NEHA Dash Plaque History
Posted: Mon Jul 11, 2016 10:42 pm
I was talking with someone at Okemo who asked about how their car got on the dash plaque for an event. Thinking back to 2015 and prior, I typically use a picture of a car along with some details about the event for the dash plaque. How do you get on the plaque... easy! Bribes or drinks.
I have a lot of old dash plaques (Philo in the 1970's) in the SCCV archives, but I do not have any other older (pre-1999) plaques from the SCCNH or KSCC. I did get some old newsletters from John Reed (KSCC) years ago, but haven't gone through what I scanned to see what I can share that would be of interest to the group.
Smokey (KSCC) and Sim (KSCC) also gave or lent me a number of photos and dash plaques. When I get organized and find the time, I will post the dash plaques here.
What I do have are the plaques that I designed over the years. Often times the creativity was limited to the printing process (used to be one color ink on a colored background). Later, we were able to use three colors (2004) and finally full photos (2010). Looking back at the older dash plaques, some were engraved (expensive!) and others did have multi-colors. There were other options over the years, but we kept going back to the same engravers/printers and used whatever process they had available that was also cost effective for the event.
Times change, designs change..... so, we have a lot of different plaques to share in this post.
I believe all the plaques here were designed by me with the exception of Philo 2004 (the printers provided the background), Burke 2008 (one of the Gale girls drew the bird), Ascutney II 2012, and Ascutney I 2015; I had a hand in all of them to get them ready for the printer, but the design concept was someone else's work. <--- just wanted to say all that so someone did not think I was taking credit for their ideas. Most of the photos I took, but in more recent years, I was given permission from other photographers to use their work. I think the bulk of my photos came from (1) when we had a shortage or workers, so we had driver/workers and from (2) when my car kept blowing up and I ended up working (so sad).
Moving on....
I will post up the older dash plaques in the following post and then post each year in a separate post.
We will see how motivated I get.... only took my 5 years to finally post these. Sounds like that Scirocco everyone has heard of, but have never seen.
Anyway.... enjoy.
Steve
-------------- Added 18-Feb-2019 --------------
You should find all the year-end plaques HERE by year. All of these are the large versions that were used for printing. Feel free to grab yours and use it as you see fit. Enjoy!
I have a lot of old dash plaques (Philo in the 1970's) in the SCCV archives, but I do not have any other older (pre-1999) plaques from the SCCNH or KSCC. I did get some old newsletters from John Reed (KSCC) years ago, but haven't gone through what I scanned to see what I can share that would be of interest to the group.
Smokey (KSCC) and Sim (KSCC) also gave or lent me a number of photos and dash plaques. When I get organized and find the time, I will post the dash plaques here.
What I do have are the plaques that I designed over the years. Often times the creativity was limited to the printing process (used to be one color ink on a colored background). Later, we were able to use three colors (2004) and finally full photos (2010). Looking back at the older dash plaques, some were engraved (expensive!) and others did have multi-colors. There were other options over the years, but we kept going back to the same engravers/printers and used whatever process they had available that was also cost effective for the event.
Times change, designs change..... so, we have a lot of different plaques to share in this post.
I believe all the plaques here were designed by me with the exception of Philo 2004 (the printers provided the background), Burke 2008 (one of the Gale girls drew the bird), Ascutney II 2012, and Ascutney I 2015; I had a hand in all of them to get them ready for the printer, but the design concept was someone else's work. <--- just wanted to say all that so someone did not think I was taking credit for their ideas. Most of the photos I took, but in more recent years, I was given permission from other photographers to use their work. I think the bulk of my photos came from (1) when we had a shortage or workers, so we had driver/workers and from (2) when my car kept blowing up and I ended up working (so sad).
Moving on....
I will post up the older dash plaques in the following post and then post each year in a separate post.
We will see how motivated I get.... only took my 5 years to finally post these. Sounds like that Scirocco everyone has heard of, but have never seen.
Anyway.... enjoy.
Steve
-------------- Added 18-Feb-2019 --------------
You should find all the year-end plaques HERE by year. All of these are the large versions that were used for printing. Feel free to grab yours and use it as you see fit. Enjoy!