It's December of 1994 and I'm at home for Christmas break. I had taken up HTML and decided to build a hot rod website. I obsessed over the site for weeks, but by January I was ready to "launch." While sitting in my dorm room at the University of ... <BR><BR>To read the rest of this blog entry from The Jalopy Journal, click here.
wow! the first to view and reply. that never happens to your stuff. thanks man. really, thanks. a ton.
Yep.....I for one am glad you were obsessed with starting a hot rod website.... Heres to the next 15 years Ryan !! Rat
Yep, thanks a bunch Ryan. "Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you. You look like a monkey, and you smell like one too."
Thank you, Ryan. I learn an incredible amount on here, and you have some absolutely outstanding members, too.
i remember back in the late 90s i found the jj when i lived in okc the one thing that stands out in my mind was the pic archive and the sledsel
Thanks boss! I have met and become close friends with many fine folk due to this little "obsession" of yours!
Thanks for pulling together such a great source of information, opinions, and general coolness. This is definitely my favorite place on the web. It's an honor to be a small part of something that helps to preserve and promote one of the true American art forms.
Thankyou Ryan, for all your hard work........if you only knew the impact the H.A.M.B has and is having on my life. I love this place!
Always interesting! Always fun! That's the Jalopy Journal for me. Thanks Ryan for creating a place where like-minded folks can get together and have a great time. A special thanks for providing us artistic guys and gals a virtual gallery where we can air our artwork! Happy Birthday Jalopy Journal and many, many more!
If it wasn't for this site I wouldn't have a lot of the knowledge I have now. I wouldn't have gotten to meet all the great folks I have met over the years. Ryan because of your dedication to this site I was able to do both, THANKS... But I have to ask, What was the first post??????...joe
Man, 9 or 10 years on here and I still feel like a new guy sometimes. Ditto what Tman said. It's amazing how this place has made the hot rod community smaller and how many people I've met from this board. I doubt that the Roundup, Hunnert Car Pileup, Pistons and Paint, etc. etc. would be what they are, or even exist, without the HAMB. There just wouldn't be the same way to connect with people. Thinking back about the old boards gives me a little feeling of nostalgia. But I also crack up every time I read somebody talking about how the "old days" of the HAMB were. (Especially when their Join Date is '07-'08) The last couple of years have been, by far, the best of the Jalopy Journal and the HAMB. With a very few exceptions, the talent and knowledge on the board is greater than it ever has been. The ability and willingness to share the information comes even faster now than it did then. And there are way more traditional hot rods and customs on the road now. I'd have to say that a part of that is because you have successfull at " Spreading the gospel of traditional hot rods and customs to hoodlums world wide". Congrats. Now get to work and make it even better.
Thanx so much Ryan!! I couldn't do it without the H.A.M.B.! I have learned so much on here and still learn a lot every day. The ALLIANCE rules!! Ian
This may be a little wordy but it explains how I felt when I first came here. My wife and I a few years ago attended a seminar to help identify personality types (stay with me fellas). They divided us into groups according to how we answered question in a survey. The guy puting on the seminar told us that when we got into these groups it would feel like we died and went to heaven, because everyone would be "just like us". That is the exact way I felt when Ryan directed me to this place after I found the JJ and e-mailed him. I have met so many good people from all over the country ( and beyond) that I consider friends because of this place. I discovered I was not a weirdo, Ok well maybe i am, but I found out I wasn't the only one! Thanks Ryan, Happy 15th.
Thanks for keepin' the focus!! You haven't let the masses pull it right or left. Some get it, some don't. Those that don't eventually fall away, leaving bandwidth for the dedicated. Aim it straight down the track and keep your foot in it........!!!!!!!!
Oh yea...the "good old days" I remember sitting in front af the computer for hours to read every post (dial up SUCKED) and wishing I didn't work nights so I could be involved with all the late night drunken posts back then...on topic,off topic who was fighting who at Paso,whitewall battle with the RRR..... Thank you Ryan for all of these years!
You know when there's a new Rodders Journal or R&C in the mailbox and you get that excited, happy feeling of getting to crack it open and see something about hot rods you havent seen yet? That's what the Hamb is like EVERY DAY. That and the fact that you can pal around with the other folks on here is why I love this place. We all know it's more than a website. It's a community. It's a home.
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