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In a hobby full of first-gen Camaros and C10 trucks, it's hard to stand out from the crowd unless you're willing to go a completely different route. This brings us to the story of David Carroll and his decidedly different 1974 K5 Chevy Blazer. A Blazer, you say? Isn't that a 4WD utility truck for hauling the family around town and navigating sketchy back roads? What nutjob would choose to build one into an autocross and road course hot rod? Well, that would be Mr. Carroll. As he explained to HOT ROD, "Initially I wanted the Blazer because I would be able to take my family on drives while still fitting into the track class for trucks. I truly wanted to build a Suburban for autocross (weird, I know) but a Blazer seemed more practical at the time. I also liked the Blazer because it was a squarebody and it has a 10-inch-shorter wheelbase that would be better for autocrossing. I thought that being 10 inches shorter, along with removing all the 4WD stuff and the hardtop, would drop the weight below 3,500 pounds. I was wrong."
Turns out that ditching all that weight still left the Blazer at…