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Check out the old school pic of my grandparents' Blazer

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This is my grandparents' '71 K5 they used to have.

This one got away when I was 14 years old - grandma traded it in on a '90 Ford Explorer :doah: My bro has the explorer now - the Blazer had like 45K original miles - and was garaged from the time it was new!

DOH


I have the plates off of it - which are on my rig - and I have the VIN off this one - been looking for it over the years - but no luck yet

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Very cool pic - I really like seeing pictures from years ago. They look awfully happy, I guess owning a K5 does that to people :D
 
Makes ya wonder what they were like when new. :thinking:

Imagine picking one up when it had that 'new car smell' :bow:

Cool pic, that's for sharing it.
 
Grandpa died in 73 or 74 - so that Blazer is at most 3 years old in that picture.

When I was a kid my grandma had a really cool cabin up in the woods above Coos Bay, OR and we would always take the Blazer to pick blackberries on some logging roads above the cabin.

That was so much fun. The greatest thing - I still remember how that Blazer smelled when it was like 14 years old - and my '72 smelled the same when I first got it - really brought some memories back.

Weird thing about my '72 - I found it for sale in 2000, wanted to buy it - but had no money. It is blue with the white top, but is a CST - while my grandparent's rig was just a base model as I recall.

My grandma suddenly died around two weeks later after I found the '72 - and left me some money in her estate.

I called the guy up months after I first looked at it - and I used a large chunk of my grandma's $$ to buy my '72 -
 
Blazers run in the family.

I know a guy in Coos Bay that used to own(ed) a blue & white Blazer he bought right around 1990. He was one of my parents many employees that they fired for steeling (see what ya missed by not buying their store). I think the old fart still lives down there but I'm not sure if he still has the truck. He put MACK truck emblems on it and a MACK hood orniment :doah:
 
I love seeing these old pics as well... anyone ever noticed almost ALL first gens have a hint of the same smell? i think thats part of the reason i love em! :bow:
 
That one in Moab has been there for some time. Stopped to look at it, being as it was blue, not tan.

Blazers do run in the family. Mine is the 4th. Now if I can get my sister to switch from the dark side...
 
bouncytruck said:
Blazers run in the family.

I know a guy in Coos Bay that used to own(ed) a blue & white Blazer he bought right around 1990. He was one of my parents many employees that they fired for steeling (see what ya missed by not buying their store). I think the old fart still lives down there but I'm not sure if he still has the truck. He put MACK truck emblems on it and a MACK hood orniment :doah:
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That could have been it - but I know that she traded it the Blazer in at a Ford dealership in Eugene - (funny sidebar story - she went to the Eugene dealer cause she disliked the family that owned the Ford dealership in Coos Bay - my sister-in-law married into that family 2 years ago - weird coincidence? :eek1: :eek1: :D :D )

Anyway - I never saw the Blazer again after it was traded - as far as I know anyway...

One of the members PM'd me (I love this site!) and did a vehicle search through some method and couldn't find the VIN - unfortunately...:(
 
bent72 said:
That one in Moab has been there for some time. Stopped to look at it, being as it was blue, not tan.

Blazers do run in the family. Mine is the 4th. Now if I can get my sister to switch from the dark side...
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FYI...

Grandma's VIN was: KE181S600964 & it's a 1971 K5

:wink1: :D
 
bouncytruck said:
Blazers run in the family.

I know a guy in Coos Bay that used to own(ed) a blue & white Blazer he bought right around 1990. He was one of my parents many employees that they fired for steeling (see what ya missed by not buying their store). I think the old fart still lives down there but I'm not sure if he still has the truck. He put MACK truck emblems on it and a MACK hood orniment :doah:
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Still wondering if I should have bought that store - shoulda woulda coulda! :D
 
Can't you go to the DMV and purchase records of who owns it? Or does that only work in the remake of gone in 60 seconds. :haha:
 
That is a really cool picture. One of the great things about Oregon's DMV laws, is the fact that you can have those plates on your Blazer.
 
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