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Re: NEHA Dash Plaque History

Posted: Fri Jun 15, 2018 8:03 am
by Rabbit Farmer
2019

Philo in the Spring. For the first time in many, many years, we held the Historic Mt. Philo Hillclimb in May 2019. The very first event (and I am unsure how many afterwards) in 1975 was in May.

The longer days made the event quite enjoyable and easier to setup; plus favorable (no threat of snow) weather was agreeable.

I had to go back a few years to get photos at a Philo event. 2003 to be exact.

Version one had a bit of a psychology experiment mixed in where I asked a number of people (5) at the Philo awards to very quickly read out loud the plaque (mainly the words in the triangle); not a single person got it right.

"Philo in the Spring"

The cars include my old green (blue?) Rabbit and Don Silloway's "Patriot I" (this was Jerry Driscoll's first car at our hillclimbs... later the Patriot II)

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Next is Kevin Tucker's "the Pup" that seemed to be an overly skinny and tall car that was scary to watch it come around a corner on two wheels at check 7 at Okemo. I was at Check 7. Yikes!

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Todd Edgington in his VW Golf MK4 2.0 liter giving the thumbs up to the camera. He was actually being towed up to the campground from Ascutney the year before after blowing a power steering line that caused a bit of a fire in his engine bay at the top of the hill.

But... the "2.0" reference used on this plaque was supposed to be the length of the shortened hill for the first Ascutney of 2019. It turns out that the 2.0 miles was actually not correct. That is the distance from the startline to the parking lot entrance at check 6 (the parking lot there was used for "holding" with Chris Rielly in charge of organizing half of the 46 car field in the small area). The actual finish line was a little ways down the hill before the 2.0 mile mark at 1.8 miles according to the final results.

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Julie's idea in 2018, but since it was the 50th year for Okemo, Sam designed the plaque that year. She did a great job. Sooo.... I took a picture of the clock in 2018 so that I could use it in 2019. How is that for planning? The funny part about this plaque is that I sent it to the printers so that they could check to see how it looked when it was printed. They were less than excited about the first version of this plaque... as was I when I saw it (they printed a sample plaque). I went back to the drawing board to revamp the toy part of the plaque and was much pleased by the results. It is always good to be challenged when the work product isn't quite up to our standards. :)

Test plaque: 1 unit.... super rare. Find it on ebay in 30 years. (like ebay will be around then)
Official plaque: 100 units

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Burke 1. An attempt to make old style post card. Two versions... 50 of each. The sunsets are from Burke 2016.

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Burke 2. I tried to make it look like a very old dash plaque from the 1950s.
One version: 100 units.

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Ascutney 2: Another old plaque for the last (gasp!) hillclimb of the season.

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Philo 2: (just kidding)

Re: NEHA Dash Plaque History

Posted: Mon Jun 03, 2019 10:34 pm
by Rabbit Farmer
2020

No events in 2020 due to COVID-19.

Based on popular demand, this plaque was finally printed in 2023. I had to redo the plaque in a larger format as the original design was just the size of the small image displayed here in the NEHA forums. Displayed here is the redesign that mirrors the 2020 version. Quantity: 100

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Re: NEHA Dash Plaque History

Posted: Tue Jan 12, 2021 9:56 am
by Rabbit Farmer
2021

No Philo in 2021; partially because of COVID-19 and partially because we had issue getting insurance because the policy term started on the weekend of Philo.

Ascutney #1. Very basic design (short notice that event was actually going to happen) of cars parked at the top of Ascutney in 2019; the border lines were a bit too thin for printing. Welcome back from a year off of hillclimb racing due to COVID-19.

Two slightly different versions, 50 units of each.

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There was a third version of the dash plaque, but it didn't make the cut. :cry:

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Burke. Trying to make look like older plaque with sharp colors. 100 units.
(added black border to image posted here to see the image better... not present on the actual plaque)

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Re: NEHA Dash Plaque History

Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2022 11:26 am
by Rabbit Farmer
2021 season plaques.

