Tag Archives: freedom

Kit Bashing

Joker’s wild neon Gotham City cop car!

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In February 2024, I joined a group build for the 1949 Mercury, also known as the third generation of the Mercury Eight series of vehicles.  Typical; it took me until August to decide which of my stash-kits to build:

A simple snap-together?:

Glass & Lights:

Lights & seats:

Tires:

Paint & Sand:

Headlights:

More sand, sand, paint, paint:

Interior:

Finally finished, October 2024:

Close up:

Joker’s neon cop car:

More neon in plastic: BLACKLIGHT REVELL DEAL’S WHEELS

Neon in the military: Retro Dayglo, and how neon paint helps keep airplanes from falling outta the sky!

Going gangbusters: Lincoln Model L roadster unboxing.

Idaho

Smoke ’em if you got ’em: First ever (legal) Drift Car event, at the Mall!

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The Pine Ridge Mall in Chubbuck, Idaho, hosted three SCCA autocross events this year, and for an encore hosted an Inaugural Drift Car event.

Work began on the evening of 04OCT2024, establishing the area of the parking lot that would be used.  Formula Drift-Rudy Hansen, Apex Idaho, Pocatello Car Club, and a host of others, helped make the inaugural smoke show possible.

The cleanest that part of the parking lot has been in decades!

They were still prepping the parking lot the next morning.

Waiting in the wings, 05OCT2024:

Plenty of seating, at a safe distance.

Warming up (teasing) the spectators who were straggling in:

Too bad they didn’t drift this patriotic van.

The pros show you how:

It’s amazing how cars sliding around light poles can hold people’s attention for several hours. One more time:

The event ran most of the day.  For a fee you could view the action from danger-close in the ‘restricted area’, and for another fee you could take a ride (of your life).  Going by the size of the spectator crowd (which was bigger than any of the SCCA autocross events) I suspect (hope) they’ll be a Second Annual Drift Car Show, in 2025.

At the Mall: Early Halloween, Trunk or Treat

Idaho

Veterans Memorial Car Show: They’re coming to take you away!

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A 2004 Cadillac Hearse was dispatched from Idaho Falls, apparently to collect some people in Pocatello.

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 to stage cars in the adjacent Memorial Park, this year.

Veterans Memorial Car Show: Z Muncie!

Idaho

Veterans Memorial Car Show: Z Muncie!

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1971 Chevy Camaro Z28, lives in Pocatello with its Muncie 4-speed 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 to stage cars in the adjacent Memorial Park, this year.

Veterans Memorial Car Show: Hydramatic Task Force!

Idaho

Veterans Memorial Car Show: Hydramatic Task Force!

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1956 Chevy 3100 pickup, calls Inkom home.  The 3100 model is part of the Task Force series of pickup trucks.  Hydramatic is a type of automatic transmission.

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 County Veterans Memorial Building.

Veterans Memorial Car Show:  A horse born in 1969.

Idaho

Veterans Memorial Car Show: A horse born in 1969.

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1969 Ford Mustang fastback, now living in Pocatello.  Even though the ’69-’70 Mustangs are structurally different from their predecessors, they are still considered ‘first generation’ Mustangs.

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 County Veterans Memorial Building.

Veterans Memorial Car Show: The future is Falcon!

Idaho

Veterans Memorial Car Show: The future is Falcon!

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This 1965 Ford Falcon Futura, lives in Pocatello.  It is significant that this car was a fundraiser for a veteran’s memorial building, for you see that the ‘father’ of the Ford Falcon was none other than Robert McNamara, the man who would be responsible for managing the U.S. military occupation of Viet Nam, under the Johnson Administration.

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 County Veterans Memorial Building.

Veterans Memorial Car Show: All the way from Burley!

Idaho

Veterans Memorial Car Show: Unique Reflections-2

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‘Royalty’ from Idaho Falls, 1986 Buick Regal.

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 County Veterans Memorial Building.

Veterans Memorial Car Show: Unique Reflections (royalty from Blackfoot)

Idaho

Veterans Memorial Car Show: All the way from Burley!

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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:

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 to stage cars in the adjacent Memorial Park, this year.

Veterans Memorial Car Show: Bicentennial Lincoln

Idaho

Veterans Memorial Car Show: Bicentennial Lincoln

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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 car show goes to maintaining the Bannock County Veterans Memorial Building.

So many cars showed up last year that they had to stage cars in the adjacent Memorial Park, this year.

Veterans Memorial Car Show: Cold War Super-Car!