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73-87 Chevy _ GMC Trucks => 73-87 Chevy & GMC Trucks => Topic started by: team39763 on January 23, 2008, 09:01:03 pm
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I found this on a nova site. A guy was looking to buy the 454 out of it and he ended up buying the whole truck for a good deal. Would it be hard to do something like this. It looks like a shortened c10. Or is it just a blazer? Would this make a good drag truck?
(http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g41/freshmangolfer/454/100_1191.jpg)
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it kinda looks like a Blazer to me...then kinda not...
it's cool as heck though whatever it is
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Looks like a Blazer frame, pickup cab, with Blazer quarters welded on. There is a guy that owns a shop about a half hour from my house. He had a mud truck years back that he had done this too. I tried to buy it off him as it was just sitting behind his grandmothers house for several years, he wouldn't sell it. That was about 12 years ago, it disappeared but I don't know what he ended up doing with it.
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I think it's cool too. I wish I could make one of those. I'm gonna look into doing this.
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About 19 years ago when I was back in high school, a kid had one of these. His dad owned a body shop and made a truck out of a Blazer. It was tubbed and had a chopped top. If I remember right, I think it even had a big block. The truck was bad, no hack job, everything was done right.
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nice project - is he willing to sell it?
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My friend has one. Its a blazer frame with pickup cab and a super short box. Its done really well. It has 35 BFGs and a mean 454.
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I PM'd the guy and asked him if he'd send me more pictures of it. I'll ask him if he'd sell it, but it's in Florida I think.
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About 10 years ago, a buddy of mine had one similar. It was a Blazer with a shorter, short bed. It looked cool from 20 feet away, but up close it looked amatuer. It was a Blazer frame with a truck cab and a bed that had the bulkhead moved back. It was really tall on about 38's, which exaggerated the shortness. The way it was done, it looked like a lot of non rewarding work. What this guy is doing however, looks very cool.
I have never owned a long bed, is it the same as swb from the wheels back? If so, that could make a neat project, for the smooth look at the cab to bed.
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My best guess from one photo is it started out as a Blazer,(gas filler,no stake pockets,ect.) with the front of the body cut off (in the right place to get the front mounts,engine to firewall,fenders, ect.) & a truck cab put on. Truck bulkhead & tailgate put on. I've not seen or done one, but does not seem it would be too hard (I do own a bodyshop though). You would have the complete frame from the Blazer & enough metal on the quarter panels to go up to the doors (some would need cut off). If you set the cab/front clip on & trim the Blazer floor & quarters until things line up, cap the front of the quarters , I would use the front of truck bedsides & bulkhead to make it look stock. Every thing else would stay as normal, Driveshafts,brake lines & cables,wiring & in the front, from the front of the seat forward would all be the same. Do one! Lorne
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This thing is a pretty neat creation but I think I'd have spent my time making a blazer a true convertable and putting in a bed front wall to make a cargo area. You see alot of rotted beds with w good front wall so coming up with one wouldn't be to hard. Then you'd have a cool n unique 4 seater to go wheelin in or a dropped 2 wheel cruiser for you n your peeps!
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As far as a Making a true bed goes. I helped a kid a few years back with some of the technical aspects of shortening a a short bed to fit on a Blazer frame with a C 10 cab. He put a 4' suspension lift, 3" body lift, and runs 38x 10.5 Boggers on it.
Years ago I put an 85 C 10 cab on an 81 Jimmy frame. I slid the rear axle back about 4 ", I used a step side bed, removed the steps, and slid the fenders forward to match the wheels into the wheel opening.
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I've seen several blazer/pick up merges over the years. Many of them intrigued me to the point where I had to get out and look. Every time I did look at one of these up close I had to laugh but there was one that I saw a few years back that he left the folding seat in the bed and had a rolldown window from the cab which was cool.
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I just got a reply from the guy and he said yep it's just a truck cab on a blazer frame. He said he's trading it back to the previous owner for an intake manifold.
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WHAT :o ! tell him i will give hin an intake with a complete engine attached as a bonus for him. WOW. THAT'S A STEAL! :-\
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A loose nut friend of mine is doing one in west Texas with a Bigblock and 49" (yes fourty-nine inch) tires on it. It is being done propely though