, that if a car was around in 63 or 64, that if the body style lasted till '65 or later it was OK.

IE, a 65 Riviera or Thunderbird was OK, a 65 Impala was OT. Ditto a couple of pickups IIRC.