Featured Folks Of Interest Let's revisit user names

My username came from working 47 years in the industry of building concrete mixers, then became a design engineer.
This is one of 15 different models that I designed.

 

Lil32 cos I built a 32 3 window coupe, as a young guy was a keen surf board rider and enjoyed
the Beach Boys music 'Little Deuce Coupe" The licence plate number was available so thats
the story

 

I had no idea there were so many variations

 

What's the capacity of that unit and what is the trailer assembly used for? Here in Australia I think they're up to 7 cubic metres, trucks are twin steer. I see what looks like another axle behind the cab on that unit.

 

At first i was considering to use Moparfrasse that i had used on forums before.
But at the time i was joining the forum i was allready on facebook.
And since much of my intregrity allready was given away to internet i decided to use my real name.
So Anders is my first name and a F for my last name Fransson.
I used a actual picture of me to make it easier for other Hambers in Sweden to rekognize me if we met.
It is now a few years old but other that the blond have spread some more in the beard i look the same.

 

Mine came from a commentator years ago, 1970's, I rode sidecars (sidechairs) on the speedway and also had V8 drag bikes. They originally called me "the Mitchim Madman" but ended up being called Krazee.
I used that for a clothing label, even got 2 number plates, "krazee and 2craze" that staff and family gave me on different birthdays. Name wasn't my choice but I chose to use it because most people didn't/don't know my real name.

 

Shorrock is my name as I like all things with a supercharger. My Triumph sprint bike has a S horrock, my 34 Ford uses a Weiand - both make you smile a lot when riding!

 

It all has to do with what part of the country/USA your selling to. Then you get into other countries, the only countries I don't have a mixer in is Africa, Australia, and the Asian continent.

 

The capacity of the one pictured is 10.5 cubic yards / in your part of the world it would be 8.027 cubic meters. That other axle is called a Bridge Axle, it's hydraulic controled with a nitrogen bladder. It distributes the load over the rest of the axles to be legal weight on each axle for Interstate highways.

 

Early 2000's, dad and I were at a show, looking at a bagged AD pickup, that was really close to what I wanted to do with mine. As we were dissecting and inspecting it, he made a remark a long the lines of "Think it's too low?"
I responded with something like "There's no such thing as too low" or "It's never too low"
I joined shortly after, and it was the first thing I thought of.

 

Hello @Never2low

Well, your name would be big time in the Westside of Long Beach back when we were little kids. There were cars in the area that were low and then there were cars that were lower. But, the topper was the cars that were lower going so low as to scraping the bottom of the bumper.

In their intelligence, they added a skid plate covering the gas tank and allowed it to be the lowest part of the "lowest part" when driving. Now, when they hit the button to raise the front, well, obviously the rear goes lower, starts scraping the road surface and sparks start flying out under the rear bumper. It was a cool show for us kids standing on the curb or on a playground with those low cars cruising around.

Jnaki

Sometimes, those neighborhood cars would come by and were level driving stance down the street. Then all of a sudden, the front stayed the same and the rear dropped down to the ground and the "sparky" show started. It was a little stronger than the first times we saw them. So, practice makes perfect. It certainly would have been a great show at night. YRMV

 

As others have said when I started visiting forums '04/5 I was not wanting to put my info out there, still careful to some extent.
Flyn of the Inland was a name I used on one forum, after John Flyn a preacher who did lots of good work in central Australia a hundred years ago. I was fixing aeroplanes for a churchie mob in the bush at the time so it sorta fitted

That got shortened to Outback, then when I was brave enough to join the HAMB & become a FNG i carried it over.

 

You're the guy with all the steakhouses, right?

 

Haha not quite

 

I was zman long before the internet. Last name begins with Z and people can't seem to pronounce it.

