Re: NEHA Dash Plaque History
Posted: Fri Jun 15, 2018 8:03 am
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)
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!
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.
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
Burke 1. An attempt to make old style post card. Two versions... 50 of each. The sunsets are from Burke 2016.
Burke 2. I tried to make it look like a very old dash plaque from the 1950s.
One version: 100 units.
Ascutney 2: Another old plaque for the last (gasp!) hillclimb of the season.
Philo 2: (just kidding)
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)
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!
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.
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
Burke 1. An attempt to make old style post card. Two versions... 50 of each. The sunsets are from Burke 2016.
Burke 2. I tried to make it look like a very old dash plaque from the 1950s.
One version: 100 units.
Ascutney 2: Another old plaque for the last (gasp!) hillclimb of the season.
Philo 2: (just kidding)