Older (30+) HAMBers...what was/is your CB Handle?

[Fat Hack]

Cell phones suck...I'll never ever ever never own one...but I always used to run a CB (hillbilly car phone) in my cars...gonna stick one in the 49 to go with the vintage 8-track player, too!

Did you ever have you one of them there CB handles??? http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

I did...it was "Sneaky Snake"...my buddy hung it on me after an old Tom T Hall song...cuz I used to arrive and leave silently at my buddies' places...drove him crazy...he'd turn to say something...and I'd be gone, or he'd look up and I'd be leaning over the other fender!

I just remembered that old handle this afternoon...

...don't know if I'll revive it or come up with another!

Gonna back on out now...be 10-10 on da side, Good Buddy!

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(The kids here are sayin' "Huh???" http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif)

[porknbeaner]

I don't think I ever owned a CB. Well for a while when I was in Mexico but it got confiscated. http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/blush.gif

[Peter Pan of Chicago]

Man, when I was in highschool, I knew some guys that were deep into CB's. They had those Postcards of their handles they would trade. "All 23's" and what not.

Then it got to be pretty big after "Convoy" and all that. I used 'em all the time on vacation trips and Rod Runs. Those were the daze! http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Oh BTW, mine was "Ghetto Cruiser". No shit! http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/crazy.gif http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Joel http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

[TheRev]

GEEZ FH,and i thought i was stuck in the 70's.....lmao http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

[cornfieldrodder]

Used to do tornado sighting for the local ESDA. Stormwatcher was mine. I'd chase tornadoes when the chance would arrive when i was in high school. My old 66 Dart or a buddies Pinto were the chase cars of choice. The Pinto had a kicker (before that was a car audio term) that would slow the dang 2.0 a couple hundred RPMs when the mike was keyed. Itwould bleed across a few channels all over the county too. Haven't even thought of that stuff for.... decades.

[Smokin Joe]

Had 3
Smokin Joe (Obviously)
Admiral Midwatch...From my Navy days
and last but not least....
The Midnight Skulker! http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif And if there are any cops on here, forget I mentioned that last one...

[**DONOTDELETE**]

When I drove OTR...."Johnny Fast" http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif

The nickname was applied when, after not having been in a sprint car for 19 years, I won the first race back. Then I did a small favor for a friend's wife and she told the coffee shop gang how "sweet" I was. Been "Sweet Johnny Fast" ever since.

[hillbillyhellcat]

I'm not over thirty, but mine was the "Midnight Cowboy" ! http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif

[McGrath]

We still use them for Coyote Hunting, but we don't use any "handles"...

[gregg]

Man, you think too much! Member of the Channel Checkers of Dupage. Monitored channel 7. I was KEB 1042 Midnite Rambler, Deb was Morning Glory. Used to piss off people in 5 counties (300 watts will do that) Traded a '50 Chevy for a Browning, D-104, & a 5/8 wave antenna. Traded it all away for a '66 Honda Dream. Yeah, I had QSL cards, too.

[JimC]

In my CB days, I started as Jimbo. Got that hung on me by Friends?
Then i had a 59 Ford station wagon that had a distinctive squeak when the top window rubbed on the tailgate.
You could not hear it in the car, but the squeak could be heard over the radidieo. Hence, "The Chicken Coop Mobyle"

[BELLM]

Texas Tomcat! I was single & cool back in those days! ran across my license the other day. Along with my draft card. I was recently given a CB, if I had a mike and antenna-----

[FKNPOZER]

MAN O MAN
talk about da old days.my to best freinds at that time were
black,me being white (lookin) everyone called us the oreo bunch.hence "OREO" was my handle.
now a days its more like double stuffed "OREO" http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

[GomezGarage]

Hey Im no old man but my handle was and still is "Mr.Bad judgement" Bell bottoms came back as "wide legs", Orange and harvest gold are coming back, Hell I better get out my members only jacket, a three finger bag, and my huggy bear jersey. The 70's rule.

[Dennis the Menace]

My CB handle was Cpt'n Crunch, I received that name after I rolled my Jeep down a mountain.
Dennis

[tomslik]

tomslik and i still have 3 CB's
one is my 1st one, an old 23 channel midland...

[Fast Elvis]

Breaker.....Breaker....this is the Beaver Hunter.....do ya copy........ten 4........ http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

[Assdragger]

How bout cha Sneaky Snake, gotta copy one the T-Bone...come on?

Still use this one in the truck!!

Real original huh?

Catch on the flip-flop_Tony

[tootallrodder]

I did and still do, great for the "convoys" to rod runs. Don't use handles too much but like everything else it's "tootall". I tried using a cell phone last year when trucking to Maine to reach the lead guy. What a pain. Cb may be old tech but hell, it works.

