This former USPS Ford 1960s though 1980s C (Cargo) series Cab Over Engine (COE) truck has been in use as a static billboard for more than 30 years, by a re-sale store in Pocatello called Westwood Discount. I do not know the exact year of this truck. In Canada, this truck was known as the ‘M’ series because Ford trucks were sold under the Mercury brand-name in Canada.
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.
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.
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.
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:
1957 Chevy
1957 Chevy
1957 Chevy
1957 Chevy
‘1st Gen’ pickup.
‘1st Gen’ GM (Chevy-GMC) pickup.
1973 Ford Mustang Mach 1.
1973 Ford Mustang Mach 1.
1973 Ford Mustang Mach 1.
1973 Ford Mustang Mach 1.
1971 Chevrolet Chevelle SS.
1971 Chevrolet Chevelle SS.
1971 Chevrolet Chevelle SS.
1971 Chevrolet Chevelle SS.
1966 Plymouth Fury-3.
1966 Plymouth Fury-3.
1966 Plymouth Fury-3.
1966 Plymouth Fury-3.
1962 Chevrolet Impala.
1962 Chevrolet Impala.
1962 Chevrolet Impala.
1962 Chevrolet Impala.
1962 Chevrolet Impala.
1962 Chevrolet Impala.
1962 Chevrolet Impala.
1968 Plymouth Hurst Roadrunner.
1968 Plymouth Hurst Roadrunner.
1968 Plymouth Hurst Roadrunner.
1968 Plymouth Hurst Roadrunner.
1939 Chevrolet.
1939 Chevrolet.
1939 Chevrolet.
1939 Chevrolet.
1939 Chevrolet.
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’:
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:
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)
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.