My $2017 trophy is on the mantle while it's still new. All my old ones are still in the basement at my parents house, right where I left them when I moved out. Have some big plaques from carlisle and some local shows. I quit caring about car shows another life ago.
I have 4 trophies in my office (1 each AX, MX, Road Rally and Car Show). The wife grabbed all the pewter cup AX trophies from long ago and put them in the hutch in the dining room. There are 3 boxes of trophies in the basement somewhere. Dash plaques (all 15 lbs of them) are also in a box in the basement. Been collecting the dash plaques since 1960 with the last one from a month ago.
I expect it's more of an interesting story in artifacts rather than bragging. Maybe not though. I am kinda proud of even the worst moments in my below average sporting career. There is a cool pic of me throwing up from heat stroke and exhaust fumes at Summit Point after a 2hr stint w/o a cool suit in 105F temps I'll need to find. I won a sweet beer mug and a sticker for that effort. And one of me throwing my helmet at my friend in a little tantrum I threw after he shunted me out of the race on the opening lap of the feature at Mid-Ohio. It doesn't show him just catching it and setting it down so it looks pretty badass.
Someday when I finish my basement the bar will have some cool stuff in it. A couple trophies, some bent parts... smashed helmets, x-rays, pics, that sort of thing.
I just hung this shelf in my garage last week to make some space in my closet. Best one is a rallyx season points champ. Biggest one (with a van on top) is a from a kart night with the Baby Seals Club. And most recent addition is the General Tire Challenge trophy from the $2017 Challenge :)
Only have a few on display. Sort of.
Two were from the 2004 Challenge. One was a hand made piece of glass. And one is sand art.
Our club offered discounts to future autocrosses instead of trophies- for the regulars, that was very popular. Other local clubs that we had as part of the DCSCC also offered discounts instead of trophies.
Quite a while ago, I know that someone got an etched glass cone at the challenge- for hitting the most cones on a run. I wonder what they are doing with it.
In reply to NEALSMO :
"DNF DUB". Haha!
I've got most of my autocross and racing plaques screwed to the wall of my second garage, along with any other garageabilia I can rustle up, The other stuff includes several steering wheels, a set of Porsche hub caps, an illuminated "Copenhagen" sign and a nose cone from a Williams FW07.
I have a reasonable number of trophies, some of which actually mean something. The cool "Big Daddy" scrap welded statue we got for finishing second in the first Edmonton Chump race is on the reception counter, and my Western Canadian road race championship plaque is on the wall beside it. The event trophies are kinda jammed on a shelf.
I am partly proud of them, and partly I figure they are advertising- If I can make a race car fast, I can fix your Camry...
Lof8 said:In reply to NEALSMO :
"DNF DUB". Haha!
That was on my old MKII track car. Only broke twice at track days
I keep the ones I’m really into and typically donate the rest to my local scout group. They are always McGyvering trophies together for Soap Box Derby and put them to good use. A local scout leader was elated when I got rid of all But a few of my BMX trophies from 10 years of racing.
My wife put a couple of autocross event first place mugs on a shelf in the living room with a season class 1st place plaque. I need to put the bent valve out of the split-block 347 up there, now that I think about it. There are a couple of Carlisle All Ford 3rd place plaques knocking around somewhere.
NEPASCCA does jackets for class championship winners. I wear the first one of those I got. I felt weird about it at first, but I got used to it.
Most of the event trophies are beer glasses of rather high quality. It's nice to not have to buy crappy glasses to drink out of and break all the time.
when My second daughter was born I made a Scrap book of all my News paper articles that Chronicled my Carrier from My first race(20th place) until I won the Championship Race in My Second year,
Her Mother Threw it in the Trash.
Yup, because I'm divorced and can decorate my house however I deem appropriate.
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If I had any I would display them.
Didn't go to college but I never picked up my high school diploma. Actually I'm not sure I even got one, they told me I had enough credits to graduate and I never went back. I was working two jobs and the money looked a lot better than sitting around with a bunch of people I hated for no reason.
The important ones will go in the trophy case because leaded crystal shouldn't get as dusty as my shop gets. That and some are getting pretty fragile.
the posters were on the walls and added a sort of man cave look to the billiards room but as I finish that room off they have to come down so I can shellack the timbers. The really shabby ones will go in the trash I don't care if they are 50 years old. The still presentable ones will finally get framed and rehung.
I’d need to win something to be able to display a trophy. 
All the second place trophy’s are in a box in the closet.
I only display the first place trophies and the championships, plus a few that are particularly meaningful. I still have a bunch of the checkered flags I won and they will get mounted in the garage.
All mine are sitting on the floor in my shop behind th lathe. I don't even pick them up at the track anymore.
I did save a few newspaper articles to put in my racing photo album from the 90's, but that was mostly so I could look at how awesome my mullet was then.
Spoolpigeon said:Yup, because I'm divorced and can decorate my house however I deem appropriate.
LOL. When I didn't have a wife I had an FZR 1000 in my living room. A 1st floor condo with a sliding glass door is a motorcycle garage.
The walls had my leathers and a helmet on a nail, a poster of Wayne Rainey wearing the #1 plate, a cutaway of the BMW S-14 motor, and airplane tickets from all the places I had to go for work back when 90% travel was great novelty and not a chore.
That was 27 years ago. berkeley. I'm old. I still have the S-14 cutaway poster though ;)
As a joke I have a file cabinet I called my diploma drawer. I have parents stuff, mine, then my kids took it seriously and now store theirs in the drawer.
Oddly my son is getting a doctorate in the spring and he says nobody goes to the graduation. I am however required to be at the the day he defends his theory.
I told him I might cry if they grill him too hard.
For several years i kept a laminated timeslip from my first dragstrip pass and a later one from the cars only 12 second pass. They dissapeared in storage between my apartment and first house.
Had them in a box for years and recently threw them out. The memories matter, the bling just took up room.
The $2016 BRE Quest Van still displays its Participation Ribbon which is fitting given its failure and resulting 6th from bottom finish.
With a couple of regional class championships and several high-places yearly finishes, I've got a few.
I autocrossed with the Atlanta Region SCCA for nearly twenty years at a time when the region had over a dozen events per year and every one had 150 to 200 entries. That generated a lot of revenue and the region loved to give out trophies; namely wall plaques. The autocross program gave so many trophies, it made the road racing side more than a bit jealous and they were always trying to figure out ways to allocate the funds for their own purposes. There was friction.
Even though I packed them all when I relocated to PA there are only three on open display; my first trophy from my first-ever event, a "pewter" mug, and an engraved wooden wall plaque that features a scale model Williams-Honda F1 car.
The only memorabilia in the open is a small chunk of concrete from the last Solo Nationals at Forbes Field; it even has different colors of the spray paint that was used to mark the cone boxes.
We have all of our lemons and chump race trophies hanging out on a table in the garage.
They look cool and people ask about them and we get to tell the stories about the races.
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