Blazer to shortbox pickup conversion?

[Elpresidente]

So i'm trying to find a 4x4 shortbox truck project, but all I can find locally is 4x4 blazers.
Would it be feasible to just pick up a blazer instead, and just make it a shortbox?
I don't know a heck of alot about the blazer bodies and frames, Im assuming they use the same wheelbase as a shortbox truck.
So I'm wondering if I can either A) remove the back section and put a truck box on the frame, or B) chop off the back half  of a cab from a scrap pickup truck and fit onto the blazer, sectioning off the cab from the rest of the truck.
Am I better off to just keep looking for a shortbox, or can this be done? The reason I wont just give in and buy a blazer is because I'm stubborn and want a pickup.

[1979C20]

The frame is shorter on a blazer, and the gas tank is in a different spot. You can put a truck cab on a blazer frame and make whats called a "trazer", but the bed would only be about a foot and a half long and it would have to be custom.
http://forum.73-87chevytrucks.com/smforum/index.php?topic=12004.0
http://coloradok5.com/forums/showthread.php?t=188960

[topp]

The frame is shorter on a blazer, and the gas tank is in a different spot. You can put a truck cab on a blazer frame and make whats called a "trazer", but the bed would only be about a foot and a half long and it would have to be custom.
http://forum.73-87chevytrucks.com/smforum/index.php?topic=12004.0
http://coloradok5.com/forums/showthread.php?t=188960

Actually, the bed will be longer than a foot and a half if you use a truck cab and box the front half of the rear of the blazer like this guy did.
http://www.chevyk5blazer.com/forums/showthread.php?182-P40-WARHAWK

[Irish_Alley]

Actually, the bed will be longer than a foot and a half if you use a truck cab and box the front half of the rear of the blazer like this guy did.
http://www.chevyk5blazer.com/forums/showthread.php?182-P40-WARHAWK

this guy made me sick just on the first page a beautiful truck gone.

[slammed79]

this guy made me sick just on the first page a beautiful truck gone.

RIGHT!? My stomach turned, I can't bring myself to go past the first page... I've see enough.

[topp]

Funny....I always hear in this forum "to each their own".  The guy in the link runs that truck hard in bogs and on rocks.  The truck is also featured in an upcoming movie as it now sits.....

[beastie_3]

i looked at the whole thread and liked what he did for the most part.

[bake74]

     I have a couple of things to say.  He or someone can weld and likes to weld everything.  I have done a lot of wheeling like he was doing in the blazer, and it does not surprise me in the least bit the blazer did not hold up, I have done that kind of damage plenty of times in jeeps which weigh 1/3 that of the blazer.
     At least he is on the right track with adding some of the 1 ton stuff.

[slammed79]

Funny....I always hear in this forum "to each their own".  The guy in the link runs that truck hard in bogs and on rocks.  The truck is also featured in an upcoming movie as it now sits.....

I know this is old, but to hash it back up... To each their own, doesn't mean I have to like it... Yellow paint comes to mind.

Now for a shortbed 4x4, you could take a long bed 4x4 and shorten it, just a thought.

Maybe I should go through my "replies to your posts" Section a little more often...