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Who/What introduced YOU to the hamb?

Discussion in 'The Hokey Ass Message Board' started by briggs&strattonChev, Feb 21, 2004.

  1. hotrodladycrusr
    Joined: Sep 20, 2002
    Posts: 20,765

    hotrodladycrusr
    Member

    [ QUOTE ]
    Anyone remember the "roadtoads"?


    [/ QUOTE ]

    Yep, I belonged, boy that was a long time ago. Made some hot rod friends there that I still have today.
     
  2. <font color="green"> I frequented the FE Forum on Network54 for awhile and when Anthony (moderator of that forum) mentioned the HAMB I checked it out. Wasn't too thrilled with the content at first but stuck around and eventually realized that it was mostly good natured ribbing. Mostly. Also, I didn't put together JJ and HAMB until after I'd joined.

    I hate to admit it but it wasn't until after I started up here that I decided to do an older style custom with the Galaxie. Hell, I think my plans then were to drop in a 460/six speed and moderize everything about the car. Kinda glad I didn't. Even if I haven't done squat with it anyway. [​IMG] Of course, I've always liked old hotrods. </font>
     
  3. Tim
    Joined: Mar 2, 2001
    Posts: 18,687

    Tim
    Member
    from KCMO

    ummm, dam that was a long time ago :S like 5 or 6 years????

    want to say random searches ended up with big blue car=jalopyjournal= hamb
     
  4. Nick32vic
    Joined: Jul 17, 2003
    Posts: 3,060

    Nick32vic
    Member

    I was bored one night so i searched for "hot rods" or somethin like that in AOL member directory. I started talkin to This guy jeremy (i think his name on here this week is 37clbcoupe or somethin). Anyways, he told me about it.

    At the time i hated message boards. then over a couple days i started reading it. Then i got hooked and stayed up alllllll night reading.

    The End.

    Nick
     
  5. I remember seeing the word HAMB flying around on RRT and was searching for some sites with Ed Roth info. So I read a few posts without registering for a while. A lot of the posts were REAL inside sometimes, but I caught on and then I registered. so ME.
     
  6. I got turned on to the RRT in the later 90's by Rodder's Digest.

    When the first issue of Hot Rod Deluxe came out... some dude named Ryan wrote a nice little article about Wide White Walls... an being the cocky S.O.B. that I am... I wrote a little ditty on the RRT and basically passed judgement on this poor guy that I didn't even know (what's new eh?).

    Anywho, Dr.J... who I think was a double agent back then... was working on something for Aaron Lasky for HRD... so next thing you know... Guys from the HAMB are coming over to the RRT and raising hell... the shit went back and forth for a good while. I think Bill was the only guy who took it really hard. Ryan and Aaron sent me an e-mail... and the three of us had a virtual three-some going on... apologizing and realizing we're into the same shit... and then we left it at that.

    So finally, I got the balls up enough to come on over here to the HAMB... only I didn't post under my "Dr.J appointed name" SamIyam... I posted under Joe Doakes... Mike Bishop had written a story about this guy named Joe Dokes... and that "everybody know's Joe Dokes" or something like that... so I thought it was funny that I was posting on the HAMB... and that "everybody know's Joe Doakes" (me)... hahaha...

    Then I answered a few questions... lurked as ol' Joe... and then finally logged on as myself.

    Sam.
    p.s. Anyone save the Great White Wall Controversey?
     
  7. Jkustom
    Joined: Oct 8, 2002
    Posts: 1,686

    Jkustom
    Member

    I dont quite remember, but it was befor I had a computer, and I was on my girlfriends once in a while. Just looking at hotrod sites, saw the link a few places, figured Id check it out. Now I check it out at least 2-3 times a day.


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    Never Lurked just started talking staright off....got to 70 posts before someone asked about my intro! [​IMG]

    So I guess i just slipped in under the radar!

    Cheers
    MAIKI

    Can't see myself EVER leaving. [​IMG]

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    Im coming up on about 380 posts, and I never did an intro. But dont tell anyone! [​IMG]
    Maybe for post 400..... -J.
     
  8. subrock
    Joined: Feb 18, 2004
    Posts: 81

    subrock
    Member

    got here a week ago. I origianlly started on the stovebolt forum, asking some hot rod (or hacker as they called it) questions and realized it wasnt really the place [​IMG]. no offence to them but I think they lack the creative spirit of autos that I found here, although I will go back for some straight up focused chevy advice. I have been reading up a storm on the hamb pages, already made some connections , oogled a few projects too far away and had a larf. cant wait to get my hands on some real steel.
    thanks , this forum rules
    Ian
     
  9. zman
    Joined: Apr 2, 2001
    Posts: 16,783

    zman
    Member
    from Garner, NC

    Found it off of the Jalopy Journal signed up and then lurked for a few years. I guess there were only about 300 members then. My new job gives me the time and computer access to actually participate a little more...
     
  10. FLAT-TOP BOB
    Joined: Aug 19, 2002
    Posts: 1,968

    FLAT-TOP BOB
    HAMB O'dex Editor

    i had listed a car on e-bay for nailheadmerc and tp called us about some parts. he got us headed in the right direction. i'm sure glad he told us about the hamb, look what i would have missed. THANKS TP
     
  11. FORDY 6
    Joined: Oct 8, 2002
    Posts: 1,565

    FORDY 6
    Member

    Friend and fabricater - Smokey, from Lehigh, IA







     
  12. buzzard
    Joined: Apr 20, 2001
    Posts: 4,335

    buzzard
    Alliance Member

    Me and Al Gore invented the HAMB.
     
