Hybridfest 2007 Photos

[ericbecky]

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hybrid hate

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ok so maybe you can't see it, but some *^%$#(* decided it would be funny to take a key to the side of our car from the front door to the rear quarter panel.
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I can assure you it was NOT a case of "Hybrid hate"

How do I know?

Because the car I was driving, a PT Cruiser parked in the next row in front of you, was keyed too.

Kind of an unpleasant ending to the weekend. Especially unpleasant since it was my in-laws car. They don't know it yet, and I don''t look forward to telling them tomorrow. They took my kids up to Minneapolis for a cousin's birthday party in my van while we finished running the show here today.

I think you guys ran into my wife in the lot as we were leaving at the end of the day.

I'm glad to know that the keying wasn't a personal thing against you, but an still an unpleasant thing for me after an INCREDIBLE weekend.

[samiam]

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some *^%$#(* decided it would be funny to take a key to the side of our car
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<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(ericbecky @ Jul 23 2007, 03:30 PM) [snapback]483414[/snapback]</div>

the car I was driving, a PT Cruiser parked in the next row in front of you, was keyed too.
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I've never been able to fathom senseless destruction like this.

So sorry guys, this must have tarnished what otherwise looks to have been a great event.
I hope at some point you can put it far enough out of mind so that you will remember only the good bits.

[galaxee]

y'know, i thought that looked like becky checking out that cruiser. i'm so sorry, and yes i know how you feel

i was thinking about it, and i bet your car was parked directly behind ours and the person just keyed as he walked to the hotel. you can see the footsteps in our car.

sigh... well at least it wasn't targeting the hybrids. it still SUCKS.

[judymcfarland]

The poster who thought he could compete with Debbie in the MPG challenge should know that she was driving a Ford Escape Hybrid, not a Prius. Her numbers were way above the EPA for her car. Drivers were competing within their own car classes, and winners were determined by percentage over EPA numbers for their individual car.

Hybridfest was a great time had by all - fun to put faces with names I've seen online. Fiona was disappointed that she could not come (due to my still recovering knees), but she is proudly wearing her Hybridfest2007 decal and hopes to be there in "person" next year!

Congratulations (and thanks) to Eric and all others who worked on this great event!

[dogfriend]

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The poster who thought he could compete with Debbie in the MPG challenge should know that she was driving a Ford Escape Hybrid, not a Prius.
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Now that just makes me even more sad.
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[FireEngineer]

Why is it that you can take great photos of Gal&DH (not hard to do), Tony in all his "brightness" and my best solo photos were of me sticking my hand where the sun don't shine in a Prius. You know I have a sensitive side, right now it's my right forearm.

Wayne

Who appreciated the pleasure of meeting you and Heath.

[galaxee]

i didn't mean to turn this into a downer thread, we were just pretty miffed at the whole damage to our car thing...

so i'm going to say that aside from that we had a WONDERFUL time at hybridfest- Eric and the rest of the coordinators did a great job in putting it all together and they deserve a hearty round of applause for all the work they did!

i'll post more when i have less than 2 dozen phone calls to make and about 3 places to run off to.

[priussoris]

Sorry to hear about the keying of the cars, one word sums it up
it " SUCKS"

Evan, great camera work loved the different lens shots .
And again, A big thanks to Wayne(FireEngineer) for the EBH install and getting me hooked on cheese curds

[TonyPSchaefer]

I didn't get the opportunity to look at the pictures while I was at Hybridfest. But let me make it clear that Evan was all over the place with his camera. The result is an album of some great pictures capturing the scheduled events, organized displays, and the general comradery of the whole event.

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Even though one or both of them will argue that this is not a good picture, these are the two people who deserve to be thanked as often as possible.

Eric Powers who is the driving force and coordinator
and his wife Becky who tolerates him and the long hours.
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If you have not yet, please take a few minutes to provide your feedback. Contact info on the Hybridfest site is: info@hybridfest.com but I happen to know that eric@hybridfest.com goes directly to Eric. SHHhhh don't tell anyone I gave his email out.

[efusco]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(N_IL_Priusfan @ Jul 22 2007, 09:03 PM) [snapback]483369[/snapback]</div>

I downloaded all my photos to the Hybridfest laptop and didn't keep any. They should have over 1000 pix to sort through from everyone.

Nice to finally meet some of you. Great weather and how nice to actually talk to people who understand and care about hybrid cars. My daughter called it "geek fest". I may have t-shirts made up saying "Prius Geek, and proud of it!" [/b]

1000...probably closer to 2000, I turned in over 600 of my own.
BTW, I'm actively uploading the remainder of my photos (another 240 or so), the vast majority are shots of the 1 1/2 hour installation of the Hymotion pack/conversion to plug-in. when you've got a lot of time on your hands do look them up, it's a really straight forward process to drop in that battery and hook it up.

There are also more detailed shots of Galaxee's car...I need to give them a special public 'thank you' for installing a shim on my right rear wheel to adjust the out-of-alignment toe. I'm super appreciative.

I'm exhausted from the weekend and the long trip home..and still gotta make supper and take my son to his ball game tonight.