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1979 Suburban with blazer removable top

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Alright been working alot lately on the burban, should have it in primer in about 7 days or so. Changed the color once again. Good thing my friend want to paint his chevy candy apple red so i sold hime my paint. I decided to go with snakeskin green pearl off a 2008 dodge viper. Im gona do the interior in tan bedliner. I got my new motor put in all all fired up. Got the fender flares put on, almost finished with the interior bed sides just the driver side one left and its ready for liner. Got the rattle can sanded off the drivers side and almost finished with the pasenger side. Still tons of work left to do but in the next few days I wil be posting more and more pictures of the progress. Been busy working on my house to so that takes alot of time. Almost finished with the stucco just putting stone on the front or the house and garage and then it will be only the truck to work on.

Kyle

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These pictures are at night i will take better ones in the morning. I just took a rear section of the burbans old rood and replaced all of the blazers part to there it met the blazer top. To send the rear part of the ribs i pie cut them and bend them down into a triangle. For the side where it meet the door I just rolls some sheet metal at work and welded and shaped.

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Hell, that is the gunious way to do this. Good idea. I have seen a couple where there was a wierd junction of the ribbed sub roof and K5 roof. Very nice
 
Hmm..had this idea for my 77 burban once, but dont have the skills you posses. Started life as a rust free sub, then the previous owner decided to cut the roof off to haul rocks (insert palmface). Was a rust free more or less 77 3/4 ton suburban, tow package, big gas tank, heavy duty 454, aircon, then professor imbosile cut the roof off. Love your project, i think i just wanna make this suburban a 73-75 blazer style, full roadster baby! We also tried to see if the old owner had the roof still (bought it form a guy who bought it from the guy) then maybe getting one off a parts truck, then gave up on it entirely. I may end up using the 454 in something, dont know yet.



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That things got a clean straight body the perfect canidate. Trufully I didnt think it been that hard so far. The bigget thing I did wrong was not to brace any of the body before it cut. Stupid stupid stupid. I spent so many hours trying to get things lined up where they should have been. The rear doors sucked together about and inch when I cut the back off. A little of my buddy yanking on them when I welded got it back in place though. I want to do another one already except this time I want to shorten the body all the way to the spring perches or 4 link it and bring it up to the rear tires. Maby I will get drunk when mine is all painted and start hacking at it again like when I started.
 
Alright got a late start today and didnt get as much finished as I hoped. I pulled the windshield to fix what I thought was a little rust. The windshield had a little crack and broke when I was pushing the rubber out. Damn it. well turned out to be alot more rust than I thought. So I got out some left over metal the hammer and a 4x4 piece of wood. yay new window pieces. Got sidteracked half way through the day and had to go on a road to trip to my hook up to get more stone for the front of my house. took a break with the father inlaw while he put some more stone on my house and then worked on the window frame a little more. just gotta clean some welds up and fill the little pits in.

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I have to ask...what do you do with your spare time? Between the Sub and the house, what else to you do? You must have an hour or two left of the 24.
 
Well I was deployed for 4 months, so i got back in may and went on vacation till july 6th then backon vacation in sept and then im moving to north dakota in october. I didnt take a day off for like 3years because all i did was go to the desert and work. I still have like 54 days of leave after i get back in july.
Basically i goof off for a while and work on my stuff
 
kaharshs said:
These pictures are at night i will take better ones in the morning. I just took a rear section of the burbans old rood and replaced all of the blazers part to there it met the blazer top. To send the rear part of the ribs i pie cut them and bend them down into a triangle. For the side where it meet the door I just rolls some sheet metal at work and welded and shaped.
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Wow, you did that the hard way.

I did the opposite and removed the ribs and replaced them with flat sheet metal.

So much easier and the rooflines are perfect.

We appraoched ours alot differently.

I used the whole Blazer inside roof.....blah blah blah...good work!
 
The reason I chose to cut where I did on the blazer was for the fact the if i took anymore of the blazer from the junk yard they were gonna charge me double. Are you gonna paint yours?
 
Yeah, we were going to do two tone Blue over Silver/champagne, but now I am thinking Satin Black!!!!
 
I stole some of your pictures to show to some buddies on a local forum. I am thinking about doing this to mine. Hope you don't mind.

Martin
 
I don't mind at all. If anyone has any questions, please feel free to let me know. I just dove in and did mine w/o EVER seeing this done.

Hell, I thought I was the first way back when! Life and family have caught up with me as well as a Hurricane and a garage fire where I lost all my tools!!!!

It's been a tough year for me, but I recovered quite well.

http://www.5thgen.org/forum/showthread.php?t=9851&page=6

Now I just need to start working on the Suburban again!
 
I used yours, thank you. I didn't think you would mind, but if you did, I would have deleted them.

Martin
 
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