Phil Meador inaugural Summer AutoFest, with dozens of show quality vehicles inside the mall, and more vehicles outside the mall. 24th through 25th August 2024, at the Pine Ridge Mall in Chubbuck, Idaho.
How low can your Carlo go?
Here’s my video:
Missed the demo, was trying to hold a conversation and video record at the same time, realized too late the camera was off for most of the dance:
SAC Show, June 2023: 
Lowriders
Summer AutoFest: 
Snow White ’68 GTO
The owner is happy that the snow-blinding white paint-job still looks fresh.
The owner is also happy with what’s under the hood.
Here’s one of my videos:
Get your motor runnin’:
Phil Meador Summer AutoFest, with dozens of show quality vehicles inside the mall, and more vehicles outside the mall. 24th through 25th August 2024, at the Pine Ridge Mall in Chubbuck, Idaho.
Summer AutoFest: 
Parking lot Camping in Cold War style.
U.S. Cold War style, that is.
Phil Meador Summer AutoFest, with dozens of show quality vehicles inside the mall, and more vehicles outside the mall. 24th through 25th August 2024, at the Pine Ridge Mall in Chubbuck.
Four door 1957 Chevrolet BelAir.
1966 Jet camper trailer.
Here’s my video, with a look inside the camper:
And the home-on-wheels is for sale!
Gate City Real Estate’s Client Appreciation car show and food feed: 
17 years of free cars & food?
On 04AUG2024, the U.S. Air Force (USAF), and the Arkansas Air National Guard, used Highway 63, near Bono, as a runway for transport and special operations aircraft. It was part of the greater Emerald Warrior 24 Field Training eXercise (FTX) II (2).
Arkansas Air National Guard photo by Airman First Class Samuel Zang, 04AUG2024.
For the first time, Arkansas Air National Guard’s 189th Airlift Wing used Highway 63 as a runway for it’s C-130H Hercules aircraft. Officially it is to “expand the Arkansas Air National Guard’s capabilities that can be used in humanitarian and disaster relief.”
On Hurlburt Field, Florida, Special Operations Airmen board a C-146A, bound for HWY 63. USAF photo by Technical Sergeant Joseph Pick, 02AUG2024.
The USAF’s 492d Special Operations Wing (SOW) sent their C-146A Wolfhound (Do-328).
U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Ty Pilgrim, 04AUG2024.
An MC-130J crewmember preps to fuel an AC-130J. USAF photo by Senior Airman Ty Pilgrim, 04AUG2024.
The 492nd SOW also sent their MC-130J Commando-2 to act as a FARP (Forward Arming Refueling Point) to resupply a 1st SOW AC-130J Ghostrider Gunship.
An AC-130J rolls in for fuel and ammo. USAF photo by Airman First Class Saisha Cornett, 04AUG2024.
Silent video of MC-130J & AC-130J:
MC-130J, 2023: 
Pennsylvania’s new Commando-2
C-130H, 2023: 
African Lion
EC-103H, 2022: 
Compass Call makes its last call?
AC-130U, 2019: Last days of the ‘Spooky’?
Actually, the builder says it is the remains of several 1980s Chevy trucks, which were rotting away on his property. Plus, wherever else he could add from his junk collection.
This is the front.
Seen at one of the biggest free car shows and food feed in Bannock County, the 17th Annual Client Appreciation Car Show & BBQ!
Special custom air cleaner? I thought the builder was trying to keep the rain off the motor, but no, he just needed somewhere to put an abandoned trash can lid.
It took place in O.K. Ward Park, on the northwest side of Pocatello, on 08AUG2024.
The rear steering requires somebody to sit in the back and operate with a crank handle.
Here’s my video:
Rear steering gearbox and rear axle are from the front of an old 1980s pickup.
Here’s another video:
17th Annual Client Appreciation Car Show: 
Is it actually a 4×4 Chevy Impala?
The last time I observed DC-10 air tanker operations (ops) on the Pocatello Airport was in July 2021 (in August 2022, I observed BAE-Avro-RJ85, MD87 and Air Tractor ops).
Sometime between 11 and Noon, flying eastward over the Chubbuck Days Festival.
On 10AUG2024, I was alerted to the DC-10’s presence when they flew low over the Chubbuck Days Festival in Cotant Park.