 

Back in the '60s when I was a kid and car culture was at its peak, my dad worked at the Chrysler parts Depot. Most of his friends from work were Mopar guys and since we lived pretty close to the depot, dad had visitors stopping by from work pretty regularly. One of his friends stopped by with a slant six valiant, but he had stuck a pair of 426 Hemi badges that he had pilfered out of the warehouse onto the front fenders. Since I was pretty young, he had to explain the joke to me, and then he went on to tell me about the awesomeness of the 426 Hemi. Then my brother got the AMT Booth Hill Express model. Right on the box it said 500 horsepower Chrysler Hemi! The legend was growing in my mind already. I always read all of my dad's car magazines, and the accolades of Hemis was omnipresent. Then another friend of Dad's from work showed up one day with a first generation Charger, and there on the fender I saw that same 426 Hemi tag that I had seen on the valiant. Only this time it was for real! He opened The hood and the image of that giant of an engine with the fat chrome valve covers was forever etched into my brain. The burnout that he did when he left our place was epic and those two black marks in front of our house were like a badge of honor for me. The whole neighborhood would know that we were hot rodders! I started dreaming and planning of how when I got my driver's license, my car was going to have a Hemi.
But even back in the '70s when I got my driver's license, they were just too expensive for me. I started out driving $500 cars and the cheapest Hemi cars I could find around at the time were $2,500 plus. So my dream/was derailed, but not by any means dead.
At last, in '93 I dragged home a 392 in crates. Finally I had my Hemi! This is the one that eventually ended up in my '31 Hemi Coupe that I have now. Then in '99 I ended up with my first 426 Hemi car, a '67 GTX. That was a life-changing event for me. About the same time, I got a computer and internet, and the first thing I started doing with it was searching the internet for anything that had anything to do with Hemi's. I found a message board and to sign up I had to create a username. I didn't want to use my real name for security and privacy reasons, so I just put Hemi in front of my real name and I've been Hemi Joel ever since!

 

Mine is pretty boring. I had just purchased my first legit old car (1937 Plymouth coupe) when I stumbled across the HAMB. Seemed like everyone had cool screen names, and that was the best I could come up with in the moment.

 

It's the user name I came into the world with. Fairly distinctive. It came from my Irish ancestors, and my mom wanted me to have the same initials she came into the world with.

 

When my parents & I moved from Minnesota to California in December of '62 / January of '63, our '32 5wd Coupe was issued the black (with yellow characters) plates:

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In 1972, California began issuing "personalized" (vanity) blue plates (with yellow characters) . . . so my father and his best friend (Gary Meadors) decided to run them on their Hot Rods.

Dad got "HEMI 32" for our Hemi-powered Deuce 5wd Coupe:

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. . . and Gary got "CHOP 32" for their chopped Deuce Tudor:

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Howza Bruthas-
Decades ago, I used to have a a couple of friends that I skateboarded with on a regular basis.
One of the guys was a rich kid and had an older brother who was a frat kid attending Regis University in the Denver metro area.
Well, this was in my punk rock days and tore up jeans and a sleevless shirt were the norm, and a punk hair cut too. Well, his brother would open the door a crack, see me, and shout out-"HEY DAVE, THAT SPOOKY KID IS HERE TO PICK YOU UP.".
True story-

 

This 51 Pontiac has followed me around since 1973 and until recently was my main focus in the garage, even as I went through my van, muscle truck, muscle car and 4x4 stages in life. I don’t like providing too much info on the internet so it just seemed like a natural name for here.

 

Married to HOTRODPRIMER, thus the ladyhrp.

 

My user name is simple
Cymro, Welshman. I am a Welsh speaking Welshman from Wales.

 

then there's not a one of us here who would understand three words from you!!

 

So in 1994 we acquired our first home computer, it came with a floppy disc for Prodigy which I loaded up on the new desktop. This was my intro to user names, passwords and logging in. At the time I had a 64 Chevy II I was working on so sixty4 seemed to be a clever username. Later I sold the 64 and bought a 63 Nova so sixty4 became sixty3 most everywhere I needed a user name. I still have the 63 Nova and I am still sixty3 on alot of forums.

 

it was this or choir boy, neither is appropriate

 

Always wanted a Duece so there you have it! And a Milner style coupe is on my list to build. Doesn't have to be yellow does it?

 

Mine were done during COVID '21 did the left first so I could drive 2 weeks out on Jan 1st and did second 1 on April fools day .I was back working 4 weeks later ,I'm a finish carpenter.they don't hurt anymore !

 

Yes!!!

 

mine is (sadly) a misnomer...I still have the '28 roadster disassembled in a shed... sitting beside it is the 322 nailhead and almost all the parts to make a rough car (except a vintage transmission)...just lacking time, money, space and talent...should I change it to Wannabe?