[Brootal]

When I was twelve or so, my family moved out to the bush, well Kalgoorlie anyway. Quite often we'd go fossicking for gold on the weekend so Dad thought it would be a good idea to get a CB in the car.

Of course, my brother and I just thought that was the best. We'd spend a bit of time just sitting in the car listening to shit and not really knowing what was going on (being all of twelve a lot of it was lost on us).

I think my handle was "Black Hawk" and from memory it was a brand of reticulation equipment we saw at a hardware one day. http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif

Once we moved back to the big smoke, we setup the car CB in the house. That meant it had to be legal and all, so we got ourselves a "real" handle.

Whiskey Alpha Whiskey 3-1-2.

With the kick ass antenna on the roof we'd sometimes pick up people in Indonesia! Those were the days...

[Fat Hack]

Hey Brootal! "The Big Smoke", eh?? I know a gal from Traralgon who calls Sydney that, too...is that a local nickname or sumthin'??

[Gracie]

Hahaha! I was White Owl, and my brother was the Laredo Slim... we had a base and two mobiles... and some kind of giant tower on our roof that Mom hated that my dad got my brother for Christmas... I can't remember the name of it, but it was evidently something to be admired... hahaha

I still use all the lingo because I'm on one of those annoying Nextel walkie talkies all day at work (construction company)... just today I told someone I had to go 10-100 and would be right back (that means pee pee time for those not in the know) hahaha!

[FWilliams]

stress test

[Phil Stevens]

[ QUOTE ]
Hey Brootal! "The Big Smoke", eh?? I know a gal from Traralgon who calls Sydney that, too...is that a local nickname or sumthin'??



[/ QUOTE ]

breaker, breaker, 10 4 good buddy, shit you even spelt Traralgon correctly, you da man Greg,
" Tripod "

[4t64rd]

Why? why? why?

This is embarrassing, but it was Edsel Kid. http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/frown.gif

[CruZer]

I had a yellow '40 Ford coupe ,so everyone called me "Big Bird" on the CB
I always had the CB on when we traveled as a group.Those were the "good old days".Lots of chatter and teasing.Now I just listen to the exhaust.

[CURIOUS RASH]

<font color="green">Mattress Monkey, which I started calling Monkey after he stayed at my house and I got to walk in on him giving his girlfriend "what for."

The Monkey part stuck.

Did you know that you cannot poke out your minds eye?</font>

[weekender]

STOVEBOLT, because I drove a 36 chev pu, and had a 35 chev 2dr sedan. Still have my base and the 23 channel midland.

[bulletproof1]

i had one in my jeep .we used them allot at first but after a few roll overs or they got wet .it cost to much to keep them working,so now it sets in the bottom of my tool box.it was fun playing with them and they really helped us know where everyone was.my handle was bullet

[FoMoCo_MoFo]

BLACK BOX was the handle that was given to me while driving an ford E350 Boxvan around the country for 3 years... then the team sold it and got a big comfy Frieghtliner and got a real handle: CAP!

[BLAKE]

My dad was 'Hully Gully', and I got CW McCall's autograph.... sorta like instant "CB street cred". http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

[flip7262]

Back in high school I was "Mustang Mike", cuz I drove one(a 67). Now I go by Junkyard, both club name and CB handle.
Mike http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif

[G V Gordon]

Fiddlestix, used to be a fiddle player in a band.

Lord Byron, cause my name is George Gordon. You english lit. majors will understand that.

[silent rick]

when's tech week?

[BELLM]

Yeah, tech week, I need some help fixin my CB!
Used to be a gal around Houston back in early 70s went by Eager Beaver. Heard her all the time, sounded real sweet, had all kinds of mind pictures of how hot she would look, real tease Finally met up with her one day, 2 gals in a van, hair in curlers, van full of rug rats. So much for expectations!! Story of my life!! http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

[tomslik]

been there!!!!

the better they sounded on the radio, the uglier they were:(

so,guys, what's next?
HAMB channel?

[tommy]

"Mudslinger" No not a body man or drywall installer...several of us were pretty heavy into the dirt bikes at the same time. I had a 250 YZ.

[moondisc]

13 years driving big truck.
Mine was Cosmic Cowboy.
"Riding the range and being strange!"
Just so you know hack, "Good Buddy" means fag in CB lingo.
Wouldn't want anyone to get the wrong idea about you! hehe

[moondisc]

[ QUOTE ]
been there!!!!

the better they sounded on the radio, the uglier they were:(

so,guys, what's next?
HAMB channel?

[/ QUOTE ]

I heard this broad one day that just about melted my radio.
She said she was in a parking lot I was driving by.
I looked over, and here was this chick that took up 3/4 of the front seat in a 71 LeMans.
Somebody wacked her with a big Fugly stick too! hehe

[Artiki]

Oil Can.....

