One Christmas Car Gift build done, four late builds to go. It’s a portent of things to come….from China?
Video, part-1, what do you get a Jeep fan and a graduate of BSU:
Part-2, you don’t need no drugs to see these psychedelic colors:
Model Gift Build:
AIRFIX BIRTHDAY BOMBER
Ronald Wilson Reagan, 40th President of the United States of America, 1981 to 1989.
Reagan played football for Eureka College in 1929.
Ronald W. Reagan became famous for his 1940 movie portrayal of Notre Dame football running back George Gipp, who died of pneumonia. The film also recreated the famous ‘win just one for the Gipper’ speech by Notre Dame’s football coach Knute Rockne. The nickname Gipper stuck with Reagan for the rest of his life.
31JAN1988, SUPER BOWL-22
For the second time the Washington DC Redskins win the Super Bowl (defeating the Denver Broncos 42 to 10) while Ronald Reagan was President of the United States. Video via Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, part-1:
Part-2, setting the records straight:
Part-3, making the pass:
Redskins’ quarterback Doug Williams, 03FEB1988.
President Reagan tosses one to Redskins’ wide receiver Ricky Sanders, 03FEB1988.
25JAN1987, SUPER BOWL-21
After beating the Denver Broncos 39 to 20, the New York Giants paid a visit to the White House, 13FEB1987. Video via Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, part-1:
Part-2:
Part 3, The Gipper finally gets his shirt:
Giants linebacker Harry Carson dumps popcorn on ‘The Gipper’.
13 February 1987.
20JAN1985, SUPER BOWL-19
How many rehearsals does the U.S. President need to make a Super Bowl (Miami versus San Francisco) coin toss?
Part-1, warming up:
Part-2, wait for it:
Part-3, this time for reals:
In September 2011, a Ronald Reagan Centennial Celebration National Football Coin Toss was held across the U.S. of A., involving teams from the NFL, NCAA, NAIA and 14-thousand high schools.
30JAN1983, SUPER BOWL-17
Super Bowl champions Washington DC Redskins (27-17 victory over Miami Dolphins) meet with U.S. President Ronald Reagan, and First Lady Nancy Reagan, on Dulles International Airport, 31JAN1983.
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Part-2:
Part-3:
Seen in the South Wing of the Pine Ridge Mall in Chubbuck, Idaho, during the snowy weekend of January 13th & 14th, 2024.
Shhh, don’t wake the sleeping Mustang (you know what they say about disturbing wild animals), video by me:
347 cubic inches displacement V8, C6 automatic transmission.
Pine Ridge Mall-South Wing:
‘INTENSE’ SILVER SURFING CAMARO
See more cars in the South Wing here: 
INAUGURAL INDOOR WINTER/NEW YEAR CAR SHOW!
Cold War: Approximately 1947 (due to U.S. President Harry Truman’s Truman Doctrine) to 1991 (Operation Desert Storm, collapse of Soviet Union).
Based upon a backwards Soviet T-54/55 battle tank chassis/lower hull, the BAT-M (бульдозер артиллерийском тягаче модернизированный, Bulldozer Artillery Tractor-Modernized) is basically a bulldozer, but western/NATO military analysts prefer to call it by the more mil-speak sounding title of ‘route clearing vehicle’. The lower hull of the T-54/55 was rotated so that the power pack (motor/transmission) and drive sprockets were at the front of the vehicle. It uses a manually operated transmission.
The BAT-M crew-cab is a widen/modified ZIS truck cabin. Supposedly 35-thousand were built by 1979, when production stopped. Today, most are rusting away, some are for sale.
Beyond: Post Cold War, Balkan Wars, War on Terror, Battle for Ukraine, 1992 to present.
Former Warsaw Pact-Poland becomes NATO-Poland in March 1999, despite a February 1990 promise by the United States Secretary of State, James Baker, that NATO would not expand “one inch eastward”.