Available HERE if you would like a copy for yourself. Feel free to post in your project posts, etc. Enjoy the images.

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Re: NEHA Dash Plaque History

Posted: Wed Jul 06, 2022 2:10 pm
by Rabbit Farmer
2022

Philo

Dave Patten's Datsun 510 (photo from Mt. Washington 2021)
Photo of the entrance of Mt Philo with some flattening of the image with basic colors
50 units of each.

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Ascutney #1

We honored Paul "Gibby" Giblin at the Ascutney hillclimb. Paul passed away January 2022.

80 of the color and (I snuck in 20 of the B&W design)

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Okemo

Basic design inspired by a can of beer; 100 units

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Burke

We honored Sherman Baumann at the Burke hillclimb. Sherman passed away May 2022.

Two versions; 50 of each.

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Ascutney #2

Concept from Ian Cook (Dark Side of the Moon and Don's race car) where I ran with it and used Don's wrecker as it was easier to work with and I thought it worked better on the plaque. Don is a huge Pink Floyd fan.

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Re: NEHA Dash Plaque History

Posted: Thu Jan 12, 2023 12:30 am
by Rabbit Farmer
2023 Season

The 2020 "No Events" dash plaque was printed.

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New software in the 2023 season. Since I moved to a new computer, I lost my ability to use the full version of Photoshop (can't find the software CD and unsure if the very very very old software would work on Windows 11). I researched options and selected on Photoshop Elements 2023 (purchase) instead of Photoshop (monthly fee). The tools are a bit limited, so I have to change what I want to do to what I can do.

Some challenges.

Philo

I was trying to mimic a sign painted on a fence. I think the cracked paint coming through the image on the white plaque is pretty cool

Two versions, 50 each.

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Ascutney 1

SCCNH wanted a picture of the mountain and show some appreciation for the volunteers that make these events happen. THANK YOU!! I did not have any photos of Mt Ascutney. I ended up using free background images on freepik.com website to get the mountain scenes. It looks very nice.

Two versions, 50 each.

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Okemo #1

Basic colorful design. Just the colorful facts, ma'am.

One version, 100 units.

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Burke

We celebrate the contributions that Michele Baumann gave to the hillclimbing community. A kind, loving, hugging, and often humorously serious person who dedicated her time to organizing the Burke hillclimb, doing finish at many of the hills, and an absolute joy to be around. She will be missed.

Photo is Michele working finish at Ascutney and the barn and sunsets are from Burke. Michele loved having sunsets on the dash plaques (see Burke #2 / 2015 and Burke #1 / 2019).

Michele and Sherman were married at Burke. The Burke #2 / 2014 dash plaque captured their 10th anniversary.

Two versions, 50 each.

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Ascutney #2 was a fun (and colorful) plaque to make. It took a lot longer to make than I expected. Each colorful letter required me to duplicate the text for the number of times that it had a different color and then erase the part of the letter that I did not want to show. I reduced the opacity (being able to see through the letter) so that where the parts of the letters overlap, it would show the result of the two colors together. Pretty neat... but a pain. Inspiration was from the Pixar Elements movie and Aaron's car just seemed to fit the bill. Had to brighten the inside of the car to see the driver and added layer over windshield to hide the background. One version, 100 units.

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Okemo #2 was scheduled for Mid-October 2023, but was cancelled due to the flood damage caused to the access road. This is the new Vermont Strong 2023 license plate that will be available for purchase from the State of Vermont to help support those impacted from the flooding. This is not a dash plaque; just an image to memorialize the event in this thread.

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Re: NEHA Dash Plaque History

Posted: Thu May 11, 2023 9:13 am
by Rabbit Farmer
2023 Year-End Plaques are HERE

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Re: NEHA Dash Plaque History

Posted: Sun Feb 25, 2024 9:03 pm
by Rabbit Farmer
2024 Season

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