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British Austin + Japanese Suzuki = The Duke!?

Making an appearance at the March 2024, Idaho State University ‘Chrome in the Dome’ car show, none other than The Duke!  Of course not the dead guy, but a car honoring the dead guy (John Wayne, aka Marion Robert Morrison).

Believe it or else, it took a crazy Idahoan three years to kit-bash one unique, one-off, car out of British and Japanese parts, to honor the United States’ icon of Western movies!

16MAR2024, ISU Holt Arena in Pocatello, Idaho.

The body is a 1937 Austin Ruby-7, made in the United Kingdom, and the chassis-drivetrain is from a Suzuki Samurai made in Japan! The Ruby-7 was missing most of its floor-pan, and some adjustments needed to be made to get the British body to sit down on the Nipponese frame.

This kit-bashed custom has revolving Revolver exhaust pipes (my video):

It was hard getting walk-around video due to all the Pokies crowding ’round. People loved the plethora of Western gunslinger trinkets plastered all over the hybrid vehicle; the more you looked the more you found:

The builder/owner already has a very tempting offer from a prospective buyer, and another prospector who might join in for a bidding war.  This has the builder chomping-at-the-bit to whip-up his next horsepower project (a ’56 Chevy).

Shhh, don’t wake the sleeping Mustang (you know what they say about disturbing wild animals), car show in Chubbuck, February 2024:  SLEEPER 1967 MUSTANG

Self Drive Car Fail! Human drivers unable to regain control from robot driver?

12 December 2016 / 20:17 UTC-07 Tango 06 (23 Azar 1395/13 Rabi ‘al-Awwal 1438/15 Geng Zi 4714)

“If someone is designing a method for automated vehicle handover, there will need to be detailed research on that specific method. This study is tip of an iceberg.”-Lene Harbott, Revs Program at Stanford

A new study published by the new Science Robotics journal says self driving cars don’t like being turned off!

The article titled Motor learning affects car-to-driver handover in automated vehicles, presented the results of the Dynamic Design Lab study at California’s Stanford University.  The study showed that differences between human’s explicit and implicit thinking actually made it difficult to take control of a car that has been under total computer control: “…there is this physical change and we need to acknowledge that people’s performance might not be at its peak if they haven’t actively been participating in the driving.”-Holly Russell, Dynamic Design Lab

DON’T HAVE A HEART ATTACK, SOON ARMY ROBOTS WILL SAVE YOUR ASS!

3RD SELF-DRIVE CRASH FOR TESLA!

GOOGLE SELF DRIVING CAR HITS METRO BUS!

CNN Money: Google patent would glue pedestrians to self-driving cars

DRIVERLESS CARS: SHOULD THEY BE PROGRAMMED TO KILL?

TWICE IN ONE WEEK SECURITY BOT INJURES CHILD! CHRISTIANITY BEHIND RISE OF THE MACHINES?

2016 Chubbuck Days mass baptism by Fire….Truck!

13 August 2016 /19:35 UTC-07 Tango 01 (24 Mordad 1395/10 Dhu I-Qa’da 1437/12 Bing-Shen 4714)

Some long time attendees of the annual Chubbuck Days at Cotant Park were wondering where the Chubbuck Fire Department was, after all it’s tradition for the Fire Department to cool down the crowd with some artificial rain.  Just like the cavalry, the Fire Department showed up at the last minute, to the excitement of all the children present (click the pics to make bigger, photos by AAron B. Hutchins):

CHUBBUCK DAYS COTANT PARK 2016:  CAR SHOW & HELICOPTER FORCED LANDING

Car show & Helicopter forced landing: Chubbuck Days Cotant Park 2016

13 August 2016 /18:55 UTC-07 Tango 01 (24 Mordad 1395/10 Dhu I-Qa’da 1437/12 Bing-Shen 4714)

The highlight at Cotant Park was when the helicopter ride force landed, twice, and looking very much like it would crash into neighboring Chase Park playground, due to passenger overloading.  However, the main attraction had arrived and most people were thus busy getting baptized by the Chubbuck Fire Department, so they missed the ‘copter excitement.   (I try not to include repeat offenders, I mean cars that were in previous Chubbuck Days), Clicks the pics to make bigger, photos by AAron B. Hutchins:

2015 CHUBBUCK DAYS CAR SHOW

2014 CHUBBUCK DAYS CAR SHOW

The job I had in 2013 caused me to miss Chubbuck Days.

6TH ANNUAL CAR SHOW, 2012 CHUBBUCK DAYS (PART 1)

6TH ANNUAL CAR SHOW, 2012 CHUBBUCK DAYS (PART 2)

11 AUGUST 2012: BUSIEST CHUBBUCK DAYS EVER!

I was out-o-town for 2011 Chubbuck Days.

2010 (when I started taking pics of the cars) CHUBBUCK DAYS CAR SHOW IN IDAHO

2015 Chubbuck Days Car Show

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2014 Chubbuck Days Car Show

For kit builders: REVELL 1937 FORD PICKUP, OR WHY MODEL ASSEMBLY INSTRUCTIONS CAN BE WRONG!

2014 Chubbuck Days Car Show

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6TH ANNUAL CAR SHOW, 2012 CHUBBUCK DAYS (PART 1)

Pocatello Airport 02 August 2014: Free car show to go with the free airshow!

Who knew that this free airshow would also be the last for Idaho’s Pocatello Airport?

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POKEY AIRPORT 02 AUGUST 2014: BEST DAMN FREE AIRSHOW, YET!

POKEY AIRPORT:

Idaho Army National Guard M109