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Post by Midnight_Rider » Mon Mar 17, 2014 11:20 pm

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I bought this on eBay earlier today. I've asked the seller for any background information he might have about it. Does anyone else think that those might be mounting holes on the four corners? I can't really tell from the photo. Perhaps this was mounted as a "license plate" on a Neon displayed at the factory, maybe for the press?
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Post by sidepipe87 » Mon Mar 17, 2014 11:22 pm

cool. those look to be the little rubber half round nubs to sit it on a desk. the "neon" looks to be nothing more than a trunk badge from a 1gn. cool plaque though
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Post by Midnight_Rider » Mon Mar 17, 2014 11:37 pm

Oh, I didn't think about those corners being "nubs" so that it could rest on a desk. I knew that the "Neon" badge is just that- the same badge that was on a 1GN's trunk. I seriously doubt that this is something that someone made up to look official so I'm really curious to find out it's connection with Chrysler. Maybe something handed out to new car salesmen as a promo item?
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Post by r/tguy02 » Tue Mar 18, 2014 7:56 am

i think it was a plaque as well, maybe for an award or wall hanger. probably something an executive for chrysler had. just guessing
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Post by sidepipe87 » Tue Mar 18, 2014 8:24 am

Gramps, you might want to contact JeffB#2 from the .org (Booger guy) for more info on this...

http://forums.neons.org/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=293299
JeffB#2 wrote: Job #1 November 10, 1993

I need to get a better picture of this when I get time and save it on org.

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JeffB#2 wrote:The story behind the plaque:

Neon event in 2000 I think? We were all parked in front of the assembly plant for the group picture. Matt and others were on the roof with cameras. An older gal came out of the building and down the steps. My wife Sheree was at the bottom of the steps standing there looking around, bored probably. The lady walked right up to her and asked her if she wanted a souvenir. Sheree instantly said something like "sure, what do you have there?". It was that plaque wrapped in tissue paper. She thanked her and the lady walked up to at least 2 other people and gave each person one of these. She had three of them, possibly four total. I don't remember who else got one. Pretty spiffy, Sheree knew I'd want to have one. Brought it home and it's been in the basement with all the other junk I've collected over the years. I've seen exactly two of these on eBay in the last 6-7 years. One brought something just over $40 and I don't remember the other selling price. There used to be all kinds of Neon "stuff" out there including what was sold in the Belvidere Assembly store. Laptop bags, numerous shirt designs, pens, fanny packs, flashlights, hackeysack balls, various hats, jackets, water bottles, etc. We've bought at least two of all the trinkets over the years when we got into the store and brought it home to go on the shelf in the basement. Wiggins has some cool stuff too, ask him. I know that Cory bought a laptop bag the same year that Sheree bought the one my laptop lives in. I bet ACR Man also has some goodies at his place too.

I'll see if I can find where I packed my ~3' x ~3' drunk driving simulator flag that JT finally sold me a couple of years ago. Try and find another one of those. What I'd like to find - one of the multicolor "Neon Challenge" banners. The older one where the word "Challenge" was in green text and it had the yellow stars around it. I sooooooo wanted to steal one off the fence at BAP the one year that they did the autocross. I have good pictures of those banners somewhere. The last year was when they had the SRT-4s for the autocross, I didn't really care for the black/dayglo orange color scheme on the banners but I should have snagged one of those just to have it. I'm not much of a thief so it was kinda hard to think about reaching up to untie one and walk away with it. Didn't happen.

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Post by JeffB#2 » Tue Mar 18, 2014 10:30 am

Oh yeah, it's real. And rare. Still have ours here somewhere. Yes, those are little rubber "nibs" and not holes.

Just out of curiosity, what was the price? It's been a number of years since I've seen one sell on eBay, the last one went for a little over $100

It's about 7" x 3", not license plate sized at all.




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I found it on ebay, that was a steal on that. Great buy! My search missed it or I would have bought it if no one else had by the time I got to it.
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Post by Midnight_Rider » Tue Mar 18, 2014 10:38 am

Thanks sidepipe87 for the link with the info.:thumbup:
JeffB#2 wrote:Oh yeah, it's real. And rare. Still have ours here somewhere. Yes, those are little rubber "nibs" and not holes.

Just out of curiosity, what was the price? It's been a number of years since I've seen one sell on eBay, the last one went for a little over $100

It's about 7" x 3", not license plate sized at all.




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I found it on ebay, that was a steal on that. Great buy! My search missed it or I would have bought it if no one else had by the time I got to it.

Over $100? :shock: Wow, now I'm really glad that I bought it.
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Post by sidepipe87 » Tue Mar 18, 2014 7:45 pm

Midnight_Rider wrote:Thanks sidepipe87 for the link with the info.:thumbup:
JeffB#2 wrote: Just out of curiosity, what was the price?

Over $100? :shock: Wow, now I'm really glad that I bought it.
Oh no! Are you taking a page out of the eBay sellers book??? LOOK HE SIMPLY ASKED FOR THE BUYING PRICE, HE HAS A RIGHT TO DO SO WILL YOU JUST ANSWER??


I'm sorry.... I had to harass you a little bit. :rofl: :lol:

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Post by FAC3L3SS » Tue Mar 18, 2014 9:34 pm

sidepipe87 wrote:
Midnight_Rider wrote:Thanks sidepipe87 for the link with the info.:thumbup:
JeffB#2 wrote: Just out of curiosity, what was the price?

