Chevrolet four-wheel drives worked the ranches and oilfields as NAPCO conversions from 1955 and factory K-series from 1960, served the US Army as the 70,000 CUCV trucks and Blazers of 1983–87, and police America as the Tahoe since 1997.
Chevrolet’s four-wheel drives in uniform: the M1008 pick-up, M1009 Blazer, M1010 ambulance and M1028 shelter carrier of the Commercial Utility Cargo Vehicle programme, about 70,000 square-body K-series with the 6.2 diesel and 24-volt electrics bought by the US Army, Air Force and Marines in 1983–87 and run by the National Guard into the 2000s; the K-series and Suburban serve in federal and allied fleets since.
The Chevrolet four-wheel drives of the ranch, the oilfield, the utility and the police: NAPCO Suburbans of the 1950s, K-series pick-ups on every American farm and construction site since 1960, the Suburban as rural ambulance and fire chief’s car, the Tahoe as the standard American police SUV since 1997, and the Colorado and Silverado ZR2 in the deserts of the South-West.