Who/What introduced YOU to the hamb?

Christmas 1999, was searching on the web at my inlaws house. Found the Jalopy Journal through the Autoholics Website via About.com. Took me a couple weeks to figure out what this HAMB thing on the black bar was.

 

I was on vacation in Victoria British Columbia and ran across a copy of Hot Rod Deluxe (first issue) in a small gas station. I was hooked.
It was really a rough board then. I believe Justin called me out on a post about Carb repair er' sumtin ' Remember Arron's trip threw the desert ?
This is still the coolest cyber garage on the web.

 

I was drawn to it...as if by a force greater than...

oh nevermind, Michigan Rick was the one who told me about this place, and I have been hooked ever since. Thank You to all for the help you have given me, and the friendships I have made are great.

 

I found the JJ early on, but missed the HAMB. I was hanging out at the old Classic Cars Flathead board until it vanished. I then went over to the MSN and Fordbarn flathead sites. It was on Fordbarn that 286Merc mentioned the HAMB. I came over and checked it out. I lurked for a couple of months and was hooked by Ol' Rusty, the Rocky 33, Eyeball's T, Rogues rpu, and a few other projects that were coming together on the HAMB at the time.

I also got a kick out of the Redondo Rodder / Spank drama. They both contributed some good stuff when they weren't flinging shit.

I finally did an intro and actually got welcomed by Germ. I said that I had been telling my wife about the "Shitboxes(TM)" on the HAMB and from down the hall my son (then 2 years old) comes running in saying "Shitbox, Shitbox, Shitbox..." Germ threatened to send his goons to collect royalties from my son on the use of the TM.

The HAMB has really got me going on my rpu project. I had been collecting parts to build an early Ford hot rod since high school, but didn't think I could afford to build it yet. With the help and parts from friends I have met here, my pile of parts may actually see the road this year...at a price I can afford.

Viva la HAMB.

Neal...inCA

 

after hearing mr.gasser talk about the HAMB, and the people on the HAMB, and myself not knowing what the hell the HAMB was i decided it was something i NEEDED to check out. so i found it, lurked for a long time, posted my intro, and thus began my addiction to internet message boards.

 

I actually found it through the JJ on the old version but never paid much attention to the HAMB. In fact, one of the cars in the readers rides section has that red 59 Impala convertible. That's mine from the day we fired it up with the new 348 on Feb 15, 1997. Never really caught on to the HAMB until I signed up as SledDriver in October 2001...

Travis

 

FlatTop Bob. Thanks, Bob, and you, too, Ryan.

 

I first heard about it from the HAMB chop article in CKD, I was impressed to find that there were still some old school rodders out there who would go out of there way to help a guy. I checked it out and them forgot about it until someone mentioned it a few months ago. Now i'm here once a day, all day long, and once at night from dusk till dawn. Josh.

 

I was doing searches for info on Roth's Mysterion, and came accross the Jalopy Journal, but at the time didn't spend a whole lot of time on message boards.

Years later I met Denise and she kept talking about Roger's Friday Night Read, so I lurked here for a while and decided I really like what I was reading.

 

I think that was 8-9 years ago, the first board. Im not 100% but I think I found my way here trough Mel Klimas site, The Big Blue Car. That site was the first custom site one the Internet...
I did use a 286 back then, 14.4 modem and an Internet without images, just text...

 

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We knew about the board, but never had time to get involved,literally....One day TOYGHOUL said that Franco was torching Moldy and that was too good to pass up.....then, like a shark feeding -frenzy, someone calls out Franco and someone hollers for GERM...not only was this hilarious,it was free!
There were so many familiar faces here,we joined....made many new pals and a few GOOD BUDDIES....

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check your pm's JOHNNY... or do pics of 2000pnd guys with hairy ass's not excite you anymore???

i got a deal for YOU... if interested

 

A 40's Stewart Warner oil pressure gauge brought me here a little over 4 years ago. I needed a convex lens and bezel for the gauge. A search dumped me on the old classified page (where I found someone who fixed me up.) I put my car on the snap shots page (with a nice caption from Ryan). I kept coming back to check the new photos and finally found the HAMB. I'm not much on reading editorials. I never did an intro either.

 

I read the Young Guns about Ryan in Rod and Custom. I checked it out off and on but recently got a username and I love this place. Thanks Ryan.

 

Came over from the old RRT during the flame wars.

 

Very first day I got my very first computer.....typed in "Hot Rod" and it took me to Hot Rod Deluxe magazine. Followed a link to Jalopy Journal and it took me to the HAMB. The end.