  13. quickrod
    Joined: Nov 5, 2003
    Posts: 394

    quickrod
    Member

    curly told me about it...he also told me "i'd better come in swingin"cause these guys bust balls hard......fuckin dick,my balls still hurt from the bootin the "intro police"gave me. [​IMG] gotta tell ya it's been fun thus far [​IMG]quickrod
     
  14. I had a message from Byron in Daytono who rides a Ducati Monster &amp; is on the same Monster forum as I am...We got to PM'ing about music &amp; cars &amp; he recommended I check it out....so, here I am [​IMG]
     
  15. Mike
    Joined: Mar 5, 2001
    Posts: 3,539

    Mike
    Member

    I found this place via the link from the Kustoms by TSR site. I also still have my Kustoms by TSR t-shirt and decals, one unused, one on my F1 and one on my Impala.

    I've been here long enough to have my real name as my handle (same with jerry and Glen). Those were the "punk rock" "wild west" days of the HAMB. There certainly was a lot of slapped ass nonsense going on, but usually very entertaining nonsense, and the newbie hazing was brutal. Through it all, there has always been good comraderie and plenty of good information exchanged. I still consider myself a member of H.A.C.K. (hokey ass car klub).

    Because of this place, I have had a lot of fun, learned a whole lot and I've met a bunch of really good folks from all over the world. Pretty bitchin' stuff.

    Viva la H.A.M.B.!
    Viva la H.A.C.K.!
     
  16. TINGLER
    Joined: Nov 6, 2002
    Posts: 3,410

    TINGLER

    Some cult type people came around one day and tried to convert me. I listened to them on and off for a few months....Anyhow, they were all telling me how hot rodding is evil and I should give it up. I had my cars up for sale and all.....

    Then they told me that whatever I do, NEVER, NEVER look at a thing on the computer called the HAMB. They said it was the work of pure EVIL.

    ..... been here a year now.

    [​IMG]
     
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  17. Tony
    Joined: Dec 3, 2002
    Posts: 7,350

    Tony
    Member

    My invisable friend Sancho told me about the HAMB .....
     
  18. BLAKE
    Joined: Aug 10, 2002
    Posts: 2,783

    BLAKE
    Member

    My good buddy BUZZARD steered me in this direction at the grand opening of 'Aces &amp; Eights'. I clearly remember him telling Joyce that I'd be addicted once I checked it out - he was right. Didn't lurk, and my first post was one of the many 'Show us your ride' posts - the intro police beat me thoroughly about the head and shoulders.
     
  19. OGNC
    Joined: May 13, 2003
    Posts: 1,194

    OGNC
    Member Emeritus

    As much as I hate to admit it, Rob Fortier (RF) introduced me to the JJ when I worked over at Primedia (though it was still McMullen &amp; Yee Publishing back when we started). I lurked off &amp; on for a long time before I finally signed up. Made some great new friends through the HAMB (Killer and the like).

    Thanks Ryan for giving us all a place to come together on the web.
     
  20. Sam F.
    Joined: Mar 28, 2002
    Posts: 4,225

    Sam F.
    BANNED

    ok,i read about the jalopy journal in HRD.at the time i didnt have a computer,but was at a buddys pad, had trouble getting online and only made it too the first page..then forgot about it...

    later on i got a job with internet access and had plenty of time to fuck around on the internet..decided to check out the jalopy journal again and thought it was badd ass,,,BUT it was like months later till i realized there was a message board under the "HAMB" thing on the bar at the bottom ..hahahaha,,
     
  21. I found it all by myself..... [​IMG]Knew I what I was looking for but didn't know where to find it. Musta looked at the Jalopy Journal for a year before I FOUND the HAMB.

    ....But what's an "intro?" [​IMG]
     
  22. Thirdyfivepickup
    Joined: Nov 5, 2002
    Posts: 6,094

    Thirdyfivepickup
    Member

    I HAVE NO FUCKIN IDEA HOW I GOT HERE!

    ...and I'm not leavin! (unless we run out of beer!
     
  23. momentumfoto
    Joined: Jan 9, 2004
    Posts: 626

    momentumfoto
    Member
    from Yes

    I was fuckin around on some hotrod sites and saw a link for it... HAMB... I thought to myself "what the hell is HAMB?" cus I was told that you are crazy if you talk to yourself outloud you know.
     
  24. Watched AG and drank beers one night. After it was over, I did a MSN search for AG, and this one one of the first sites to come up... remember it well. [​IMG]

    Jay
     
  25. I had this long elaborate description in mind...but simply put..tuck.
     
  26. Bob K
    Joined: Mar 3, 2001
    Posts: 5,772

    Bob K
    Member Emeritus
    from Antigo Wi.

    Found the link on Jalpoy Journal while looking at an article on a car I used to have (Starbirds Electra). Was 1999 and everyone was using their real names,
    Spudz was still Cole. There was post by George Barris but it turned out to be phony.

    B [​IMG] B


     
  27. sawzall
    Joined: Jul 15, 2002
    Posts: 4,743

    sawzall
    Member

    [ QUOTE ]
    MasterBates , I mean Sowhat turned me on to it.

    [/ QUOTE ]

    I think I was the only one of his "friends" who he actually told to do an intro..

     
  28. Crease
    Joined: May 7, 2002
    Posts: 2,878

    Crease
    Member

    Barnett made me do it!
     
  29. Zodoff
    Joined: Aug 9, 2002
    Posts: 526

    Zodoff
    Member

    Followed a link,from Marts place,i think it was.

    Its nice here.
     
  30. candyman
    Joined: Jun 29, 2001
    Posts: 355

    candyman
    Member

    I found the Jalopy Journal from the big blue car site originaly and subsequently the HAMB.
     

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