79 highway miles (one way) from Burley to Pocatello, Idaho. Somehow the pristine black paint job didn’t get a blemish!
Hungry for a… 1956 Ford Fairlane?
The Second Annual Bannock County Veterans Memorial Building car show, in Pocatello, Idaho, 31AUG2024.
312 cid (cubic inch displacement, or 5.1 liter) ‘Y’ block V8.
Here’s my video:
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In 1776, the 13 colonies of the British empire declared independence and the United States was born. Two hundred years later, 1976 became the final year of production for the Lincoln Continental Mark-4.
The Second Annual Bannock County Veterans Memorial Building car show, in Pocatello, Idaho, 31AUG2024.
Here’s my video:
The money raised from the […] Continue Reading…
“Based on the high rate of global immunity and currently available data, the State Surgeon General advises against the use of mRNA COVID-19 vaccines.”-Florida Department of Health
On 12SEP2024, the Florida Department of Health reminded “health care providers of the importance of remaining up to date with current literature related to COVID-19 vaccines and boosters, […] Continue Reading…
1972 De Tomaso Pantera Model L-G5. Lives in Idaho Falls, with its modified Ford 351C V8 and ZF 5-speed manual transmission.
The Second Annual Bannock County Veterans Memorial Building car show, in Pocatello, Idaho, 31AUG2024.
Here’s my video:
The money raised from the car show goes to maintaining the Bannock County Veterans Memorial Building.
So many […] Continue Reading…
1967 Ford Ranchero. Lives in Inkom with its TKO 500 5-speed manual transmission.
The Second Annual Bannock County Veterans Memorial Building car show, in Pocatello, Idaho, 31AUG2024. Here’s my video:
The money raised from the car show goes to maintaining the Bannock County Veterans Memorial Building.
So many cars showed up last year that they had […] Continue Reading…
1984 Buick Regal, royalty from Blackfoot.
The Second Annual Bannock County Veterans Memorial Building car show, in Pocatello, Idaho, 31AUG2024.
Here’s my video:
So many cars showed up last year that they had to stage cars in the adjacent Memorial Park, this year.
The money raised from the car show goes to maintaining the Bannock […] Continue Reading…
The Roaring ’20s was the decade of the 1920s, when money flowed like water due to massive debt financing in Western Europe and the United States, following the First World War. It was that same global debt financing that led to The Great Depression (specifically because ‘major players’ could not pay their debts).
A surviving […] Continue Reading…
Second Annual Veterans Memorial Building Car Show, 31AUG2024, at the Memorial Park in the Old Town area of Pocatello, from 13:00 to 17:00 hours (but cars started showing up at 11:00).
Car show walk-about part-A:
Car show walk-about part-B:
Despite the show being officially only four hours long, several cars drove-in […] Continue Reading…
1946 Chevy AK pick-em-up. The ’46-’47 model years Chevy AK series pickup was close to the same as the ’41-’45 Chevy AK pickup. Basically Chevrolet just picked up where they left off when the United States was pushed into the Second World War, by Japan.
Congress declared war, and what many people don’t realize is […] Continue Reading…
Almost everybody has heard of K2 (a peak associated with Mount Everest), but did you know there is a K10 (Saltoro Kangri, aka Peak 36). The ‘K’ stands for the Karakoram Mountain Range. Did the designers with General Motors know that when they dubbed their Chevy Squarebody the K10?
Phil Meador inaugural Summer AutoFest, with […] Continue Reading…