It was a long but typical journey...back in 81-82 I was absorbing every word of Henry Gregor Felsen's books through our junior high school library...got hooked on 'em and decided cars were my thing...told everyone I wanted a 33 Ford coupe with a 427 Ford for my first car. Parents shuddered, friends couldn't grasp diggin' something that OLD! Saw the Eastwood & Barakat 32 sedan in HOT ROD magazine and knew that it was what I wanted! Found a 40 Ford pickup behind the chicken coop on my aunt's farm...dug parts out of the garage trying to make it run when I was maybe 15...wanted to drag it home, Dad said it was too old and too far gone! Got a Chevelle and played around with musclecars and 4x4s for almost 20 years...always trying to get into older tin, but unable to get anything serious started. Brother-in-law found this site after bagging my Street Rod type mags...insisted that I would really love it here. I was new to computers and wrapped up in other pursuits, so I resisted. After he sent me the link a few hundred times, I peeked in. Here I be! (Either that, or one day when I was doing Leif Garrett cover tunes at this bar for Manly Men, I spotted a tight circle of guys in the corner sportin' Michigan Gay Bitch t-shirts...they liquored me up, blindfolded me and dropped me off here!)
Found the Old Jalopy Journal site along with Big Blue and some others just surfing around, kinda faded away for a while working, but you can never stay away to long. Withdrawl and all...
Linked from the Hot Rod Deluxe website. Probably in late '99, if I remember correctly. Don't think I registered and posted until a couple of months later. Back then I thought Aaron ran this place, and some guy named Jason. Ryan never posted much at all. Now he's a regular jabberjaw, compared to then!
I forgot how I came here, but I think I remember finding the Jalopy Journal.. Ryan posted my 59 in the rides area and this had to have been back in 98 or 99... but never got into the HAMB until October 01... Travis
Same here,,,,,,,,,lookin' for hot rods and found Jalopy Journal,,,,,,,I looked at the HAMB a few times. I didn't know how to type or spell worth a crap!(still don't) and thought my typing was being viewed as I was huttin' and peckin'. so I figured why waste other peoples time. Then comes Deuce Roadster and tells me how it works,,,, He also informed me to post an intro!...I recieved a great welcome,,,,,,,,,,,but, not knowing a lot about message boards,,,,,my intro was in all CAPS. After being told about caps lock and that post in all caps was screaming I learned a new trick. I am not on any other message board and don't care to be. Thanks for all the help. HRP
I read an article in Street Rodder about the Roundup. It had a URL for the Kontinentals. I found the HAMB from a link on their site. I was amazed that there were others with my same affliction. I was no longer ashamed
Got Jalopy Journal link from the CKD site. Sent a pic to Ryan who told me to check out the HAMB. Been hooked ever since. I thank you Ryan, and my wife curses you in her sleep.
I actually got the link to the thread about making your own vintage decals on a VW forum I read. And from that I found the rest of the HAMB and joined del pronto! -Taylor (been stuck here ever since)
I used to put on a car show in Baltimore. A few years ago, someone emailed me through the website I had put together and said "Hey, your show looks cool! You should put the information up on the HAMB! Viva La HAMB!" So I came here, posted the information about my show, and got my ass handed to me for not doing an intro! Curt
On vacation in Victoria BC , I picked up Hot Rod Deluxe and the mag changed the way I saw home spun Rods. Back then there was a few hundered folks.
[ QUOTE ] buzzard made me do it. He told me about it right after he signed up. [/ QUOTE ] ALL THE BLAME GOES TO krupanut ...!!!
Think I saw the first mention in R&C.Looked a few times,but didn't register for a while.Finally jumped in this year,wish I'd done it a lot sooner.Love this shit.My wife and kids hate it,cause all of a sudden,Dad is fucking around on the computer all the time,and I won't give it up to them.Didn't post a proper intro,but nobody gave me any shit about it.You guys hurt my feelings by ignoring me.If I knew dick about computers,I'd post pics of my cars,so probably just as well that I snuck in under the radar.Did I mention I love this shit?
I saw it in one of the magazines but in talking to some people about front end info they said you gotta check out this tech article on dropping your stock A axle. This was the tech post Titus did a while back. I just never left. I lurk and learn and appreciate every bit of info. "My name is Troy and I have a problem...." Same story different place.
The second day I had a computer I found the Car Kulture Deluxe site and found this while I was checking out all the links. Best site ever! sled
I was told about it by Daddy-O at the 2002 Detroit Panel Jam. I had just met him and we're talking about pinstriping and hotrods. He starts telling me about the HAMB and the Friday Art Show. He then tells me theres 4 other HAMB'rs there and one happened to have a HAMB t-shirt on. When I got home I checked it out real fast and haven't been the same since. Best thang that ever happened to me. The funny thing is, I had the Jalopy Journal booked marked for quite awhile already and never explored it enough to find the HAMB. Go figure! I'm glad to be here now! Joel
I failed a computer class in high school three year's ago lurking on here. I was bored in class as usual and started to look for hot rod's on the web and found this place. But I didn't join until I had a home computer.
I was on another related type site and a few people were saying how brutal it was over here, especially on newbies so I here I am! Of course the same people saying this had feelings, thank god I'm emotionless(according to my wife)
I'm pretty sure it was Ripper that got me on to the "Rodder's Round Table" back when it was still on the Cyber Cruzin site. I think that was '98 or '99. As good as the RRT is/was, it was a little staid and a lot of the people on there were old (and wise). At some point there was a post about all the shenanigans going on over here. Of course, like a train wreck I had to look. Five or six years later I'm still looking! Not sure exactly which incarnation of the HAMB I first registered on, but it may have been v2.0. I do remember some rather long post heading.
I used to hang around hackasaw.com(cause his shop's across town from mine)...anyway, there was a link in a post over there about Cole's blue bike that led me here. Funny how this shit works, huh?
[ QUOTE ] It helps a lot doesn't it? [/ QUOTE ] Yes, yes it does. At least there's no high expectations for me to aspire to.
Mention off the Jalopy Journal in Rod & Custom a LONG time ago. I lurked for a long time. You guys are as cruel as 5th graders! And that's no shit mean. But if you fly low and lurk, it's like keeping your mouth shut around the oldtimers, you soak up somethings of value. Funny, if you check in here often enough, you'll be able to really help someone or get the answer to questions you didn't even know you had to ask yet. Learned about the Rocketeers here too. There seem to be HAMB'ers everywhere, and just like their cars, they all look different. <font color="red"> </font>
Last year i was talking to a friend on AIM (JBCLBCOUPE) He told me about the HAMB, i told him i hated message boards but he made me look anyways. And Today i have 600 something posts and he has 2, hes been a lurker for a long time. Nick
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