Ex-NASA DC-8 now serving as Idaho State University’s aviation maintenance aircraft, and further down is another DC-10 being ‘bombed-up’ at the U.S. Forest Service’s air tanker base.
DC-10s and a retired DC-8 (the wind has picked up and is messing with the audio):
The Pocatello Air Tanker Base is one of several U.S. Forest Service operations covering the western United States. Upgrades to the base were completed by Summer 2022, however, the upgrades actually resulted in “minimized capacity”:
The ‘new-to-me’ location of the U.S. Forest Service’s air tanker base, on the eastern end of the airport runway. Near the dirt racing track and skeet shooting range.
The new U.S. Forest Service air base ops building versus the old building, and apparently there was a new fire near the Soda Springs area of Idaho (according to the wildfires.gov website):
Pocatello Air Tanker Base, July 2021: 
K-Max & 10 Tanker, waiting for the call
DC-10 & B-17 Sentimental Journey
Wildfires 2019:
SMOKE ’EM IF YOU GOT ’EM, 2017!: POCATELLO AIRPORT FIRE BOMBERS ARE BACK! Air Tractors, RJ85s, old outdate Neptunes, and of course DC-10s.
U.S. WILDFIRES 2016: DC-10 POCATELLO AIRPORT
IDAHO WILDFIRES 2015: POKEY AIRPORT DC-10 WATER BOMBER
Idaho Wildfires 2012, the year it got real bad: Canadian BAe 146 (RJ85) join the fight on Pocatello Airtanker Base
To see more of my past coverage just do a search using Idaho Wildfires, or Pocatello Tanker Base, or Pocatello Airport.
Seen at one of the biggest free car shows and food feed in Bannock County, the 17th Annual Client Appreciation Car Show & BBQ!
It took place in O.K. Ward Park, on the northwest side of Pocatello, on 08AUG2024.
Here’s my video:
Here is another video:
Was it something I ate?: 
Bad Gas at the free car show and B-B-Q feed fest!
One of the biggest free car shows and food feed in Bannock County, the 17th Annual Client Appreciation Car Show & BBQ!
It took place in O.K. Ward Park, on the northwest side of Pocatello, on 08AUG2024.
Here’s my video:
The current owner gave me the back story to this 1966 Chevy-2 Super Sport. The original owner used it for drag racing until finally permanently parking the car in his garage. After more than a decade, another guy came along looking for a project to use his Chevy LS-1 motor and 6-speed manual transmission on.
The current owner revealed to me that the old-skool fuel injector set-up is fake, it is actually a glorified air cleaner housing for the carburetor hidden underneath!
Even though it has a modern 6-speed manual transmission, it sports an old Hurst style 4-speed shifter.
The current owner drives his fake-news gasser around town whenever he can, yes it is street legal.
13th SAC show: 
On 08JUN2024, the Senior Activity Center (SAC) held its yearly OLDIES ROD & CUSTOM SHOW & FUNDRAISER in the Old Town area (Historic Downtown) of Pocatello, Idaho.
Walkaround video:
Join the Classy Car Club: https://www.facebook.com/groups/236371238837962
My youtube ‘short’: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/2J0Jb8docpU
Join Idaho Classics and Modern Muscle (ICaMM), it is free!: https://www.facebook.com/groups/idahoclassicsandmodernmuscle
X-26 has left the building:
13th SAC Show: 
CRUSHING ORANGES?
1939 Ford.
On 08JUN2024, the Senior Activity Center (SAC) held its yearly OLDIES ROD & CUSTOM SHOW & FUNDRAISER in the Old Town area (Historic Downtown) of Pocatello, Idaho.
Walkaround video:
My youtube ‘short’: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/NSHoy8ctbuI
Join the Classy Car Club: https://www.facebook.com/groups/236371238837962
Join Idaho Classics and Modern Muscle (ICaMM), it is free!: https://www.facebook.com/groups/idahoclassicsandmodernmuscle
Another Orange Crusher?: 
1932 FORD ROADSTER WITH CHEVY 383!
13th SAC Show: 
SILVER SURFING RAY!
SAC Show 2023: 
TRUCKS (including Orange Crush)
