1980 blazer - trying to stay stock and clean

[fordsucks!]

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1980 blazer - trying to stay stock and clean

1980 blazer - I bought it from an old man who hadn't driven it in over 3 years - it was sitting in his garage with flat spots on the old tires. Him and his buddies had recently swapped in a 2000-ish crate 350 (hecho en mexico) but could not get it to run right.

At face value, I thought it was clean as hell and it is one of the most stock Blazers I'd ever seen. My plan was to do a medium lift and throw some expensive american wheels (like the old school welds, basically anything that's not Chinese) and mud tires.... after a few weeks of ownership I realized how stock this thing is and decided I'm not going to chop anything up.

Anyways here we go

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Bringing her home



Dash is torn up, gauges were filthy so thats where i started (after a shop got her running nice)

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Plastidipped this bezel.... I'm probably going to order new aluminum pieces
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and I finally stepped up and I ordered a new dash pad months ago. Except truck shop dropped the ball, now I reordered through usa-1 and I'm still waiting for a dash pad I ordered last year!!

Read more about this build here...

 

[fordsucks!]

In anticipation of dash pad, I cleaned up the door panels and I put JBL speakers in the factory speaker panels, I ordered GM speaker harnesses so they plugged right in - no cutting. I still have the stock 1980 speakers just in case.

 

[fordsucks!]

and then I got rid of the dry rotted 15 year old tires, put some 31 inch Grabber mud terrains on.

 

[ZooMad75]

Kudos on wanting to save such a clean original. Looks like a sweet ride.

 

[nvrenuf]

Very nice truck! Love those '80 lights.

 

[Bent77]

Very cool

 

[Jake_C_]

Really nice looking blazer, would love to see more of the interior.

 

[CASEY7]

That thing looks great. it's crazy to me seeing them that nice!

mines a bit of a rust bucket.