This late 1960s Manx style dune buggy appeared at the Tadd Jenkins auto-show-burnout display in Blackfoot, Idaho, 07JUN2025.
My walkaround video:
See my 4K ‘short’ video on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Lny4gDKIU7I
My 4K car-show YouTube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xaMsXs-lIQ
My 4K Blackfoot Burnout video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mep7XBYlt0
Consider Blackfoot for your next ‘Holiday’: …with Oldsmobile, in 1955 style!
Oldsmobile offered a Holiday package on its sedans from 1949 to 1970. The 1950s Oldsmobiles featured a globe ornament on the nose of the hood, just below the ‘rocket’.
This 1955 Olds Holiday must’ve turned the world upside down, going by its hood ornament.This 1955 four door Holiday was seen at […] Continue Reading…
In conjunction with the Touch-A-Truck show in Pocatello, Idaho, (on 03JUN2025) an indoor mini-car show was organized by the Pocatello Car Club.
Better late than never:
Time to go, part-1:
Part-2:
Part-3:
Part-4:
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Back ‘in the day’ when I spent many Summers, and occasional weekends (as both a 13F and a 19K), on what is now known as Orchard Combat Training Area (OCTC) it was called Orchard Training Area (OTA), and it is not in Boise, it is at least 18 miles south of Boise. Since the […] Continue Reading…
Here is a little bit of what the Department of Defense and the Customs and Border Protection were up to in April 2025.
The U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) explains their HC-144 Ocean Sentry aircraft, video report via Petty Officer Second Class Alejandro Rivera, 03APR2025:
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The United Kingdom’s Army is upgrading their Challenger-2 battle tanks with new armor and a new gun, the same gun used on the M1A1/2 Abrams; the German designed 120 millimeter (mm) Rheinmetall smoothbore, which launches various types of combustible cased rounds (various projectiles on a combustible plastic case with a metal base/’af-cap’).
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Yes, the Academy kit is the old HobbyCraft/Idea kit.
HobbyCraft kits were also sold under the Idea label, but the company that was actually producing most of the aircraft kits sold by HobbyCraft is a Korean company called Academy. There was some kind of legal dispute in the late 1990s/early 2000s and Academy won the […] Continue Reading…
Cold War: Approximately 1947 (due to U.S. President Harry Truman’s Truman Doctrine) to 1991 (Operation Desert Storm, collapse of Soviet Union).
This F2H-1 Banshee was ‘written-off’ after a crash landing on 12JUL1951.Production Banshees were powered by two axial flow Westinghouse J34 turbines. The […] Continue Reading…
On 20JAN2025, the President of the United States declared that drug cartels be designated as foreign terrorist organizations. As of 20FEB2025 eight gangs have been declared as terrorists, they are: Cartel del Golfo (aka CDG, Gulf Cartel, and Osiel cardenas-Guillen Organization),
Cartel del Noreste (aka CDN, Northeast Cartel, and Los Zetas),
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Cinco de Mayo honors the 1862 victory of Mexico over the invading French, at the Battle of Puebla.
Calakas’ Cinco de Mayo festival at the Waterfront on the Snake River Landing, Idaho Falls, 04MAY2025.
Initially it doesn’t look like many people showed up, but three hours later it was wall-to-wall, packed with people and vehiculars!
Familia:
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