Hybridfest 2007 Photos

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(galaxee @ Jul 22 2007, 10:22 AM) [snapback]483131[/snapback]</div>

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.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(galaxee @ Jul 23 2007, 03:22 AM) [snapback]483131[/snapback]</div>

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(ericbecky @ Jul 23 2007, 03:30 PM) [snapback]483414[/snapback]</div>

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.

 

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.

 

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!

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Grandma Judy @ Jul 23 2007, 07:31 AM) [snapback]483565[/snapback]</div>

Now that just makes me even more sad.

 

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.

 

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. :blink:

 

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

 

Great photos!

 

Thanks Evan for posting all the wonderful photos. Next year I will know to put in for my vacation early so as not to miss out. It was hard sitting home this weekend knowing I would rather have been there. Your pics are the next best thing to being there.

 

I know this is not a Hybridfest picture but I thought some people might like it. I'm still out on my Hybridfest vacation and made a visit to the Henry Ford Museum that the Corviar convention took us to.

This is a pic of me in front of one of the last EV1 shells. Its located in the Henry Ford Museum. This place is very cool. It has just about everything you could think of. Trains, planes, cars, steam engines, toys, old furniture and other things. Well worth to go to it if your in the area.

The EV1 was of course stuck in the corner of the building out of the way hoping no one would find it. Luckily for me I actually when through the whole museum. Man these things look great in person! I wanted to sneak it out and I would have if the car was functional.

My Hybridfest pics will come when I get home to process them.

[attachmentid=10091]

 

Fo those of you that took a drive in the Prius simulator did you know they took your picture? If you still have you seed packet go to http://www.toyota.com/highway and put in your access code. There you will have access to your picture.

This is me.

 

OK I finally got my pictures uploaded. Not much but there are a few nice ones on there.

Hybridfest 07
http://www.jaygroh.com/sitepics/hybridfest07/index.htm


Here are some pictures I took after Hybridfest when I went to the Corvair convention in Detroit. Went to see the Henry Ford museum, Corvair convention, Ypsilanti automotive museum, and GM Heritage museum. The GM and Ford museum had an EV1 on display. I actually open the door on the one in the GM museum because it was unlocked. h34r: What could I say I wanted to drive it away. In fear of getting caught I decided to ask one of the workers there if he could pop the hood open. He did so I quickly got some shots of the innards. The guy said all it was missing was the batteries. Anyone want to go on a <strike>auto theft</strike> rescue mission with me?

http://www.jaygroh.com/sitepics/corvair07/index.htm