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Summer AutoFest: The secret of the 1936 Auburn, sshhh.

80%, maybe 90% of the car is meant to be original, it certainly looks the part of a Great Depression era car that was the toy of the lucky 1% of the times.

Here’s my video, revealing the secret:

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’d they get those cars into the mall?: Inaugural Summer AutoFest, Pine Ridge Mall, Idaho.

Inaugural Summer AutoFest, Pine Ridge Mall, Idaho.

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

Summer AutoFest: Fine ’69

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!

Summer AutoFest: 1986 Monte Car-low!

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

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.

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?

17 years of free cars & food?

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!

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

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’?

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

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?

Never Ending Korean War; Germany joins In!!!

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