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1933 Dodge Lo-Lid, “When sex was safe!”

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On 21OCT2023, a big pre-Halloween car show/USMC Reserve’s Toys-4-Tots drive/Trunk or Treat was held in the Old Town area of Pocatello, Idaho.

21OCT2023:FORD YELLOWSTONE HACK, DON’T MISS YOUR TRAIN!

Ford Yellowstone Hack, don’t miss your train!

This is why people in the United States refer to the rear storage area of a car as a ‘trunk’.  In the early days you could buy a rack to mount your ‘steamer trunk’ (used mainly on steam-trains or ocean going steam-liners) on the back of your automobile, hence the trunk.

On 21OCT2023, a big pre-Halloween car show/USMC Reserve’s Toys-4-Tots drive/Trunk or Treat was held in the Old Town area of Pocatello, Idaho.

Video by me:

Before the invention of off-road four-wheel-drives, and when most roads were not paved, people used these two-wheel-drives ‘off-road’ almost daily.

21OCT2023: 1946 MERC SLAMMER ‘LOWENUF’

Toys-4-Tots=Bikes & Dogs?

On 21OCT2023, a big pre-Halloween car show/USMC Reserve’s Toys-4-Tots drive/Trunk or Treat was held in the Old Town area of Pocatello, Idaho.

Here is a video montage I put together highlighting the motorcycles:

This bike was parked on the street, close enough to the show to justify taking a pic of it.

21OCT2023:CHEVY PICK-EM-UP TRUCK

Chubbuck Days, 2023:INDIAN MOTORCYCLE

Forever Wars: Cold War era wargame ‘Tiger Meet’ continues in 2023!

02 November 2023 (09:21-UTC-07 Tango 06) 11 Aban 1402/18 Rabi ‘ath-Thani 1445/19 Gui-Hai 4721/02 ноябрь 2023 года

Cold War: Approximately 1947 (due to U.S. President Harry Truman’s Truman Doctrine) to 1991 (Operation Desert Storm, collapse of Soviet Union).

According to the official Tiger Meet organization, the origin of the wargame was a result of pilots from one North Atlantic Treaty Organization country (United Kingdom) boasting that they were better than pilots from another NATO country (United States). The Tiger Meet name was influenced by the name of a U.S. Air Force squadron based on the United Kingdom. The first Tiger Meet competition took place in the early 1960s.

This year’s NATO-Tiger Meet took place over Gioia del Colle Air Base in southern Italy.

Swedish built SAAB JAS 39 Gripen of the Czech Republic (Czechia) taxis on Gioia del Colle Air Base, 10OCT2023.

NATO video showing Tiger Meet Rafales, operated by France, 10OCT2023:

NATO video showing Tiger Meet Tornadoes and Typhoons, operated by Austria, Germany and Italy, 10OCT2023:

NATO video showing Tiger Meet F-16 Falcons, operated by Belgium, Greece, Poland and Turkey, 10OCT2023:

Tiger Meet-2015. This NATO photo shows even the ‘neutral’ Swiss take part in the wargame. Besides the Swiss F/A-18 Hornet, you can see Polish and Turkish F-16 Falcons, a French Rafale, and a NATO-AWACS.

Luftwaffe ‘Arctic Tiger’ Tornado, Tiger Meet-June 2013. NATO photo by Ulrich ‘Fürst’ Metternich.

Tiger Meet-2013 F-16 Falcons operated by Netherlands, Norway and Turkey. NATO photo by Ulrich ‘Fürst’ Metternich.

A Colorado Air National Guard F-16C Falcon, taking part in the Tiger Meet of the Americas wargame/competition over Alberta, Canada, refueling from a New Jersey Air National Guard KC-135E. Photo by Senior Master Sergeant John P. Rohrer, September 2003, apparently this was the first Tiger Meet held in Canada.

In 2001, a Tiger Meet of the Americas competition was launched, officially it is not linked to what became the NATO Tiger Meets in Europe.