[48_HEMI]

Hell I forgot the 70's too (they say if you remember the 60's, you weren't there! lol) I do remember that I had a red, dual quad tunnel rammed T-bucket and the handle was "Red Ryder,looking for a little beaver" and hoping that I never ran i into Robert Blake. http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif

[JOECOOL]

I drove for Safeway Stores for years so I was " Circle S"
As far as the girls being ugly ,Truck drivers had no shame Man,willing was all it took .
A Good Buddy is a guy who will go to town and get two blow jobs and come back and give you one. A Rascal is a good buddy with a chipped tooth !!

[Roothawg]

The Hamb is the CB of the new millinieum

[magnet]

hey i work for motorola... surrounded by RF geeks here..

I used to play with cb's all the time growing up.. i buy them at garage sales and stuff... i have collected a couple early 70's Motorola CB's that didnt have the FCC wattage restrition... they were pretty powerfull..

My friends and i grew up in a small farm town.. we used to hang out.. driving around town talking on our CB's.. i had dual fiberglass whips on my truck.. and later on my jeep.

handle... Magnet

[Neppy]

<font color="green"> Used to travel with my Grandfather to Montana during the summers and always went by Roadrunner. Don't know where the hell it came from but there it was. Was gonna revive it a couple of summers ago. Spent a couple hours getting my father's old CB hooked up in the Galaxie and finally found a good antenna only to realize the damn CB didn't work. Never got out to find a new one or even a good used one but I've thought about it every now and then. Maybe I should start hittin those yard sales.

Dad even had a '79 Dodge Power Wagon 3/4 ton, 4X4 with a built in CB. http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif Fancy model, it was. Wish I still had a picture of that big green monster.

Never could find a good place for the mic in the Galaxie. </font>

[SKR8PN]

Ghost Rider...........

[GRADY]

I was a little kid in the 70s but mine was r2d2, cause I was short and liked Star Wars.
We used them on the farm until the mid 80s...

[TooMany2count]

Yellowdog, because of the yellow 69 chevy van i had at the time, but it wasnt a dog w/the 454/400 turbo in it http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/shocked.gif....joe

[JamesG]

I use to use my Grandpa's old handle from when he was on the road.....Panty Snatcher! http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif

[k9racer]

When I started on CB radios {1958}it was tightly controled by the FCC every thing was quite formal and every one used their lic no. mine was 6Q0617 and 6W4345. I had a Black faced Johnson with a modification to make 15 watts insted of the allowable 5.Had a ground plane at my parents house and a loaded 108 inch whip on my car.Then later in the early 70s Handle was vette which was funny because I drove a Dodge truck so during the chatter the cops listing in would look for a Corvette and not a Dodge truck.

[46mopar]

I had a friend in high school (in the 90's) that was big into CB radios he had a $200 car and twice that in CB shit in it.He called himself Peckerneck the funny part he still calls himself that and he has the tatoo to prove it.

[CURIOUS RASH]

<font color="green">Oh yeah, my brothers was "Green Machine."

Partly because he had one of the small full size Ford vans that was a funky green.

And party because he was selling dope out of it.

RASHY </font>

[Brootal]

FH - "The Big Smoke" is just a name for any city. I was referring to Perth, which isn't that big at all, but a LOT bigger than Kalgoorlie. http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif

Traralgon eh? I've heard of it, but I don't think I've been there.

[hoggy]

Mine given to me by my Buddy who is now my Brother in Law was Liquor Box.

[bustingear]

Breaker 1-9 This here is the Rubber Ducky. Over. Come on.
How about cha Blue Star? Over.

[CURIOUS RASH]

[ QUOTE ]
Mine given to me by my Buddy who is now my Brother in Law was Liquor Box.

[/ QUOTE ]

http://img54.photobucket.com/albums/v166/Rashy1/ltbarhg.gif

I need to see your license and registration, SON.

Actually we'll let you go with just a warning if you do a little intro http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif.

RASHY

[redmeat]

<font color="red">Back in the day my mom. dad ,and I usta go every where for vacation..always had dads cb.....he was Pork Chop...mom was Lamb Chop..I was Mutton......dad also went by FAT BOY when talkin to all his trucker kin(he drove truck for 38 years).....THANKS FOR REMINDING ME OF SOME OF MY FAVORITE TIMES AS A KID FATHACK!

R E D M E A T </font>

[Cadillacin Marcus]

I didnt have a CB my buddy had one in his Blazer 4x4 in High School...We went by the name of "Moon Cricket Crusher"...It was racist,I know.... Moon Crickets were what we used to call Black Guys in School..Like I said that was a long time ago...

[slazzen]

MASTER BLASTER and that was before thunderdome it was due to my power mic and 150 watt linear i blasted every one no one else could talk