I started The Jalopy Journal in 1995 in my parent's kitchen while on Christmas break from the University of Oklahoma. At the time, I didn't know a single person into traditional hot rodding. All I had was a stack of books authored by guys like Dean B... <BR><BR>To read the rest of this blog entry from The Jalopy Journal, click here.
Time flies when you're livin the dream! Thanks for doing all that you do, and here's to another 17 years of rabble rousin!
If there is truly anything other than the cars that I've admired on this site...it's your writing. thanks for sharing.
Congrats Ryan! 1995, really doesn't seem that long ago. '95, me wearing an old "Pink".......yeah, it's a pink L.A. Roadster Show T-shirt with my Red '32. Man, look at those Halibrands shine
Ryan, You were, and are, right on the money. I got hooked about '58 or '59 when a college choir performed in our small town church and one of the members who stayed overnight at our house left a copy of one of "the little pages". I devoured that mag and fell in love with '28/'29 Ford roadsters. It took a long time but in "99 I got my '29 on the road. I sent you a picture of it and you kindly posted it on your photo file. I now have a Deuce Tudor I'm working on (slowly). Keep up the great work! Dave V.
A lot of us try to soak up as much of the history of hot rods and customs as we possibly can. I remember buying a boatload of little books at one of the early Nats South when it was in North Carolina. I couldn't believe that nobody else seemed interested in them. I bought a bunch,went back and bought a bunch more,then bought all the rest of them.Didn't seem like anybody else was even looking at them that weekend. Now,we have the HAMB,thanks to Ryan and all the unsung heroes contributing to keeping this monster alive. 1995. And the history is in good hands now. Thanks,Ryan.
I am certainly glad you sat down at your parents home over the Christmas holidays and conceived the idea of a message board relating to traditional rods and customs. I'm sure you never realized the ramifications of that one idea that would explode into what ultimately become a major part of your life and give thousands of us something we didn't know was missing in our hot rod world. It can never be said enough,,,Thank you Ryan,,even if you were a geek when you started the Jalopy Journal you have become a big time player in the Internet Media game. BTW,,I was driving a flathead powered 32 multi-door sedan in '95 and never turned a computer on until 1999 and lurked for about a year before I joined,,glad I did.HRP
Great stuff Ryan, who'd have known that you were in fact, too cool for school. Thanks man, for all you do...
Well said Ryan...I needed to hear that everybody has to start somewhere,looking back at where you were and looking now,you have truly made a difference.All I can say is Thanks for the inspiration.
Thanks for creating the bro-muda Was talking with dw this weekend about the relationships that have formed from this joint. Amazing.
Love it. Here's to another 17 years, ah hell, here's to forever. Because frankly, I can't live in a world without JJ.
That is awesome!... "I wasn’t alive, but I can remember". I often think along these lines every day. I was born in the wrong generation. However, with my luck, I would have been born a girl and wore a poodle skirt>>>???
I have been guided and followed these hallowed halls,,, But the one name, for me, the name not often heard these days,,, the name that truely guided my images,,, David Perry,,,David show us your work, no show us your soul.......
Well, Ryan. I've been watching your ramblings (and many others) on here now for almost 12 years! Lots of good times behind the keyboard! From Nads' swastika pedal and poems to the creation of HAMB events and meet and greets. Time does fly. But again, thank you for creating and maintaining this community.
That sounds a lot like something I would have written about at that same point in time.. Trying to capture all that is "it".. Then when you get a little bit older what you thought was a big part of "it" is actually not "it" at all.. I had a pompadour in the 90's.....
well bro, i still think it's cool. i really wonder where the traditional thing would have gone without the HAMB. may have been over by now and we would all be building traditional 80's pro street camaros.
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