Down the Road

Photographs and stories by Jim Grey

Since 2007

Tag: trucks

  • 13 old trucks parked

    Some old trucks I found by the side of the road.

  • 1972 Chevrolet K/5 Blazer CST: Don’t mess with Grandma!

    My grandma drove a big 4×4 SUV before SUVs were cool.

  • single frame: Turquoise truck

    A turquoise GMC truck.

  • 1972 Chevrolet K/5 Blazer CST: Don’t mess with Grandma!

    I mentioned my grandmother’s big orange Chevy Blazer in a recent post. It reminded me of this post I wrote for Curbside Classic a couple years ago, about a pretty close replica of her Blazer that I found at an auction. You didn’t mess with my grandma. She was barely 5 feet tall, but she…

  • Rusty Custom Nikon D50, 28.0-300.0 mm f/3.5-6.3 Tamron AF 2015 My Canon PowerShot S95’s battery died after the first shot of this old truck, so I borrowed my girlfriend’s camera to shoot it.

  • Postal truck butts Nikon F2AS, 50mm f/2 AI Nikkor Arista 100 EDU (expired) Would you believe that the newest of these postal trucks were built in 1994? As you can imagine, they’re on their last legs. The USPS wants to build a new fleet but lacks the money, according to the Wall Street Journal.

  • Favorite Photos Week: Toy truck

    I enter almost every antique store I come across. I buy very little — an old camera here and there, occasionally a piece of furniture. Mostly, and I’m sure to the owner’s chagrin, I go to look. On this day, I was in tiny Roann, Indiana, shooting my Yashica Lynx 14e, which reader Dehk had recently…

  • Dog in the bed Olympus Stylus Epic Zoom 80, Kodak Ektar 100 2015

  • Thermodyne CanonPowerShot S95 2011