Here are some photos and videos from the 20th (Easter) of April’s Idaho Classics And Modern Muscle cars & coffee meeting:
Squarebody Rat:
Click here to see the red one: Superlative Super Ten!
A Swift Suzuki-yaki:
Old C (for ‘conventional’ 2×4) 10 Chevy:
Motorcycles:
El Camino SS:
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Blind Bat News was having technical difficulties (a never ending nightmare) and it was finally realized that finding a new Webhost was the solution.
Now it’s time to catch up on some of the vehicle related events that took place since April 12th.
The ‘member driven’ Pocatello Car Club Saturday evening cruises continue, despite contending with […] Continue Reading…
The 12th of April, 2025, was the first cruise of the year by the Pocatello Car Club. It also became a memorial cruise for a couple of people; one killed in a crash and another killed in a tragic shooting.
The cruise was down United States Route 91 (aka Highway 91), through Pocatello, Idaho. Highway […] Continue Reading…
This old car has been around town, appearing at last year’s “…car-show that almost wasn’t?!” And on 12APR2025, the bomber DeSoto arrived for a Pocatello Car Club cruise that doubled as a memorial event:
The original DeSotos were actually Chryslers, and at first were called Series-K and were simply remodeled Plymouths.
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The pland-emic didn’t stop the U.S. Marine Corps from conducting ‘Gator Week’ on Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, 06APR2023. The event included crushing cars with an AAV7A1 (Amphibious Assault Vehicles-7A1).
U.S. Army M1A2 SEP wows the crowd on the Bemowo Piskie Training Area, in Poland.Polish Leopard 2A5(?) and United Kingdom Challenger-2 battle-tanks […] Continue Reading…
The use of crop-duster aircraft as combat aircraft is nothing new, and it seems the United States is simply following a global trend, because the agricultural aircraft are relatively cheap and easy to maintain.
U.S. Air Force (USAF) Special Operations Command (SOC) loves its latest crop-duster, the OA-1K, which is actually based on the Air […] Continue Reading…
Development of the M88A2 was started in 1991, after it was realized the A1 version could not tow the M1 Abrams by itself; it required two M88A1s to tow the 70-ton battle-tank. The first M88A2 went into service in July 1997. Only the A2 is called the HERCULES, which stands for Heavy Equipment Recovery […] Continue Reading…
Although the first official United States Army (USA) Airborne unit was created in 1943 (82nd Airborne Division), the USA had been experimenting with the idea of having Soldiers jump out of perfectly good aircraft since the end of World War One.
Most of the early Airborne training took place on Fort Benning (recently called Fort […] Continue Reading…