Videos

Inaugural Summer AutoFest, Pine Ridge Mall, Idaho.

Video August 31, 2024 Hutchins AAron

Phil Meador’s inaugural Summer AutoFest, with dozens of show quality vehicles inside the Pine Ridge Mall in Chubbuck, Idaho, and more vehicles outside the mall, during the weekend of 24th through 25th August 2024.

The event was organized by the Pocatello Car Club, with assistance from the Idaho Classic and Modern Muscle car club.

Professional car painting was available:

A table with some tiny cars.

The show actually started Friday evening. It took at least two hours to stage the vehicles inside the mall, and more would show up on Saturday and Sunday. Here’s a short example, part-1:

Part-2, things started getting nit-picky:

View the longer video here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCHfuvjJ0mw

Outside there were plenty of food trucks.

And there were other vendors.

There were plenty of cars outside, but it felt like some vehicle owners would leave not long after arriving:

View more outside video here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDNM6Jp-QQQ

Then view the inside video here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRjIswSgV9U

While it took about two hours to stage the vehicles, it took less than an hour to make their escape. Part-1 of the shortened video:

Part-2:

Part-3:

Part-4:

View the longer video here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4bjH6_ruA4

Summer AutoFest: Fine ’69

Idaho

Summer AutoFest: Fine ’69

Video August 29, 2024 Hutchins AAron

383 cid big-block powered Plymouth Roadrunner.

It was Motor Trend’s Car of the Year in 1969.

Here’s my video:

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.

Summer AutoFest: 1986 Monte Car-low!

Idaho

Summer AutoFest: 1986 Monte Car-low!

Video August 28, 2024 Hutchins AAron

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

Idaho

Summer AutoFest: Snow White ’68 GTO

Video August 26, 2024 Hutchins AAron

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.

Idaho

Parking lot Camping in Cold War style.

Video August 25, 2024 Hutchins AAron

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?

Idaho

17 years of free cars & food?

Video August 20, 2024 Hutchins AAron

17th Annual Gate City Real Estate’s Client Appreciation car show and food feed at O.K. Ward Park in Pocatello, Idaho.

I wasn’t expecting so many cars at a free event, but reportedly it is the biggest such event in Bannock County. Gate City Real Estate also calls this event their ‘company picnic’, yet everybody is invited!

Here is a few of the many cars (pardon my Summer Time Allergies):

Some more cars:

Another sampling:

Free food line.

Even after two hours of checking out the cars, they still had plenty of BBQ:

The sky got smoky from all the wildfires, but it actually made for a cool sunset.

The show is over, part-1:

Show’s over, part-2:

Part-3:

Finally, part-4:

Can’t wait for the 18th Client Appreciation car show and food feed!

This is the front.

The builder claims it is a Chevy Truck!

Is it actually a 4×4 Chevy Impala?

Bad Gas at the free car show and B-B-Q feed fest?

June 2024: 13th Annual SAC Oldies Rod & Custom show & fundraiser!

U.S.

Arkansas Landing: Do-328/C-146, C-130H, MC-130J, AC-130J

Video August 17, 2024 Hutchins AAron

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’?

Idaho, Technology

Full scale kit-bash? The builder claims it is a Chevy Truck!

Video August 16, 2024 Hutchins AAron

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?

International

Never Ending Korean War; Germany joins In!!!

Video August 15, 2024 Hutchins AAron

At the end of June 1950, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK, aka North Korea) invaded Republic of Korea (RoK, aka South Korea). The United Nations condemned the attack and essentially declared war by creating the United Nations Command (UNC), and designating the United States as the leader of the UNC.

At the end of July 1953, an armistice (a type of truce/ceasefire) was established, but it did not officially end the war. It is a true ‘Cold War’ that never ended.

Photo via U.S. Forces Korea, 02AUG2024.

On 02AUG2024, at a ceremony on Camp Humphreys in the RoK, NATO Germany became the 18th country to join the UNC operations: “By joining the UNC, we are contributing substantially to stability on the Korean Peninsula.”-Boris Pistorius, Federal Minister of Defense of Germany

U.S. Armed Forces Network (AFN) video report, recorded on 02AUG2024 but not released until 15AUG2024:

In 1954, the Cold War era West Germany established the Red Cross Hospital in Busan (aka Pusan), RoK.

In 1953, many people were lead to believe the war was over:

Never Ending Korean War, 28MAR2024: Russia blocks U.S. sponsored sanctions against North Korea!

1951: Ethiopia invades Korea?

1950: South African Red Nosed Mustangs stampede!

How to fuel & arm your USAF F-86 Sabre in Korea

Idaho, Technology

10AUG2024: Pocatello Air Tanker Base

Video August 12, 2024 Hutchins AAron

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):