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Idaho

Chubbuck Days, 2023: Not ‘My1967’ Mustang!

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It’s not my ’67 Mustang, but wouldn’t it be nice if it was?  Fashionably late, to impress a grand entrance.

Seatbelts were optional back then.

Chubbuck Days, 2023: SON OF BIG FOOT?

I’ve been attending Chubbuck Days since 1998, the previous Chubbuck Days car show was in 2016, with much reduced participation and many of the vehicles being for sale.

After 2016, the so-called neighborhood improvement projects blocked access to Cotant Park, along with the park’s playground and tennis courts being ripped-up and replaced by a parking lot (also, the substitute park chosen for Chubbuck Days was too small to accommodate a car show), with the projects completed just in time for the ‘Pland-emic’ Paranoia which resulted in the cancelation of all local public events.

Chubbuck Days, 2016: MASS BAPTISM BY FIRE….TRUCK!

CAR SHOW & HELICOPTER FORCED LANDING

Idaho

Chubbuck Days, 2023: Son of Big Foot?

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A relative of Sasquatch, it took part in the return of the car show at the 12AUG2023 Chubbuck Days, in Cotant Park, Chubbuck, Idaho.

“How ya doin’?”:

Chubbuck Days, 2023: 1979 CORVETTE L82, DECADE OLD ‘VETERAN’ OF THE SHOW!

I’ve been attending Chubbuck Days since 1998, the previous Chubbuck Days car show was in 2016, with much reduced participation and many of the vehicles being for sale.

After 2016, the so-called neighborhood improvement projects blocked access to Cotant Park, along with the park’s playground and tennis courts being ripped-up and replaced by a parking lot (also, the substitute park chosen for Chubbuck Days was too small to accommodate a car show), with the projects completed just in time for the ‘Pland-emic’ Paranoia which resulted in the cancelation of all local public events.

Chubbuck Days, 2016: MASS BAPTISM BY FIRE….TRUCK!

CAR SHOW & HELICOPTER FORCED LANDING

Idaho

Chubbuck Days, Hot Rods return for 2023: Skull-T-Rod

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I’ve been attending Chubbuck Days since 1998, the previous Chubbuck Days car show was in 2016, with much reduced participation and many of the vehicles being for sale.

Ford T-Bucket at this year’s (11-12AUG2023) Chubbuck Days:

After 2016, the so-called neighborhood improvement projects blocked access to Cotant Park, along with the park’s playground and tennis courts being ripped-up and replaced by a parking lot (also, the substitute park chosen for Chubbuck Days was too small to accommodate a car show), with the projects completed just in time for the ‘Pland-emic’ Paranoia which resulted in the cancelation of all local public events.

Chubbuck Days, 2016: MASS BAPTISM BY FIRE….TRUCK!

CAR SHOW & HELICOPTER FORCED LANDING

2012:

Things got too hot for this portable toilet.

BUSIEST CHUBBUCK DAYS EVER; DOGS, CARS, FIRE TRUCKS, HAMMERS, POLES, FOOD, MUSIC & VANDALISM!

The 2012 car show (which was the 6th car show for Chubbuck Days) was so big I had to divide my photo essay into a Part 1 and Part 2!

I first started posting photos of the Chubbuck Days car show in 2010.

Idaho, Technology

Poky Car Show, July 2023: Hot, Loud, Rude & Crude!

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The free Pocatello Car Club show started at 17 hours (5pm), 22JUL2023, it was 100+ Fahrenheit (38+ C)! I started recording video (I need a real video camera) and stills at about 17:30 hours, cars were still rolling in, eventually they would have at least 1-hundred cars show up.

No audio on this video due to loud copyrighted music being played:

This video has audio:

Click on the gallery pics to make them bigger:

The rollout for the Pocatello Car Club cruise started at 19 hours (7pm), hot vehicles in the hot 100+ Fahrenheit climate:

This was the quiet street to view car show cruisers, even though Grandma claimed “I can’t hear you!”:

July’s action on Main Street wasn’t as loud as it was in June:

It seemed most of the car-cruise action was taking place in the Center Street ‘tunnel’:

Cruise the Main, June 2023: “Do a burnout!” 2ND MONTHLY CAR CRUISE, POCATELLO, IDAHO.

Also in June 2023: POCATELLO S-A-C SHOW

2016: Last Car Show for Chubbuck Days?

2014: Last Car Show for Pocatello Airport?

Idaho, Technology

2nd Monthly Car Cruise, Pocatello, Idaho, June 2023.

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16JUN2023 was the second time the Pocatello Car Club conducted a monthly car cruise down Main Street, in Old Town Pocatello.

My poor video of the vehicle rollout for the car cruise, part-1:

Rollout, part-2:

Rollout, part-3:

Rollout, part-4:

My poor video of cruising down a section of Main Street:

Things are getting louder:

Diversion through Center Street underpass:

Hunger Games U.S.A.:  POCATELLO, IDAHO, Senior Activity Center  CAR SHOW, JUNE 2023.

Chubbuck Days, 2016: MASS BAPTISM BY FIRE….TRUCK!

Idaho

Hunger Games U.S.A.: Pocatello SAC show, June 2023.

