University of Michigan generic shirt

just your basic shirt.

University of Illinois team shirt

This shirt was one of my favorite designs. The car name was "Photon Torpedo" which is just awesome, and the Star Trek reference rocks.

Messiah College Team Shirt

I don't recall much about Messiah's entry into the race. They were number 77. Their car looked pretty good for a rookie entry. They seemed nice, like most other teams. I'll see if I can remember something else and add to this.

Sunrayce 97 "poster" t-shirt

This is the Sunrayce 97 shirt that is just a copy of the poster used to promote the event.

I remember being in a review meeting with the designers when they unveiled the poster draft. I was not particularly happy with the font, but my opinion counted for squat at that point. Looking back on it, the font's not so bad. The "car" image is from a model of computational fluid dynamics that event sponsor EDS would run for all of the teams.

Map of the route on the back side of the shirt.

Principia College Sunrayce 99 team shirt

Principia College Sunrayce 99 shirt. Such a small college, with no engineering program, but they did sooo good! Great people, too, friendly and great senses of humor.

Sunrayce 95 Finish Line T-Shirt

They gave these out at the National Renewable Energy Lab (Golden, Colorado) finish line. Very nice!

More to come...

I just dragged out two full rubbermaid tubs of my solar crap, and took about 180 photographs of the t-shirts and hats. Myriad of posts coming soon.

General Motors Electric Vehicle program polo shirt

This one will be a struggle to remember where I got this from.

In college, I was an ardent follower of GM's Impact electric vehicle (later renamed EV1), and was on the mailing list. Little did I know that of the public relations-type materials that I received came not from GM, but from a tiny PR firm named TRIO, located (at the time) in Clarkston, Michigan, halfway between Detroit and Flint.

After college, I applied for a job with the solar car race. Turns out, again it was not with GM, but with TRIO, who had been hired by GM's head of R&D to run the race marketing and operations. So I ended up in GM electric vehicle central, but not the technical part, just the marketing part.

So for Sunrayce 93, the GM Impact served as the pace car, which was awesome - it burned rubber every morning, leading the cars out of the start. I snagged a ride in it, and a ride in a Geo Storm that was serving as a mule for an advanced electric drivetrain. There were a few TRIO people who came along and handed out PR materials for the Impact.

So somewhere between 1993 and 1997 (I think) I snagged this polo shirt. Despite the stain, I kept it. Not too common anymore, considering the EV1 is dead, and this dates from the Impact days.

So there you go.

Sunrayce 99 backpack

Handed out to all participants in Sunrayce 99, featuring logo from sponsor EDS, and Sunrayce website, which I used to write for (but not code - - Mike White and the awesome crew at EDS took care of that).

I don't recall if this one was stuffed with goodies or not. I recall the 1995 backpacks being chock full of good stuff (or was that '93?). I suspect this '99 one had a few things.

Western Michigan Sunseeker T-shirt

This is one of the team t-shirts from the venerable group from Western Michigan Univeriity. For some reason, they had awesome t-shirts, and in a ton of different colors.

I hired Steve Hunt, their one time team captain, to be part of Sunrayce HQ staff one year and did not regret it.