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1976 Chevy K5 resurrection
- Thread starter kennyw
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Stopped by @BlazerFarm 's house to look at parts and spotted his old K5. Found out he was ready to let her go and my wife wanted one to restore. We will be back to finalize the deal and pick her up in a couple weeks.
I tell you what, if you can get this old girl back on the road, that's all I want. I've owned this '76 green Blazer since 1981 when I was about 16 years old. I'm 54 now. I grew up in it. High school, junior college, college, etc. I bet I put over 200,000 miles on this Blazer over 18 years. My brother practiced his body work on it. It's traveled tons of road trips across Texas, years of taking the top off with all of the friends that I grew up with that called it Behemoth 
. First dates, first jobs, it always got me where I needed to go. I owned this truck in Texas, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Washington, and Oregon. I can't think of anyone better to send her off to. I think you and your wife will be awesome new owners and I'm glad it'll have a new life.
. First dates, first jobs, it always got me where I needed to go. I owned this truck in Texas, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Washington, and Oregon. I can't think of anyone better to send her off to. I think you and your wife will be awesome new owners and I'm glad it'll have a new life.
I'm already looking for parts to get her running and driving again.
Great backstory should be a fun build to watch!
Picking it up Saturday
Today was a long but productive day. We drove down to Portland and picked her up along with a stash of extra parts.
I also passed this guy on the way home.
I'm looking forward to seeing the work on this old K5. It did me right for decades and I hope you guys have it for more decades.
The plan is to build it to last reliably through retirement. Still working on details but I'm thinking the M1028 will be donating drivetrain...
Started stripping the interior today... but had to unloaded the extra parts first and sort through them.
Looks like a big pile of parts!
Yes it was, the interior was packed full of extra parts when I picked it up.
Great to see it begin. Hopefully you'll get some good use out of my hoarding.
I found parts I needed for all 4 of my projects in that hoard...Great to see it begin. Hopefully you'll get some good use out of my hoarding.
Had a planning meeting with my wife tonight... if this motor is as described by the seller, we're are going to drop it in the K5 with new gaskets, rebuild the TH350, probably track down a NP205, swap in the 3.73 10 bolts from the Suburban and a 2" lift to get it driveable.
After that, body work and interior.
After that, body work and interior.
Wow, nice. Yeah, you'll need to do something with the transfer case. That NP203 is pretty trashed. The chain is stretched.
Before and after... you may think I just spent hours making and priming the Blazer. However, this was about an hour of work with a pressure washer removing the paint down to primer.
