Flashback - Name Your Vintage

[29bowtie]

Well Ryan,it's cool to know,i'm not alone in not really being into customs,although this place is slowly converting me. Prefer 40s and 50s hot rods,but now,a few clean subtle customs are catching my interest,although pre 40s cars there too.

[lucky]

I have to agree with buzzard here...the new board certainly has alot more information..almost too much to keep up with...I have sooo many bookmarked pages...but the same applied then as it does today: if you needed help, you got it. This hokey ass message board will be in tomorrow's history books for sure.

[Asphalt Outlaw Hero]

I guess I "imprinted"in the 50's.I use to go down to the drugstore and read the little books.I'd score some and I still have them.My Brother read Hot Rod ,so I'd look it over when it came in.
Anyway,that was the style I always liked.
I went into bikes big time and then one day I had to take a client to Ken Gross's house to look at his bike.He was working on a 32 roadster with an Ardun motor.It was kind of like seeing an old girlfriend or something,the passion was back.I started going to the Rodders Reunion in Ky.
I came across this site and that was like getting a final push back.I later scored a nice period piece from a fellow Hamber.It looks like something built in 1950.
I dig early customs too.Of course,I'd dig more garage space too.......

[SanDiegoJoe]

Originally Posted by Ryan

Sam F. will chime-in in...1...2...3...

The good ole days when 50% of the homepage was off topic cuz I was too busy going to school to moderate effectively. Charming and entertaining for sure though...

I miss the old HAMB!... I choked Linda Lovelace & Fat girls with tattoos - that's funny.

- Joe

[vintagehotrods]

Back then I was just lurker because of the flaming that seemed to keep me away and over at Fordbarn. Tman kept after me to jump in and get my feet wet, and I haven't been sorry I did. Like Ryan has said recently, the site has much more content on it now than ever before.

I like the post war era for both Hot Rods and Customs. I recently have been reading the few old Hot Rod magazines I've collected from 1950-1956 and I find that I like most of the cars in them, especially the Bonneville and lakes coverage. Wally Parks did a fantastic job writing and editing that magazine, and laying the foundation for everything we have now. His editorials show history as it was being made. Don Francisco did some great tech articles too.

My favorite Hot Rods, Deuces of course! The Doane Spencer, Vic Edelbrock, Joe Nitti, McGee/Scritchfield roadsters were the best. The Pearson Brothers '34 and '36 coupes were the cream of the crop too.

Customs aren't my passion but anything Harry Westergard did works for me. Sam and George Barris's early work is great too.

[paperdog]

that is ol skool with a report card with bad grades
and detention for those with a stubborn attitudes

LIVIN IN THE PAST ... JETHRO TULL

THEM GOOD OL DAYS ARE SELECTED MEMORIES

any pics from 20's 30's 40's50's is way cool
I start to have my own rodding memories about 62-66

HAMB EVOLUTION
IS NOW HAMB REVOLUTION
VIVA THE REVOLUTION!

[duste01]

I'm just basking in a wealth of knowledge and friendship, but I like things that arent popular and I like cleanliness, and I like detail. Crisp lines and a healthy smile to share it all with.

[MattStrube]

I dig that little Chevy II that used to be on the Board. Where did that thing go?

[53chevy]

The HAMB was definitely fun back then...and Marcus, talk about a character (u could die laughing reading some of his responses).

Ken

[29EHV8]

Whoa that takes me back!

Hot rod: any 30s/40s/50s lakes 28/29 roadster on deuce rails

Kustom: any kustom sitting in the background of a 30s/40s/50s lakes picture, or at the Santa Ana drags


-Shiny

[CruZer]

Yeah, that brought back some memories,Ryan. I like Dillards answer. He hasn't changed much.
Kepp the oldies comin'.
Glenn

[Tim]

haha, yeah i remember many of those OT posts, as well as thinking of that lay out as 'the new hamb'

[Kerry]

That was right after you had changed formats. I hadn't re-registered yet. Believe it or not I was shy back then... I got over it.

I have to say 55-65 is my favorite although there are things I dig from all era's. I like the can do attitude of the day. If you wanted to go racing, get a few buddies together, pool your time and $$$ and hit a national event. Try that today.

Things really seemed to have changed once the muscle cars hit.

[zman]

that was indeed a blast.... "Fat girls with tattoos"... you know that went downhill fast... There are things I like about the old days vs. now... But for the most part I have to agree with Buzzard, though I do say every once and a while someone will rub ya the wrong way and you just want to tear into them.... lol....

[beatnikontinental]

No photos of El Mosquito or Tortuga? page long stream-of-consciousness GERM rants?

hahah - classic.

[flamedabone]

I remember teh record number of guys on line at teh same time was 39.

You could go an entire sunday afternoon and NOTHING got posted.

Way more hoppin' these days.

-Abone.

[Paul]

I remember that thread too

the paul on page 2 is not me, I was still lurking or had just joined under my full name, soon after I asked Ryan to change my name to 60's Style,
because of that thread.

Hot Rods, I like 'em all, pre-war, post-war and up through the sixties
most of what I build somehow ends up with a '60s flavor though

same with customs,
'really dig all the great builds '30s through the '60s
because true beauty is timeless

[warpigg]

Originally Posted by warpigg;

posted 04-13-2001 09:45 PM

60's & 50's i don't care too much fer the earlier stuff..

i've grown up a little since then... i can appreciate the earlier stuff... but i still like the 50's and especially the early 60's the best

[warpigg]

and p.s.

if anybody is looking for mud just follow the monster truck tire tracks and the trail of vega parts. you'll find him sooner or later.

[Elrod]

Originally Posted by Ryan

Sam F. will chime-in in...1...2...3...

The good ole days when 50% of the homepage was off topic cuz I was too busy going to school to moderate effectively. Charming and entertaining for sure though...

Heh... Someone pointed out to me that one of those "Off Topic" posts that you put an arrow next to was your post Ryan!