The Museum of Military Technology, in Poland, uses a BAT-M as a tour bus!
Museum of Military Technology: BAT-M
Wowing the tourists with a 360 degree turn in a BAT-M.
Photo via Polish Defense Ministry, 17FEB2010. Notice the old ‘spider web’ style road wheels.
Quick, silent U.S. Army video from June 2013:
Polish BAT-M helping to build a new tank training road on Trzebień, Poland, 08FEB2024. U.S. Army photo by Sergeant Summer Keiser.
Video by U.S. Army Staff Sergeant Rakeem Carter, 08FEB2024:
Warsaw Pact vehicles now used by NATO: 
POLAND
Cold War era Warsaw Pact BAT-2 engineer vehicle now NATO’s Kosovo car basher!
Cold War & Beyond: 
MIKOYAN-GUREVICH MIG-29
There were several Chevy Camaros at the indoor Pine Ridge Mall show, here is another.
Seen in the South Wing of the Pine Ridge Mall in Chubbuck, Idaho, during the snowy weekend of January 13th & 14th, 2024, video by me:
Pine Ridge Mall-South Mall: 
COOL BLUE CAMARO ’67 SS
Here’s what I came up with for a birthday present for somebody born on Xmas:
Model Gift Build Fail?: 
Part-1, old Airfix B-24 bomber problems!
Model Gift Build: 
1978 VERSUS 2023, MADE IN CHINA OUT TO GET US?
Seen in the South Wing of the Pine Ridge Mall in Chubbuck, Idaho, during the snowy weekend of January 13th & 14th, 2024.
There were several Chevy Camaros at the indoor Pine Ridge Mall show, here is another, my video:
Pine Ridge Mall-South Wing: 
BACK TO THE FUTURE WITH (WILL IT) RUN DMC?
DMC=DeLorean Motor Company
It magically appeared in the South Wing of the Pine Ridge Mall in Chubbuck, Idaho, during the snowy weekend of January 13th & 14th, 2024.
Slightly custom Cold War era De Lorean stuck in a Cold War era mall. My video:
Pine Ridge Mall-South Wing: 
DO(DGE) THE ’69 SUPER BEE!
Dyess AFB, Texas, 01FEB2024. U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Leon Redfern.
On 25JAN2024, B-1B bombers based on Ellsworth Air Force Base (AFB), South Dakota, were re-deployed to one of my old alma maters, Dyess AFB in Texas, in a ConUS-to-ConUS (Continental United States) mission. On 29JAN2024, local South Dakota news media were told it was to facilitate the investigation into the recent crash of a B-1B:
South Dakota Lancers onboard Dyess AFB, Texas, 01FEB2024. USAF photo by Staff Sergeant Holly Cook.
In actuality, the South Dakota Lancers joined the Texas 7th Bomb Wing Lancers in the ‘First Tier’ strikes against targets in Syria and Iraq.
On 31JAN2024, JDAM bombs (Joint Direct Attack Munitions) were prepped. USAF photo by Senior Airman Leon Redfern.
U.S. Air Force video by Airman First Class Emma Anderson, released on 01FEB20204. Bombing-up the Lancer:
USAF photo by Senior Airman Leon Redfern, 01FEB2024.
Launching the secret mission, video by Airman First Class Emma Anderson, released on 01FEB20204:
Forever Wars:
“STAY IN THE FIGHT!” ARIZONA NATIONAL GUARD GENERAL UPDATES CASUALTY DATA IN JORDAN ATTACK.
Bees are supposed to be hibernating in Winter.
I found where one of the ‘Coolest Bees On The Scene’ hibernates; in the Pine Ridge Mall in Chubbuck, Idaho, during the snowy weekend of January 13th & 14th, 2024.
If you’re tired of all those other cars, Do(dge) The Bee! Video by me:
There’s a song about The Bee:
Pine Ridge Mall-South Wing:
GRANDPA AIN’T TOYING AROUND!