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British Austin + Japanese Suzuki = The Duke!?

Making an appearance at the March 2024, Idaho State University ‘Chrome in the Dome’ car show, none other than The Duke!  Of course not the dead guy, but a car honoring the dead guy (John Wayne, aka Marion Robert Morrison).

Believe it or else, it took a crazy Idahoan three years to kit-bash one unique, one-off, car out of British and Japanese parts, to honor the United States’ icon of Western movies!

16MAR2024, ISU Holt Arena in Pocatello, Idaho.

The body is a 1937 Austin Ruby-7, made in the United Kingdom, and the chassis-drivetrain is from a Suzuki Samurai made in Japan! The Ruby-7 was missing most of its floor-pan, and some adjustments needed to be made to get the British body to sit down on the Nipponese frame.

This kit-bashed custom has revolving Revolver exhaust pipes (my video):

It was hard getting walk-around video due to all the Pokies crowding ’round. People loved the plethora of Western gunslinger trinkets plastered all over the hybrid vehicle; the more you looked the more you found:

The builder/owner already has a very tempting offer from a prospective buyer, and another prospector who might join in for a bidding war.  This has the builder chomping-at-the-bit to whip-up his next horsepower project (a ’56 Chevy).

Shhh, don’t wake the sleeping Mustang (you know what they say about disturbing wild animals), car show in Chubbuck, February 2024:  SLEEPER 1967 MUSTANG

Multiple shootings Austin, Texas

31 July 2016 (02:53 UTC-07 Tango 01) 10 Mordad 1395/25 Shawwal 1437/28 Yi-Wei 4714

Austin Police Department posted that there were multiple shootings with multiple casualties in a downtown area of the city.  They’re asking the general public to stay away.  At least one dead, four wounded.

The shootings started around 02:00 hours Texas time.  Police believe there were two separate shootings in the same area.