Buckley Air Force Base, Colorado, the first Tiger Meet of the Americas, from bottom to top; Luftwaffe Tornado, F-16s from Arizona, Colorado, South Carolina and Vermont, a ‘dolled-up’ Canadian CF-188 (F/A-18), and finally a F-15E Strike Eagle from Idaho. USAF photo by Staff Sergeant Greg L. Davis, 12AUG2001.

In the beginning, of the European Tiger Meet competitions/wargames, there were no fancy Tiger paint jobs.

Italian F-104G Starfighter, on Kleine Brogel Air Base, Belgium, during the July 1970 tiger Meet. U.S. Air Force photo by Master Sergeant H.D. Robinson.

Italian made FIAT G-91 operated by West Germany during the July 1970 Tiger Meet on Kleine Brogel Air Base, Belgium. USAF photo by Master Sergeant H.D. Robinson.

USAF F-100 Super Saber gets maintenance during the July 1970 Tiger Meet on Kleine Brogel Air Base, Belgium. USAF photo by Master Sergeant H.D. Robinson.

Forever Wars: ISRAELI AIRLINE SAYS ‘WAR’ WILL LAST UNTIL MARCH 2024!?

Chevy pick-em-up Truck

On 21OCT2023, a big pre-Halloween car show/USMC Reserve’s Toys-4-Tots drive/Trunk or Treat was held in the Old Town area of Pocatello, Idaho.

Video by me:

 

Video (by me, oops, no audio) of another/different Chevy pick-em-up truck from the 10JUN2023 SAC show, in Pocatello:

21OCT2023: SQUARE-BODIES 4×4 RED & ORANGE

CORABELLE, REFUGEE FROM THE ‘BRITISH INVASION’

Corabelle, refugee from the ‘British Invasion’

Corabelle is owned by Jay Goold. He has been collecting Morris Minors since 1972. Jay bought Corabelle about three years ago, and he says she is the best Morris Minor he has ever owned. He named the car after his grandmother Corabelle Woods Neustel.

On 21OCT2023, a big pre-Halloween car show/USMC Reserve’s Toys-4-Tots drive/Trunk or Treat was held in the Old Town area of Pocatello, Idaho.

Click here for video of Corabelle from the 23SEP2023 car show: MORRIS MINOR BRITISH INVASION OF POCATELLO

Here is video (by me) of other refugees from the 1960s ‘British Invasion’, during the SAC show in Pocatello, 10JUN2023:

21OCT2023:PRE-HALLOWEEN POKY TOYS FOR TOTS CAR SHOW, BOO!

Pre-Halloween Poky Toys for Tots car show, boo!

On 21OCT2023, a big pre-Halloween car show/USMC Reserve’s Toys-4-Tots drive/Trunk or Treat was held in the Old Town area of Pocatello, Idaho.

The show started on the 9th hour of the day, I arrived about an hour-n-half late, and was greeted by the roar of monster motors, video by me:

There was a constant coming-and-going of people and machines. More videos by me:

By the 12th hour the parking lot was jumping, more videos by me:

A group called SE Idaho Bass Heads helped raise $685 for the local Toys for Tots.

The Trunk-Treat began in the 15th hour:

By the 18th hour it was all over, and some guy named Crazy Carl thought the show was the awesome-ist yet!

21OCT2023:

GHOULIES CAN BE PUBLIC NUISANCES!

SPIDERS FROM MARS?!

SOME WICKED WRECKER THIS WAY COMES!

Betty Booped the Impala!?

Pics and video by me:

On 21OCT2023, a big pre-Halloween car show/USMC Reserve’s Toys-4-Tots drive/Trunk or Treat was held in the Old Town area of Pocatello, Idaho.

21OCT2023:SOME PEOPLE JUST LOVE REDLINING THEIR FORD VANS!

July 2023:

1962 CHEVY IMPALA LOWRIDER

1984 CADILLAC LOWRIDER

Some people just love redlining their Ford vans!

On 21OCT2023, a big pre-Halloween car show/USMC Reserve’s Toys-4-Tots drive/Trunk or Treat was held in the Old Town area of Pocatello, Idaho.

Videos by me:

Chillin’:

21OCT2023: GHOULIES CAN BE PUBLIC NUISANCES!