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Happy Truck Thursday! Don't see many of these Blazers around these days, and this one has it's top off! Five exposure HDR processed with Nik HDR Efex Pro 2
Ferndale Police Department, Washington. Check out the new homepage for the AJM STUDIOS Northwest Police Department! The old homepage is here. It does not get updated as often as the first link. 2010.
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Kootenai County Sheriff's Office
Coeur d'Alene, Idaho
1999-2004 Chevrolet Blazer
Community Service Unit
In my early years as a fan, I never contemplated the fact that trains collide with vehicles at grade crossings. At the time, it just was not on my radar. I was a teenager having fun watching and photographing trains.
Believe it or not, I did not give the subject much consideration after hiring out on the railroad. Again, it was not on my radar. I was only focused on the fact that I was working my childhood fantasy, a job that I had dreamed of for years.
After 26 years behind the throttle, the general public has proven to me that a large percentage has a PhD in stupidity. The gentleman driving this Chevy Blazer is a prime example.
When we departed Toledo, the fog was thick. Visibility was extremely limited. We didn't have to fight it long though, as the wheels stopped turning at milepost 315. A few miles ahead is a train in trouble, and with several trains separating us, we are going to be here for a while.
Prior to stopping here, the fog was terrible. With the sun's rising, it is beginning to burn off. As for the driver, today's Darwin Award Winner, evidently he is still in the fog. At least mentally.
Thr eastbound stack train on track two is running on clear signals and is moving a mile a minute. When the car stopped at the crossing, the lights and gates were already activated. Not by my stopped train mind you, but by the fast approaching eastbound.
Although the stack train was blowing its horn at the whistle, the train itself was not visible due to the fog. The driver, with windows up, looked at our stopped train for a few seconds before driving around the gates. I don't ever recall him looking in the opposite direction. My guess is that he assumed the lights and gates were stuck down because of us.
While not a close call, this is a situation which plays out at crossings across the country daily. There is NEVER a reason to break the law and drive around the gates. Only excuses. I bet he had his share.
With the added challenge of limited visibility, most of us would be driving defensively. With the lights flashing and gates down, most of us would not drive around them. And then there is the minority.
Just before Christmas, I hit my fifth vehicle. A mother was giving her teenage son some time behind the wheel, working on his skills. He had a only a learner's permit.
At an intersection where the road crosses the tracks, he somehow drove onto the tracks and became hung up on the rails. As mom was dialing 911 to report the situation, the lights started flashing and the gates began to lower. Should she have gotten herself and everyone else out first? Absolutely.
Happy ending to this story as, thankfully, all occupants exited the vehicle before we absolutely destroyed it. My prior collisions involved drivers who were not so fortunate.
At the current pace, I am averaging one vehicle collision every 5 years. With six years left until I make my last trip, law of averages dictates that one more collision looms around every curve, every crossing.
I hope to prove the law of averages wrong.
A customised Canadian 1989 Ford F-250 pickup truck W/ 351 V8, registration “F543 YEF”, imported to the U.K. in 2001, sits outside one of the warehouses of the famous Mathewson’s auction houses, Pickering, North Yorkshire, U.K. Green Chevy Blazer RHD export model in the background.
7-26-2018 6-51-30 PM
How Green was my 'VALET' ??
Kinda reminds me of ....
How Green Was My Valley, a 1939 novel by Richard Llewellyn.
ƒ/2.8 - 24.0 mm - 1/400th - ISO 100
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Taken at the Good Guys Car Show in Scottsdale, Arizona, on 11/19/21.
Canon 6D Mark II and Sigma 150mm f2.8 macro ES DG OS HSM lens with circular polarizer.
Chevrolet Blazer looking somewhat forgotten and forlorn along a fence line in Conway, WA
Sony A7
Nikon 35mm f:2 Ai
Fotodiox Lens Adapter
The K5 Blazer is the short wheelbase relative of the Chevrolet Suburban. This smallest full-size SUV version of Chevrolet was introduced in 1969.
This one is from the second generation.
6 or 8 cylinder engines.
Production K5 Blazer 2nd Gen.: 1973-1991.
Amsterdam-N., TT Melissaweg, Oct. 7, 2015.
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Copyright Robert W. Dickinson. Unauthorized use of this image without my express permission is a violation of copyright law.