 

Wife bought a iMac the day they went on sale.
She "forced" me to learn how to turn the friggin thing on and how to bring up email so she could give me honey do's from work. (just kidding, mostly.) I fiddled with it a couple days and then asked her where something I heard about called "search" was. Seems the mac has this thing called Sherlock, (as in Sherlock Holmes) that searches every search engine available at once and bings up tons of stuff.
So I two finger in "Hot Rod" and get a hundred and twenty three porn sites and the RRT The HAMB and The JJ.
So I go visit them, and the RRT and HAMB too.
I looked in at the HAMB and that day there was a few guys verbally goosing each other and playing cyber stink finger so I read the amusement typed out by what I percieved as a handful of punk BFer's and continued on to the next one which was the RRT and it had some neat threads going on and it was easy even for me to sign up so I did, and I actually introduced myself and within a few minutes I was welcomed to the RRT by DRD57 and Carps.
Well I hug out there for a few weeks while lurking at the HAMB and noticed a few common names between the two sites and in between the cyber fudge packing there was actually some intelligent hotrod talk going on at the HAMB, so one day when I felt particularly "sharp tongued" I signed up at the HAMB and did an intro of sorts and got some shit from a couple of people, nothing serious, just stuff like I might say for fun like; "Your mother made me throw up!"
No, no one said that to me, I say that to people occasionally when "Did your parent's have any children that lived?" goes over someone's head.
Well, I stuck around both places till Samiyam started the WWW's thread message board war and "Bill" thought it was all my fault and ceremoniously put my soul in a shoe box in his closet shortly after the RRT plug got pulled.
(By the way, did Bill ever move to Sho-Low AZ?)
I think the first HAMBers I met in person were Aaron and Shag and Killer.
I actually met and talked to then RRT'er DRD57 at Giovanni's Thursday Cruise before I ever got on the internet, but it took a while to put the two together. I was contemplating the draw backs of a cowl tank and down draft carburetion and asked him how he had his set up, if I recall. (His Model A has always been a neat car through all of it's changes.)

And so far I haven't pissed Ryan off enough to get kicked off.

 

HotRodJosh told me about it. Now I'm hooked. Met loads of great people, learned alot. I never did an intro, just snuck in.

 

I learned about the HAMB on an antique car site run by the Vintage Chevrolet Club of America (VCCA). There was a thread about how dangerous hot rods were and how crappy they're built with had a link to a thread on the HAMB.. The thread was the one about the Heidt's cracked front crossmember. I lurked for a while and felt a lot more at home here, than I did at the VCCA site, so here I'll stay

 

I heard about it during the first RRT meltdown when, I believe it was FatCat had just started his board.

Wild Bill is gayly pulling his pud on SRS these days. Man, that site has gone downhill since I signed off about 18 months ago. Looked at it the other day.

 

As best as I can remember it was the RRT/HAMB war that brought my attention to the site. I never really understood much about the flame war because I do not read much of that stuff but I was glad it brought me to the HAMB.

I like to meet the people from the HAMB in person but I often fail to spend the time to really get to know them and I regret that later. I will try to do better this season.

 

MasterBates , I mean Sowhat turned me on to it.

 

<font color="green">Almost ashamed to admit....

It was the MONKEY. </font>

 

Fonzi from CA told me about it when we met at the "Doughnut Derilicts"!

Then I moved to Texas and met Krupanut and he mentioned this site as well so I lurked for about a year.

Then I moved to WI and met Bobbleed not knowing he was the son of a guy I knew many years ago!!!

And after going to the "Cheaters" show I intro'd myself and I'm presently a HAMB'o'holic!! "there I said it!" (and yes I feel better since I'm out of the closet!)

Mark

 

Surfing Kustom cars and stumbled on the HAMB.
Never Lurked just started talking staright off....got to 70 posts before someone asked about my intro!

So I guess i just slipped in under the radar!

Cheers
MAIKI

Can't see myself EVER leaving.

 

I found it while looking through car sites... it may have been TSR.

I really dug JJ, as it was a really well designed site, far above 90% of the rest of the web. I started checking out the forums just for the hell of it, and was impressed by how rowdy and loose it was... everyone cussing as much as they wanted, chewing on each other, but seemingly in fun. Different than other boards I went to.

That was a while back, probably early 99? It was a couple of board re-designs back. I lurked on and off, never really posting. The first time I did was during the RRT/HAMB wars, and it was getting in a piss contest with germ. Got the shake down from him when I first really started coming around two years ago (intro po-lice!). Good fellow, but hyper because of the cheap mexican crack I believe.

It was pretty friggin surreal when the RRT/HAMB thing started, because I was lurking both boards at the same time, and here they were getting intertwined... pretty strange!

Anyhow, I really dig this site, it's entertaining and informative both... rare combanation on the web these days...

 

I heard there wuz nekkid pictures of Ryan COCKran on here....

Turns out it was just Aaron....



I don't remember how I found it... I think Ryan begged me to post on it so we could actually get to a page 2...

That was a long fuckin time ago Ryan.

 

53Choptop hooked me up.... ever since then it has been an every day thing. Set it up as my home page as a matter of fact.

 

Damned if I know. I got on the Jalopy Journal the first month it was up. Like Ryan said, it took a while before the internet improvements sorted out all the e-mail lists into useable message boards. I think it might have been Dave at Roadsters.com or maybe Rumpsville that got me to check out the H.A.M.B. part of Jalopy Journal the first time. I came back this last time because CWORD and Southfork recommended it.

 

It was some weird little garden gnome who drove a Fiat Topolino with a straight axle and an injected hemi.

If anyone sees that little fucker tell him thanks.