On Fri, 29 Oct 2004 17:41:16 -0600, Newps wrote:



Scott M. Kozel wrote:


That is true. I first saw Chevrolet Blazers on highway construction
projects in the mid-1970s, and that was one of the first SUV-like
vehicles, a light truck closed vehicle with 4-wheel drive.


SUV's go a lot farther back than that. The Chevy Apache was the
precursor to the Suburban and may have been made in the 50's. The 60's
for sure. I owned a 77 IH Scout when I was in college and IH had been
making them for a while.

I used to have a '50 Chevy crummy -- a panel truck with side windows
and seats. Crummys were originally used for hauling loggers around
the NW woods. Actually, I understand that the term crummy originally
meant the narrowgauge railroad cars that hauled loggers. Mine was
the basic panel truck of the day, with the in-line "bluefire" six. It
got about the same mileage as today's SUVs. I don't know about
rolling over relative to modern SUVs. I lost the right front wheel on
a '52 Chevy pickup one time at 40 mph on a high-crown two-lane
blacktop and it stayed upright. I had to get a new brake drum from
the junkyard, though.

Don