Over $100? :shock: Wow, now I'm really glad that I bought it.
Oh no! Are you taking a page out of the eBay sellers book??? LOOK HE SIMPLY ASKED FOR THE BUYING PRICE, HE HAS A RIGHT TO DO SO WILL YOU JUST ANSWER??


I'm sorry.... I had to harass you a little bit. :rofl: :lol:
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Post by Midnight_Rider » Wed Mar 19, 2014 12:39 am

:laughing3: Okay, okay- I paid $23.75 with shipping. Guess that I had that coming. :lol:
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Post by thomas_w » Wed Mar 19, 2014 9:41 am

Midnight_Rider wrote::laughing3: Okay, okay- I paid $23.75 with shipping. Guess that I had that coming. :lol:
That is pretty cool, nice find! I guess fate is trying to make up for all the ebay trouble you had lately.

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Post by Midnight_Rider » Wed Mar 19, 2014 10:31 am

I hope so. Last night, I emailed the rude seller that I mentioned in the other thread and asked that he send the item to me again. Seriously doubt that he will do it though.

The seller of this plaque emailed that he posted it on Tuesday of this week. :thumbup:
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Post by sidepipe87 » Wed Mar 19, 2014 10:37 am

Very cool find for the price :thumbup:
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Post by alsey_seven » Fri Mar 21, 2014 1:54 am

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Post by MyNeonSaysHi » Fri Mar 21, 2014 9:27 pm

Nice find! Damn I was 8 years old in 93. LOL

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Post by Midnight_Rider » Fri Mar 21, 2014 11:06 pm

MyNeonSaysHi wrote:Damn I was 8 years old in 93. LOL
:beatstick: I was 34.
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Post by Pablodragon » Sat Mar 22, 2014 11:58 am

Midnight_Rider wrote:
MyNeonSaysHi wrote:Damn I was 8 years old in 93. LOL
:beatstick: I was 34.
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Post by Midnight_Rider » Sat Mar 22, 2014 7:30 pm

:laughing3: I'm so old that I had to ask a kid at Burger King this afternoon how to work the Coke Freestyle fountain. :roll:
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Post by caustic neon » Mon Mar 24, 2014 9:05 pm

what the hell are you typing into the ebay search to find this cool stuffs
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Midnight_Rider wrote::laughing3: I'm so old that I had to ask a kid at Burger King this afternoon how to work the Coke Freestyle fountain. :roll:
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Post by Midnight_Rider » Tue Mar 25, 2014 12:01 am

caustic neon wrote:what the hell are you typing into the ebay search to find this cool stuffs
I honestly don't remember the search term(s) I used to find it. I seem to have no life other than work, 2GN and eBay these days. :lol:
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Post by ianguilly » Tue Mar 25, 2014 5:26 pm

Ok I got the story on these today. A friend of mine worked for Chrysler when these first came out. He said when the first neon was built they had a big party at the plant. The news crews were there and higher up, all thatgood stuff. He said they were handing these plaques out during this celebration, hence the job #1 on it. He has one and just about anyone who was there got one. So there's probably more than 4 of these things floating around.
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Post by r/tguy02 » Wed Mar 26, 2014 8:31 am

:thumbup: cool story, so theres probably a good 100 of these out there
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Post by ianguilly » Wed Mar 26, 2014 9:50 am

r/tguy02 wrote::thumbup: cool story, so theres probably a good 100 of these out there
Correct, I might even just make one. They aren't to hard.
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Post by sidepipe87 » Wed Mar 26, 2014 1:29 pm

Wait. So faking memorabilia is ok? Good, because I think the same guy has a mug I'd like to have :lol:
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Post by ianguilly » Wed Mar 26, 2014 2:18 pm

sidepipe87 wrote:Wait. So faking memorabilia is ok? Good, because I think the same guy has a mug I'd like to have :lol:
Yes faking is ok, but male sure if you ever sell it to say its real :)
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Post by r/tguy02 » Wed Mar 26, 2014 2:40 pm

ianguilly wrote:
sidepipe87 wrote:Wait. So faking memorabilia is ok? Good, because I think the same guy has a mug I'd like to have :lol:
Yes faking is ok, but male sure if you ever sell it to say it isnt real :)
fixed :lol:
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Post by FAC3L3SS » Wed Mar 26, 2014 3:34 pm

Midnight_Rider wrote:
MyNeonSaysHi wrote:Damn I was 8 years old in 93. LOL
:beatstick: I was 34.
I was 3...

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Post by JeffB#2 » Wed Mar 26, 2014 8:04 pm

ianguilly wrote:Ok I got the story on these today. A friend of mine worked for Chrysler when these first came out. He said when the first neon was built they had a big party at the plant. The news crews were there and higher up, all thatgood stuff. He said they were handing these plaques out during this celebration, hence the job #1 on it. He has one and just about anyone who was there got one. So there's probably more than 4 of these things floating around.
Belvedere Assembly employees got them as well, there WERE a lot of them 20 years ago.
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Post by Midnight_Rider » Wed Mar 26, 2014 9:23 pm

FAC3L3SS wrote:
Midnight_Rider wrote:
MyNeonSaysHi wrote:Damn I was 8 years old in 93. LOL
:beatstick: I was 34.
I was 3...
Hush you. :lol:
JeffB#2 wrote:Belvedere Assembly employees got them as well, there WERE a lot of them 20 years ago.
True, but how many of those employees thought the plaques were valuable enough to keep them for 20 years? They mean more to crazies like us than anyone else.
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