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On 10JUN2023, the Oldies Rod & Custom Car Show was held in Historic Oldtown Pocatello, Idaho, to benefit the Senior Activity Center‘s (SAC) food delivery service: “It’s the people that we serve are underserved in our community. And so, it really helps with the nutrition for them so that they can hopefully stay in their homes longer and with activities and everything else. That’s part of our goal to.”-Pam Landon, Secretary for SAC

The automobile show was free to the public, proceeds from food vender sales, and raffle ticket sales, went to help SAC.  Just to let you know how much the help is needed, in 2022 the Pocatello SAC served more than 22-thousand meals to local old people.

Here is a sampling of the vehicles that were there (click on each image to make them bigger):

Walk around video of the show, which was supported by many local business sponsors, most of the video has no audio as they were blaring copyrighted music at the event:

For more SAC show videos, check-out my YouTube channel.

Apparently, the first Oldies Rod & Custom Car Show to benefit Pocatello SAC was on 10JUN2018.

For information about upcoming auto-shows around Idaho, visit United Street Rods of Idaho.

Chubbuck Days in Cotant Park, August 2016:

Helicopter ride forced down in neighboring Chase Park, due to too many passengers for the little ‘copter! (note the dejected riders walking away from their ride)

CAR SHOW & HELICOPTER FORCED LANDING

Pocatello Airport, August 2014: FREE CAR SHOW TO GO WITH THE FREE AIRSHOW!

Busiest Chubbuck Days ever, August 2012:

Things got too hot for this portable toilet.

DOGS, CARS, FIRE TRUCKS, HAMMERS AND POLES BEING THROWN AROUND, PLUS FOOD, MUSIC & VANDALISM CHUBBUCK STYLE!

Chubbuck Days, 2010:

Free Car Show!

Planed-emic, 2020: SOUTHEAST IDAHO PANDEMIC ROAD-TRIP

Idaho, Technology

1989 7.3IDI Diesel Ambulance Cold Start

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My daughter Aryssa made this ‘cold start’ video of my 1989 International Harvester powered 7.3IDI diesel ambulance.

For most of the 1990s it was used by at least two ambulance services in the Salt Lake City area of Utah.

You can barely see the residue from the Idaho State University logo on the side of the ‘box’.

Then it was used by my Alma Mater (Idaho State University) as a ‘static’ vehicle (because it did not run) for EMS training from about 1998 to 2012 or maybe 2015, then was left to rot in their vehicle maintenance yard. I bought it for $750 in 2019. I replaced the fuel, engine oil, fan belts, found an air cleaner assembly (the original was missing), bought a new expensive oil dip stick (the original was broken in half), new batteries (it takes two), and new tires (6 expensive tires that cost more than what I paid for the ambulance). It runs strong, and several diesel mechanics told me the 50-thousand miles on the odo-meter is correct.

I also replaced the forward facing red lenses with amber lenses.  I’m still struggling to figure out why the tail lights suddenly went haywire after I got the new tires (they come on, but randomly and they do weird things when I step on the brake pedal and have the turn signal on). Replaced two flashers, checked all the bulbs, fuses are good, tearing apart the steering column now to see if the wiring in there is still good.

Pandemic 2020: SOUTHEAST IDAHO PANDEMIC ROAD-TRIP

Cascadia Airlift: JUST IN CASE YOU GET ISOLATED BY THE MASSIVE Pacific Northwest QUAKE & TSUNAMI

Disaster 2022: IDAHO’S GOWEN FIELD UNDER GAS ATTACK!

Disaster 2021: IDAHO MILITIA & BOISE FD TRAIN FOR SWIFT WATER RESCUES, WITHOUT WATER!

Denton Program Failure: CANADIAN FIRE TRUCKS, U.S. AIR FORCE, CENTRAL AMERICA

2019: 1942 FORD FIRETRUCK RETURNS TO SERVICE WITH THE USAF!

Busiest Chubbuck Days ever, 2012:

LaFrance firetruck Chubbuck Fire Department

DOGS, CARS, FIRE TRUCKS, HAMMERS AND POLES BEING THROWN AROUND, PLUS FOOD, MUSIC & VANDALISM CHUBBUCK STYLE!

Kit Bashing, Technology

Vehicle I-D: Model T & White Motor Warriors

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At the beginning of November 2019, the Illinois State Military Museum held its Great War Encampment event and two 1917 Ford Model Ts showed up.

The Ford Model T gun truck is owned by John Krug, he also brought his 1917 Model T Ambulance.

In May 2018, Oregon’s Military Museum held its 22nd Annual Living History Day and retired Reservist Jack Gieson drove down from neighboring Washington in his 1917 Model T ambulance.

https://youtu.be/2rBzyseQ-54

A standardized class B truck, or ‘Liberty Truck’, also made the Living History Day show.

According to the folks at the AMedD (Army Medical Department) Museum at Fort Sam Houston, Texas, during World War One the U.S. Army also bought two 1917 White Motor Company ambulances.   While they look similar to the Model Ts, they were smaller than the Ford ambulance. In 1917 they cost about $1,650 each.

I so far haven’t found any information as to why the White ambulance has a GMC radiator.  U.S. Army orders for White logistical vehicles, during World War One, made White the top producer of trucks in the United States, which was a burden since the company was new to truck building.  Immediately prior to WW-1 the White Motor Company began shifting from car production to truck production, but was only able to make the truck chassis, they had to contract with Riddle Coach and Hearse Company to make the bodies of the trucks.  It’s possible White was also outsourcing for powertrain parts.

The driver’s seat sits on the fuel tank.

World War Two FORD FIRETRUCK RETURNS TO SERVICE WITH THE U.S. Air Force!