Taken at the Highline Auto Show in northeast Phoenix on August 7, 2021. Canon 70D and Canon EF-S 17-55mm f2.8 IS USM lens with circular polarizer.
The K5 Blazer is the short wheelbase relative of the Chevrolet Suburban. This smallest full-size SUV version of Chevrolet was introduced in 1969.
This one is from the second generation.
6 or 8 cylinder engines.
Production K5 Blazer 2nd Gen.: 1973-1991.
Amsterdam-N., TT Melissaweg, Oct. 7, 2015.
© 2015 Sander Toonen Amsterdam | All Rights Reserved
South Puget Sound Community College - Campus Security
Olympia & Tumwater, Washington, United States
1998-2001 Chevy S-10 Blazer
Taken on 3/21/2011
The original Chevy Blazer was developed in 1969 as the K5, a full-size pickup truck designed to conquer all terrains God ever put on the Earth, powered by the magnificent Chevrolet 350 V8 Engine. However, although a perfectly capable pickup truck, the world of SUV's was starting to emerge as a growing market thanks to the rise of the Range Rover, and thus car companies across the world developed their own versions to combat British Leyland's market monster. The result came in 1983 with the smaller version of the Blazer known as the S10, a replacement for the Isuzu based Chevy LUV of the 1970's. The S10 was based almost entirely off the K5, but without the option for a removable hard-top so it could be converted to pickup, and also came as a two door variant. At the same time the K5 was still being produced as the full-size alternative for those not bringing up a family, but instead directing several thousand head of cattle across the plains of the Midwest. The K5 would eventually end production in 1991, but would find some fame in the movie business as disposable props throughout 1980's and 1990's action films (not even joking, be it V: The Mini Series, Commando or Independence Day, all of these 80's movies feature at least one Chevy Blazer K5 getting crushed, smashed or blown up.)
The S10 however was continuing to provide American families with a humble SUV that wasn't as raunchy as its competitors, largely due to emission rules that forced the car to be fitted with an engine of a certain size. The earlier versions were fitted with a 1.9L engine supplied by Isuzu, but as time went on the engine was upped to a hungry 4.3L V6 in order to compete with the Jeep Cherokee.
In 1995, the all new Chevy Blazer S10 was introduced, and this is the car I remember the most. :)
The 1995 Blazer was very much like the Range Rover P38 here in the UK, the 2nd generation being the best generation. The styling was revamped to make it look more sheek and 90's, and the interior was updated to provide huge amounts of comfort. Speaking from experience, the Chevy Blazer was an incredibly comfortable SUV, its velour interior like a bed that I would often drop off to sleep on when trundling across the American countryside, and the fantastic sound of a newly updated 4.6L V6 that rumbled faithfully onwards...
...right to the next petrol station. Indeed the main problem with the Chevy Blazer was that it was a very thirsty truck, and would only give you at most 15mpg. But despite it being heavy on the go-juice, it won award after award, it even won truck of the year for Playboy Magazine in 1995...
...how confusing, perhaps they're the best trucks models can drape themselves over in photoshoots...
For a short period as well the S10 was available in RHD, and several examples were sold here in the UK.
But sadly this endlessly reliable and lovely little truck couldn't go on forever, and in 2005 the Chevy Blazer was discontinued and replaced by the TrailBlazer, built very much upon the same principals as the previous S10, but with differing light clusters and a smoother, more streamlined body. I remember well in 2005 when Alamo rentals started using the TrailBlazer as their main rental SUV, and somehow my heart sank when I found that it was no longer the faithful truck I had come to know and love being offered. But that's not to say the TrailBlazer wasn't a bad SUV, far from it, it was just as good as the S10 in terms of trim and quality, but getting rather nostalgic, the S10 was always my childhood icon. The latest version of the TrailBlazer however is not one I'd be remembering, again a capable SUV, but the styling has sadly conformed to the trend and it's really lost all its charm. So much so that when I went to the States last time I rented a Toyota (not a bad truck, but needed Bluetooth).
I digress. Either way, the good old Chevy Blazer S10 of 1995 is really to my mind my favourite SUV. I say a lot about the Range Rover P38 and its accomplishments, but as an SUV you could bring up a family with, the Chevy Blazer won me and my folks over completely as a kid, and I always promised myself when I'd grown up I'd buy myself a 1995 Chevy Blazer so that my kids could experience the same great sensations I had when I was their age.