If investing in precious metals means collecting Deuce and 33/34 grille shells, you might be HAMBer. If you've got so many metal splinters in your hands you set off the metal detectors at the airport, you might be a HAMBer. If you can quote flathead Ford Scripture and Verse, you might be a HAMBer. If you ask your bride-to-be to wear a flat black dress and red shoes to the wedding, you might be a HAMBer. If floorboards are on option on your car, you might be a HAMBer. If your refrigerator is pinstriped, flamed, or scalloped, you might be a HAMBer. If your refrigerator is full of PBR, you might be a HAMBer. If your refrigerator if full of PBR, your friend give you shit about it, and STILL drink it, you all you might be HAMBers. There's a few to get us started. Ain't screwing off when you're suppposed to be working fun?
You might be a H.A.M.B.'er if you don't use billet... You might be a H.A.M.B.'er if you have experienced lead poisoning... You might be a H.A.M.B'er if you're the only one who drives at cruise nights... You might be a H.A.M.B.'er if you're car scrapes the pavement... TTYL. Later, peace... Troy. P.S. Kool post, kan't wait to see more stuff come...
if you've ever had someone turn your motor over while you have your tongue in a spark plug hole, to taste if you have a blown head gasket.......you might just be a hamber
When you can argue about a car on the internet with a person, but stand beside him against someone else you've certainly adopted the HAMB as a brotherhood. If you can have a problem sorted out in a matter of minutes without calling your friends...... When you know that no matter where you are in the World, you can find a friend..... When you can find damn near any part imaginable......... xxx
if you can give the year make and model just by looking at a piece of trim if you get so exicted that you have to call your friends and tell them what you just saw driving down the street if you can tell buick valves apart from any other valves (its easy, just look at the notch on the top!) if you dont like radials if you wake up in the middle of the night and draw a picture of your dream car or rod if you have an engine without a car but "im looking" (p.s. anyone got a early buick or cadillac frame and body? there is some beer in it for you) if you drive a car that was made before you were born (does not apply for grandpa hamb'rs)
If you hauled parts from point A to point B for a total stranger....for free and had fun doing it you might be a HAMBer. Having both HAMBers thank you...Priceless!
You might be a HAMBer if... Use 400w oil in your tranny and your hair. Spend more time on the HAMB than you do wrenching on your rod. Know the head nut torque tightening sequence for a '33 flathead. Put total faith in a person you only know as a screen name. You hate ebay and OSR. The 'stuff' in your garage is worth more than the 'stuff' in your house. Drive cross country annually to see 1000 other rods and customs. Spend $793,268 per year on 'little pages'. Forgot to put 'FS' in the title. Can smoke a Honda in a car made 75 years before it was. Have ever eaten the salt of Bonneville. (Or baked with it. LOL) Pay $75.00 for a T shirt at auction...As long as you PayPal Ryan first.
.............. if you feel the inate urge to investigate every glimpse of rusty anything you see from the roadway. .............. if you put your life in danger everytime you drive, trying to peer behind every barn and in every shack for old cars. .............. if you hear that "You better get a tetanus shot" ad on the radio and laugh. .............. if most of your open wounds are wrapped in masking tape. .............. if your very best T-shirt has at least one burn hole in it.
you might be a SO CAL HAMBer if you wear hamb decals at a BBQ that say "my name is..." and you use your HAMB NAME and don't care if it doesn't match your FONZI Happy Days look.
Uhhhhh... not even close.... that's some Rat Rod BS right there... You might be an OSR reader if flooboards are an option... I hear ya on the OSR, but damn eBay has been good to me.. Nope, that's what super glue is for.... really...
you might be a hamb'r if you post your intro and are upset when only 58 people ream your hamb name -danny
-you might be a HAMBer is everyone else's favorite color is red/blue/green while yours is flat black. (happen to me the other day in school) -the name of your household pet has something to do with a car/car part.
.... when every time you pull in a gas station some one asks "WHAT COLOR Are you going to Paint it" and you reply flat black is a COLOR......
True story..the day before I went to get my car in Omaha, I had my annual physical. I had pics of the car on me, and showed my doctor. She immediately checked the date of my last tetanus and insisted I get the booster! Tucker
If you buy a truck in 82 and in 05 your wife says, if you dont work on it, sell it, you start working on it.
...if you're at work and you start laughing out of nowhere because you just thought of something that Germ posted on the HAMB.
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